❥❥❥ Petite House For Petite Family❥❥❥

[carrotcakegirl 5]

Hello Reno-Talkers !! Finally !! After yearsss of following up with people's T-Blog now it's my turn to blog

Applied this BTO on 2009 *about 3 years back* a veeeeeery long wait.. but worth it! Here's our floor plan, just nice for a small petite family (me, hubby and our 2 lil angels) ahaks!

Champions Court is located near to the Singapore Sports School and Causeway Point Shopping Mall (it's about 10mins walk), apart from that our new house also surrounded by few other schools! I don't think I will need an alarm clock to wake up early morning heh

One year before to our probable completion date we already start searching and asking quotation from ID's.. hahaha! excited much till one day we met this ID at IMM; and the price he quoted for our house are just nice and within our budget.. so, we signed up the contract with him *when think back, me and hubby kinda regret* but anyway.. we already prepared for the worst but still praying for the best tho !!

Early 2012: Day by day, month by month - we've been following up the building progress very very closely. Our blk are the second last to complete in this project and most of the barricade around our blk have been removed !!

Sneak peek of Champions Court estate

Our Blk yeayyy !!

will post more photos!

Edited October 30, 2012 by carrotcakegirl

[Sygnur 0]

Woohooo!!! Welcome to the CHAMPIONS,...

We are neighbours though from diff blk... Yet to start any reno... Wahaha...

Will be cheering u all the way till the end...

Cheers!!

[Sygnur 0]

Cheers!!

Double post...

Edited October 12, 2012 by Sygnur

[carrotcakegirl 5]

Woohooo!!! Welcome to the CHAMPIONS,...

We are neighbours though from diff blk... Yet to start any reno... Wahaha...

Will be cheering u all the way till the end...

Cheers!!

Aww... so sweet of you sis. thank you thank you for the cheeeeerrsss! me and other neighbors also can't wait you to move in to Champions Court!!!

Wishing you the best of luck in all your future endeavors ya!

[carrotcakegirl 5]

Finally the day has come, the day that we've been waiting for!

3rd Oct 2012-Our Keys Collection Day!

Our Blk's PCD stated 4th qtr and estimated to complete by end of September - for the last week of September I kept on login into HDB webite eeeeveryday without failed. Hahaha!

On Monday 1st October 2012, I received a phone call from HDB asking me if I can come and collect the keys on Wednesday 3rd Oct 12??? Without thinking much, my answer is a BIG YESSSSSS!!!!

Couple hours after confirming the appointment date and time via phone call, FINALLY the status has changed!!!!!! weeeeeee

Me and hubby took 'last minute' leave on Wednesday... OMG! It feels like overwhelming joy!!

We are the early bird!!! reached Etiqa Sdn Bhd@HDB around 0800hrs to buy fire insurance before collecting our new home keys. Then we headed to McDonald's for a quick bite!

Tick tock tick tock!!!! let the pictures do the talking

hubby counting down the queue numbers

Edited October 15, 2012 by carrotcakegirl

[carrotcakegirl 5]

continue...

1 more queue number to go!!! tick tock tick tock!!

was served by pure nice Chinese lady but strange her room labelled with Malay name

waiting for piles of documents to be signed!

and finally, OUR NEW BUNDLE OF JOY!!!

Edited October 18, 2012 by carrotcakegirl

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Right after keys collection, we took cab to our new house!!! can't wait any longer lah!!! hahaha!

3rd Oct 12 - On Site Checking Defects

First arrive, check our mailbox

We were welcomed by this nice uncle, his name is Jack/ETO the person in charge for haulage service for Champions Court. brought him up to our unit to give quotation on the hacking service work.

open sesame !!

view from the main entrance

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bare flooring as we opted out it together with the internal doors

the tiny mini living room, view from TV console area

the bomb shelter next to main entrance (i don't like this)

the mini dining area and kitchen entrance

the walkways to the bedrooms

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the "spacious" kitchen

and the service yard, where I can wave and say hello bye bye to the opposite neighbor!

our common bathroom.. found it a bit spacious than the master bathroom

our girl's room - it's going to be a pink princess theme!

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and finally, our small master bedroom

the roof top carpark view from our master bedroom

Ouh ya and this is the view form our Living Room.. hmmm not bad

Glad that our unit have less defects and zero cracks on the walls, just minor minor things to report:

• Low water pressure, loose glue main door frames rubber, lil dent on living room's window frames
  

After checking defects on site, we have another appointment with our ID at Hafary, TradeHub21.. to choose our tiles!!! yeay

and here's the homo tiles color we choose, swee swee and within the budget given by our ID ($2.50 - $3.00psf)

we pick this clr because i like it to be plain and love the glossy shiny look! hope this will brighten my small unit and make it looks spacious. not sure if this is beige, off white or light grey??

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and chose this checkered tiles for my kitchen entrance flooring border

thought of taking mosaic tiles for the (between dining & kitchen entrance flooring border), but ID said mosaic is hard to maintain the grout line haizz..

CraftBrick - Austin, CSI-093 for our bricks wall yeay!

we bought 12 cartons of them direct from the factory at Ayer Hitam, Johor Bahru

Hafary quoted us for $95/carton but factory quoted us RM85/carton ($35 Singapore dollars!)

so total we paid RM1, 020.00 inclusive FREE DELIVERY to my dad's JB crib at Larkin

I spent only SGD500 for 12cartons craftbricks!!!

5th Oct 12 - Another Appointment With ID, Electrical Workers & Window Grilles

Took another leave on Friday, as our ID need to re-confirm the false ceiling layout, hacking walls, additional&relocation of SCV & power points, wardrobe size, kitchen cabinets size and etc

and we have confirmed with Alex from alexwindow.blogspot.com to do our service yard sliding window 3panels, whole house grilles and 2 bi-fold toilet doors.

sample photo of the bi-fold door we chosed:

white and simple!!! i loike!

not sure if this considered reasonable price or X !! but I have tried my best to bring down the price to $1, 800/- for all the above works.

• $600 for sliding window at svc yard (3 panels)
  
• $700 whole house grilles (svc yard, living room, common bedroom & master besroom)
  
• $500 for bi-fold doors (white powder coated with white acrylic)
  

Total: $1, 800.00

is this expensive???

Edited October 15, 2012 by carrotcakegirl

[carrotcakegirl 5]

7th Oct 2012 - POH SENG HARDWARE ENTERPRISE PTE LTD

we shop till we drop! hahaha... bought all the kitchen appliances and toilet accessories at freaking madly cheap prices !!

4 x 2small & 2big metal shelves for bathrooms (the top and last bottom)

2 x toilet mirrors

2 x overhead rain shower (square shape) thought of buying the round shape but too bad the price is over my budget

our sexy curve and simple kitchen tap

single bowl undermount sink, can't afford to buy kraus sink so we bought Elkay brand

Edited October 15, 2012 by carrotcakegirl

[carrotcakegirl 5]

Joven 25litre water storage heater

Techno 2 burner, we chose sparkling white cuz our Quartz work top will be in sparkling white too!

I like this slimline hood from Techno

and the 5 multifunction oven from UNO

we also bought some other toilet stuff suzh as.. bidet spray and etc.. tehee forget to snap some pictures..

TOTAL DAMAGE: $2, 252.00 (after sooo many discounts!)

(AT POH SENG HARDWARE ENTERPRISE PTE LTD for kitchen appliances and accessories)

I will try to post the image of the receipt here for the breakdown

[casa 0]

can't wait to c your reno pics

Yeah I agree with u the house nowadays are bird nest

Happy reno

[Sygnur 0]

Wah.... U really fast hand, fast leg... I like! N detailed too....

Niway, since u bought undermount sink, will u be doing concrete support? Heee... Really noob,me.