Before I start to share some of the pictures and stuff, I would like to thank a few people who helped and make this happened. The mum who helped me packed my stuff, provided some of the stuff to start of the kitchen, the mother in law, brother in law and sister in law with the gifts, cousin Johnny who introduced the ID, mad amount of tips on air con choosing and what not, Malaysia purchases, Keong with the late night ferry of my boxes and delivery of food, and Jacky, V goh and Kelvin for the cleaning/delivery help as well. And of course the wife who helped a lot as well, wouldn't be able to do this all alone.(And of course your CPF was needed very much. :x) I really wanted to thank the baby sister but I just can't remember what did she do other than coming over all the time for dinner and playing the PS3. HAHA.
Punggol Spectra has this a "color code" for each block and mine is Pink! Suits me! |
We went with Panasonic systerm 3 air-con as it is cheaper and comes with inverter(which means save power) |
Anyway, before the renovation started, the ID will give some 3D impressions mock up. And I was shocked when I saw the pictures. It doesn't looks like it's impression to me. It looked too damn real!
Dining and my built in crazy2-in-1 storage cum cat condo. |
My full length shoe cabinet. |
!st look of my kitchen. |
The master bed room with 2 full sized mirror. koff koff. |
Some might choose to go different places or even JB to buy as it is cheaper but for us, we were caught up with too many things on hand and we do not want to be troubled to change or buy again anything that does not fit the design. It was a good choice too as one of the items was delivered broken and my ID just went again to do the exchange and re-purchase without me paying a single cent or calling anyone. It's the service that we paid for and it was worth it. (Kind of.)
Before anything went up, the wall came down. |
During our BTO phrase, we were given a few options, to get the place bare or with doors and/or with flooring. We got our unit with the doors but no flooring as we couldn't decide and we heard some negative experience with the flooring. We got our flooring with our ID but still we are not at all happy with it. The glossy homogeneous flooring, it's so glossy that you will see every single foot print and it's so painful when we are doing the cleaning. We went with laminated flooring for the bed rooms and it wasn't up to my expectation as well. The workmenship was pretty bad. There are like little humps all over the place. They removed the flooring and re-do it but the problem remains and I was too tired to argue and went ahead and left it as it was. I might live to regret this but oh well.
Floor Tiles Up! |
Version 2 of the dining area. Lamination changed and dining table removed. Our bar counter is the only dining area. |
Full length shoe cabinet edited as well. Remove the center portion. Prefer it this way. |
Lamination of kitchen cabinet now changed to follow suit with cabinet outside. |
Being 1.8m tall with no arms doesn't feels too righ |
1 of the many visits. Kitchen top not up yet. |
My state of the art cat condo. Looks pretty close to the 3D right? Super impressed! |
Bar top up as well. |
We needed some stress test for the cabinets. |
The studies room with Lakers Themed Colors! |
During the renovation, something bad happened. My brother left us... He left us for a better place. And with that, we were not in the mood to hold our ROM dinner anymore. We cancelled the dinner despite it being a small dinner to begin with. No big bang, no music and nothing to cheers about. But we went on with the ceremony as we didn't want to go out of trouble to postpone with ROM and HDB for handling the papers and I believe that's not what my brother wanted as well. Thus the 1st happy occasion at the place was our very own ROM ceremony.
Yes, I do. |
Whole new meaning to "shopping" and "Pak Tor" |
My 1st sun rise at Punggol Spectra. |
Mummy says that the rice bucket must be full! |
Mummy came and help with the ritual. Burn charcoal for water boiling! |
Water boiling to symbolize 财源滚滚 |
Rolling of Ong Lai! Money Money Come Come again! |
And garlic, 蒜头,有的算(钱)。 |
My two kitties! |
My toy collection. This is only a small part of it actually. |
And of course super friends to come and teach me how to cook! |
Super Friends to come and help me deck up the 2D X'mas Tree. |
And this is our 3 door Mitsubishi Fridge. Got it at a discount and it's pretty good. |
Our King Koil Sofa from Courts. This is one of those sofa that you get to customize and choose your own materials. From the back cushions, side cushions to what you were sitting on. It's actually kind of scary as they have no software or catalog to assist you with this whole customization process. Which means there is a chance that after you pick and mixed it it will turn out really ugly. Lucky for Ah Smart cause I think I am pretty good with such stuff and TAR DAR~ Our awesome brown themed sofa that goes with the paint and all. It's not only pretty and good to sit, it's also very awesome to sleep on when you are drunk!
Exhibition A - Rondy after a night of drinking. |
Meow? |
Mr.Smith, I like the peace in Punggol, not like Tampines. Too noisy.
12 comments:
This knowledge Welcome to Punggol Spectra Part I Labout is very helpful for me! Appreciation for giving out. it’s all very fresh and clearly written!
I enjoyed this post. :) Were on our way to having our own flat but at this point still about to choose our ID. i agree with you its really crazy!
thanks for sharing your experience. i see its all worth it. :)
Can you share how much is the renovation cost?
Hi Zai,
I spent 20ish k. But do note that this was 3yrs ago so I am not sure about the market rate now. :D
Hi
Can you please share your ID details
Hello there how did you finally chose your ID uh. I went to www.renopedia.sg and just to see around is renovation portals useful or reliable?
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