We previously shared a guide that introduced the different kinds of lights we considered for our home and how we bought our lights from Taobao. The next process was doing up our BTO home lighting design and installing them. The design was largely done up by Shao Jie. But it was a consultative process. We…
This guide tells you how to buy lights in general, and more specifically how to buy lights from Taobao. We haven’t gotten around to showing the stuff we actually bought, but we plan to in a subsequent post. Why we didn’t buy from local or JB shops As always, there’re 3 places to buy from:…
While the various works like flooring and lighting were being done, we needed to do up the City Gas pipe installation for our home. The point of doing so is to lay the gas pipe from your gas outlet outside into your kitchen. Without it you can’t use the gas even though the infrastructure is…
After our decision to use the Luxurious Resilient Flooring from FloorXpert throughout, we had to get into the installation of vinyl flooring for our BTO. Selecting the vinyl flooring colours When it came to selecting the colours for the vinyl flooring, we left it to Shao Jie. We let him choose the colours when we…
When it comes to flooring, most people see it as a choice between vinyl, tile, laminate, or cement flooring for BTOs. Tiles are the longstanding and steady option, but increasingly more people are going for vinyl flooring. Some also go for the cement flooring option to go for an industrial look, which is something different…
Next up is really to explain the process for getting ceiling fans for a BTO. When it comes to ceiling fans, there seems to be two camps. One says that ceiling fans are hard to maintain or they’re not very nice. The other can’t live without ceiling fans. PQ doesn’t really mind either way, whereas…