Myshoeboxx At Serangoon

[cookiez 0]

cookiez,

Urs are cheap. I was quoted $14.90/sqft for rainbow, which means my 1 bedroom will be $505 already. I do normal roller blinds that cost $6-7/sqft for 2 bedrooms n living is already $700. Urs, good buy leh.

Yes...got mine from a freelancer who owned a small family business specialised in blinds and curtain...thats why cheaper than others..

[bleucheeze 1]

Yes...got mine from a freelancer who owned a small family business specialised in blinds and curtain...thats why cheaper than others..

Is the blind company good? Can PM me the contact? Thanks in advance!

[elvis 0]

Pm me as well.. Many selection? Workmanship ok?

[chezph 0]

Hi cookiez,

Can u pm me as well? I'm looking for curtain and blind .. How is your feedback?

[cookiez 0]

bleucheeze, i can't PM u...not sure why..

elvis and chezph, PM sent....selection just nice for me cos too many choices can be very confusing...normal quality (can't ask for super duper quality with that kind of price)...service is good~

[cookiez 0]

Post some pictures on the finished product? :-)

my plain white "chicken pox" toilet ;p

[Nexer 1]

Hi cookiez

Can pm me ur curtain contact too?

Thanks!

[RemyLebeau 0]

Painting is done, place look neater now.

The living room is almost up now except the wiring and downlight. We chose Nippon chalk white and Urban Grey for the wall painting. Urban grey is the lightest tone of grey in the Odourless series, and looks almost like white. However it will still contrast when put together with white color. We are satisfied for the living color.

Chosen stylish grey for master bedroom. The effect is... khm.. darker than what I've thought? And it highlight all the unevenness on the wall. Now think back I'm so glad last minute decide to plaster the living room, else would be pathetic to see the living room wall look like this. I've chosen wrong color for the wall because the 3 walls in the room which is also not even does not look so obvious when it's painted white.

Compare the plastered wall in the living above and this wall, it really makes a huge difference! I think it's really good money put into to plaster although it's not cheap. Now I think the effect is quite far from the grey wall seen from the furniture store showroom :-( Wish can repaint this wall to latte like the common room :-P

nice, bigger living room. i kinda regret not to extend..but well live with it.

[ashleyspace 1]

nice, bigger living room. i kinda regret not to extend..but well live with it.

Haha, yups open kitchen makes the living room bigger. But yours will have benefit also la, don't need to worry the cooking smell goes to every corner of your house. We will not cook often, should be okay with open kitchen... Hey, saw your blog, everything is done and move it already. Congrats! Enjoy the new house you've there!

[ashleyspace 1]

Happy New Year everyone! Just to announce we have move in into the house, and count down on the New Year eve in the new house ^_^

The house is partial complete, but the electrical man has installed lighting for both rooms. This is the condition of the house when we move in:

Just kidding. Anyway carpentry arrived, and it's still partial complete. Will post more pictures later.

Here is the 2 room after laminate:

- Master room looks much nicer after laminate, right choice for choosing the light wood color. I think the light flooring color make stylish grey wall looks acceptable again, and decide not to ask the ID to repaint the wall. The laminate flooring we are using is ACE floor, not sure good or not, but it's included in the designer package.

Edited January 3, 2013 by ashleyspace

[ashleyspace 1]

Installation of master bedroom tinted glass door.

Done! So fast and simple... Our master bedroom washroom is small (you can check out our floorplan), so the glass door might not be able to open fully to the bathroom without touching the wash basin. But luckily, the space is enough to open inside after installation! Just enough I would say. :-) So now the glass can swing both way, inside and outside of bathroom, didn't put a stopper to limit the movement now.

Master bedroom built-in wardrobe internal shelving. Most of the shelves are installed, except the jewellery drawer with glass hasn't arrive yet.

[ashleyspace 1]

The ID refuse to help us to alter the L-box curtain opening to be wider. He said need to bring down whole L-box to fix that, and more ever he has done up many new HDB (e.g. Punggol), and L-box opening all like that. We continue to pester him many times on this, and he told us that please let him rest well, and he already done up the cove light and curtain pelmet FOC for us and hope don't need to alter this coz this will add additional cost. Actually the L-box for living and passage-way is included in the package we sign, so not quite understand why he said so. Probably cove light is more expensive than just L-box? Anyway we decided not to pester him anymore and decided to talk directly to the workers when they come to install the remaining plaster ceiling at the passage way.

Guess what? It works... We had took pictures of the L-box internal and show the ceiling guys, and they said it can be done! There is some metal in the structure, so need to sacrifice little area of metal support, but still okay. They fixed the curtain area in 10 minutes and we are so happy it's finally done. Haih, I think the ID just want to avoid the hassle and additional costs so just BS us...

Actually the schedule supposed to be able to met just on time (8 weeks) if the carpentry is done right. But when the carpentry come, the dimension of the kitchen is measured wrongly. Supposed to be 270cm, but it is 265cm, less 5cm than discussed. See the photo below:

There are 2 choices now:

Choice 1:

Redo the upper and lower cabinet to exact length - which means need to throw away some of the drawers and material wasted.

Choice 2:

Add some wood to make the cabinet length to as discussed so that it can align with the tiles.

Either choice 1 or 2, they need time to change the carpentry so the kitchen cabinet wasn't ready when we move in. The carpenter is quite skillful actually, do a check on cabinets and they are well made, no peeling laminate at the edge. I've visited another contractor done-up house, and as compared I think this is better. But how come measurement can be wrong? ID said measurement is done by another guy, but I'm not pleased with this because he supposed to have double-check the measurement before fabrication.

Edited January 3, 2013 by ashleyspace

[ashleyspace 1]

Bought the kitchen sink from Hoe Kee. It's a good quality undermount sink with silent shield on the bottom to reduce noise when water drop to the sink. The price is ~$190, after top-up $10 to change the drainer with a better one with filter. I think for an undermount sink with silent shield, this is really good buy because most of the under mount sink we asked about is >300. For those <200 are without the silent shield. According to bathroom accessories sales person, the shield serves 2 purposes, silent of the water dripping sound, and protect the under from water condensation. Water condensation will happen because the sink is colder. When this happen, the cabinet below the sink will be very humid and in the long run will not be hygienic.

Upper view:

Bottom view (with silent shield underneath):

Upgraded accessories:

[ashleyspace 1]

bleucheeze, i can't PM u...not sure why..

elvis and chezph, PM sent....selection just nice for me cos too many choices can be very confusing...normal quality (can't ask for super duper quality with that kind of price)...service is good~

Can PM me also? Still checking out the blind price currently.

[ashleyspace 1]

cookiez,

Urs are cheap. I was quoted $14.90/sqft for rainbow, which means my 1 bedroom will be $505 already. I do normal roller blinds that cost $6-7/sqft for 2 bedrooms n living is already $700. Urs, good buy leh.

Hi Cookiez and Mrs Loo, is the blind you've mentioned is timber blind or pvc blind? When I asked from one of the blind shop, pvc blind is ~$12 psf and timber ~$15 psf. The sales person recommend us the pvc, he said more lasting and won't break le, more ever cheaper and look alike with timber. What are your thoughts?