friday is always a happy day...

15th aug: as usual, we don't know where to go after work. mif just wanna take a peep at her reno, so off we go, to our new place again. hmm... the hacked wall was made good finally! :) so nice to see the smooth edges and wires kept to a corner. neat! our kitchen base is up too!

feeling inspired, we head for tampines IKEA once again. total damage: $300+!
• URBAN white chair for dining $69

• ARVINN folding chair $79• bought the LERAN pendant lamp $149 (made of bamboo & rattan)
it's not cheap man...

• chair is going home with us!

transformation

we prefer to buy the big items off the shelves. the only build-in stuffs are bomb shelter feature, kitchen and our MBR closet. yup, we like to move our furnitures as and when we like. hmm...i wonder if we'll be able to transform our cottage into 361 different looks... haha, i know that's kinda silly! anyway, we've confirmed some items which we'll get from IKEA.

• IKEA stockholm TV bench (160x45 cm)

•IKEA Foto N pendant light (S$25)
we're gonna do something different.

meeting at 9.50pm

when we step into our cottage at 9.30pm yesterday, we had a pleasant surprise! as promised, eugene sent his electrician to work on the lightings. the 1st point is relocate the kitchen switch to outside. see, the tiles are still intact!
eugene came around 9.50pm, all the way from pasir ris. he needs us to confirm on the brick material so that he can proceed to order and do up by this week. hehe... our dream of having a brick wall is finally coming true!

i hope eugene will continue with the good works. we really appreciate his help in rushing the renovation for us, even after titan creative breach the contract. eugene manage to give us a time line with a short notice and when we told him we need to move in by september, he took the initiative to rush us for detailing. we're impressed...

service yard windows up

our service yard's window is up! venus arrange her workers to do up on 2nd august, 9.30am. the workers were late, they reached at close to 11am. But they finish their work really fast! :) we chose a top hung window becoz in case it rains, we can still air our clothes.

presenting...

We finally got the time to take a picture of our closet, pardon us for the quality of the pix, it's taken at nite. :)

• The exterior sliding door

• The personalised interior
(more pigeon holes on the right side for onion's t-shirts)

thumbs up for closetrobe

after a week, our sub-con, closetrobe, came to do up our MBR closet. it is our most favourite build-in now. i forgot to take the final product's pix, will update soon yah? i can only say, it's so nice~~ they rectify every single concern we have till it's perfect, and on the spot. that is what we call service! unlike titan. i think i'll be complaining for a few weeks or even months about the irresponsible contractor. bear with me please...

• the high-density compressed wood are here

• closet door

• the skeleton inside

• luckily we managed to hide the ugly aircon trunking :)

the wall is down - but we wasn't inform

yes, tony hacked the wall without informing us. it's really depressing for me because he didn't do what we asked him to. such a simple task to inform us on the date of hacking! we just want to be there... :( worst is, he didn't even admit his mistake! and kept asking us what do we want now? Arghhh... his behaviour is so childish!

i'll strongly advise anyone who's keen on taking titan, NOT to engage them. he is such an irresponsible contractor. terrible! anybody know if i can sue him for not informing?

• only managed to take this on 25th july nite, when we went to check on the partition painting.

• see for yourself': the damages left at our house (these are only part of it)
the irresponsible id left all these at our house and left! can't believe he is the boss of titan.
opposite walls & parquet skirtings are all damaged... where are the protection? one word: inexperienced.

lights for living room

•trying to visualise the mini ceiling fan (from kdk) in the centre•can this work?

closetrobe partition & ndp rehearsal

we had our partition board done up on saturday morning. 2 guys came around 10am and finish up by 2pm. it has to be up before the painting comes in. so this is it, preview of our 7ft closet.

• frame only

• frame only
another angle

• parition board up

• parition board after plastering

at about 6plus we heard the fighter planes and went to take a look. this is what we saw! :) nice~
• ndp rehearsal-see the heart shape formed by the black knights?

• ndp rehearsal-a ferris wheel shaped-like

• ndp rehearsal-total defense logo

3D sketch

after all the phone calls and smses, we finally got our 2nd 3D sketch. the 1st sketch is so bad that i don't even feel like looking at them! ok, anyway, this is not final. tony's attitude changed quite a bit after we sign the contract. he's not as helpful, he doesn't give solution. yah, he is a contractor to me now, not ID. but that's ok. we prefer asking him to do what we want because we don't trust his design anymore. how much can you trust a contractor right? our mind is set, we're still going ahead with him since we paid the deposit. he throws us question, we'll find the answer and when everything is done, he'll realise how useless he it. we don't mind having to decide on the smallest thing. it's our cottage! btw, all your suggestions and comments are welcome. :)