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Our Second Reno Journey

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Lightings...again

1) As mentioned in our previous post, we;re selling our purchases from Taobao, and we bought these instead :

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Left 1 is from Taobao, right is the real McCoy. To me, there is not much difference.

To my wife, there is a significant difference in quality and weight and everything.

2) Next is our beautiful MBR lampshades from Etsy :

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There're 2 of these, which will be hung at both sides of the bed (by the way this pic wasn't taken at our home. )

We took the pic with the plastic wrapping, hence it looks crumpled. It was actually very well made.

3) Our previous spin off of Moooi Random light 60cm has been replaced by this:

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My wife is a huge fan of this brand lights and she spotted this, and insisted that this will be the perfect 1 for living area.

Of course, it helps when Mr K said 黄色美.

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Nice lights!

I changed my mind about my lights a couple of times! Better get it right than live with the wrong choices.. :)

 

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Hi, may I know where u got the original version of the first light? Mind sharing the price here or PM me pls?

Thanks!

 

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Lightings - Final !

The &tradition is finally here...

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yup, definitely exciting for us....

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Lamp looks crumpled because it is actually made of leather.

Colour is much vibrant. The cam phone doesn't do any justice !

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Some updates (will be bare without furnishings):


Our TV area:


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Reason for enclosure:

We were afraid that the compressor isnt powerful enough to cool the entire hall/dining/kitchen area. So a/c only for this area.

Kitchen (wet):

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That song cho dish rack cost freaking 400 bucks !! However, since there's lifetime warranty against rust, we guess they're really serious on quality.
and Mr K said 比我做的还要贵。

Dry:
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We're quite skeptical over open concept kitchen with asian cooking, which explains the segregation.
& many thanks to Retchlow's advice, we have purchased a red smeg, which will be tucked neatly in the corner behind the "counter". My wife wanted the union jack, but it doesn't come with 2 doors, and as such, we debated between the 2 doored red and blue.
Feeling lost we called Mr.K, and ended up with 红色美。

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Above pic is the view of our dining and living from our dry kitchen.

Minimum kitchen carpentry:

As we have discovered from our lifestyle over the years, we don't really fancy having much crockery. From our last reno, our cabinetssss were only half utilised, with untouched pots and pens lying around for donkey years.

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No they're not Swensen's !!!

Dining lamps ( and no they're not Swensons or equivalent. It's Moroccan !!)

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How it looks in the day:

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We love having steamboat with family, which explains the slightly higher than normal dining lamps.

Full white for my dining table and side board, which will only arrive in mid Aug...Zzz (its the first thing we ordered from this place X in mid-april).

Anyway we wanted a clock from X, and were informed that we need to wait for 5 mths, and a simple pendent lamp, which required waiting time of 3 mths.

We are waiting for the day that X close down.

Wardrobe:

1 of our last minute addition (had wanted Ximula. On the hindsight, glad we did't)

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Bed:

Yet another last minute addition ( to art00609: if you're reading this, sorry for your carpentry delay as we had quite a number of last minute add-ons.)

We weren't too particular over bed frames. Had wanted to purchase it from Sincere/Courts etc, however Mr K had to show my wife pics of bed frames that he did (solely for the purpose of choosing laminates. Not for the purpose of selling).

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Switches & plugs were initiated by Mr. K. We didn't have any special requests or whatsoever. Very thoughtful of him !! As for the side lamps .....the shades were bought from Etsy.

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Doors:

Didn't expect them to be up today.No wonder the drinks we bought were finished in a day...

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Still looking for contacts for good quality blinds....

& to be continued with shoe cabinet, toilet and furnishings etc...

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hi macuser77,

no problemo...Mr K already informed me that once your carpentary is up then mine will be next...so no prob...

now mine left abit more to go...really missing the whole reno process :unsure: hhehe wish could do it over n over again...ehehe

nice, nice, nice your reno :sport-smiley-004:

ooooo u r getting the smeg fridge...hehe im torn between that and the bosch classix...so in the end, chosen bosch

hope it will turn out ok :)

 

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Hi art00609, just wondering how big is the Bosch classix? We saw it at Courts and it was a single door?

Hi macuser77, smeg is a good choice :D

 

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Hi art00609, just wondering how big is the Bosch classix? We saw it at Courts and it was a single door?

Hi macuser77, smeg is a good choice :D

it's not that big, abit shorter than me :unsure: hehee measurement 1270(H) x 660(W) x 630(D)

yup, it's a single door...cos my husband wanted a small one so that i could not buy lotsa stuffs to store in it :(

 

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it's not that big, abit shorter than me :unsure: hehee measurement 1270(H) x 660(W) x 630(D)

yup, it's a single door...cos my husband wanted a small one so that i could not buy lotsa stuffs to store in it :(

That is for kitchen use? Enough storage?

Even the biggest SMEG offers smaller capacity than the usual Samsung fridge :(

 

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That is for kitchen use? Enough storage?

Even the biggest SMEG offers smaller capacity than the usual Samsung fridge :(

should be enough storage for me n my husband only...hehe just the two of us :)

he purposely wanted this fridge so i could not buy alot...hehe economical in his words :bleah:

 

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