Septh 16 Report post Posted March 24, 2014 Week 5Our toilets are more or less completed over the last weekThis is master bath with WC and bath tub installed We solved our issue of ugly air con pipes in our master bath by covering it with tiles, look at the perfect joins! Super <3Common bath is also 90% complete, waiting for glass shower screen and vanity basin When we went over on Sunday, the workers were busy working on the marble flooring This marble has been causing a lot of headaches from the start! From being broken during delivering to running tones...I'm glad it's finally installed on the floor. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ahhboi 15 Report post Posted March 24, 2014 Wow, the aircon piping can withstand the weight of the tiles? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Septh 16 Report post Posted March 24, 2014 Wow, the aircon piping can withstand the weight of the tiles? why not? The air con trunking is secured tightly to the concrete wall and beside the tiles are not that heavy. My tiler used adhesive to paste the tiles onto the air con trunking Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kissgurami 14 Report post Posted March 24, 2014 Week 4It's been a month since I've started reno, although there were a few issues here and there, we are finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel!Managed to snap up an wooden extendable table and 2 chairs for our place at the International Furniture Fair last Thursday. It's now in my office as it's a display piece and had to be collected last sunday.My wetworks are progressing really well with installation of my bathtub completeMy marble is in process too, pending replacement of some pieces which cracked during deliveryand my false ceiling is also done and plastered but no pictures cuz it were already dark when I got there I have also managed to confirm my basin and WC over the weekend, will be finally using my dream undermount basin for my common bath. Now the problem is I can't decide if my countertop should be white or black? Both has its own charm I would go for Black top Haven't received my place yet but this is one of my possible look for the bathroom Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Songz 132 Report post Posted March 25, 2014 Great idea on covering the piping with the tiles By the way for the bathroom I will go for the first picture of white as it is more uniform with the theme of the house (*Juz my 2 cents worth, hope this help) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
koori 45 Report post Posted March 25, 2014 I have also managed to confirm my basin and WC over the weekend, will be finally using my dream undermount basin for my common bath. Now the problem is I can't decide if my countertop should be white or black? Both has its own charm Your bathroom tiles look pretty dark to me. If it were me, would go for white countertop for the contrast Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
guojiawen 101 Report post Posted March 25, 2014 +1 white for the bathroom too for the contrast Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Septh 16 Report post Posted March 25, 2014 Hi Guys, thanks for your votes However, the HB is leaning towards grey top atm, he does not like contrasting colours in 1 room even our vanity laminate that we are going to choose will be greyish. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Septh 16 Report post Posted March 25, 2014 I bought most of my home's appliances at the Gain City expo over the weekend, Electrolux 7kg Frontload WasherElectrolux 7kg DryerEF built in ovenEF 2 Induction Hob, EF cooker hood and Hitachi side-by-side fridge in Silver glass Will take more photos once it's installed Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Septh 16 Report post Posted March 31, 2014 Week 6We finally have lights in our homes! No more using handphone light when we pop over in the evening.Initially we were quite worried that our lightings will not be bright enough as we taobao-ed in mainly spotlights and LED strips, we even went to a light shop to "enquire" about the brightness of the same spotlights and the salesman told us spotlights will definitely be dark and advised us to mix and match flood lights with spotlights...ewww Luckily for us, our beautiful spotlights are super bright!Living roomWalkway to the roomBedroom 2Even our bowler hat lights are up too We got all our lightings from taobao and so far we've spent about $1k on lights. The light shops in Sg we saw are selling similar lights for 10x the price in taobao So I guess it's money well spent. Ta-da for now, my tiler says he can finishing polishing my floor by this week and I will get him to do housekeeping becuz his workers kinda left all their tools, shovel etc etc in my tiny kitchen -_-" making the space very messy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Devin 2 Report post Posted March 31, 2014 Hi Septh!Mind sharing your quote and your ID? I'm also doing marble for my house 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Septh 16 Report post Posted April 10, 2014 Week 7 & 8Hello guys, it's been a while since I updated this...becuz there hasn't been much to see. These past 2 weeks we have gotten the works done which aren't really the visual type, it's more on the back end such as fixing switches like these... heheAnd when it's switched on...In case you're wondering what's the big deal with this switch? They are part of our smart home in the making which includes motorised curtains and controlling our lights/ac from our phones whenever connected to wifi Look! What's shinny and polished?.... Nope, not diamonds... Its.............................................................................marble!Photo spam!Ok, thats it for now.This sat my air-con and vinyl flooring will be installed...that we mark the completion of the flooring. After that we shall look forward to....THE CARPENTERS! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
guojiawen 101 Report post Posted April 10, 2014 Hello! Interested in the concept of smart home How much did it cost for the switch? and projected cost of making the entire home smart?? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Septh 16 Report post Posted April 10, 2014 Hi 😊we got those switches from taobao, it's about S$30 for 1 switch... We bought 4, 2 working fine the other 2 worked fine initially but now seems to be haywire so we r importing again 😔It's a risk we take when buying from tb becuz it's way cheaper than getting from sg1 set consist of 1 modem looking thing (IR blaster) about S$50 and at least 1 switch S$30 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hellonub 5 Report post Posted April 10, 2014 Even our bowler hat lights are up too We got all our lightings from taobao and so far we've spent about $1k on lights. The light shops in Sg we saw are selling similar lights for 10x the price in taobao So I guess it's money well spent. Ta-da for now, my tiler says he can finishing polishing my floor by this week and I will get him to do housekeeping becuz his workers kinda left all their tools, shovel etc etc in my tiny kitchen -_-" making the space very messy can share the link to the bowler hat light? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
