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Reno@Bt Panjang Maisonette - Final Photos of Master room
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Reno@Bt Panjang Maisonette - Final Photos of Living and Kitchen
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Reno@Toh Yi Maisonette - Carpentry 90% completed!
black frame of roof installed
shoe cabinet
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the Toh Yi owners have gotten the Philips lights which can change colour and dim too!
here's how it looks when it's turn on warm lights
above:
And another shot when it's on white lights.
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Reno@H Maisonette - Final Photos of Living and Dining
Hi there!
Hope your weekend went well. This week, we paid a visit to one of our completed homes in Hougang and here are the final photos.
Enjoy!
xoxo
velle
Dining room storage wall with warm cove lights above.
The full height storage is extended out to the balcony area.
zoom in detail on full height storage. The ratten chair brings a POP to the spaces.
So vibrant!
Full height shoe cabinet with vertical louvre screen, special request from the FSM.
zoom in on vertical screen and full height storage.
i just love details and textures like these.
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Reno@H Maisonette - close up on kitchen and laminates
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Reno@H Maisonette - The final journey and it's time to say goodbye
Hope everyone enjoyed the photos!
xoxo
velle
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Happy Father's Day!!!
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DIY Wood Plaque
Saw this wood plaque at a local store and wanted to buy it for one of our newly renovated homes but was stopped by hubs because he thinks we can do it ourselves despite our busy schedule. And it took us about 1 month to finish this!! even though it's merely a few steps. hah! I'm glad we finished this little pet project of ours.
Things you need
1) a computer to type the words out and printer to print
2) art card or soft cardboard
3) ruler, penknife, cutting mat
4) Spray mount
5) masking tape
6) newspapers
7) a can of black and white spray
8) a plank of wood
item (1) took me 10mins to do and print
item (8) took me a few trips up and down to source for the right size and price
I had hubs to cut the wood to the right size one sunday. Took him about 10mins, but setting up his jig saw and extension wire cord, getting his pencil, ruler took him another 10-15 mins to set up.
Spraying the wood black took me 1 sunday afternoon (approx 5 mins). I sprayed the wood black on one side, dry and flipped to spray the other side.
Cutting of the text took me half an hour one night after the boys were asleep. Phew!
I spent another night after the boys were asleep, spray mount and masking taped the sides of the art card to the wood. Once it's tightly taped, I sprayed the text with white spray.
voila!
my finished work.
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DIY Animal topper food jars
During my confinement, I consumed many bottles of bird nest and chicken essence. A blessing from the many hampers which i received from loved ones. It was such a waste to throw the small bottles away and so I've decided to revamp, refresh and give them a new look!
I bought 2 packets of rubber animals from a mak-mak store, used a can of white spray. Seriously, my DIY cupboard is stored with quite a few bottles of spray paints! It comes in really handy when I have a crafty itch! Anyway back to my DIY animal topper food jars, so I sprayed the cap in white and stuck the rubber animals on with UHU glue and here's how it turned out!
I gave the whole box away for a charity fun fair at the ASSISI Hospice over last weekend.
Were you one of them who bought these food jars for your child?
xoxo
velle
more photos to share!
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Reno@Geylang - wirings pulled, walls and ceiling plastered!
here's some updates on our bachelor pad. The living and dining room floor tiles have been laid and protected. Most of the electrical wirings have been pulled. There's a slight delay as the master bathroom had a joint connection problem which HDB is coming down to rectify. So our poor contractor cannot laid the floor tiles till next thursday. All the ceilings and walls have been plastered so the spaces are looking fresher now.
Contractor has been moving in quick and swift. And the electrician is super neat!!! Look at how they wirings are being pulled! neat. tight and taut.
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Reno@Bukit Timah - Erecting walls and laying tiles
a trip upstairs and all the railings for the upper floor has been removed.
master bath - wall tiles almost 70% completed.
common bath - wall tiles almost 70% completed.
This week, we decided on the following items
- main door
- main gate
- bedroom doors
stay tune for further updates - electrical, false ceiling, windows and more tiling works!
HAPPY WEEKEND!!!
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Reno@T Maisonette - Initial beginnings
After being cold and quiet for some time, our project for the T maisonette is finally starting!!!! and the boys(hubs and Jules) are so excited about it that they can't wait to see how things are going down here.
All the floors have been hacked. Debris is still around though, not removed.
Usually contractors will time it such that the debris is being thrown and the floor tiles are being delivered on site so that they don't have to pay the labourers for 2 days of work. So it's the same day that they bring the debris down and they bring the tiles up.
Pile of sand in the dining area
Another pile in the kitchen
yeap. we haven't gotten our wall hacking permit yet. So there's a slight delay here.
Upstairs! The partial railing has been removed and all the old flooring has been removed.
The old master bedroom which will be converted to a study cum lounge area
master bath wall and floor tiles all removed! And so are the WC and basin!
fingers cross that we get our permit soon so that more work can be done. cos if we can't hack the walls, we can't lay the floor tiles as the process of hacking walls and removing the debris might scratch the newly laid tiles.
quick quick HDB.
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Reno@Toh Yi Maisonette - Almost there!!!
1) new railings
2) new roof
3) new grilles
4) full floor and wall hacking
5) fully tiled floor and wall for all areas
6) false ceiling, light holders, partition walls
7) full re-wiring of the entire 2 floors, ceiling fans
8) additional helper's room
9) full carpentry works
10) painting works
11) full parquet for all the bedrooms upstairs
everything is new except for the windows!!
and today, the granite is here for installation. next we can install our basins and taps together with our shower mixers.
our dear home owners should be able to move in within the week.
here are the near completed photos to share.
Granite countertop installed on the kitchen counter.
Goes really well with the black framed windows. Kitchen sink is left at the balcony area, will be installed once the granite countertop guys leave today. Even the sink is black! hah!
LED light strips for the kitchen task lighting. cool huh!
LED is the latest trend now.
here's how the dimmer control switch looks like!
let's go upstairs...
common bath - top mirror box installed and the swing doors for the bottom cabinet is in too!
master bath - same thing! Leaving the granite countertop and sanitary fittings - basin, shower mixer and tap to be installed later.
finally we can see everything in place now.
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Gifts from kind hearted souls
It's from a lovely couple whom we met quite some time back but didn't engage our services.
thank you so much for your lovely touch.
makes my day and warmed my heart.
xoxo
velle
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Reno@Geylang - Progressively turning into a reality!
A bumpy start.
Our reno at Geylang started out pretty quick but we hit into a bumpy road when we found out that there was an RC stiffener smacked right in our kitchen entrance area. And we couldn't hack it away even though it wasn't a column.
So we had to go back to the drawing table again to see how we can solve this "eyesore".
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after that saga, which we went back to the drawing board again and quickly revised our floorplan, then our plumber told us that he couldn't connect the WC to the main sewer pipe because it has "dropped" into the ground. *yikes!!!*
And not to mentioned that we specifically chose 1 extra floor tile for the bedrooms as a back up and the 1st choice and 2nd choice both had no stock!! So the tiling work was slightly delayed and we took one afternoon's lunch break to choose the floor tile again.
all the trials and tribulations. our dear owner had to follow up with HDB so many times for all the funny little things that has transpired over this reno and still find time to update both the contractor and us. kudos to him!!!
So I would like to share some really nice photos of the progress we have made for all the bumps that has happened in such a short while.
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Our reno at Geylang started out pretty quick but we hit into a bumpy road when we found out that there was an RC stiffener smacked right in our kitchen entrance area. And we couldn't hack it away even though it wasn't a column.
So we had to go back to the drawing table again to see how we can solve this "eyesore".
above: the rendering earlier without knowing that there was an RC stiffener. Wide open space of kitchen entrance and dining area
above: revised render of the dining area with the RC stiffener inside,
integrated with a seating bench.
photo above: here's how it looks in real life!
The RC stiffener which was not in the HDB floorplan.
It was a funny "L" shaped column. So we plastered it into a rectangle.
And then we found out about the "wrong" column size.
Probably will blogged another day about the super long column which was not in the HDB floorplan too. That was a mistake by HDB. tsk tsk!after that saga, which we went back to the drawing board again and quickly revised our floorplan, then our plumber told us that he couldn't connect the WC to the main sewer pipe because it has "dropped" into the ground. *yikes!!!*
And not to mentioned that we specifically chose 1 extra floor tile for the bedrooms as a back up and the 1st choice and 2nd choice both had no stock!! So the tiling work was slightly delayed and we took one afternoon's lunch break to choose the floor tile again.
all the trials and tribulations. our dear owner had to follow up with HDB so many times for all the funny little things that has transpired over this reno and still find time to update both the contractor and us. kudos to him!!!
So I would like to share some really nice photos of the progress we have made for all the bumps that has happened in such a short while.
all the bedroom floor tiles are laid!
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Reno@Kim Keat - Metal works, Glazing works and Aircon!
After stalling for awhile, our reno at Kim Keat is moving along again! sometimes too many laminates to choose over isn't a good thing and getting different samples from different laminate companies makes the wait even longer. And after getting the samples, we had to find a time to pass the laminates to our couple and another week goes by before we get any final decision making.
Anyway the good news is that we are here to finalise the carpentry with the carpenter!!! And we have gotten all our laminates chosen and solved our little junction detail with the carpentry and contractor this afternoon.
(1) the 'metal' guys are here to install the pretty front gate!
specially designed and requested from our couple. The lower half of the gate has smaller gaps to prevent their cats from escaping!!! hah!
(2) the 'glazing' guys are here to install the windows for the yard area; and
(3) the aircon muscle guys are here to install the aircon units and compressor
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Reno@Bangkit Maisonette - Renderings
Reno is slated to start 1st week of July!
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Reno@Toh Yi Maisonette - Granite countertop bathrooms and kitchen
quick update on our reno at Toh Yi.
The granite installation is fully completed.
Tomorrow the electrician will come down to install the switches for the backsplash and finish up installing the remaining lights.
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Reno@ T Maisonette - Walls gone!
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Reno@Sembawang - Carpentry
So by day 2 to day 3, we should be able to see "something". Yup...and here are the photos!
Drawers with blum tracks all in. Laminates will be stuck on later.
Above: Here's bedroom 2.
ritey.
stay tune for the final carpentry photos!!!
xoxo
velle
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