we can't wait to move!

Pardon this seemingly excessive amount of egoism but our house is really gorgeous now after the varnishing of the parquet and installation of lights. Our whole house reflects a lovely warm glow and we cant wait to move in to enjoy it! The master toilet cabinets are uber chic and the kitchen is so enticing to cook in. Our common toilet beckons as well, we're sure you'd love to wash your hands and take a piss! heehee....

Our kitchen is here!

Our kitchen and toilet cabinets were installed today. The very nice carpenter worked until 10pm at night, and was still there hammering when we visited! We raved over the gorgeous kitchen cabinets, hopefully that would give him a great sense of satisfaction hee hee... Can't wait till the rest of the kitchen is done up.

On a separate note, we were a little dismayed by our Nelon Handleset. It's some taiwan brand. We told our contractor twice about the cheap Yale Handlesets at Mustafa, and mentioned it another few times when he called to ask if we wanted to use his locksmith. We guess he didn't really understand what Yale locks were about and thus didn't highlight it to his locksmith. Such a pity we had this misunderstanding. The lock looks good enough though, but the feel and quality probably isn't as good and wouldn't last through the years. :-(




Work on the toilet cupboards started too...

Wallpaper

Our Wallpaper will be delivered tomorrow...before the real thing goes up, here's a peek at what it's gonna look like...


Here's another one we considered but decided it wasn't as striking...this one has amazing texture though...


This here is the laminate we considered for our feature wall, a lovely gloss and matt with floral motifs. However, after seeing it used excessively in some house, we (including contractor) decided it was way too much and wouldn't be able to move with the times. He decided to do a wallpapered feature wall for us with a dark shimmery black fabric-looking wallpaper with stitching details.

we can't cook...

....until the end of december at the very least...maybe right at the tail-end. Mayer has had a sudden delay in the shipment of the hob that we're buying. What a dismay! And our contractor didn't want to cut the hole on the kitchen cupboard and solid surface as he was afraid the sizes might not be accurate. The guy from Mayer told us however, that we should get the whole house done up and then just wait for the delivery of the hob, and free installation by Mayer.

What a pity...we hope we are able to move in by CHristmas! There are so many things that need to be done, so many deliveries to be made and so many companies to liase with. Sometimes it gets really stressful! Especially now that we're both terribly busy with year end work! Phew!

The toilet is flooded!

The Master bedroom toilet was flooded on Sunday night! We wonder why...perhaps the painters poured paint down the pipe!!! *&@#*&@#!!!

Paint me up

Painting begun last Saturday! how exciting! Most of the walls were done, with the exception of maybe the kitchen. We guess it must be quite an easy job to do painting and plastering (and it costs a whopping $1300!). We were there in the morning and the painters had just begun plastering the wall. By nightfall, the walls were all covered in paint already, although we weren't sure if there was one or two coats and whether they would be continuing with more layers. The living room wasn't fully touched up though as you can see.

Our living room is grey...


the master bedroom is cappucino...


the study is an interesting greyish brown..


and the other bedroom "Cool Slate" which somehow or other came out bluish...hmmm...

A couple of miracles

Nothing much was done ever since our parquet was installed. There were only a few recent developments including a miracle performed by our electrician, wiring our master bedroom heater switch to the storage heater in the common toilet! Hallelujah! We wouldn't have to stumble through the house groggily to turn on the switch to bathe! (although we were all prepared for it though).

We also decided on paint colours, although most got changed the next morning on recommendations by Marcus our contractor. We guess he's looking at it in a different way. In any case, it should not be too ugly, if it is, we'd just scream and repaint it all muhahaha...

Our contractor also miraculously sweet-talked his carpenter into rushing the kitchen cabinets for us, to be installed early next week! (gasp, so fast!) He said he "cut queue a bit", hopefully not stepping on too many toes :-P Yay, so happy! Once the cabinets are up, the solid surface can be measured and installed, and then the appliances and sink installed and the electrical work finished up for this area of the house. Whoopee!!

Target date to move is after the 20th. =) =)