Updates! My toilet tiles are up and i'm loving it!

common toilet: simple black and white combination. I simply love the super glossy and clean effect. Ceiling will be painted black. I can't wait to see!!


MBR toilet: the mosiac and textured tiles we chose proved
to be a good combination. High-class looking!


Plastering done! Oh man... how i love the sharp corners. so much more pleasant to look at as compared to the old roundish ones. And its amazing how a simple plastering job can make such a huge difference to the whole house. Now the house looks NEW! Definately worth the money spent.



view from my balcony!


btw this is where the leak is in my common toilet ceiling.
algae growing already!!

more addition to house. contractor suggest us to re-plaster and re-wire the whole house as the walls are super un-smooth and the wirings are very old already. tat's the problem when u buy a 20++ yrs old flat. #_# Re-plaster is like $2.4k, re-wiring another $1.7k! After consideration, we concluded that these addition will make quite a significant difference to the look of the whole house and so proceed with doing them.

Let me tell u more problems with getting old flats like mine.

1. my flat does not have gas supply so we have to use cylinder gas. we're contemplating on an induction hob coz of that.

2. the kitchen does not have a separate water outlet for ur washing machine like newer flats. And coz of this, we gotta change our whole initial layout of the kitchen cabinet and we cannot have a separate laundry area. *sad*

3. the ceiling in my common toilet leaks! and i needa get my neighbour above to redo his waterproofing and i needa pay half of the cost for him. *urgh*

4. old hdb toilets are super small and the 'hole' for the toilet bowl is slightly further away from the wall compared to newer flats. So not all toilet bowls can fit in there without leaving a gap between the back of the toilet bowl and the wall. and the position of their toilet bowl 'hole' is real werid. It left us with so little space for the shower area that i gotta do away with the kerb for shower area in my common toilet. So i have no choice but to have a 'wet' common toilet.

There might be more but tats about all i can recall for now.


Saw this at park mall sometime ago. This is what we wants in our MBR. We're gonna have a platform bed. =) Just hope that it'll turn out to be as nice...

hacking works started. gone are the mosiacs, roundish corners, dirty kitchen and toilets!


the foyer look so much brighter and opened now.



toilets hacked! build-in wardrobes teared down!


balcony door down, tiles hacked!

bags of sand = my $$
sand very expensive nowadays u know!

Finalised our lighting points too. Every point is $$. At first the contractor suggested like near to 10 points in the living and dining just for downlights. In the end we brought it down to the following:

- 4 downlights, 2 T5 and 1 fan point for living
- 4 T5 and 1 centre light for dining
- 2 downlights for corridor
- 2 downlight for MBR L-box
- 1 downlight for foyer.
- 1 centre light for balcony
- 2 centre light for kitchen
- 1 centre light for each bedroom
- 1 centre light for each toilet

$$$$$$$$$!!! still need to buy lights and toilet fittings!