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[OceanEleven 203]

Didnt see you mentioning wanting a walk in wardrobe? Any floor plans to share for comment?

My old place is a walk in wardrobe with pole system. Best of both world? Not exactly. Pole system looks nice generally in most design. But to me, I feel pole system need an enclose space to stand out, a cordon off area up to an entire room and not left in the middle of somewhere. So if you are doing a complete room for pole system, then you will have the “wow” effect. Then the other “wow” effect is the “untidiness” that comes along with it. Imagine all sorts of hangers of different shapes, size and colours expose in bare sight, couple with the colours and lengths of clothing, open shelves of folded clothing, or basket bin storage, it is indeed a big “wow” Do Google for images of pole system, not those in bare form but those fully loaded, you might then get a clearer picture.

As for walk in wardrobe, most HDB MBR is almost impossible to siphon off an area for WIW and yet able to house a king size bed comfortably. Hence most will resort to hacking into another room for WIW. Overall, this reduce living space, imagine 1 room gone for WIW. Myself would rather use the room as wardrobe area with study tables for work/net surfing/gaming. Also more importantly, one room short will have impact in future selling, coming from a been there, done that perspective.

Regardless of WIW or pole system, both are “open”. Less frequently used area will accumulated dust very quickly despite the room’s windows are always closed or even in air condition for most of the time.

Do weigh the pros and cons and which best suit the needs and lifestyle. 

 

[7ustus 0]

Hi OceanEleven

 

Our floor plan is as below, many IDs and contractors have commented that our floor plan is very nice and easy to "play with" but at the same time, the exact and actual measurements may vary a little.

 

Currently the plan is to leave Bedroom 3 empty with the intention for it eventually be designed and used as a study room. But due to budget constraint and the lack of a confirmed idea/theme, we have decided to leave the room empty for now and will only do flooring.

 

For Bedroom 2, it will be designed solely for a wardrobe along the wall closest to the Master Bedroom (MBR), with the rest of the space remaining to be "free to explore". The initial idea was actually to have a built-in wardrobe, but after some referencing and research, we agreed that both of us preferred a walk-in concept. Then along the way, we chanced upon pole-system photos/pictures online and was attracted to its clean-cut and neat look, hence our dilemma.

 

If we were to go for the pole-system, it'd probably be the same as what you had, a walk-in pole-system wardrobe. The problem is that we are very very very attracted to and sold by Ikea's highly customisable Kompartment design. We have checked with all contractors, and they are willing to do the installation for us. Mr J and Mr Y also told us that it would be substantially cheaper in terms of their quotation as they only have to provide labour. They did warn us though, that the overall cost may be cheaper or more expensive depending on what compartments we get and how many we get. So for now, its between a walk-in-wardrobe and a walk-in pole-system.

 

The rest of the house, aside from having a mounted television with two side tables in the MBR and a feature wall in the living room, we are just gonna change both toilet bowls and build a shower screen together with a vanity top in each of the two toilets and of course, the standard kitchen package.

 

Overall, our reno is expected to be one that simple with minimal hacking intended, this is also because we do not wish to "live to regret" after hearing "regret stories" about hacking from the people around us. Hence, considering this, we've also dropped a number of IDs when they were pretty insistent on their ideas which involves hacking of wall, especially in the MBR, even though some suggested to only partially hack it during our ID/contractor search.

Edited May 2, 2016 by 7ustus

[underkurtverism 2]

22 minutes ago, 7ustus said:

Hi OceanEleven

 

Our floor plan is as below, many IDs and contractors have commented that our floor plan is very nice and easy to "play with" but at the same time, the exact and actual measurements may vary a little.

 

Currently the plan is to leave Bedroom 3 empty with the intention for it eventually be designed and used as a study room. But due to budget constraint and the lack of a confirmed idea/theme, we have decided to leave the room empty for now and will only do flooring.

 

For Bedroom 2, it will be designed solely for a wardrobe along the wall closest to the Master Bedroom (MBR), with the rest of the space remaining to be "free to explore". The initial idea was actually to have a built-in wardrobe, but after some referencing and research, we agreed that both of us preferred a walk-in concept. Then along the way, we chanced upon pole-system photos/pictures online and was attracted to its clean-cut and neat look, hence our dilemma.

 

If we were to go for the pole-system, it'd probably be the same as what you had, a walk-in pole-system wardrobe. The problem is that we are very very very attracted to and sold by Ikea's highly customisable Kompartment design. We have checked with all contractors, and they are willing to do the installation for us. Mr J and Mr Y also told us that it would be substantially cheaper in terms of their quotation as they only have to provide labour. They did warn us though, that the overall cost may be cheaper or more expensive depending on what compartments we get and how many we get.

 

The rest of the house, aside from having a mounted television with two side tables in the MBR and a feature wall in the living room, we are just gonna change both toilet bowls and build a shower screen together with a vanity top in each of the two toilets and of course, the standard kitchen package.

 

Overall, our reno is expected to be one that simple with minimal hacking intended, this is also because we do not wish to "live to regret" after hearing "regret stories" about hacking from the people around us. Hence, considering this, we've also dropped a number of IDs when they were pretty insistent on their ideas which involves hacking of wall, especially in the MBR, even though some suggested to only partially hack it during our ID/contractor search.

 

 

Cool! quite similar layout to mine

[7ustus 0]

Hi underkurtverism

 

Perhaps we may be neighbours by proximity like as in the case with ATZW1980? His reno seems to be going really well, quite envious, while we are still waiting for keys collection and all the headaches here and there. Imagine its just the initial stage!

 

Anyways, would you be collecting your keys soon or have you already engaged an ID/contractor? By the way, congrats and good luck!

 

 

[OceanEleven 203]

Looking at the floor plan, you can actually do a full length wardrobe in the MBR along the 4700 wall. King size bed is 1910mm. Get a bed frame with no protruding side. Typical wardrobe depth is 600mm. With door open, another 500- 550mm.

Let’s do the math. Width of room 3225, minus 2000 for King bed. Left 1225. Minus 100 for the walls left 1125. So to fit in the wardrobe is possible. The shortcomings are that, first you have do away the wall mount TV. I personally think MBR is for sleeping, no TV no Hi Fi, best compromise, occasional use of laptop. Also we are both light sleeper, slightest sound will irks the daylight out of us.

Second, based on calculation, you are left with about 400mm (between the bed and wardrobe) of walking space to the other side of the bed. My MBR is exactly the same layout as your, windows and washroom same location. This is how I set up my room now, with black out curtains. I put an old TV console under the window. You can do the same if a TV is really require if you decide to set up in similar fashion.

As for BR2, same plan can still go ahead. Am not familiar with Ikea stuff, one question begging answer is that – Is the Kompartment full height? As in from ceiling to floor. If not, the top part left exposing is a dust magnet. Future likely gonna be a “chuck it all in” storage space. Pretty unsightly.

As for shower screens, my user experience and solutions provided by pretty Bykaranne as follow on my blog.

http://www.renotalk.com/forum/topic/63586-back-to-the-west/?page=30

[Lazyfatcat007 5]

On 27/04/2016 at 10:18 PM, 7ustus said:

Hi bipps, will definitely check them out! The Hood that we bought was a simple slim hood as Mr would be the one cleaning at the end of the day. As for the Hob, it's just a 2-stove simple hob with safety valve (not exactly sure what this is). Hopefully we are able to get something from Mustafa and/or Big Box! Looking forward to your review! If you don't mind us asking, is your Hood a chimney Hood? 

 

Anyways, just an update, we have finally received Mr Y's quotation late Monday night! To our delight, it was just as competitive compared to the other 2 shortlisted contractors! But this is also the reason for our headache because it means that we have not eliminated any of the 3 contractors yet... 

 

Mr will be going through the quotation soon, but the grand total was within our expectations though Mr had hoped for a lower quote *cheapo alert!*. Regardless, this officially marks the end of our ID/contractor search! We can now finally get down to deciding who we wanna engage and from there, the details! With Mr Y's quotation, we have decided to arrange a second meet-up with Mr J from Bedok first. Wish us luck!

 

Just a quick check, is it normal to go for a second quotation/review with all the shortlisted ID/contractors (in our case, 3 different contractors) before deciding on who to engage, or do IDs/contractors generally assume that you are going to engage them when you go down for a second review?

 

Admittedly, the typical Singaporean blood still runs in us, hence we cannot deny that, to a certain extent, we are very kiasu and kiasi. Initially, we had wanted to simply decide on the contractor based on their first quotation, but Mr said that there were some variations between all 3 contractors that were inconsistent and he did not feel good about deciding on what he claims to be an "unfair" comparison. Hence, we thought that it would be better to request for a second quotation from all 3 shortlisted contractors before deciding. After all, this is our first home and would like it to be as perfect as possible albeit a little simple and budget.

 

By the way, does anybody has recommendation for pole system contractor/professionals? We are not sure if the contractor that we will be engaging can do pole system or not, as Mr Y for one, did tell us that he does not do pole-system.  But still not a strong enough reason for us to drop him

Hello! I just thought I can share my pole system wardrobe with you. I didn't like the conventional type and the push factor for pole system is that you can customise whatever configuration that works for you. Of course, the con is that ypu need a enclosed frame to work with so that the poles can be mounted on. I added glass sliding doors to keep out the 'mess' and its working well for me. You can check out my last page of my tblog for more info... hth!

[7ustus 0]

Hi All! Apologies for having fallen off the radar for quite some time due to work and reno commitment! First off, thank you OceanEleven and Lazyfatcat007 for your input!

 

@OceanEleven We do really appreciate your advices and suggestions! As there will be no wardrobe in the MBR at all, does that mean that the room would comfortably sit a King size bed with 2 bed-side tables with a wall mounted (no feature wall) television of about 55" under the assumption that the length of the bed runs parallel along side the window of 3225? We would have our walk-in wardrobe (most likely) to take up most of the Bedroom 2 while Bedroom 3 will remain largely empty.

Please pardon us for the mistake, as the ikea compartments are not actually known as the Kompartment, but rather, Komplement. Our guess is that its meant to complement most existing wardrobes. The Komplement as per our understanding can be "torn" apart and be bought drawer-by-drawer on a need basis. So we have decided for a built-in walk-in-wardrobe (still contemplating pole system though) to make it up for the gap if we were to get a loose fixture wardrobe.

Finally, for the shower screen, we have decided to leave it up to the ID we have engaged. Yup! ID...we will get to that part soon...[or probably not so soon] 

 

@Lazyfatcat007 We have actually gone through your T-Blog, but must apologise that haven’t had the time to properly get back to you! But anyways, your pole-system has been done up pretty nicely such that Mr. is still contemplating between a wardrobe and a pole-system. Shall KIV and sit on it for now.

 

@bipps Over the past few days when we dropped off the radar, we took a little trip down West to BigBox and quite enjoyed ourselves there. We ended up placing a deposit for a LG 55” 4K UHD television with a sound bar and a wireless speaker for $2,500 inclusive of extended warranty. After which, it struck us that we forgot to get your friend’s contact! But it’s not too late if you can help us out a little here as we are eyeing a fridge and a washing machine. 

The sad thing is that we were approached by this super aggressive PRC sales personnel who turned the both of us off very much with his service attitude that even though we were so ready to place a deposit for the two items, we decided not to! 

Luckily, the deposit for the television was placed with a nice sales person, who was really helpful throughout, but too bad he was only in-charge of the television section. So if you could drop us an intro/referral to your friend via PM, we would sincerely appreciate it very much!

 

Anyways, regardless, thank you all who have visited and special thanks for all the valuable sharing session! Keep them coming!

So, now, back to topic! Of course, there was a twist of developments over the past weeks!

 

First of all, after a lot of ding-dong here, there and everywhere, we finally received the notification for keys-collection! 

 

Being the poor people as we are (no offence to anybody here), we've decided to take up a reno loan. Clueless like blind mice, Mr did some research and managed to identify a potential “solution”, and this is where our adventure began…

 

PS: As it is getting late, we’ll continue soon…but just hang in there…

 

[OceanEleven 203]

7 minutes ago, 7ustus said:

Hi All! Apologies for having fallen off the radar for quite some time due to work and reno commitment! First off, thank you OceanEleven and Lazyfatcat007 for your input!

@OceanEleven We do really appreciate your advices and suggestions! As there will be no wardrobe in the MBR at all, does that mean that the room would comfortably sit a King size bed with 2 bed-side tables with a wall mounted (no feature wall) television of about 55" under the assumption that the length of the bed runs parallel along side the window of 3225? We would have our walk-in wardrobe (most likely) to take up most of the Bedroom 2 while Bedroom 3 will remain largely empty.

Please pardon us for the mistake, as the ikea compartments are not actually known as the Kompartment, but rather, Komplement. Our guess is that its meant to complement most existing wardrobes. The Komplement as per our understanding can be "torn" apart and be bought drawer-by-drawer on a need basis. So we have decided for a built-in walk-in-wardrobe (still contemplating pole system though) to make it up for the gap if we were to get a loose fixture wardrobe.

Finally, for the shower screen, we have decided to leave it up to the ID we have engaged. Yup! ID...we will get to that part soon...[or probably not so soon] 

To answer your question, YES is the answer. You can fit in a king size bed with frame, 2 side table as well as 55” wall mounted TV with ample space.

 

To utilise BR2 as wardrobe room is feasible, the only onus is underutilise and kinda waste of a living area. Again unless you folks enjoy TV in bed, then later will come in the issue of Blueray player, Mio/Starhub etc. Or even a sound system.

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Hi hi. 

I am shortlisting fridge. Happens that u r using the  NR-CY558GW

can give some comments abt this fridge? Is it noisy ? Is it condensing?