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...