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Reno@Geylang - Final Photos of Living Dining and Kitchen

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Jules closing the kitchen sliding doors


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The owner had the sofa and these 2 chairs upholstered in a uber sleek grey. It looks really cool in real life and it has been in the family for 7 years now. Solid huh!

Let's take a look at the kitchen. The top cabinets are in wood laminate finish and the bottom cabinets are finished in white. The floor tiles are in dark grey with a staggering setting out. Exactly the same as how we laid our tiles at home.

above: Sink and cooker side by side
The opposite kitchen counter has a long power track to power up all the kitchen appliances.
 Above: Subway tiles for the service yard. 
A breakaway from our usual norm where subway tiles are used for the kitchen backsplash.






Stay tune for the next post on the master bedroom, HIS room and bathrooms.






Reno@Kim Keat - progress photos

Reno@Bt Timah - Carpentry Site measurements

Reno@Bangkit Maisonette - Tiles selection

Reno@Kim Keat - All about lights

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reno in progress.
target to complete by mid August.
stay tune for the final looks.

xoxo
velle

Reno@Kim Keat - How we spend our Sunday Morning

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 Jules looking at his dad going into the flat.
 Guess what is behind our barn door?
 hey! it's a solid wall?!
 it's a vanity area!!! Full with loads of drawers
 Jules: mummy! i found a naughty corner...
 Jules found something to sit on and wait for us quietly at a corner.

poor kiddo waiting for us to go through all the reno in detail.

Reno@Kim Keat - Restore our lights!

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restoration work
here's what we have been up to while we have some weekend mornings by ourselves.We help others to restore their old and rusty lights! Here are 3 "honeydew" sized pendent lamps which our Kim Keat couple has gotten us to restore for them. So about 2 months ago, hubs was tasked to unscrew them and give them a good wash.

part 1
07.06.2014

washing the pendant globe lights

Unscrewing all the nuts and bolts. Jules is particularly interested in whatever hubs is doing. 
I guess it's quite a good way to have some quality time with Jules since most of our weekends are spent visiting reno sites.

part 2
19.07.2014

 2 weeks later. 
we bought 2 tins of matt black spray and give all the gold metal parts a good paint job.


part 3
22.07.2014

3 days later.
bought 2 light bulbs from Home Fix.
And we fixed the light bulbs in and screw up the cap.
YAY!

it's done.

took us almost 2 months but hey. we don't have many weekends to idle around!

Reno@Kim Keat - Almost there.


Reno@Bt Timah - All the brick walls are up!

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The tile person has just finished tiling the helper's room and here's sneak peak at the white washed wood tiles which we are using here! So nice and bright!
spent another 2 hours talking to the carpenter because of the site constraints. Above is the photo of the 2 beams meeting along a wall where we are going to add a wardrobe. And the wall on the right (where the wires are dangling) is not 90degrees but at an angle. So we have to adjust the carpentry drawings to suit the many kinks.



Reno@Kim Keat

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Hello!
we are here at Kim Keat again this week. Cos it's almost finishing...a few bits and pieces to tidy up. The place is still in a bit of a mess cos the carpenter is here to do some touching up. The owners are moving in next week. After National day...so we are all rushing for their BIG DAY!

above: wooden planks at the door entrance. laid with one layer of varnish. Waiting for it to dry completely and another layer of varnish will go on top! I think it looks really pretty! My contractor told me that this is one of the nicest flat he has done so far!!! *beams!*

wall to wall mirror cabinet in the common bathroom.

walk in wardrobe - completed with internal coloured PVC.

Open shelves for microwave and toaster. 
Matching laminates with kitchen countertop!

 hood. hob and built in oven all in!
haha. like i said. it's a bit of a mess here!!!

Reno@Bishan Maisonette - Final Photos of Master bedroom and bathrooms

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 walk in wardrobe
 integrated vertical lights in mirror
 double vanity sinks

shower area


moving onto the common bathroom on the upper floor.
 entrance to the common bathroom
 same vanity design as the master to keep all the bathrooms looking consistent.

common bathroom shower area uses the same wall tiles as the master bathroom.


hope you enjoyed the little tour of our Bishan Maisonette!!!


xoxo
velle

Reno@Bishan Maisonette - Final Photos of Kitchen & Living

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breakfast counter





our DIY present for the family.
"SAVE WATER DRINK WINE"
inspired from our Iron Lady Chef's home.

the kitchen proper



stay tune for the master and bathrooms!

Reno@Bishan Maisonette - Final Photos of Dining

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Our reno at Bishan Maisonette has come to an end!
Hope you have enjoyed the photos as much as i do cos it's really one of a kind.

click here for 

xoxo
velle

Late nights

Reno@Bt Timah - YES YES! the roof is 80% up!!!

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 The roof tiles is almost 80% laid!! 
Next will be the insulation plus the false ceiling. 
woohoo!
The view overlooking to Singapore Polytechnic is spectacular.
Wardrobe in the helper's room is almost 80% completed, leaving the adjustable shelves, hanger bar and sliding doors.
Quick look at the kitchen carpentry. All the drawers are in too! Leaving the shelves. Once the carpentry is done, the countertop can come in too!!!
 Upstairs - wardrobe in the study room. This will also serve as a guest room.
 Here's the study table, against the half height wall

 The daughter's room has a "hidden" cupboard within the wardrobe. Yeap, the floorplan is such that there's this corner that is really deep in.
 Here's a closer look at the deep cupboard within the wardrobe
here's another special wardrobe. The TV is mounted in the wardrobe and to maximise the space, the TV although hidden behind the sliding door is mounted further outwards and not onto the backing of the wardrobe. So what we have done here to create additional storage space behind the tv which is accessed on the side.

stay tune for more updates to come!

xoxo
velle

Reno@B Maisonette - HACKING!!! DEMOLITION!!!

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1 week to get our floor hacking approval from HDB.
3 weeks to get our wall hacking approval from HDB.
And because our application for hacking permit has lapsed for the first application, we have to apply another time for the wall hacking.

Anyway! I'm really happy that we can proceed to knock the walls down!!! And if everything goes smoothly, next monday we can start hacking all the walls down.

Bathroom on lower floor

Courtyard - term used on the HDB floorplan
This maisonette has one of the prettiest natural views I've ever seen! So green!!! Imagine if we can put a door at the courtyard and literally we can walk out into the garden space!!! Then it will feel almost like a landed house, wouldn't it.
view of living from coutyard


living room
staircase leading upstairs

master room
master bathroom

bedroom 2
bedroom 3
common bathroom on upper floor
existing staircase railing
YAY!!! Can't wait for the floor and wall tiles to go up next.

Reno@T Maisonette - Hello Beauty!

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Quick update on our T Maisonette which we have been keeping quiet for quite some time now. That's because the last few times, when hubs was there, he was so busy discussing the reno with the contractor and owner that he didn't have time to take some photos to share.

To the left of the main entrance, here's going to be the shoe lounge area where the owner has bought a really nice feature lamp. Can you see all the crates lining up in this maisonette? haha. They are all bought online and the owner has self confessed that he's an online shopholic!!! So to all my readers out there, once the final photos are out and if you are interested to know where he gets his stuff from, you can ask him. But please don't spam him!

view of the kitchen
The kitchen has got to be one of the most cutting edge kitchen we are doing because of all the servo driver drawers and this kitchen is going to get its own automated sliding glass door!!! IMAGINE that!!! i mean HOW COOL IS THAT!!!

common bath on lower floor


balcony

view of balcony, kitchen on left and living on right

original staircase railing painted black.

Study aka Lounge room

Common bathroom

Common bath shower area

Really pretty foyer
 LOVE LOVE the wood tiles on the upper floor!

master room and WIW
We have knocked down the wall between bedroom 2 and 3 which is now the master room and walk in wardrobe area. This is going to be one really HUGE master!
master shower area
 Metallic wall tiles. It looks better in real life.
To save costs, we managed to persuade the owners to keep the existing railing, sand down and paint it black. I think it looks pretty good too!

ok we are off to Tampines IKEA for some food. hungry hungry.

stay tune for more progress updates on our T Maisonette.
Hope you all have a good weekend!!!

xoxo
velle

Reno@Bt Timah - Carpentry almost near completion!

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Kitchen updates
most of the swing doors and drawers are installed on site. Leaving the kitchen backsplash and countertop. All glazing works are completed too. All kitchen carpentry have coloured internal finish.
Magic Basket
here's a quick demo on the magic basket just in case you folks missed out the previous posts on how to use dead corners in kitchen.
 1. Here you can see 2 tiers of wire basket on the left. So what happens to the right of the cabinet's space?
 2. The 2 tier wire baskets can be pulled out.
 3. As you pull the 2 tier wire basket to your left even further, taduh!!! here comes another 2 wire baskets which was tucked right at the far end dead corner of the kitchen cabinet. It's quite a good contraption right? Well at least it's good enough for me. But take note, the smallest size for these baskets come in minimum of 400mm. So make sure you have at least that kinda of space to cater for these baskets.
Loads of storage in the kitchen. I think we have a total of 10 drawers and the rest are swing door cabinets. (approx about 23 swing doors? )
The roof is completed!!! and so is the false ceiling. Now we just have to install the windows to make it weatherproof.
 A look at the wood tiles which we are having throughout the entire living and dining area.
 Helper's room - wardrobe.


 electrical faceplates bought by the home owner.
Upstairs updates
All the wardrobes are almost completed with all the drawers and hanging rods installed. Leaving the sliding doors.
Here's the daugher's study table, albeit a funny corner but there's ample storage for books, stationery and the like plus a good working desk to study on.
 Study table with cable management

For the bottom study, we have one swing door, 3 deep drawers and 2 skinny drawers for notes and pens. All finished in a woody internal finish.
 pretty black drawer tracks on the sides.
 The study desk is finished in all wood laminate border with all the swing doors and drawers finished in white laminate.(except the skinny drawers)
Master wardrobe updates
Here's the master wardrobe with open shelves for bags. All the sliding doors are in white laminate and an ivory coloured internal finish. I'm only showing one of the 2 wardrobes. If you have seen my previous post, there's another wardrobe with a built in tv and secret storage compartment!

drawers for folded clothes.
the whole place is coming together really nicely and really hope it continues to work that way.
just to cap this post off...tata from the both of us...
here's a pic on our happy and dusty feet!

i'm loving my job!

Reno@B Maisonette - Walls hacked, what's next?

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All the floor and wall tiles have arrived on site. Monday we are going to start erecting all the new walls and simultaneously lay the wall and floor tiles too. Some of the window frames are here too!
 All the kitchen wall being demolished to make way for an open kitchen
 We are going to reorientate the staircase storage door




 Going to rework the entrance of one of the upper floor bedrooms.
 warzone here in the bathroom. Does it look as if Wolverine has been down to site?
Bricklayer cum wall tiler is here too, need to confirm all the floor tile setting out, direction, pointing and where to start the walls etc.
Monster TREE looking branch pipeworks in the kitchen.

Reno@Bt Timah - Cleaning up

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