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Reno@CCK2 Maisonette - Renderings

November 29, 2014, 12:38 am
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 Breakfast counter - finished in wood grain and it turns down to the floor.
Painting on the wall by owner.
 The Dining room - painting by owner
The kitchen is finished in a wood grain countertop with soothing grey woody laminate and glass backsplash. Maximising on floor area, the kitchen has top and bottom cabinets to house their china, crockery, pots & pans and electrical appliances.
Not our usual colour palette but the family has an existing red sofa, so we are rendering it in here! It does bring a twist in the colour palette. And because of the red sofa, for this home, the wood grains we have pre-selected a mahogany tone to compliment it. The tv wall is given a stony grey colour to pale beside the wood grain and not to fight attention for it. Playing with textures and not colours. For the eyes can only draw attention to one thing at a time. If not the whole composition will look very busy.

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Reno@CCK2 Maisonette - Hacking on lower floor completed

November 29, 2014, 7:43 pm
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Olive walls in the living room, and there used to be a "fireplace" too! Can you see the silhouette of it below? The floor tiles and all the built in carpentry has been hacked and demolished.
 All the cornices have been removed too.
 Overlooking into the kitchen area
 Going to seal up this area for another bedroom downstairs.
 Look at the massive ceiling fan.


The whole kitchen wall and floor tiles have been stripped bare in just 3 days. All the carpentry has been torn down. The common bathroom downstairs too have been stripped down. All the basin, toilet bowl have been removed. All the electrical wirings are torn down too.
There's hubs looking at the existing roof. Yup we are removing this roof too.
Sigh. There's so much love and hate about roofs in maisonettes. I don't even know where to begin with. Well, it used to be an entertainment area for the previous owners, which is why they have an aircon unit too, to cool the area down.
Another view of the "entertainment room" before the roof comes down and it will become the new laundry area for the new family who is going to move in here. We are targeting to complete the reno by the Lunar New Year. It's going to be quite hard but we will strive our very best.


 Carpet on the staircase has been taken out too.


 Master bath upstairs.

 Common bath upstairs. Looks quite dark.
 bedrooms with the old air con units.

Here's the bedroom where we are going for a full wall hack. Not half wall. FULL WALL.
this one is going to take some time before we get an approval from HDB.
 
see! my contractor so funny! He drew a hammerhead here but puts the words "wait HDB Appr". hahah.. so that his workers will know that this wall has to be hacked but not until he says so.
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Reno@CCK Maisonette - Primer for painting works

November 29, 2014, 8:37 pm
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Looking much brighter and better now. The whole maisonette is going to be finished in just white paint. No accent walls, no colours. Just plain white. Simple and white.



I was just telling the owner that once the film on the windows are removed, the whole room will look much brighter!
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Reno@Greenleaf BTO - electrical works

November 29, 2014, 11:33 pm
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hello!
this week, the electrician came down to lay all the cables first so that it can be hidden under the floor tiles.
So once after the conduit has been laid, the sand and all the tiles have been delivered to site. And tiling works can commence.
 Hanging conduits. These are going to be embedded in the walls.

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Reno@Yishun Riverwalk - wet works near completion!

November 29, 2014, 11:36 pm
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Pattern tile for the entrance foyer! We didn't manage to find it at our regular tile shop but our contractor knows where to get them. heehee! we just had to show him a reference photo and he will get it for us. And because he has been working with us for so long, we didn't have to tell him and he will buy the black border tiles together.
 Brick wall completed!
Same as our maisonette in Hougang, all the electrical powerpoints will be flushed neatly along this brickwall and not protruding out. For this brickwall, the couple is going rustic, so it will be left looking like this, no white painting over it. Last step to this brickwall will be the grouting and it is complete.
It's really fortunate that the existing HDB window frames are already in black colour! So it goes really well with this black and white theme which the couple has.
 screed bedding to receive the pattern tile.
 subway tile in the kitchen.
closer look on the subway tile. The grout is in black.
 Walls along the windows are screeded too. To be painted later. Doing this cause the couple really wants to hide all the HDB beige tiles away.
 
service yard - pipes are painted black and the windows are installed already.
taduh! windows in black frame.
 
this week, the pattern tiles are going to be completed and the HERF flooring too. Actually the HERF flooring was suppose to be installed early week and carpentry was targeted to come in on Thursday. Unfortunately, the colour chosen for the HERF flooring was out of stock and have to wait till 16 Dec to come in. That will delay the whole reno works by 16 days!!! That's more than 2 weeks and we will definitely not make it before new year....
 
So the couple chose another colour which is very nice too!!!
stay tune for more photos on the flooring.
 
xoxo
velle
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Reno@Kim Keat - Pre Selected Laminates

November 30, 2014, 12:05 am
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weekend is here again and coming to an end.
 
Here's a sneak peek at the preselected laminates for our Kim Keat home. All from EDL and they have a wide variety of wood grains. From those with many "eyes" to those running vertically in small grains to some with loud grains in a different colour gradient like the top right laminate.



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Reno@Kim Keat - Chosen laminates!

November 30, 2014, 12:15 am
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and here are the lucky 3 laminates which our doctors have chosen!
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DIY - Xmas Paper Bag gifts

December 3, 2014, 12:26 am
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Nowadays, many mothers go to the extreme of preparing gifts and goodie bags for their children at school. And I'm not trying to outdone any mothers out there especially those SAHM who has more time as compared to me, but every other week, when my son gets a goodie bag from his friends, it makes me feel guilty for not doing anything on his behalf.

so.
this Christmas, I've made some goodie bags on my own to give away to his friends in school.
Hope the children love the sweets.


click here for the instructions.

xoxo
velle

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unfriendly neighbour

December 4, 2014, 3:51 am
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must be god's will that hubs is outstationed and i have to stay home to tend to the children, resulting me facing this awful saga. I really want to go back to work. I have always been a quiet and peaceful neighbour because I like my own privacy.

i'm so upset. really upset.
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Reno@Kim Tian - Going through more electrical works

December 5, 2014, 5:16 am
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hubs and i are down here to go through some electrical works before carpentry comes on board. If not once the backing of the carpentry is up, it will be very difficult to pull any more extra wirings.

over the week, the aircon units have been installed, painting fully completed. You can see the accent wall colours in the master and study room. Really pretty hues of blu-ish grey we are having here.

Ceiling fans were in the midst of installation when we were visiting.


 the whole flat is given a new coat of white paint and it's looking really bright now!
 Kitchen in the ceiling painted white too!

 here's the accent wall colour in the study room
 The room adjoining the master. The light holder are all in placed to hold the T5 lights.

Master room accent wall colour. It's a bluish grey colour. 
A new colour which we are trying here!
Ceiling fan installed too.
 Here's a sneak peak at the walk in wardrobe
 Master bath - ceiling and water pipes painted white to make the whole space brighter and clean.
here's looking at the master accent wall from the walk in wardrobe. From this view, the colour looks much brighter!! Ritey ho. Electrician is going to continue installing the ceiling fans and lights. Then it will be the big clean up and to wait for the carpentry to come in.

there's more details to be finalised and discussed with the couple on the walk in wardrobe door panels, plus the running of the wood grains in the kitchen. This week we also decided on the quartz colour, solid surface countertop selection and the door handles to the new doors.

so much to do and we have to hand over before christmas!!


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Reno@Yishun Riverwalk - Pattern Tiles

December 6, 2014, 9:40 am
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 The entrance foyer is greeting our feet with its new black and white pattern tiles!!! 

 That's Jules and my feet!!!

Here's an overview of the pattern tile at the main door entrance!! The change in flooring does speak much about a space. Or rather it defines a space very clearly, don't you think so? And the cement screed wall lends a helping hand in creating some privacy to prying eyes.
 That's Jules running around as usual. He loves visiting all our reno sites in the morning. But once it hits into the afternoon for his nap time, he gets a bit wonky...


 Evorich guy clearing up the debris in the house.
Yeap. The HERF is completed over the week. 
 You are looking at Amsterdam Eggshell. A beige wood grain flooring.

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Reno@Yishun Riverwalk - High End Resilient Flooring

December 6, 2014, 10:07 am
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Weekend mornings.
And we are here at one of our reno sites - Yishun Riverwalk.
There was a slight hiccup to the selection of the HERF as the initial choice was out of stock. So this is the 2nd choice which was installed over the week. The new flooring is done over the kitchen, yard, living, dining and to all the bedrooms.
 Here's a quick look at the yard area.

According to sources, HERF which stands for High End Resilient Flooring, is 100% waterproof and 100% termite proof plus it comes with 10 years warranty and is removable!! Which means, if you are moving house, you can carry and bring it over to your new place. WOW.

But then again, would you do so? Especially those pieces which are cut to fit into the funny corners of the house.

Anyway, I'm here to showcase the beautiful flooring which the guys have done but not to sell or advertise them. So if you want to read more about HERF, here's their website.
Click EVORICH

 The floor looks really vast, smooth and flat! I guess it's another alternative flooring for those owners who can't stand the grout lines in tiles besides the overly used cement screed flooring which is albeit industrial looking but difficult to maintain due to the cracks form quickly after installation. Also the feeling is rather "dusty" and over time, after the cracks are formed, it is difficult if you want to have a good mop to clean and lift off all the dust.

For these sort of flooring, there are many wood grain colours to choose from and the lighter hues does bear some resemblances to the Nordic looking floorings. The overall turn out is pretty good so those who loves a wood flooring yet can't use parquet due to its price and high maintenance, can think about this. Parquet easily cracks and form dents from roller chairs, get scratches from furniture and even pulling your luggage trolley over the parquet flooring will cause damage.

There's Jules standing along the wall. Posing. 
He actually requested for me to take photos of him!!! 
Below is a series of him...

closer zoom in on Jules' cheeky face.

 yeap. that's him alright. I simply cannot find my face. But everyone tells me that he looks like me!
SERIOUS?!?!?
So i look like this?!?!?!
The whole place is looking really damn good now!!!
Brick wall, wood looking flooring, black window frames. Lots of daylight penetrating in. Wait till the lights come in, then it will start to look more and more complete.

 Looks really neat!!!
Here's the finished product which i did a post earlier. Now the grouting is completed and this is the raw finished look that the couple has chose for the brick wall. I think the beige marks on the brick wall goes really well with the flooring!!! How come it's in the same hue??? hah! Got to be the best thing ever especially since the 1st choice flooring is out of stock, the 2nd choice flooring matches the brick wall so well!!!
 
 ok it's "Jules time" again.
anyone wants to hire a boy to pose for children's attire?
Gender: Male
Age: 2.5 years
babysitting required.
WC installed.
The couple has bought 2 new WC for the common and master bath. It has a very sleek and smooth finish for the bowl and a straight thin water tank. The seat pan and cover has a very thin profile.

liberation
 set free and be yourself
the young ones are so carefree.

although my mum told me that when i was young, i wasn't like anything near to my son's behaviour.

 ok. maybe this one looks a bit more like me.
 closer look at the flooring and my stumpy 2 legs.
 flooring in the master bedroom
flooring with matching skirting

sorry for spamming this post with my son's photos!! haha!
Just couldn't help it since he's there right in the camera all the time. most of the time actually. blocking my view.

Hope everyone enjoyed this long post on our newly installed HERF flooring!

xoxo
velle
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Reno@Greenleaf - Masonry works and Pattern Tiles

December 7, 2014, 5:49 am
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Going to make bedroom 2 smaller to accommodate a bigger wardrobe in the master. So here's the new wall between bedroom 2 and master. And we have done a few studies for the bedroom 2 to make sure that we can fit in a super single bed, wardrobe and small study desk.
 That's the new wall for the master bed
Here's one BTO flat that has loads of character in the bathroom!!! And it looks really pretty at the actual site. Can't wait for the whole bathroom to be done up. I think it will look really one of a kind. Even hubs who is not a fan of colours and patterns, he agreed that this looks pretty awesome.
 Full frontal view of the bathroom feature wall.

 Close up on the feature wall

 Here's the same pattern tile which we are using at the common bath area.

Shower wall adjacent to pattern tile. I think the cement looking tile goes really well with the pattern tile! The colours matches so well with each other!!
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Reno@T Maisonette - Lights!

December 7, 2014, 5:53 am
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Our T Maisonette owner is a lover of Tom Dixon designs!
Look at all the lovelies hanging from the ceiling.

YUMZ.
 2 Etch Brass pendant lights on the sides of the master bed.
 1 small etch pendant for the bathroom

 1 Large Etch Web for the staircase landing

 3 Tom Dixon Beat lights for the kitchen counter
so nice!!
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Reno@T Maisonette - Vanity carpentry in!

December 7, 2014, 6:03 am
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The last time we came, the kohler Yin Yang sinks were all covered with boxes, so we didn't dare to lift up to see. But this time the bottom vanity drawers are installed already and the boxes are removed. So we can see the beautiful sinks together with the taps and the cabinetry!!!

how exciting that everything is coming together.
Even the electrical faceplates are in a metallic finish to match the overall design theme.

 Close up on Kohler Yin Yang sink with tap and the electrical faceplate!!


ritey. and we are off to visit another site within the vicinity. And this is a very wet weekend!!!
December is all wet and rainy. Slight drizzles are fine but when it's a heavy downpour, really makes visiting difficult when there's a toddler around to handle.

Here are some photos of Jules at the void deck with his Panda umbrella from the River Safari. Currently this is one of his favorite activity during a downpour - carrying his umbrella. He thinks it really fun! I think this Panda Umbrella has to be my best buy from the River Safari!!!
 

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Reno@Vista Spring - Tile selection

December 9, 2014, 5:08 am
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Reno@Yishun Riverwalk - Carpentry installing today!

December 8, 2014, 7:15 am
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it's another new week already and today we are starting on the carpentry works. All the carpentry for the master room are lining up in the room, waiting to be installed. The electrician is here today as well. Usually he comes in the afternoon after the carpentry has been moved to the flat, which takes the morning half to the entire day, depending on the amount of carpentry works.



that's our electrician! and he has finished installing the pendant lights in the bedrooms and the tracklights for the corridor.
 Red pendant light in the study room
The metal works guy is here as well to install the door frames for the study room
Lastly, a sneak peak at the kitchen. That's our shifu who does all our kitchen carpentry cos that's the trickiest and most detailed part of all carpentry. For our reno at Yishun Riverwalk, the couple is using all Blum system for the kitchen, if you notice, the Blum tandem boxes are all installed in the larder cupboard!

stay tune for more updates!
xoxo
velle
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Reno@Yishun Riverwalk - study room, bedrooms and bathrooms

December 13, 2014, 8:03 am
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Some photos of the study room - the sliding glass door with black metal frame is installed. And the study table with storage is completed as well. The pendant light (red) is also fixed in. And a mini tv console by the side of the wall too!
 opps! i forgot there's the vento fan too!

 yeap. can get pretty dusty when it's carpentry works. fine dust.
Not good for babies actually. So mums having reno, you can come along, but don't bring your babies. Not good for their air ducts as they are not strong enough to withstand these sort of "dust & grim".

 Green pendant light in one of the bedrooms!
 And a turquoise one in another bedroom.
 Vanity with mirror is up too for the common bath
 Master vanity - long mirror and loads of storage under the sink!
 master room wardrobe
 accessory drawer with mirror

2 tier accessory drawers!

Aeon light at the master room entrance. Pretty!
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Reno@Kim Tian - the big clean up

December 14, 2014, 7:30 am
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yup. it's the big clean up before carpentry starts for the coming week. Some contractors don't clean up before carpentry comes in, but our contractor does it, just to let you peeps know. It's just his way of doing things.
 The couple bought a standalone sink which comes together with a bottom metal cabinet. And by the side of the sink is an IKEA mirror which will be mounted later.
 ceiling fan in!
 glass swing door for the master toilet installed
 above: master toilet! 
A very different look from the common bathroom.
 Laminate flooring in! For the AV room adjoining to the master.
 yup. my 2 feet.

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Reno@Greenleaf - flooring completed but you can't see it!

December 14, 2014, 7:39 am
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haha..cos it is all protected and covered with paper sheets.
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