Our ID also insisted that the tilers change the grouting of the tiles so that it's darker to match the tiles. The tilers literally have to dig the grout line by line so that they can reapply again. All I can say is we are super glad to have our ID more particular than us in all these small details and always making sure our house is as aesthetically pleasant as possible.
Step 5: Partition
This normally includes works like false ceiling and boxing up of ugly trunking if any. We didn't opt for false ceiling but we opted to box some pipes.
On top of that, one of our most exciting part of the project was to conceal the existing beam. To give some background, HDB units normally have some indented wall here and there due to the structural beams.
The uneven wall is exactly where our sofa would be and I really dreaded how, awkward it would look having the uneven surface right in the middle of the sofa. Of course, I realise that's a very personal preference since some people dont think it's any issue.
Photoshopped below for reference hahah
Anyway initial idea was for us to fill up the recessed wall with partition all the way to the other end of the wall. However that would really means we would sacrifice quite a significant space as the beam is about 20cm thick and that would minimise the floor space of the small unit to begin with. Zhaohui was not entirely supportive of the idea as he could tolerate the original look so he was not too keen with the idea of topping up too much extra to waste space.
I finally proposed a relatively unusual idea of enhancing the beam and make it a design element. Instead of filling it all the way across, I suggested we carve an arch shape within to achieve a design recessed look.
There was some little hiccups while they were working on the arch as we realised we did not calculate the dimensions on the left meant for the sofa accurately. Thankfully after some communications my ID managed to sort it out and we love the final look! Who can be extra like us to have a design arch in the living room :')
For the longest time since we selected the unit 2 years ago, we have toyed with the idea of hacking the MBR to combine it with bedroom 2 so that we could get a spacious bedroom with sufficient wardrobe space. However, many mums advised me against it since the extra room would really be necessary for the kids next time if we want to train the babies to sleep in a separate room from young. We struggled with this idea back and forth until we met our ID who supported my idea to achieve a bigger room while not sacrificing one entire room.
At the proposal meeting, Huimin proposed that we hack just one hole to steal space from bedroom 2, just enough the construct our wardrobe within the newly built recessed area, while ensuring the bedroom doors are completely flushed with the wall. The bedroom 2 would have just 60cm space taken away where the wardrobe is on the other end. I loved this idea which in fact, I proposed many IDs that we've met to see if we could do this but everyone rejected my idea saying it'll be too squeezy and expensive. I loved how Huimin managed to take in our needs and proposed just the idea we wanted without breaking our banks.
There you see a newly created recessed area for our wardrobes and I love it already!
P.S. Pls don't tell my kids next time that I stole space from their room for my wardrobe lolol
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My first ever shipment of 1cbm of Taobao reached! It took me 3 hours to unbox so I really didn't have the energy to take pictures esp when it's super dusty and hot. Will take pictures once everything is installed! But so far we're just really impressed with the quality of the items we got off Taobao.
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More Materials Selection
Over the weekend we headed to the Kombacplus showroom near Woodlands industrial area (omg damn ulu) because we wanted to see full pieces of the countertop which could help us make better decision of the look we want.
Paint Selection
We planned to use very bold colours for our house so colour selection was really important. Any wrong choice of colour would go awry and affect their entire look of the house. One of the reason we were keen to work with our ID is the fact that she was really particular about materials selection and was willing to explore paint brands further than the usual Nippon to ensure we get the colours we want. Most of the IDs stick the the boring Nippon colours and are not flexible enough to help look for what you really need.
Nippon do have a great selection of colours but we wanted duller tones that it did not have. Over a few days we went through the fan decks of Nippon, Dulux and Jotun. It was especially difficult to decide the right shade of green for the living room so we got small 1L tins of paints just to test the colour before committing.
Uncle mixing the small tin of paint for us so that we could bring back to test.
We tested 3 shades of Green before deciding on the very first colour, Dulux's New England Green.
It was also not easy to find the right shade of black. Yes BLACK has shades too.
Decided on a Jotun black which has the least undertones amongst all brands. Loving how it goes with our wardrobe laminate linen selection!
Choosing a coral pink for the play room
After the thorough search of fan decks from all 3 brands, I conclude in my very humble opinion that Dulux has a great variety of shades and you could really go with one brand to get all the colours you need with Dulux!
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