Reno Blog #13 - Kitchen door. Grills. Painting. Wiring.

Done by End April

Supply and install one set solid glass sliding door for the kitchen entrance

Before: Kitchen Doorway	WIP: Kitchen sliding door	Kitchen Sliding door (with concealed track below ceiling line)

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Living Room Aluminium grills added

Before: Main living room windows with grills below	After: added horizontal grills to top half of living room windows

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Aluminium gate for the Master Bedroom and Bedroom 2
Decided to install gates/grills at the full height planter windows in the bedroom 2 and Master Bedroom, for the safety of our little girl. Pictures shown only for Bedroom 2.

Original Bedroom Planter Window	Aluminium Gates installed at Bedroom Planter Window

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Painting Commenced Pictures taken during the daytime.

Study/Bedroom 3: Green on one wall.	Bedroom : Light Purple on 2 adjacent walls

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Others

Additional 13As below the Study Table	Add 13A for the yard. Supply and run the copper pipe for the kitchen sink and washing area.

Reno Blog #12 - Water heater installed

27 Apr 
False ceiling almost done

30 Apr 
Paid Progressive Payment 30%

CityGas heater installed.

Position of heater in Yard	Close-up

Reno Blog #11 - Lights, lights, lights!

24 Apr 
Selected lighting fixtures and doorbell at balestier with raymond. 
We popped by the unit to collect the keys from the BSC person. The contractor was assembling the partition wall for walk-in wardrobe in our Master Bedroom. 

Reno Blog #10 - SIMS delivery & Shower Screens installed

Week of 21 Apr
Stuff from SIMS delivered.


Supply and Install shower screen for the Master toilet and Common Toilet

Before: MBR shower area	After: MBR shower area with shower screen installed

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Before: Common Toilet Shower Area	After: Common Toilet Shower Area with half shower screen

Reno Blog #09 - Colour selection and various purchases at SIMS

Having reviewed the initial 3D pictures our ID prepared for us, we met again to select laminates and discuss details, measurements and requirements. Didn't take any pictures of the laminates and paint colours selected, though.

Thereafter, we proceeded to Sim Siang Choon to view and select with ID:


Kitchen Appliances

1. cooker  hood: EF-CK-VETRO Cooker Hood. SS/Glass. 900mm.

2. Oven: EF-BOAE62A Multi-fn Oven. Ssteel.

3. table top gas hob: EF-EFH3970 TN VSB Gas Hob. 860mm. 3 burner.

Bathroom Accessories (all 1x each, except 2x rain shower)

1. rain shower extension: SIMS-JF 8903 Square Shower Pole
2. bidet spray & stop cork: VRUNION- FXVHO-0040ES Shower Rinse w hose. VRUNION-B3120-R1 Stop Cock
3. S/S rack to place toiletries (MBR): SIMS-MW017 2Tier Straight Shelf series WANLA. Matt. 260x290.
4. towel bar for face towels: VRUNION-ST105 Two Arms Swing Bar. 350mm. Ssteel.
5. toilet roll holder: VRUNION-ST104 Toilet Paper Holder. Ssteel.
6. Toilet sink: Caroma-Liano Wall Basin/Acounter White
7. Toilet sink tap: PAFFONI-LES075CR3 Basin Mixer C/W 11/4 PUW. Chrome.
8. towel bar for 2 bath towels: VRUNION-ST101B-750mm DBL towelbar. Ssteel.

Kitchen and Yard 

1. Kitchen Mixer: PAFFONI-PI180 Pinguino Sink Mixer w/High Spout. Chrome
2. Sink: Astro TEKNO480 1B Sink Terra53. Col:Sahara. W/ 1.5in bottle trap
3. washing machine tap: Chrome

 Total Damage at SIMS: $3k+.

Reno Blog #08 - Aircon Trunking and Opennet installation

15 April 2010 


Hubby took leave to meet with our ID on aircon trunking. The guys from Opennet also came to run the cables in the afternoon. We chose to route the wires through the false ceiling in the living/dining area, all the way to the wall between living room and bedroom, as this will be our main feature wall where the TV will be located.

Before: Bare wall intended for feature wall	Done: final trunking for Opennet as well as our electrical wiring by contractor

Reno Blog #07 - Renovation starts!

Our renovation starts! ID visited our flat for first review on 8 April. We are Christians, so not pan tang on specific dates to start work, so we just left it to our ID to arrange dates with his staff and sub-contractors. I wasn't physically there to view the progress regularly, but hubby was. I didn't think of blogging on the reno at that time, so I didn't keep track of the order of construction work done. But I think they generally started with the cement work at the Yard and Kitchen areas.


Kitchen - Water Pipes/ floor tiles hacked and replaced. 
We wanted to move the sink to the wall opposite, so the water pipes had to be re-run, under the original kitchen floor tiles. The kitchen floor was hacked.

Base for fridge (Top Left) and Base for Tall Cabinet (Bottom Left). Original Water Pipe re-located.	Kitchen floor tiles replaced by mosaic
Base for kitchen cabinets. Water pipe for Sink re-located here.	Base for Washing Machine and additional water pipe running along the wall

Before: Kitchen floor tiles	Before: Window in kitchen with water pipes overhead concealed by white box on left of picture
Before: White box overhead concealing water pipes	WIP: kitchen water pipes exposed. Aircon trunking leading to dining area is visible above window

Also, electrical works commenced in the various spaces. most major in living room (where we re-located the SCV point to the other end (wall between living room and bedroom 3), as well as in the master bedroom where we are putting in a walk-in wardrobe and power points near the headroom for the bed, as well as for mounting a TV at the corner. 

Reno Blog #06 - ID confirmed

Appointment with Raymond to view the 3D visualisations according to our earlier discussions. Although the colours used are only samples, we liked what we saw, and thought it would suit our needs. As earlier mentioned, I had, internally, gave up on having a nice, fancy design like what I saw in magazines and websites (such as houzz.com) due to our various restrictions (budget, space, child-proofing, practical needs like low maintenance).

Do not recall much from this discussion as everything was discussed in a matter-of-fact manner, and I hardly had any time to think of what needed changing, or whether I had missed anything. Plus, we brought Yuxian along today and so I was pacifying her half the time....

We thus decided to firm up the arrangement with Raymond, and paid the 10% deposit that day. At least it was a first load off my mind.

There was some time left for the afternoon (being a public holiday), so we decided to drop by Sim Siang Choon to preview some of their products before the final decision round with Raymond to buy from them. We weren't exactly very sensitive to pricing of some run-of-the-mill purchases like bathroom/kitchen accessories, and didn't have prior experience in selecting big ticket kitchen items like oven/ hood/ hob (I had been eyeing the appliances at Mayer which had a branch at Tampines One and had checked out their 2-in-1/3-in-1 bundle offers). Rather than run to a few places and compare prices/products, which we didn't have the time and patience to, we accepted his suggestion to consolidate the purchase at SIMS. For him, it was convenience dealing with less vendors and certainty of after-sales service with a large company.

Foyer


Dining


Kitchen Carpentry


Kitchen Tall Cabinet and Fridge


Living Room Feature Wall


Living Room Full height, full wall Storage Cabinets


Study Room Wardrobe cum book shelves.


Study Room table


Bedroom 2 Wardrobe


Master Bedroom perspective from door (Walk-in Wardrobe on left, bed and TV feature wall)


Master Bedroom Bedframe and bay window


Master Bedroom Bedframe and Bay Window and cove lighting (perspective from door)


Master Toilet