Monday, March 29, 2010

26.03.2010 - Move In

Move in day! Finally after 7th weeks renovation, our little sanctuary nest is ready to move in~

The final cleaning by the contractor was really good. It's much cleaner than we expected. Of course, we still need to do few rounds of self-cleaning to make sure everything is TRULY wash!

^_^ Always a bless to busy for our own house..... worth it!

Basically today will be our move in day - Lucky Day :) And furniture and electrical appliances partly deliver today as well ^_^


Our comfort gear Simmons Backcare Model S1000
* Recommend to go Simmons Gallery at Tampines One, look for Linda. Very nice and friendly lady.

The Washing Machine finally is here, delivered by Meyer.


Our Ariston AQXGL 109 - 9kg front loaded washing machine
*Remember to check condition of the machine (rubber, drum, body, etc) before letting the Meyer man off!

Firenze sofa delivered by Winter International @ IFC



Started to use our Tiger Electric Water Heater. We do the dechlorinate cleaning before using the water dispenser.



Found partly of our alcohol collection, still have more laying somewhere the corner :P




Bin 999 Merlot 2001, anyone want this? :P

Cleaning work in progress......

25.03.2010 - Final Touch Up

Today is final touch up work. Mr.K has informed all contractor pop by our house to touch up the minor work. We have few appointments too! ^_^

Our previous owner had printed window film, which make our window look dirty and unclear. Thus we decided to change all window solar film. It can help to reject heat while allowing natural light to pass through. It give us privacy and improve our comfort - looks cleaner too!

We engaged CoolKote Pte Ltd to do this work. Recommended by one of our good friend. We truly satisfied with the quality of the film and skill work. There's no bubble or uneven line spotted for all panels, thumbs up! Their pricing is quite reasonable too compare to Vkool. Quality is better than Vkool and cheaper!
*call Mark Low 81869816. For more information please check under Useful Link


Old film


New UV solar film for whole house window panels
Alumina 30 (3 bedrooms + living hall)
Alumina 64 (kitchen)


Spot the differences Before and After - the light and heat reduction been filter off!

Easy Hanger
Remember Home Niche Easy Hanger? Which I blog earlier.. here you go!


Our 6 poles easy hanger! The lowest level reach my chin, which is just nice for me to hang clothes and bed sheet. Hubby said easier for me especially during my pregnancy ^_*

Store Rack
Remember we got someone came over to do measurement for our store room? YK Toh Marketing is a wholesaler and distributor for hardware, household products. There have 2 materials to choose from - Wood or Stainless Steel.

We customized 2 store rack where can fit into our store room and choose stainless steel rack which is more durable.

Take Note:

- Please do not call number shown at YK Toh website, the pricing quoted by them is different (more expensive). We had this contact which given by my ex-colleague. Directly contact with the rack department and we get a better quote. Weird isn't it? But this is the fact.
* Call 67468622 look for Amber

- When the sales man do measurement of your store room. Remember to take note of your skirting thickness, because the sales man will only measure from wall - wall. It's happened on us where the sales man forgot about the skirting thicknesses, causing our store rack unable to fit in properly! So, make sure take note on this!


Hubby DIY the base to lay on our laminate floor before putting on the store rack. To protect our laminate floor.


Due to our store room extremely pathetic small, we fit the rack into L shape. And due to our store room flooring uneven, PLUS thanks to the sales man who ignore the skirting thicknesses, the store rack unable to push in nicely to the wall and become unstable. Hubby has to manually cut out mini cardboard to slot underneath the rack nicely and replace few rubber edge stand with mini cardboard to stabilize the whole rack. Really thanks to that sales man! Putting us so much trouble! !@#$%

Overall, the quality of the rack is superb. At least we satisfied with the quality and material of the rack. Just take note the above statements, you will avoid this hassle.

Pricing wise, roughly about $180 per rack.


Stainless steel Store Rack

More things will be deliver tomorrow :)

Sneak preview of our home :P

* Kitchen with black glass backing and Legrand Switches/Dimmer

Mr.K contractors were really professional. They finished their job and make sure we satisfied before they left. Well done!

Tomorrow is our good date to Move In! Yeah!!! Extremely happy~

Monday, March 22, 2010

Week 7 Renovation - Final Week

Lighting and bathroom accessories installed today!


MBR MaClaire 1 piece toilet bowl and half mount in basin


MBR Raindance S150 Air 3jet shower set and Focus E² Mixers


Common bathroom Crometta Vario shower set and basin with chrome bottle trap & piping. We pay more for the chrome material instead of getting the normal plastic waste, which look more classy and modern.


Joven 25L storage heater


MBR and dining hall crystal light


Guest room and kitchen light. Study room install the same light as guest room.


Common bathroom UFO light and normal roundish light for store room. We bought the cheapest light for store room, since no one gonna stare at it so often :P Only cost us $22!


My favorite kitchen set - Allegra Variarc high spout with pull-out spray! Love it soo much! Thank you hubby agreed to get this ^_^Though it's cost more than normal pull-out spray, but we not doubt the quality of it, compare to those spray made in China.
(the photo display does not show how is the pull-out look like)


Kitchen cabinet light installed


This is how Mallia socket look like after installed

More to come~!

Home Decor - Curtain

What's next? Curtain!

A home won't be complete without the curtain! It can block light, sound, heat, wind, decorative and most importantly - Privacy!

After searching for few curtain makers, finally we confirm MGL Curtain. We went to different shops and asked for pricing (same materials and colors), they able to provide the cheapest and attractive quotes! And no worries for their services/materials. As we had survey from different forum - Reno Talk and Singaporebrides. Their comments are really good!

Actually, we have been to MGL last 2 months, before our renovation started. Met with Andrew, one of the staff in MGL. A friendly and jovial guy. Thus, this will be our 2nd meet up with him, and our curtain selection time was super fast, which is within 1.5 hours. We have been running different places, spent so much time on choosing materials before, worth it for now!



Andrew is a very nice chap.... and the rest of the staffs (May and Joey) are very friendly too. Even if you don't have sample material on hand, just ask their opinion. They do have ICI and Nippon paint catalog too, convenient for you to check color matching at the same time.

He will be coming down to our house to do measurement again (had roughly given him what is our window measurement) thus easier for him to quote us price on the spot. You may do this too to save your time! :)

Initially we wanted to have Roman blind, but after read and ask for more details, we choose to give up due to the hassle of cleaning and re-slotting the blind which will cause the blind uneven and spoil the look. We are not that patience anyway :P

We finalized with:
Living Hall - Full length day and night curtain
MBR - Full length day and black out night curtain
Guest Room - Full length night curtain
Study Room - Roller blind

Curtain will be ready in 2 weeks time :)

MGL Curtain & Furnishing
195 Lavender Street
#01-02 Eminent Plaza
Singapore 338758
Tel: 63920373

Home Niche Easy Hanger

Went to HomeNiche to look for laundry hanger. They are the manufacturer for pulley system hanger, which is more reliable and provide quality assurance. Beware imitation in this market.

We had known this earlier, but hubby would like to see the actual thing before place order. We wanted to get rid of the traditional way of hanging clothes - bamboo poles. And of course to save and lighten my afford to hang clothes by stretching my neck looking on top! Further more, it's enhance the appearance of our sanctuary home :) I won't be worry the bamboo poles falls on my head again!!! (I'm a super clumsy penguin, believe me, it happened before!)

What is Easy Hanger then?
There are 3 different types of models. Retractable, Foldable and Electrical Hanger. We got the Retractable hanger where it fixed to the ceiling and can be lowered by using pulley system. For this model, you may choose either 4 poles or 6 poles.

4 poles - $358
6 poles - $398

We choose the 6 poles base on our needs, and more convenient if we hang clothes plus bed sheet. More spacey compare to 4 poles.


Model HL 301



It's make our life easier! ^_^

Home Niche Singapore
1 Kaki Bukit Road 1
#01-06 Enterprise One
Singapore 415934
Tel: 62738005
http://www.homeniche.com/easy.html

Sunday, March 21, 2010

21.03.2010 - Samsung Fridge

After went through few places to check price (Mega Discount, Harvey Norman, Parisilk), finally we found the cheapest deal at Best Denki! Currently they have in-house promotion and come with additional $100 Takashimaya voucher.

This promotion does not allow installment, and the Nett price have to pay by CASH. Hubby requested the sales assistant to check again, and finally we allow to pay by Credit Card! Sweep! $1099 with $100 Taka Voucher, which is our Snow White only cost us $999! Hooray~!

The main reason we fall in love to this fridge was - HUGE yet Energy Savings! It's 4 tick!



Love our Snow White Fridge ^_^


Samsung Snow White (RT72KASE)
http://www.samsung.com/sg/consumer/home-appliances/refrigerator/top-freezer/RT72KASE1/XSS/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail&tab=features

21.03.2010 - Solid Surface Top

Today is Sunday, yes.... and there's someone still working! Install our kitchen solid surface top and vanity top.


We are wondering how's on earth he can carry the solid surface top by his own! :S


Vanity top with cutting measurement ready


Here's done our solid surface top with backsplash

Very eager to see further tomorrow! ^_^
 

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