Reno@H3 Maisonette - New beginnings

YAY! it's mid week already and I can't wait for weekend to arrive. I've just finished a TOP inspection this morning and I'm quite tired after walking the site for 3 hours straight. We walked a total of 8 towers plus basement carpark, which makes it a total of 155 condo units.

rites, enuff complaining and back to home renos!

We are embarking on a new reno journey for one of our maisonettes in Hougang. The concept is pretty similar to the one which we have just completed, called the S Maisonette. The flat is re-designed for a family of 5 = mum + dad + 3sons. The recessed area has been bought by the previous owner, so this saves the hassle for our new home owners one step in making their dream home bigger.

we are in the midst of apply for the HDB renovation permit. So things are going to start moving pretty soon!

xoxo
velle

Reno@104 LT - Screeding works

For those of you who are "chasing" the progress updates on our 104 LT maisonette, well the screeding works for the living and dining areas have completed! and once the screed has dried off, we can start to lay the flooring! The bathroom shower wall is up and tiling works can commence soon. Waterproofing to the floor currently in progress before we lay the floor tiles. So i guess wet works will have to continue another week to 2 weeks before we can start to see the real beauty!

Upstairs, both bedrooms' wall facing the the staircase were hacked to half height and walls have been screed smooth.

Tiler on site , laying the kitchen tiles (person on the left)

Electrician staring into blank space...too much on his mind (person on the right)

ritey folks.
got to wait for next week's updates!

xoxo
velle

Reno@Segar (4 Room BTO Flat) - Final Photos

 Hello Peeps!

It's the weekend again. This week, we are doing a short feature on our recently completed BTO flat in Segar. It's for a family of 5 and with a reno budget of about $25K. We did quite minimal changes to the flat to keep costs low. All the bedrooms were kept. What we did was a shoe cabinet, full kitchen works with granite counter top, wardrobe in the master and a shower wall for the master bath. For electrical, we added the aircon and some rewiring in the kitchen to fit the kitchen appliances, bar counter and lights.

There was a small hack at the kitchen entrance to make it easier to get in and to keep the aircon from flowing into the kitchen, a glass door was added later.

Above: shoe cabinet. 

For this home,  instead of the usual wood white palette, we have gone for a fabric laminate.

 Above: Bar counter, special request from the missus. 

She really wanted a bar counter in the kitchen and was willing to work with just 1 counter for the sink, stove and fridge all tucked side by side on the opposite wall.

 We kept all the original HDB floor and wall tiles in the kitchen.

 Above: Bar counter in kitchen

To give the kitchen more added storage, we designed a bottom cabinet right at the end of the counter to house the microwave oven and 2 drawers for kitchenware items.

Here's the other side of the kitchen - fridge, stove, hood, built in oven and sink, topped with granite.

Lucky thing the husband managed to persuade his mother from getting the side by side fridge. If not going to be super tight here.

Last but not least, the master bath with its very own shower wall for bath items and glass partition. No vanity was done for both the bathrooms. The shower accessories were all kept and reused once the wall was up. Minimal plumbing works since the common bath was kept in its original condition as we didn't have to install any WC or sinks.

watch this space for our next home feature!

xoxo
velle

Reno@Sunshine Court - Laminate selection

Reno@Sunshine Court - Electrical works

Quick updates.
We have extended the entrance wood tiles longer to receive the shoe cabinet. Our electrician has almost finished pulling all the electrical wires at the ceiling level.

view of living room: cables dropping down from the ceiling

 Bedroom 2's new wall - finished in screed. Painting to go next.

Master room's new wall is up too! with all the new electrical works.

Let's go to the bathrooms

Shelves in the shower wall installed.

yup. electrical cables for the lights are pulled out too!

Reno@104 LT - Masonry works

2 weeks have past by!
The new walls have been erected, waterproofing done to the floors. Tile laying is currently in progress. Here are some photos to show the beautiful tiles which the couple has chosen for their bathrooms.

 For both bathrooms upstairs, we are using a flat edge subway tile.  

Water pipes laid and so is the waterproofing.

For the common bath downstairs which will be used as a powder room, the walls are going to be clad in a deep blue beveled subway tile. And because there's no shower area here, the wall tiles are just going to tiled half way up. The rest will be finished in plaster and paint.

 For the balcony, here's the chosen small white square mosaic on the wall! Super cute right?

It's like back in those old days where the playgrounds were all clad in mosaic.

And the men are working over here, laying subway tile to the kitchen backsplash.

Reno@Trivelis II - Carpentry 90% completed!

The carpentry will complete by this week, leaving the electrician to come in to fix up the loose wires. As not all the lights have been purchased by the owner, we will need to wait for awhile for all the light fittings to come in so that the electrician just need to make one trip down here to finish and tidy up his work.

Storage bench at dining area - leaving the cushion seats and backing. Glass swing doors have been installed at the display shelf. Are you wondering why there's a "hole" at the bottom right hand corner of the full height cabinet? Quite an easy guess right?

it's always for some kind of electronics!

 Customised tv wall console and storage

 study area for the 2 boys. 

The red wall bedroom - the bed is gonna be tucked beside the window to have more walking area at the entrance of the room.
The blue shelf bedroom - there's gonna be a tv in the big open area! Lucky fella!!! And he has this uber cool almost black looking study table.

For the master room - storage bed where all the pull out drawers have been covered with laminate already. The study table is not quite finished yet. And so is the swing door cabinet above the bedhead.

Reno@HollandD - Carpentry completed!

Additional storage

This week, our electrician is here to pull all the remaining loose wires into the built carpentry and to fix up the lights.

Just tucked outside the kitchen is a full height storage cum pantry. It's not finished yet as we have a customised bar counter to come in later.

 For the living, there's a small wall hung tv console for the players.

Kitchen - top and bottom cabinets to fully maximise the kitchen space

One of the bedrooms has this flexibility of being a study cum guest room. The owner has requested for a simple bookshelf in the guest room. And to make the whole place and corridor that leads to the rooms brighter, the whole wall was hacked away and to be replaced with bi-fold glass doors.

 Master - 3 door sliding wardrobe

Vanity area for the master bath

Reno@Towner Maisonette - Carpentry updates

THE Shoe cabinet - current "must have" item in almost every regular Singapore family. Nowadays, many parents tell me that their children have many pairs of shoes! more than the parents themselves. 

Slippers, sandals, gai-gai (aka going out)shoes, sport shoes and school shoes. So imagine where a 3 gen family stay, there's bound to be many many shoes...

 Upstairs, one of the bedrooms is converted to an entertainment room

 Downstairs, we have some display shelves for the missus collection of vodka bottles. 

Need to fit at least 40 bottles here.

Last but not least...i give you the kitchen!

 circular tube shaped hood! how cool is that!!! 

FSM says the stove has to be at that location, hence the need to buy an island hood instead of the usual wall mounted hood. The sink location is also fixed by the FSM.

 Kitchen in white. Sink, stove, hood and kitchen mixer installed!

Heard the family is planning to move in this weekend. Furniture is slated to come in this week too.

signing off now for the night.

xoxo

velle