M.Y Renovation

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Appliances

Today, we bot the following appliances at Courts sale. We are given 5% discount on each item! and free delivery

LG Home theatre system (Model : LH-T753TB)
USB Host (MP3/WMA/JPEG playback)
DivX/Xvid
PAL/NTSC Progressive Scan
XTS Pro (frequency response correction)
Karaoke Function (mic jack/echo control)

LG Intellowasher Capacity 5.5kg White colour (Model : WD-10260NP)- Intelligent Washing System
- Suds Sensing and Removal
- Auto Balancing
- Self diagnostics
- 8 Step Auto Washer Level Control
- Foam removal System
- Fuzzy logic control
- Child Lock
- Time Delay
- Hand wash program

LG Cyking vacuum cleaner (Model : V-CB141HEU)
Fresh Ion
Bio Tank with Nano Silver technology
Sani Punch
Elbow wand
One Touch Dust Drop
Antibacterial Chamber
HEPA Control Handle Slide
Net Weight 3.5Kg
Max power 1400W
Suction power 350W
Exhaust filter Washable HEPA Filter

We also wonder why all pdts end up to be LG.. its a coincidence. We like the home theatre system bec it has Karaoke and looks nice. Then the washer is on promotion selling at $399 (plus another 5% discount will be cheaper). As for the vacuum cleaner, just happen that we wanted to buy one to clean up our house for our furniture, so the promoter recommend this vacuum cleaner and we find quite portable and easy to use.

Monday, October 24, 2005

Hood, hob, oven, sink delivery

Today i purposely took 1.5 hrs off during lunch to go to my house wait for the delivery with M. All items delivery we have informed them to come from 1pm to 2pm.

The upper unit is ungoing renovation and is v noisy. M and me makan lunch inside our house while waiting for the delivery. APS lifestyle delivery (Cuizino oven) is v prompt and they actually called me twice today to ensure i will be at the unit. They came at 1.30pm, quite nice guys.

The bellari hood, hob, sink delivery came much later at 2.15pm. M called twice to chase them. The sales guy, Thomas deliver to us, open and let us check.

After taking the fotos, i rushed back to office to continue to slog! Arggg..

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Glass fixtures

We discussed about kitchen door and other carpentry items with ID on 8 October. We decide on the beige/cream solid surface with some speckles for kitchen cabinet. Its the frm new Cresto selection I tink. Our bottom kitchen cabinet is walnut colour. Top cabinet is cream/beige with some lines. For vanity top we chose black dust with glass cabinets below. Shoe rack is using a combination of shiny and matt laminate material.

The feature wall is also up liao, but to be painted and tic-tac door to install later.

Our feature wall

Our living room view now

Last week we inform ID that we wanted frosted glass for kitchen door. He suggested that clear glass will be nicer, but i still prefer frosted glass. So in the end he suggested some patterns of frosted and clear and i told him my preference. We also told him we wish to repaint one of our bedrooms. He wasn't quite happy and want to charge us extra :(

He also helped us to change our bedroom handle to lever type. M actually wanted him to absorb the cost but he insisted that he has given us quite a no of free items and reached the max. M didn't want to bicker with him over small item so just pay. Anyway it is also not v expensive.

Our door lever

Now the kitchen door is finally installed! However, we find that the handle is different from the one we selected with our ID! Our ID told us it is because the handle we selected will bang against the wall so he selected another one with indent for us. I tried to use the handle and discovered that the indent is too small for my fingers to stick in.

Complained to ID about the handle and he agreed to let us change :)

Our kitchen sliding door (View from living room)

There will be a pelmet made later to hide the tracks above.

Our kitchen door (view from kitchen)

Our shower screen and kitchen door seems to made of thicker glass than the other house we seen with our ID..

Our shower screen at master bathroom

Saturday, October 01, 2005

Furniture - Bookcase, dining table, TV console

We decided to buy a TV console for our TV. We have bought our 29 inch TV at the recent warehouse sale at a big discount.

We went to furniture mall and find that their furniture set is not v interesting and worth it. However we do find a shop at the entrance called budget furniture and they sell nice console, dining set and coffee table at economical price. We took their namecard as consideration.

Next we travel to Funan centre Vhive but find that the TV console selection is v few. I suggested to go to their other branch at Great World City. We stopped by Liang court to visit Audio house and see their electronic products. We find that their prices are no much lesser than other great stores like Courts/best.

At Great world city vhive, we find a lot of selection of living, bedroom, study, dining, everything. I think it is the biggest vhive store so far. We find nice TV consoles and bookcases. We spent 1.5 hours deciding which ones to take.

Here are our consideration and final selection:-

This is the TV console we ended up buying.

TV console

It's really long (208cm) and walnut colour.

Our Coffee table:

Our coffee table

Our Bookcases:

Bookcase

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Lighting and air-con installation

M went down to our house during lunch to monitor the air-con works and installation of lights. The aircon ppl from Natural Cool were early and finished installed all the air-con. They drop some dirt on our laminate flooring so mop for us. Hope they do dry mopping! :) Our lights are also installed but electrician accidentally cut wrong hole! ID say will patch up for us and won't be obvious.

One of the flourscent tube inside one of the lights for the bedroom is found to be faulty (it has cracks), will have to ask our lighting supplier to change for us.

Wrong hole cut at false ceiling

Living room downlights

Living room with only warm lights

Our living room when only inverted Lbox lights are on. It is already quite bright so our ID will change to warm lights instead.

Our cosy corner

Our platform at the living room window

Kitchen

Master bedroom with air-con trunking

air-con unit at bedroom 3

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Laminate flooring and painting

Yesterday, the HDB plumber turned up without calling. Our ID has to rushed from IMM to our house to open the door for him.
Today morning, the HDB main con call my ID to inform him the plumber is coming today. My ID told him the plumber has ored come yesterday liao.. and grumble a bit.. dun know why the HDB contractor never coordinate with the plumber one.. can make such a mistake.

Today our reno has make great progress. The painting is all done. Laminate flooring all up except master bedroom. Laminated ledge at window also done. Laminated platform at cosy corner also done. The Africian black colour M like a lot, he is so happy. The laminate flooring is done with a plastic sheet on the screeding, follow by rubber mat, then the laminate wood. It is solid, not floaty and no kok kok sound.

Today lights delivery a bit messed up. The lights delivery man called me on mobile while i am on course today. I saw foreign number so didnt' pick up. Then later their shop call me and i tot wats going on. Later then i realise is bec the delivery man come earlier at 1plus and wanted to come in, but the originaly delivery time is 2pm and M is still on his way there. Finally manage to receive all the lights. The pendant light still need to assemble.

See the fotos of our laminate flooring, cosy corner platform and platform ledge at window !

Our master bedroom (after painting)

Rubber mat for the laminate flooring. The workers lay the plastic sheet on the screeded floor, then follow by the rubber mat, then the laminate flooring. The rubber mat is for sound insulation (to avoid the hollow kok kok sound of laminate flooring)