Week 6 Renovation (15th - 19th March 2010)

Day 1
Carpentry work started! Yohoo~ So excited see all stuffs delivered in to our house......



Day 2
It's 7 plus in the evening, and the contractor still working in our unit fixing all cabinets! Wow.... So happy to see partly of the cabinets installed!


The contractor still fixing our dining area display cabinet


Incomplete TV Features Wall!! The result turns out nice :)


Study room - study desk and my incomplete side table :P


Kitchen cabinet - L shape box up the giant trunking (Hubby's idea!) ^_^


Our kitchen granite sink (Blanco) and burner (Rinnai) installed!

Day 3
More works added for all the cabinets!


MBR basin and vanity cabinet. The door come without soft closure, have to check to Mr.K and I must make sure I get the soft closure!


Dining hall incomplete display cabinet. The empty gap near ceiling has filled up.


Study room incomplete display cabinet and study table. Can spot the alignment between study table and cabinet? Not sure is it design on purpose or? But I'm gonna ask Mr.K to align it to be same alignment.


Glass shield installed for our kitchen cabinet. The cabinet that seal up the ugly trunking, good space to keep our laundry stuffs like washing powder, etc :P


Lift up the glass shield (with soft closure technology) drainage plates shelves installed inside. Out of my expectation, the quality of the drainage shelves and base cover plates are good quality! (FOC) ^_^


Cabinet all with soft closure technology, and all drawers installed with BLUM soft closure.
(Additional $240 added just for the BLUM - 4 drawers) You may purchase directly from BLUM or get your ID to bundle it for you. Pricing wise, standard rate.


Rinnai hoods and inner flame technology burner.


Kitchen laminate material and our Joven 25L storage heater.


Common bathroom UFO light & store room 'moon' light :P


More lights in our house and our dining hall crystal light! Can't wait it install up there!

Day 4
Closet design came over to install our wardrobe today. The worker took 1 whole day to build it up. Initially they forgot to bring our mirror, hubby have to call our 'blur' Closet Design coordinator to ask. Another worker send down just to deliver the mirror *tsk tsk*


Drawers and the big glass door for our wardrobe. Huge isn't it!


The 2nd time delivery for the mirror door. We never expect the mirror was so HUGE! Thought only half of the door size, but....... PERFECT! Haha.... We can dress up together by not fighting over the mirror! LOL~


The worker started by building the false wall, follow by setting up the poles (which is the main support for the post system design). Fixing the pole is not easy. And guess what, the 2 workers (China man) Can't deny their attitude are very kind, but they are quite careless. In a way, the alignment went wrong. Lucky that hubby is around during the whole installation, and those uneven and misalignment managed to spot by him, and asked them to adjust immediately.

Imagine, the wardrobe installed not in line, left & right side uneven? Gosh...... there are 2 things we will ask Closet Design to change - drawer handle uneven and one hanging pole chip off at the edge. We still holding their final payment, have to make sure everything in order before pay! Going to Closet Design coming weekend, hope I can control myself by not !@#$%^& that 'BLUR' coordinator!!!


Double track installed due to we requested to have mirror hidden behind the 2 glass door.


This is how our wardrobe final work! Overall, we both satisfied with the quality of the closet. The pole, design and woods are all solid, which well promised by them. But, bear in mind... monitoring still advisable during the installation and coordination is very important too.

Love my 8.5" ft wardrobe! But I think gonna be not enough for me to locate my clothes!
*sob sob* Have to control my shopping!

Wohoo~ Can't wait for next week! ^_^

Week 5 Renovation (8th - 12th March 2010)

Day 1
Cleaning work has been done today! The next few days & next week will be carpentry work. Thus the messy place has to clear off before the installation. This is just a basic chemical wash, follow by another clean chemical wash again before the completion.... tidy isn't it?


Living & dining hall


Original laundry hanger has been removed. Easy hanger will be install soon.


Remember the hot & cold piping installed wrongly last 2 weeks? Mr.K has informed the contractor to shift to the correct position, which is at the right side now.

Day 2
Today hubby took leave to wait for few delivery. Toilet bowl, shower set, tap (by Universal Union), cooker hood & hobs (by Aik Leong electrical), kitchen sink (by Hoe Kee) gonna deliver today. And we arrange a sales man come today as well to do measurement for our store room rack. We will custom made 2 rack for the store room. Their rack quality is solid, and most importantly - reasonable price! (Details will be in next post)


Store room old rack has been removed


Hoe Kee - Blanco GreyStone Sink & Common bathroom mirror


Aik Leong - Rinnai inner flame burner and chimney hood


Universal Union - Common bathroom Hansgrohe shower/tap set & 2 piece MaClaire toilet bowl


And Master bathroom Maclaire 1 piece toilet bowl


Our stock for today!

Getting more & more excited! ^_^

Day 3 - Day 5
Yeah! Our doors all installed and few works have been done! And our living hall platform installed too! ^_^


Half carpentry wood delivered


MBR frosted glass door and shower screen glass door


Common bathroom and store room bi-fold door


New window grill lock, door handle and door stopper for all rooms & kitchen


New laminate skirting


And this is our Living hall platform :)

When we saw the wood color of our platform, hubby quite dislike the color tone. Thus called Mr.K and ask. We intend to change to other wood textures, but Mr.K told this is a better wood material compare to the rest (Pergo wood). He said we can change any color as we wish, but all woods are manufacturer from China, thus quality may drop and not durable especially if it got wet when we mop the floor... so, we remain this. It always quality come 1st, isn't it? :) And we feel glad that he provided us the best quality instead of cheapo stuffs where by helping him on cost savings ^_* Good job Mr.K!

Pergo Laminate
http://www.pergo.com/

Our platform color - Walnut Plank
http://www.pergo.com/other-countries/Consumer/Products/Laminate-floors/

Next week is carpentry work! Here come all our cabinets!!!

07.03.2010 - Lightings

Going to get our lighting today, rush rush..... everything have to rush up after CNY!

We have been to few lighting shops at Jalan Besar and Balestier Road. Basically designs wise, all carry the similar designs. Haha... nothing big different. Thus, we decided to get all our lighting recommended by Mr.K at Lite Fusion. Most importantly, since recommended by Mr.K the shop will ease in when come to price negotiation.

This was our 2nd time visited Lite Fusion. Previously I had shortlisted 1 crystal light, where I like it very much (but quite pricey). And guess what, we bought it! Hubby allow me to get it and Mr.K agreed the design looked great and match our desired dining table! ^_^ Basically, we bought all needed lights - kitchen, common bathroom, store room and 3 rooms. We got 3 crystal lights for our house (Dining hall & Master bedroom). Haha..... love the lights very much! But wallet pain pain *sob sob*



We never realize lighting can cost so much, guess because we choose crystal lights, thus slightly cost more. Is for our house anyway, be positive! *-^ Spot our lights when our house is ready!

Oh ya, we bought our basin from here as well! Cheaper price! Believe me, their quote is cheaper than others :)

Lite Fusion
780, Upper Serangoon Road
Choon Kim House
Singapore 534649
(you may look for Ric or Miao Miao) :P

06.03.2010 - Closet Design

We did not get the build in wardrobe from our ID. We had signed a good deal few months back during exhibition at Singapore Expo. A company which specialize in wardrobe - Closet Design. (previous company named as Closet Work)

The reason we choose them was due to the quality. Their wood material and pole was excellent material. The wood is scratches and fire proved. And the pole is solid as well. Further more, they are using German technology. They have soft closure technology similar to BLUM for all drawers.

The staff in charge of our deal named Aiken. A young boy that has less experience, anyway..... a good chance for him to learn and get more experience. He has came to our house on Feb did the 1st measurement, yet no received anything (no layout, no measurement) from him till last few days before we going down today. Hubby quite pissed of this, and finally the layout sent out - but the design not ideal at all. Sigh.

Had appointment with him today, to choose material and designs we wanted. Their office located at Balestier Road, very inconvenient for us! :-( Went to Closet Design showroom, saw few layout wardrobe displays which similar as we saw before during the expo show. I had draw out few designs that we preferred, but ended up rejected by him due to some restrictions. Hate it! I was very unhappy on this. Ended up another senior name Luke came over to approach us and explain, and guess what! He managed did a measurement and layout base on my requirement. Good thing! At last the layout settled.. Thanks God!

We choose the post system(latest design) instead of US design which was popular few years back. And the color we choose is Dark Brown... with full height clear tinted glass as the sliding door.


Finger cross, everything turns up nicely. Wardrobe arrange to setup on 18th March. Will update after setup done.

Closet Design
355 Balestier Road
#01-355 Goodwill Mansion
Singapore 329782
Tel: 62521514
(recommend to look for Luke)
http://www.closetdesign.com.sg/

Week 4 Renovation (1st - 5th March 2010)

Day 1
Ceiling and wall patching work to be done today. Basically wherever spotted uneven or crack, will be plaster off so that when doing the painting work, outcome will become smoother. And especially the previous owner hang lots of creations on the wall, all over the house! Causing the wall left with all 'holes', so ugly!


MBR, study room and living hall ceiling & wall patching work


Our MBR entrance patched up to fit our glass door.

Oh ya, we spotted something different in our MBR today! Mini surprised from Mr.K, enhanced our MBR air con 'ugly' trunking. Glad he did something on it! Thanks Mr.K! ^_^ Let's spot it when our house done up :P

Day 2
Yeah, time to choose paint color! Painting work will be started in next 2 days. Happy~ Choosing color is not an easy task, we have to browse through many x times before confirm the color we wanted. Of course, Mr.K was very helpful on this! :P There are different types of paint, odorless, anti bacteria, easy wash, etc....


Start it by:

1) Knowing your color theme
Choose neutral color for all rooms and blend it with 1 different color OR all rooms have different color

2) Choose your color preferences follow by types (anti bacteria/easy wash)

3) Match the preferences color with different environment
- Cosy? - Master Room?
- Fun corner? - Study room?
- Baby room?

We had spent more than 1 hours just to choose the right color, phew~ Finally get it done! We choose white (neutral color) to blend with different color (Anti Bacteria) category. This is very important especially when we have kids :) Especially our Master Room, as baby will be sleeping with us for at least few years ^_^

We categorized kitchen area as different world, which is different theme :P Thus color have to be brighter!

We have to choose Solid Surface Top color for our kitchen and master bathroom basin top as well. We choose different textures but quite similar color.



Bi-Fold door as well for our common bathroom and store room, our master bathroom will be using glass door. We choose different design of Bi-Fold door for 2 different room, but both are Bi-Fold mirror door type, so called as new design. Hope it turn out nice, finger cross! >_<



Go Go Go! Thursday painting work started! Getting more & more excited! ^_^

Day 4 - Day 6
Painting work for these 3 days. The color turns out really nice, and the feeling when we step in the house was 'so bright'! Haha........


Nippon Paint that we choose


Master bedroom - 1st coat


Study room - Will wait for cabinet up then we decide the color again :P


Guest room - Love the Stream Blue - so calm :)


Kitchen - Linen White


Main door - coating with Dark Brown. The color turns up very nice, out of our expectation ^_^


Store room rack has to be removed - forgot to inform Mr.K about it. Gotta remove it soon before 2nd touch up

Next week will be more exciting! Our kitchen cabinet, shelves, tv console will be up soon! Excited!!