Serangoon North Renovation By Defong Interior Design

[Nimzo 0]

Yea, Panasonic this model is a good choice. We aim to buy this fridge from start.

Is it 899??i aiming this too as the big one 1099 can't enter my house

[ayazumi 0]

Is it 899??i aiming this too as the big one 1099 can't enter my house

We bought at higher price that time. Price was at $999. The medium size box cannot enter into our house too, so the delivery guys have no choice but to take the fridge out from the box, then enter into the house.

Edited May 2, 2012 by ayazumi

[ayazumi 0]

This is our completed bedroom. Something is missing - our wedding photo (Paiseh to put out). It took me quite a while to do up the bed alone. Got to cut the plastic cover, pull out the plastic from the king bed (so heavy!), then put on the bedsheet set. Now my arms are breaking.

Roman blind up

Roman blind down. The uneven edge at the right bottom

Closer look

Edited May 2, 2012 by ayazumi

[Valerie Low 0]

Through a renotalk forumer's recommendation, we engage a local curtain maker to do our window roller/roman/timber blinds. I was expecting the sellers' workers to install the blinds; surprisingly, the 2 sellers are the installers for our window blinds. They are quick and efficient in the installation - less than an hour complete the work. Let the pictures do the "talking":

We opt for timber wood blinds for our living room; wood piece and white velcro tapes. If the velcro tapes turn yellow over the time, you can always call the sellers to help you do the tapes again. If I'm not wrong, every set is $80 to change the tapes.

Your timber wood blinds really match the chocolate wall in your living room!

It is unique, seldom see this colour.

Overall your house really has the nature earth theme.

[ayazumi 0]

Your timber wood blinds really match the chocolate wall in your living room!

It is unique, seldom see this colour.

Overall your house really has the nature earth theme.

Thanks Valerie. The seller mentioned that this color was the latest product. Luckily they have this color; they tried to ask me to consider the other wood colors. The other wood colors either too dark (turning black) or too yellow to match the chocolate/white living room. If really don't have this color, we may end up doing roller blind for the living room.

[chergaby 0]

Hi Aya!

Do u mind to PM me your blinds contact?

TIA!

[ayazumi 0]

Hi Aya!

Do u mind to PM me your blinds contact?

TIA!

Hi chergaby, thank you for dropping by our blog. I have pm-ed you

[binchotan 0]

btw, the 'hollow tile' tool is very very useful. It can detect hollow tiles in hard to reach places, eg wall tiles and the sound is distinctive enough to tell you the difference with one knock. Save time and energy.

I borrowed from them and found that I gave the tiler more sleepless nights..haha

I told my wife it can be used for 2 purposes in addition to checking for defective hollow tiles after tiling work has been completed.

1) When you want to buy a resale flat and you are not sure of the condition of the tiles vis the high COV that you are paying for. So when you are viewing the house for a second time and before OTP, take this tool and knock on the tiles in front of the seller. If you are hacking the tiles, obviously you will incur higher renovation costs. If the tiles are ok, you can overlay with tiles/laminate floor. If the condition of the seller's tiles are not ideal, maybe can bargain for lower COV with the seller. I learnt my lesson here. I paid high COV. Initially the tiles seems to be ok, and I thought of overlaying my bedrooms with floor laminates. Turned out that during hacking, the tiles doesnt seem to be too ok and my wife and I thought that since we are going to stay in this unit for 20 years, might as well hack and redo the tiles. Cost me an additional $1K to hack the old tiles.

2) When I bought my unit, I told my property agent that the COV was very high and coupled with the upcoming renovation cost, it would be very challenging. The property agent said the tiles looked ok, and he recently bought his own unit and overlay the tiles, so I could also overlay the tiles to save money from hacking. Later, after the OTP, I found out that my agent bought a BTO where obviously the tiles are in better condition. My resale flat has been around for 21 years leh. But I was silly to believe. After I handled over the cheque for OTP and paid a high COV, the agent changed his lines and told me that if I want to change the floor tiles to homogenous tiles for better modern look, might as well do it now since next time when I move in, it will be noisy and troublesome to hack and change the floor tiles. So if scenario 1 happens, you take the hollow tile tool and knock on the agent's head to see if the agent's head is hollow as well and demand the agent to compensate you for misleading information regarding the unit's condition.

im not mean to say this, but you can go and complain this agent of yours to CEA and they will take action against him.

[IPineapple 3]

We bought at higher price that time. Price was at $999. The medium size box cannot enter into our house too, so the delivery guys have no choice but to take the fridge out from the box, then enter into the house.

Now is $799. I confirmed my order immediately....very KS haha. OMG i think i will have same issue as you. They will have a hard time to delivery to my door step.

[ayazumi 0]

Now is $799. I confirmed my order immediately....very KS haha. OMG i think i will have same issue as you. They will have a hard time to delivery to my door step.

Wah... within a month the price drop so much... gek sim.

[getzski 1]

Wah... within a month the price drop so much... gek sim.

electronics like that one la....best to buy after reno completed....

[Nimzo 0]

Wah... within a month the price drop so much... gek sim.

I ask neighbourhood shop now is 790

[ayazumi 0]

electronics like that one la....best to buy after reno completed....

We are a bit too rush to get the items already.

Guys, please do not tell me the pricing anymore >.<

[May_dream1 14]

We are a bit too rush to get the items already.

Guys, please do not tell me the pricing anymore >.<

hahahah.... buy already don't think abt it lah... the price will just continue to drop. TV also the same mah.... i bought mine nearly $3k but i know ppl are getting it less than $2k now....

[ayazumi 0]

I ask neighbourhood shop now is 790