Resale Revival

We will be moving into the flat tomorrow! Yes! Finally! After all the alterations (and there're still some tiny little bits that need to be done), my movers will move my existing furnitures into the new flat from the warehouse. :)

Study room is painted with special stroke of baby breath blue - because it will be a doraemon-theme room. :) Other rooms are painted using warm colours. I think overall, I like the colours of the whole flat... pretty bright, and yet its quite warming. :P

Updated: 9 October 2008 -> Some of the curtains were up! Those day-n-light curtains are all up. For the bedrooms, the roman blinds required more work, so they will be up in about a week time or so. I love the curtains...giving the whole flat a soft feeling. :)

Here're the most updated set of photographs!

It's getting more and more ready... air-conditioning system was installed, all the toilets' doors were there (one of the toilet's door comes with a full-length mirror), the kitchen cabinet is almost done (left the solid top...), the tv-console is also almost done... and I have asked Jackson to do up some additional carpentry for my bedroom and my mum's room... basically to do up some cabinets to fill up the useless "holes" under the windows. The wrought iron gate was also installed!



What's left are:

- Kitchen's cabinet solid top

- A door between the master bedroom to service balcony (walk-way to my new toilet... this is a last minute add-up I've asked Jackson to do, in additional to the carpentry mentioned above)

- Other miscellaneous stuff such as my taps, my mum's toilet's bars for elderly people to have better grips...



Think I can move in soon... hopefully soon. :)



See the photos below!

Carpentry works started! I'm only doing my wardrobe, kitchen cabinet and tv-console/shoerack. So, it should be completed quite fast - I hope.

Yihan (my nephew) came to my flat with his parents (my sister and brother-in-law) to see the progress of the renovation. Yihan loves the fact that he can run around my flat (from kitchen, via toilet, via service balcony to my master bedroom, then to the living room and back to the kichen again). We played hide-and-seek for a while...and he couldn't find me at all. He's so cute. When he's looking for me at the kitchen, I am hiding in my master bedroom. When I hear his voice/footstep sound that he's approaching the living room, I will be walking quietly to the service balcony. So, in this manner, we actually run round and round, until he give up seeking for me...because he couldn't find me.

In the end, he said "Ah Gu!" (Hokkien, which means uncle). "I cannot find you. I give up! Your flat is so big!"... I burst into laughter...afterall, how big can a 4-room HDB flat in Singapore be?

Here's the photos!

Finally, I've the lights up! :) They have also fixed up the ceiling fan for my living room, the glass panel for my kitchen's wall, my toilet's shower screen... Anyway, I've found some defects in some parts of the renovation - so will get the contractor to do the corrective measures. Jackson called me this morning to tell me they will start the carpentry work this coming Friday. So I think by tomorrow, they will fix up my mum's toilet's PVC door, my toilet's Pd-door and sliding door (with mirror)...

With the lights, I think the wall colours I've chosen is not so bad as I first thought. Anyway, here are the updated pictures. :)

L-Boxes are up, but they have yet to drill holes for the down lights yet. They have completed the 90% of the painting works. Water closets and toilets' basins are up too. Here's the complete picture! :)

Renovation is delayed due to the earlier wait for HDB to approve my hacking/building of walls. Anyway, that means I've to spend some more money to move my furnitures to a storage space before moving to the new flat. This is because I need to move by 14 September, this Sunday. The new owner for the current flat I'm staying will start their renovation next week. No choice, they need to get the flat ready for Hari Raya too.

Anyway, here's the consolidated photos I've taken on the progress of the renovation. :) It's getting more and more towards it objective. :P

Karen is still in Vietnam. I met up with Jackson in the morning to go and purchase sanitary wares (for the toilets) as well as things for the kitchen. We also went to buy the lightings.

To summarize, total damage of the day is $6600. Here's the breakdown:

I've spent $2900 in the sanitary wares shop.
I've spent $1750 in the lighting shop.
I've spent $1950 for the air-conditioning system - Sanyo Non-Inverter System-3 with 3 ticks in Energy Savings.

Total $6600. I didn't know it will end up this figure. Pure coincident. Anyway, Chinese love the number 6 because we have common Chinese phrase such as 六六大顺 which means very successful, etc. It was a very last minute decision (something I always do, and something Karen's always not comfortable with) to buy a storage water heater instead of instant heaters as agreed earlier. Reason: The rainshower head. Jackson told me regardless of which floor you stay, the normal HDB water pressure is not able to fully utilize the rainshower head. He added that even if the pressure is good enough, my instant water heaters will not produce hot water fast enough for that. So, in conclusion, if I'm very lucky, I will get cold "rain water" if I go for rainshower head and instant water heater. So? Storage water heater lor.

Some of the things I bought from sanitary wares shop were:

• Baron Water Closets (WC) better known as toilet bowls. Each is $310.
• Baron Basin for my mum's toilet
• A nice amber gloss glass basin for my toilet
• Toilet accessories (Mirrors, towel racks, toilet roll holders)
• Hand-rails for my mum's toilet (she has weak legs...these will help her)
• Joven 25L storage water heater
• Rain shower head for my toilet (love it!)
• Basin for my kitchen (with a nice soap dispenser... cool. I've chosen a matt finish instead of gloss)

Take a look at what I've bought! (I've managed to find some of their pictures in the internet) :)

I have bought square-shaped downlights for my L-boxes. Altogther 40 of such. Each $30. Total $1200. I also choose some simple lights for my kitchen, toilets and store room.

I've chose my paints also for the rooms. Here're my choices.
Take a look at an artist's impression how my kitchen will look :) My kitchen cabinet should be like the below, except that I've decided not to suspend the cabinet. Reason is since my maid do cooking daily, a suspended cabinet will be more prone to wear-and-tear than a cabinet that sit on top of a concrete base.