Reno@Bishan Maisonette - Bathrooms

Resort-ish.

master shower area.

The rainshower looks huge.

Personally I think when the shower area is fully enclosed without the normal HDB lourve windows, it looks very much like a hotel bathroom. Because most hotel bathrooms are mechanically vented ie without natural ventilation, this shower area definitely looks like one once we clean up the area.

see! look at this photo, above the WC is the top lourve windows. This is a dead giveaway that this bathroom is not a hotel bathroom. Am i right?

common bath shower area

Reno@Bishan Maisonette - Paint colours

 Painting works completed! The children's room are finished in a bright yellow and green hue for one of the walls in each room.

 

The master accent wall is finished in a more earthly toned colour

Reno@Buangkok - Bedhead

We have designed an integrated bedhead for the master which has concealed powerpoints, drawers by the side for putting some daily stuff like alarm clock, watches, books, ...nail clipper? My point is that the 2 drawers should come in pretty handy to store some knick knacks. And to make life easier, there are lights flushed upwards for some lighting during the night so that the couple do not need to get out of bed to turn on and off the bedroom lights for some night reading.

This bedhead is comparatively higher compared to the one we did in Yishun because the current mattress is quite thick and is sitting on a pocketed spring coil foundation. Hmm. not sure whether am I making sense here, but it's those 2 layer sort of mattress.

 cable management and 2 drawers opened.

Reno@Geylang - Hacking starts!!!

Hi there, here's one of our projects which just started reno and it's located in the east side where it's known for all the delicious yummy food! It's practically a food drive up to the reno site cos along the way, we can see many stalls selling durians, teochew porridge, tze char stalls etc etc. WAH....hope we have a chance to visit the famous ones for lunch during one of the site visits.

The floor hacking permit has been approved quickly while we wait for the wall hacking permit. So in the meantime, the contractor has started hacking all the floor tiles, removing all the cornices, pendant lights, carpentry, WC and basins.

 current state of the kitchen.

 here's looking at the yard area.

 

the common bath

 bedroom 3

one of the unique thing about this flat is that there's a recess area under the windows, just like our Bukit Panjang Maisonette. It's like an extra bonus storage space which you can utilise to put books, knick knacks and stuff.

 bedroom 2

 master

Reno@Kim Keat - Loose wirings completed. What's next?

This morning we are here at our Kim Keat flat. 930am sharp to discuss the main gate design, the window grille, water points, A/C location, box up, false ceiling, L box before carpentry starts.

 hubs taking down a list of things which our contractor is asking.

 we have a slight detail problem with 2 sliding doors meeting at the same junction.

Can you see our contractor showing his "how" hand gesture to hubs?

Contractor is going "!?!?!"

Hubs going"....."

Me going"...i've got to carry Jules."

all in a day's work.

fixing problems.

DIY Concrete Tealight Holder

For the base mould, I'm using a plastic cup and for the inner mould, I'm using a yakult bottle. Thanks to my son Jules who loves Yakult to bits and drinks a bottle every other day. So I kept most of his Yakult bottles for this DIY project.

Above: Here's how they look like...all set to dry. As our Singapore weather is rather humid, mine took about 4 days to be fully dried out.

Here's how they look after we pried them out from the moulds.

i actually like the "bubbles" at the bottom of the tealight holders. I read online that if you do not like the bubbles effect, you will need to tap the concrete mixture when it's settling in the cup/mould to remove the air bubbles.

Reno@Buangkok - Kitchen works!

Here's a variation of the kitchen unit as compared to the Yishun flat which we did a couple of months back. There's a bar counter at the dining area instead of a sit down dining table.

The sink is a white over mount sink from Blanco. Recently many of my clients are buying this sink and finally I asked one of them the reason for buying it was because it was advertising heavily on the newspapers and the price was so good that everyone is snapping them up! Hmm...so advertising does help in sales huh!

Similar to the Yishun flat, the backsplash is finished in subway tile but with a grey grout and the subway tile is tiled all the way up to the ceiling. All the drawers are using Blum tracks, it's quite prominent with an orange tint at the sides of the drawers, if you look closely enough.

 Replicas of the Tom Dixon beat lights over the bar counter.

 this photo shows the distinctly orange Blum tracks

 close up on the beveled subway tile

there's my darling Jules, checking out on the bifold door!

He loves the yard area because it overlooks onto the LRT tracks and there's a HUGE patch of greenery outside.

Reno@Buangkok - Study room

Here's a quick look at the Buangkok's study area cum wardrobe room! One side of the wall features a really long working desk for 2 persons with top cabinets and bottom drawers. The bottom half has its own cable management, the top half has open shelves for easy access of daily papers.

On the inside, it's a spacious elongated shelf with no dividers so that the couple can put all sorts of big box items.

Towards the furthest end near the window is a dresser for the lady. We did a box up to hide the electrical wirings for the lights. Stay tune for the lights!!! I'm quite excited about it, hope it will turn out just the way we expected it. The box up will be covered by a mirror and the drawer has a top glass to display all the accessories. This way, she can view her accessories without having the need to open the drawer.

 cable management for the study table

The other side of the room houses a 4 sliding door wardrobe complete with hanging bars, accessory drawers, deep drawers and open shelves for bags.