Our renovation - planning

Morning, we went for hbay tour to view tiles at White Horse ceramics and laminated flooring at Pergo. White horse ceramics are mostly from Malaysia. There are a lot of selections.. we see until blur blur heee. And they have mock up showrooms so it is really quite extensive.

Later we went Pergo and they demonstrate how good is their laminated flooring. They even try to scratch it, burn with fire and oil etc to show how durable it is & how they reduce the 'floating' effect of laminated flooring. We are really amazed at the demonstration. They have a lot of selections and different grading. We found that several laminated flooring are really very nice. But M do not like the 'floating' feeling of laminated flooring and the loud noise whenever u drop something or walk with heels. Parquet still feel more solid but more vulnerable to scratches.

Last at the trip, hbay bring us to a showroom at Citygas where they show their latest water heater, cooker hob and hood which uses government gas. The water heater is really v big and it is commonly shared by both bathrooms with a shower mixer. If u sign up with citygas, they will give a free bosch heater. But i wonder will we use it or not.

We rushed over to GPlan after our hbay trip, and reached IMM at 4pm. Kelvin got it mixed up, he tot we are suppose to meet at 2pm. He brought us to a big factory to see tiles. Oh gosh, the factory is even bigger than White horse and we are astonished at the many selections.. too many to select liao. Kelvin recommend the white polished homogeneous tiles for the living room. I will prefer slight patterns tiles (in fact i saw one v nice one at White horse) but there isn't any which i like at that factory. However M like the white tile a lot so we decide on that one lor.

For kitchen matt homogenous tiles, we have a hard time choosing. There are too many selections are all are v nice. M prefer light colours one, he chose a slight greylish close to white one. (Why he always choose white mah.. xyz*##% , so hard to maintain) . I took a liking to a beige tile with some light lines. It look like a piece of laminate floor board but is actually tiles. I tot it will look nice with my kitchen cabinet. However M is worried that we may tire of the design over time. Haiz.. dun know how to decide leh..nevertheless we still shortlist that tile lor.. Kelvin says will bring us back again before commencement of works to see if we want to have any list minute changes to our selection.

We went back to IMM and discuss about the perspective drawings which Kelvin has drawn. I raise some amendments. We went to see his parquet flooring supplier (just opp to his shop) and view those parquet samples. The samples are quite limited. We realise that parquet flooring colour is quite standard and the tonality are quite different. Reminds me of the laminated flooring and i agree that laminate flooring is really more nice. Haiz.. but still hard to decide leh..