LO AND BEHOLD!

As promised! Back with more pictures (lots of them in fact)! The tilings are completed!

Just to note that we had kept these pictures for a while. Check out the renovation milestones at the bottom of this page to see when the reno works were completed. I'll cut the story short and let the pics speak for themselves.

Enjoy!

Mr Nice Guy laying the tiles for our foyer. Yup, tiles, not timber planks, not laminates. Plain, old, trusty tiles that look like wood. Kudos to their excellent worksmanship. Cheers!

Tiling in the living room has been completed. The Contractor's bench makes a good substitute for our sofa (for now at least).

Completed work of the Living Room area (with skirting) and the Foyer.

Homogeneous tiles for all bedrooms as well. The air con trunking can be seen on the left just beside the aircon ledge's window.

Tiling completed in the rooms. Very reflective. nice light distribution in the day.


A clearer view of the air con trunking. Starts from the aircon ledge, enters the MR and heads up to the ceiling (passing through to bedroom 2).

Aircon trunking from the MBR joins the rest of the tribe at the top corner of Bedroom 2. Like a river, it then splits towards two directions. To the left, it connects to the aircon unit for Bedroom 2 before being linked to the aircon unit in bedroom 3 (thru a wall). Both aircon units are located above the door. To the right,it will be linked to the aircon unit located in the MBR. This way, the trunkings will not be visible in the MBR.

Phew, that was long. I hope you get what I was trying to say.

Another perspective.

Kitchen bases for the cabinets (hanging ones, not the full length kind) and the fridge (below the pails).

Across what you saw in the previous picture, lies another set of cabinets that would hold the kitchen sink.

Decided not to have top cabinets as it would make the kitchen feel even smaller.

Concrete base for the washing machine. No idea why it was constructed this way. I reckoned that it was a design feature (hell yeah! we paid for this man!) since it's different from the conventional method where the contractors would just cement the whole area in a traditional kind of way (the entire length of the service yard).

Who knows?

Totally cool! The overlaid toilet (just completed; still unwashed)!

Black tiles with running tone. A little bit of grey, some shades of blue and a great bunch of facination and joy.

Shower area, showing the colours more clearly.

I hope you enjoy these pictures. The next step of our reno work would be the painting of the apartment and the putting up of a false wall in the MBR for our wardrobe.

Till then, ciaos!

- And So It Began -

Bags and bags of cement. Piles and piles of sand. Mr Spade joined us this night, ready to rummm~mble~!

Mr Spade having tea with DJ C-man and Emcee Sandz!

Doors detached themselves, tiles split in perfect sizes. Everything was everywhere. Everyone was lining up in orderly lines, waiting for their turn to be part of the big project!

A layer of special concoction was applied to the bathroom, enabling selected tiles to be Spidertiles for the very first (and only) time after their escape from the tile factory!

Stay tuned for more pictures - in a couple of minutes, promise! -


Dar (aka Spectro)

Up, Up and away they go!

Literally! Yup, the false ceiling is up, all in a day!

Up...

... Up ...

... and up the ceiling went ...

AND AWAY THEY GO!

Yes! Believe it! Rub your eyes harder and the 2 items will still be missing! We have decided to overlay the MBR toilet, so the toilet bowl and basin will have to go (for a little while).

Spectro

Ready... Steady...

Go! And the reno officially starts! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee~

Haulage starts!

Heaps of stand appeared in the living room. Stacks after stacks of tiles were brought in!

Hmmm... something tells me that I might be paying more than I really should.

The rooms getting a little afternoon sunlight.

Is it just me or is that Jabba the Hutt?

Spectro

Back to Basics

Realised that Spectro had left out the floorplan of the flat. Here it is!

Spectro

Bare It All!

G'day peeps.

Let me start by baring it all for your viewing pleasure. What? Oh, not allowed? No, I meant the bare apartment. What were you thinking?

Front view of our new apartment!

That's Spectro trying to 'kiap' the door so that it stays open.

View (less) from our living room.

Dining Area. With entrance to the Kitchen (Left) and corridor leading to the rooms (Right)

Our Kitchen. Pretty small (lit. small, but pretty).

Household Shelter. A good thing it is located in the kitchen, or we would've spent $$ on covering it up.

Service Yard. Almost half the size of the kitchen -_-

Corridor leading to (from left to right) Common Toilet, Master Bedroom, Study and Guest Rooms.

Common Toilet. Nice and Spacious.

View from the Master Bedroom. All rooms have the same view... T_T

View from inside the MBR.

Aircon Legde (front) and exit to the corridor leading to the living room (Left).

Right, that's it for today. Will upload more on the reno progress tomorrow. Cheers!

Spectro

The horror of Technology to a clueless caveman.

Sheppy wanted to create a (reno) blog so that we could capture the first chapter of our lives together. Well, after sitting on this idea and request for so (...ooo...ooo) long, the cow finally came home. Yup, here you go! Spectro in front of the computer!

Watch this space my dear friends! Until Spectro figures out how to post colourful pictures, let Spectro's word entertain thee!

Spectro