Saturday, July 12, 2008
Our Budget Nest
Hello all,
I have forgotten to post abt my hse. We have been very slow in our reno cos we dun have enough time to buy the things which we want to buy. Our contractors are soo fast.. they finish everything faster than what i have expected.. and my langkawi trip wasted 1 week of time shopping time, hence, my contractor stop work for abt 1.5-2 weeks becos i haven buy toileties. i haven buy lights. i haven buy switches i haven choose colors i haven confirm the location of the basin. i haven confirm my electrical things. i haven everything!! there was 1000001 haven things......
Lucky dear and i try to snake out during our working hrs to do some quick shopping like switches, tolieties. we also haven buy our furnitures. finally last week things starts to move abit faster. we choose the colours, bought the tolieties, brought lights. i think most of the things more or less done. unless i missed out things. next monday dear will start a new job. he has no more time to be my driver, no more time to snake out, no more time for me! sob.. :(
Well, life is like tat.. have to give and take something.
Congrats to emi who found her dream dog! its sooooooooooo cute.. like a toy dog.. whahaha..
So pictures of my hse now... Langkawi post.. another day ok? hahahahaa
Floor Plan of the house
When we first got our floor plans, we went to get serveral quotations. but all of them did not revert back. Dunno is i am not re-doing alot of things, or its too early to quote me. so i was quite unhappy with them. In the end, didnt went back to them even when i have my actual dates.
When u step into the house - Before (the very cheena floor tiles and very cheena cornice)
In the end, we shortlisted a 2 ID and 2 contractor.
Summit Design
the coordinator was very pushy and irritating. called me non-stop everyday to ask me to sign on his quote to confirm. i was so piss off and rejected him after a few days of haunting. Price was average. workmanship lousy!
Ideal House
Ideal house was the opposite of summit design. they hack care me. i ask for discount they gave me 200 as if i m a begger. we very much wanted an ID but his price was a little out of our budget. but among all the quotations from ID, he was the cheapest. ID only not comparing with contractors
When u step into the house - After (the new homo shiny, glossy tiles. This picture is before polish! but its already so shiny)
Contractor A - Bf's cousin's fren
Price was reasonable, close to ideal house but when i check on the HDB web, he isn't registered, means he brorrow's others license to renovate my hse. being a scary cat, didnt want to take any risk so gave up on him. anyway he isn't the cheapest
Contractor B - SAM HUP - Mr Ang
Very nice, reasonable honest uncle. he gave the most resonable quote. and everytime we talk he will say "mei wen di" - no problem. dun worry. can one.. hahaha
TV wall - Before
TV wall - After (seal up the hollow gap to mount our LCD )
New L-Box Celling (lights not installed yet)
At first we was quite worried without an ID, we need to be the ID ourselves. We spend alot of time choosing tiles choose until head also big. went to the tiles shop like 3-4 times? worry that it will not turn out nice..
Kitchen - No Changes (traditional cheena kitchen)
Kitchen was the only place that is not touched during our reno. i would very much want a new nice stylish kitchen but when u do a kitchen u need to put 10k aside. being on tight budget, we gave in and accept the current kitchen condition. maybe few years down the road when our pockets are not so tight, we can do a revamp on the kitchen.
Master BedRoom Toliet - Before (super old toliet)
Master BedRoom Toliet - After (tolieties not up yet! very dirty!!)
To avoid quarrels each of us gets to choose our own tiles according to our own taste. Each of us handle 1 toliet.. HAHAH like tat he wont say i nv let him choose mah.. gd idea right? master bedroom is choose by miss choosy me.. common toliet by him..
Common BedRoom Toliet - Before (eee yer toliet)
Common toliet - After (my hubby prefer white toliet. but i am opposite so each 1 one toliet)
Common toliet is damm big and i my camera cannot take the whole pic in 1 photo. so splited into 2.. ownself imagine ok?
So whose toliet is nicer??? vote vote pls.. msn me and tell me whahaha
Bocany Floor - i love this colour
2nd lvl parquet flooring - before polish!
New Switches! - White Legrand Switches
Actually wanted to buy dark gray but the box behind is only availble in white. Stupid rite? so only new flats with consealed box in the wall can use the new dark gray switches. its soo nice lor but too bad i cant use.
you make my life perfect-`
stamp @ 8:39 PM
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