i need a nice mirror

our MBR is lacking of a nice, big mirror, just like these that i saw from real simple website. round seems quite unique but i don't know where i can get it. hope i'll find one as soon as possible!

photos courtesy of winston c.

• the living room

• the study room & corridor
• the study room interior

• the master bedroom

christmas tree

our very first dust pine christmas tree!

from the verge, formerly known as tekka mall. vanda win at level 6.
this 5ft dust pine cost $75 :)

close-up of the dust pine!

it's divided into these smaller pieces.

the final look!

the colourful balls decor was from thailand. we bought them 6 years ago...

living & dining area

here's some pix of my living & dining area for all to enjoy. our cottage is only 80% completed. the remaining 20% is the brickwall & the tidying up part. study room is not ready for pic coz the open book shelves are quite messy. still in progress ok?

• dining area

• living room
our temporaily air sofa... still saving up to get a good one.

• living room-view from sofa

• shoe drawer
haven't got time to decorate the space above the drawer.

we get justice finally - yes, we won!

finally after 4 months of anger, stress, mix feeling of law, anger, stress and lotsa anger, i'm proud to say, WE WON THE CASE! it is a fundamental breach of contract. only law can make people like tony tan c.w.(from titan) admit his mistake & accept the verdict from the judge . his act has been totally irresponsible & unjustifiable! never, never go to titan (at 582 balestier rd) for house reno.

there is justice in singapore & im so glad we got it. we're glad all is over... it has been a long fight but onion agree it's all worth it... onionboy did all the presentations & wasted much of his time thinking of the case. both of us went through loads of stress, all becos of this irresponsible contractor.

if we've accepted the breach of contract, we'll be giving in to offenders! justice prevailed... :)

10 men in the house

the day before we move in, we broke a record of having 10 workers rectifying their works at the same time. 2 painters, 1 carpenter & his assistant, 2 curtain guys, 2 varnisher (erm, they vanish the parquets), 1 electrician & his trouble-maker! thankfully, they all finish up the works by afternoon.

• white timber door

• left is the study room, right is the living room
• kitchen is really small...
• uncle (on the left) is a very nice guy.
he taught us how to take care of the parquet flooring.
listen up: use only water to wipe, if u wanna use chemical, use only dettol.
wipe your parquets at least twice a week, keep it moist.

• plumber did a fantastic job, pipings are very neat & well-covered.

curtains

sorry these pix came late... jimmy textile was here on the 14th to do up the curtains & roller blinds. they took around an hour half to fix everything. they're quite careful & fast. however when they pass us the invoice, it was $80 more. originally we pick the england fabric for our living room but there's no stock for the design. the 2nd time when we went back to choose the design, my in-laws pick a pattern from the same series. as we didn't wanna incur extra cost, we pick the normal fabric & off-set the cost. the price should still be the same right? onion called lucas to check, his attitude wasn't good. anyway he ended saying that since we didn't hear there'll be additional cost then we pay the amount we think it's right. ok, fine, $1680 it is! no more, no less.

water pipe burst

it all happened on last saturday... my contractor hit the water pipes when drilling hole for the dish-rack! imagine water flowing out from the kitchen wall, like water fountain! luckily it went straight into my sink, which is right beside it. we remember clearly that there were no sticker on that portion of the kitchen wall (stating there's water pipes). onionboy checked the photos he took when we 1st step into our cottage. confirm: no stickers! we got hold of hdb & lian beng people and ask them to look into this. it is clear that someone made on a mistake. there were no arguement... hdb supervisor got his plumber in and LB worker started cutting the tiles. the dust is killing me!! finally we saw the damaged water pipe & the plumber patch the hole with epoxy. strictly no water supply for the next 4 hours. it was a torture!

at about 7pm, onionboy on the riser. no leakage from the hole, water flow out from all the taps, except that the pressure is smaller. BUT as we turn the tap off one by one, the riser burst out with water! it was so dramatic! we had to collect water in different pails and turn off the riser. by then it's already 9pm... the workers will only come tomorrow morning.

sunday 9.30am: LB workers & hdb plumber came to rectify the problem. Yes, all is well again! (all these while, i was sleeping... been so tired after the hectic sat) i have to give all the credits to onionboy. he was there all these while...

what an experience! i'm glad hdb & lian beng rectified the problem efficiently. well, you can still find nice people in construction line, unlike titan creative! urgh... i have to end this post with a comment "go to titan creative at your own risk!".

the kiasu us

we bought all these way before we got our keys, some are as early as 2007. but they're all on sale items... hehe... save money mah! shop early for your house, you'll save from there. :)

• a very good buy from journey east, dempsey (nearly forgot where it's from!)
1 for $36 only

• MUJI legless chair, at a 10% discount

• IKEA cabinet - using this as shoe cabinet
bought from a ikea sale too!

• table from IKEA As-Is $70

• As-Is table is hand-carry by onionboy

the hole in our cottage

the hole in the cottage is finally done! black laminated frame is up within a week. cool!!! the orange boutique is coming alive. so exciting!

• black laminated wood

• the hole, waiting for wood frame

• i love the orange background in the study room. :)
living room using magnolia (ICI)... smoothing...