SahraChiu 0 Report post Posted November 20, 2016 Hi everyone! My hubby and I are so excited to share with you the journey of our renovation. It may be different from the usual space planning and decorative styles, but who knows if some of these quirky ideas could be useful for you Our home is about showing personalities and being ourselves. We want beach resort feeling with outdoors sittings and palm tree, yet modern and comfortable living room and kitchen. Pretty tough to combine both in a 900sqf HDB ya? Not to mention that our flat is an old model, more than 40 years old. Yes, you heard it right, 43 years old to be exact!! As you guys all know, the pros of an old HDB flat is squarish and relatively good size. The cons is, in our case, the two tiny toilets in the common area – one for WC and one for shower. I’m not sure if you have seen such configuration before. I remember coming across only a handful of threads here with a similar toilet arrangement. Here you go, this is our original floor plan: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SahraChiu 0 Report post Posted November 20, 2016 Our inspirations of a beach house: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SahraChiu 0 Report post Posted November 20, 2016 Given a budget limit of 40k, and a long list of what we plan to do, oh well, we just have to be creative . We use a free software called Sweet Home 3D to visualize the various furniture and fixtures arrangements. Trial and error – that’s how we kids learn After a few attempts, we are happy with this version before meeting with ID / contractors. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SahraChiu 0 Report post Posted November 20, 2016 This plan would involve: 1) changing flooring of the whole house except for the living / dinning room; 2) hacking a few walls to connect the dining area to the kitchen to the utility room 3) there will be some beams on the ceiling of the dining area to mimic a covered patio And hopefully we can build a small vanity area to connect to a bedroom, making it more like a master bedroom. Let’s see how much of that could come true By the way, Sweet Home 3D is a really cool tool. It shows the 3D view from the angle of that ‘little person’ icon you see in the 2D floor plan above. Example is the picture below. And hey, Sweet Home 3D is completely free!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
niel85 1 Report post Posted November 21, 2016 20 hours ago, SahraChiu said: Given a budget limit of 40k, and a long list of what we plan to do, oh well, we just have to be creative . We use a free software called Sweet Home 3D to visualize the various furniture and fixtures arrangements. Trial and error – that’s how we kids learn After a few attempts, we are happy with this version before meeting with ID / contractors. wow!!!! so smart of you, not everyone can make this even with trial and error! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
smermil 1 Report post Posted November 21, 2016 i wish you the best in turing this to your dream beach house! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jaiyerika 5 Report post Posted November 22, 2016 Goodluvck with your reno plan. looking firward form some updtaes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jaiyerika 5 Report post Posted November 25, 2016 First time reading a plan for a beach house reno looking forward for some ipdates on your progress sahrachiu.☺ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
soulforger 2 Report post Posted November 25, 2016 Interesting idea and look forward to your beautiful beach house comes true! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SahraChiu 0 Report post Posted November 25, 2016 Thanks so much guys! Also if you have any questions about Home Sweet 3D, I'm more than happy to help Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jaiyerika 5 Report post Posted November 25, 2016 Off topic sahrachiu how do you do interesring emoticons on your post? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SahraChiu 0 Report post Posted November 30, 2016 On 11/25/2016 at 11:21 PM, jaiyerika said: Off topic sahrachiu how do you do interesring emoticons on your post? Hey Jaiyerika, I just used those available here actually... see below! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jaiyerika 5 Report post Posted November 30, 2016 4 hours ago, SahraChiu said: Hey Jaiyerika, I just used those available here actually... see below! i didn't notice. thanks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SahraChiu 0 Report post Posted December 15, 2016 Hi, we are back!! We have many news to share with you guys We’ve got a bad news: HDB does not allow us to create a vanity area connecting to a bedroom. They seemed to be pretty strict with the separation between dry area and wet area. However, the good news is, we CAN ADD ANOTHER TOILET BOWL in the shower toilet (woot woot). This is amazing, since we now can have 2 fully-functioning toilets. Although the space would be really limited, we are happy that we won’t need to queue for the toilet every morning Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blacksheep 1 Report post Posted December 24, 2016 On 12/15/2016 at 11:04 AM, SahraChiu said: Hi, we are back!! We have many news to share with you guys We’ve got a bad news: HDB does not allow us to create a vanity area connecting to a bedroom. They seemed to be pretty strict with the separation between dry area and wet area. However, the good news is, we CAN ADD ANOTHER TOILET BOWL in the shower toilet (woot woot). This is amazing, since we now can have 2 fully-functioning toilets. Although the space would be really limited, we are happy that we won’t need to queue for the toilet every morning Very nice! whats the reson for the restriction? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
