Stirling HDB Terrace - #281 Before-After Living & Dining

Here's a look at the previous ex-owner's feature's wall, I call it the crazy wall because of the wooden panel, yellow beams, crazy beige tiles and last of all, a painted deep green coloured wall in the middle. And we removed all that and replaced it with a mirror to enhance the depth of our dining space, creating an illusion to make the space seem a little bigger.

 Here' a view from the dining area, looking towards the living and the front patio. We removed the sliding doors and grille and replaced it with bi-fold doors to create an openness to the outside!

 Here's looking at the staircase previously and now. We took down all the crazy beige tiles, seriously! it's giving my eyes a headache, if my eyes had a head. And we are going to put our tv here, so the staircase wall had all the power outlets and antennae.

Here's another look at the overall, living and dining together. The After photo is not very well taken as it was taken in the night, pardon all the pixellated effect.

Stirling HDB Terrace - #281 Before-After Yard and Front Patio

Some final shots of Before and Afters....This entry is just on our back yard and Front Patio.
Took me quite some time to look for similar shots like these! Was tracing through all the photo folders which are quite many...this made me realised that ...gosh our home reno has certainly taken quite awhile to finish!
Just a recap, we re-did the floor tiles, previously it was the old beige-brown 300x300 tiles, now what we have are 300x600 granite looking tiles. We also raised the overall height of the boundary wall and changed the side gate too as the former one was rusty and couldn't be opened properly. For the roof, we did a new plasterboard with outdoor paint and changed all the doors and windows to sliding doors for maximum cross-ventilation.
For the raised boundary wall, we purchased homogenous outdoor tiles which were the most costly ones among the rest...but it was every penny's worth as many of our friends, neighbours and even wj's parents love this tiling work the most!

The old gride sliding doors at the front patio have been replaced with bi-fold doors to create a bigger space. With sliding doors, what you get is 2/3 of cross vent, with bi-fold doors, you are getting almost 100% opening space. However the down side is, bi-fold doors don't usually last as long as sliding doors...well, we see how it goes.

This has been posted before...so it's a repeat. But nonetheless, I'm putting this up again to sum the Front and Back photos of our place. Hmm...then again, this might not be the last entry on our front gate!!! hahaha...cos Mr Goh hasn't done our Unit number plate yet!! And we are planning to get this last item done before the housewarming. Also, Mr Goh is very concerned with the spacing of our front gate and wants to cover those spacings! He finds it too open for everyone to see!!! And my mother agrees with him...more stuff to do.

The old meter box which was covered in a louvred cupboard is replaced with a full height door... and this little niche has become a very useful space for me to keep my umbrellas, rake and my yard broom!

The space just immediately in front of the gate is replaced with pebble wash...we topped up the boundary wall too for the front, painted the wall for our neighbour too...since we are sharing the same wall. Removed all the grid fence and replaced the front gate.

we removed the sunken planter and replaced with timber deck because we didn't want to clean up the soil mess after a heavy rain which the ex-owners had that kind of problem. See photo below for close up of previous sunken planter cum front garden of ex-owners.

The front garden was replaced with chengal timber deck for potted plants as the silt, sand, dirt and mud keeps coming indoors which was hard to maintain. Some of the plants we moved it outdoors where possible. The soil in front was kept throughout the renovation process and moved to our yard when the planter box was ready to receive it.

Stirling HDB Terrace - #282 Our Home's First Photoshoot!

yep! Dulux is here to take photos of our new home after we won the Dulux Colour-My-Home Contest. Thanks to our many friends, relatives and supporters!!! *muacks*

Click here for previous entry
Click here for our winning post

Will post link once it's up on Facebook peeps...so keep a look out for it!!!

Stirling HDB Terrace - Grohe shower head

*heart* pink things.
especially when they do it on a home item now.
ever wonder how many lady homeowners out there yearns for a pink object and needs their husband's approval? Men totally detest pink in their homes because it's such a lady's colour.
fortunately this one comes in a sleek design that even my hubs
relented into letting me having one.

thank you Grohe.

Stirling HDB Terrace - changing sheets

nice clean smelling sheets!
i always love the smell of fresh sheets...especially if they are smooth like silk and plump! They really make me wanna jump straight into bed and plonk my aching back muscles on the soft fluffy sheets.


yup, finally we have changed our sheets...no easy feat. sweat.sweat. sweat.
think single beds are much lighter and easier to maneuver, but couples don't sleep in single beds, they'll end up fighting and kicking each other out of the bed.

Stirling HDB Terrace - #280 Puppy Looking after our house

he's making sure that no one is peeping thru' our brick wall!!!

Stirling HDB Terrace - #278 Prelude of Guest room

Here are some shots of our Guest room....

a little pink puppy door stopper preventing our door from slamming.

a metal side cupboard, play rug and see-saw and a little chair tucked at a corner.

Stirling HDB Terrace - #282 A new Beginning

happy new year everyone!!!
*muacks*

Stirling HDB Terrace - wedding bedsheets

What a Chore to wash the sheets!
well since we haven't really shifted in, i guess we needn't change new bedsheets too yah???

doggy tissue box - gift from daddy. love him to bits...but hubs thinks it doesn't really fit well up here...going to move him downstairs soon.

Stirling HDB Terrace - #285 Small Ghost Buster

so cute! our side tables are called "small table" in mandarin.

Stirling HDB Terrace - #284 Bits of our Kitchen

Show and tell
where?? - our kitchen!

tray+jar+glasses = IKEA
we just love IKEA stuff! They are affordable and looks so good!
Even the white hyacinths are from IKEA, vase from BarangBarang.


counter top storage from IKEA. This will be our make-shift counter top for awhile cos we didn't have the budget for a fixed one. But we still the raw look!

Novita retro fan from TANGS. Weighing scale for my Christmas pudding late, HUNTS can tomatoes for WJ's bruchette and a footstool for me to reach the high cupboards.

little waste bin from IKEA too.
*smile*

Stirling HDB Terrace - #277 Unpacking

can you believe this...
xmas eve and we are still unpacking!!!!


eeks!

Stirling HDB Terrace - #276 Bamboo Clearing

it's time to spring clean the backyard!!! Our bamboo has been growing so furiously that it has covered the entire backyard like a forest. So much so that there isn't much sunlight coming in!!! hahaha, truly we were in full shade for our back yard...anyway we decided that it was time to clear...and boy oh boy, we almost cleared like a tree size of bamboo!!!

cos tmw's xmas eve aredi, the house better be spruced!

Stirling HDB Terrace - #275 L.O.V.E

our new place made with lots of love.

Stirling HDB Terrace - bits and pieces of our home

little updates...
bet everyone loves a bit of updates and more photos.

music is soothing while we clean and clear our home - our little jukebox which i bought for wj for christmas...she looks fabulously retro...

so many switches...might as well tag them!

when you first move in, it's always empty, wait till you move in, things will start to pile up!

canisters! lovely! and my greenie coaster from HK.

Stirling HDB Terrace - #272 Handyman

hubs is trying to fix up a rack at our yard...and our poor drill is so not drilling through our homogenous tiles!!! After one drill, it got so heated up that it started to soften like a candle!!!
And after the 2nd drill bit, hubs gave up...and zzz.




see...hubs is damn tired...i dunno whether it was him doing all the hard work, or the poor drill bit that got melted from so much drilling.

Stirling HDB Terrace - #271 Whale shape sponge!!!

ain't our dishwashing sponge cute!!! A gift from wj's mum!!! haha...must be thinking that we needs loads of washing in our new place since everywhere is so filled with dust!

Stirling HDB Terrace - #270 Bits of our new Home

here's an update on more soft furnishings on our home...added a new planter near our stairs and a existing ledge put to good use with additions of our wedding car plate and more photo frames...and look it's puppy at the foot of our staircase!!! hehe.

Stirling HDB Terrace - love love our chandelier!

i simply cannot get enough of the many shots of my old fashion chandelier!

Stirling HDB Terrace - WMF Knives set

Did You Know?


WMF knives are very hygienic with the handles are designed to fit the hand securely and are constructed from Cromargan – WMF’s trademarked stainless steel which is an alloy of 18% chrome, 10% nickel and 72% steel. This unique metal mix is neutral in flavour, food acid-resistant, hygienic, easy to clean and dishwasher-safe.

Stirling HDB Terrace - WMF Kitchen ware

Life's a change.

bought some suction hooks to hang our towels in the toilets and we bought more WMF stuff from Tangs. After marriage, my whole life has taken a turn and it's really a new page in life where i even visit shopping areas where I didn't take any notice before. For one thing, I'm now paying more attention to Tangs home rather than Tangs Studio!



i bought a laddle, stirrer, disher, scissors, can opener and a knife set! Will post my knife set another time!

Stirling HDB Terrace - #276 Invitation

here's to a ROLLING good time at our new place.

we finally got our pineapples ready.