Proud Homeowners

We met our renovation contractor again yesterday and were told that renovations at our new place should be done in slightly more than a week. Eversince we started renovation works in early June, this was the moment that we had been looking forward to. A lot of hard work has gone into this, especially from Jeff. As we did not want to pay the interior designers money when ideas were mostly ours, we decided to go with a reputated contractor. This also meant that we had to put in a lot more effort over our end.

When we first started the process of planning the renovation for our place, we spent a significant amount of money on purchasing home & decor magazines, which we plough through laboriously to get ideas on how wanted to renovate our place. Then came the stage where we needed to communicate our ideas to the contractor..and we understand that a picture/photo says a thousand words. And so we began scanning photos and Jeff started using some programme to draw the reno plan...

Finally after every has been communicated, the renovation started. First steps were to knock down the walls that had to go to make way for greater space. Then it was the old blue tiles that simply did not match our style. When that was done, we were rushed to pick the tiles for the living room & toilets. Then it was the toilet accesories which i still feel rather sore over..u see..we were told to approach Jeff's colleagues as his family run a big business selling kitchen & toilet accesories. We ended up buying a toilet bowl costing $600 each! Think i will sleep on the toilet bowl..cos it actually cost us more than the simmons mattress that we got a fantastic deal for.

Shortly after, we started picking lighting for the house. That was a more pleasurable experience and it turned out quite nicely..we were pleased to see the end results..The next headache we had was picking the paint colours...and being new to this & not knowing how decieving catalogues are, we picked colour that were lighter than expected so it did not achieve the impact that we had wanted...It was very safe though..but we already have plans to re-paint one of the walls in 'celery green'.

We had also been shopping for the other stuff that we needed, like electrical appliances as well as furniture. What are our trophies so far? A samsung two-door fridge with ice & water dispenser (& a free 26" LCD TV), a table from ikea which we intend to use as a bar-top, some bar stools, a cabinet that doubles up as our bay-window bench.

We are also very lucky to have some sponsors for some smaller household items such as: Air pot (courtesy of Khaitze), Rice cooker (courtesy of Kai) and a 2nd hand washing machine that is still quite new from Mum. We are still looking for sponsors for other items so drop me a message if u r keen to lend a helping hand.

Next up: rectification work, toilet doors & shower screens, table tops & toilet accessories & we're done!! Then its time to move in the electrical appliances & furniture. Excited man!!

Counting down to the big day...

Reality sets in when I was reminded by Alan Tan that if we counted in terms of weeks, we had just 11 weeks before the wedding...given that we can't do much during the 7th Lunar Month, its gonna be a mad rush to get things done once the 7th Lunar month is over.

Things remaining to be done:
-Wedding invitation cards (writing names & collecting addresses) plus RSVP
-Guo Da Li stuff
-Food tasting
-Selecting wedding favours
-finalising ballroom table decor
-finalising event programme
-finalisng helpers and briefing them
-Sorting out seating arrangements (we've only got the names sorted)

Then there is still reno works at my new place:
-The 2 lamps we bought from Bangkok & the wardrobe room lights not up yet
that Jeff assembled himself
-The tinted glass divider between the vanity table & bed in main bedroom
-Table tops for kitchen cabinet & vanity top
-doors for toilets
-Glass panel inside common bathroom
-swing-door for toilet in main bedroom

Furniture to get:
-wardrobes
-sliding door for mahjong room
-TV console
-cushions for side bench

Electrical appliances & stuff:
-Rice cooker
-Sandwich maker
-Air Pot (Khaitze, my dear dear friend, has agreed to sponsor this item)
-Vacuum Cleaner
-Washing Machine (my mum's hand-me-down)
-Portable Air-con for living room cos the system 3 all inside rooms niah..
-Kettle
-Wok
-Saucepan
-And must remember to order a cyliner of gas
-Steamboat

Think that's abt all the essentials that I can think of. Now..wanna see some of the photos taking at the photo shoot on 6 Aug. I din think it was very nice lor but hopefully the actual photos will turn out otherwise.




Now we are waiting for call from D'sire to go down to pick some photos..getting a bit kan cheong how come they have not called us yet..is it cosits the 7th Month or issit becauseour photos are too ugly they dare not show us?