Sunday, November 23, 2008

Our Home - The Finest Masterpiece

Ladies and Gentlemen, may we present... our home...
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After 2 months of make-over, our home is finally ready! Let us now invite you to a tour in our humble abode. We hope you find our place a little eye-pleasing. Enjoy!
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Welcome!
(Foyer area and shoe cabinet)
- The Dining Area -
- Our Living Room -
Perfect for movie nights!
3-in- 1
(TV Feature cum Shoe Cabinet and Settee)
- Entrance to Sheppy's Empire -
The Kitchen
- A Very Well-Equipped Kitchen -


- Stand-Alone Kitchen Sink Mixer -

- Service Yard -

The base for our washing machine turned out pretty well.

- Guest Room -

- Study cum Music Room -

- The Common Toilet -

- Entrance to the MBR -

The steps on the right leads to our sleeping area.

- Starry Starry Nights -

- Beloved Restroom -

Literally, a room where we can rest in!

It looks just too good not to stay longer in it.

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That's all, Folks!

- Missing Pieces -

Well, what can I say?

Due to our excitment, we found that we had left out some 'reno progress pictures' since the last photo update. We even promised to upload pictures of our completed reno supposedly in this post....

So we apologise for not being able to do that just yet, until you see these updates. Let's get this set of pictures over and done with, so you can see the REAL pictures.^_^


Capentry works in our kitchen for the cooker hood and hob.
Capentry works for the sink.


Wardrobe for the guest room.
Nice brown laminate with an interesting stony texture.


Our big wardrobe for the MBR. And, I mean BIG.

MBR toilet. Vanity cabinet and the area for our mirror.
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Yup, that's it! Cheers!

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Panic

- less!

It had been a busy one month for both of us at work and we realised that we had not posted any updates here for exactly a month now.

Thinking back, all we did over the past month was to shop and work, and shop, and work. Hmmm... haven't really thought about reno have we? I guess thats a good thing.

Just a couple of days back, we decided to call our ID to ask about the status of our reno. The last time we spoke, most of the stuff were already up less the works in the kitchen. To our surprise, he said everything was done up and is pending our 'vetting'. So we went down to our unit to take a look. Equipped with a pen, a piece of paper and a roll of paper tape, we went around the house hunting for 'defects'.

No major faults to report, except that the perfectionists in both of us listed down 30 'could be done better' improvements. These include the likes of removing paint marks behind the doors and reducing the gaps between the cabinet doors. After reporting the minor stuff to ID, he said he would personally go down to our place to take a look and see if he could figure out what we wanted him to rectify. Oh, we accidentally took the paper with our 'improvement list' home -_-

An hour later, he gave us a call and said something like, "Lets meet tonight, I'll get all my guys up to settle everything!" We thought siao liao, big issues.

That evening, we proceeded to meet him at our place. Yah, really all his guys. Himself, his team of capentry workers and his project manager was on site to rectify everything!

Kudos to his team as there was one particular improvement where i wrote on our the paper as a guide: " settee laminate not aligned???", where the joining part of the laminate at side of settee and the TV feature wall did not align (was about 1mm protruding). When we arrived at the scene, his guys already took out the setter and re-positioned it to fix the alignment problem. I mean, we can live with that, but he got his guys to fix it even without us mentioning it. Thats what I call professionalism. ^-^

Guess what?

That marks the end of the renovation!
ID told us to look for him if there were any other outstanding issues and shared some maintenance tips on how we can keep the capentry and other stuff in good condition. With that, we shall head down to our place again this weekend to take some pictures to keep you guys updated on how our place looks like!

-Stay Tuned!-

- Renovation Milestones -

  • 03 Nov 08 - Reno completed! Hand over!
  • 27 Oct 08 - Kitchen Carpentry completed
  • 20 Oct 08 - TV Feature Wall completed
  • 16 Oct 08 - Painting completed
  • 11 Oct 08 - MBR Wardrobe completed
  • 11 Oct 08 - MBR Toilet cabinet completed
  • 10 Oct 08 - MBR Platform completed
  • 08 Oct 08 - Shoe Cabinet/Settee completed
  • 08 Oct 08 - Bdrm 2 Wardrobe completed
  • 03 Oct 08 - Lightings installed
  • 30 Sept 08 - Window Grills up
  • 22 Sept 08 - Tiling completed
  • 21 Sept 08 - Toilet Overlay completed
  • 20 Sept 08 - Kitchen Bases completed
  • 12 Sept 08 - False Ceiling completed. Reno officially starts.
  • 10 Sept 08 - Aircon Trunking completed, Sand and Tiles delivered
  • 08 Sept 08 - Reno Loan approved