When you buy a house, naturally you’d find that “money no enough”. The question on everyone’s minds nowadays therefore is whether you should buy furniture from Taobao or Ikea. This guide helps you to break down this decision so you can learn from our experience. Buying from Ikea and other physical stores Ikea, Sungei Kadut,…
We originally wrote this guide after HDB did our cement screeding for us. The policy changed. HDB contractors don’t do cement screeding anymore, so you can’t top up even if you want to. That sucks because contractors charge more than the HDB contractors. The quality wasn’t too bad. But this guide is still relevant to…
The wait for the BTO key collection was quite long but it eventually ended. This would be followed by rectification works by BSC. The process was to get our keys, do our defect checks, do the cement screeding, then do renovation works. We were still pending HDB’s decision on our cement screeding application. To explain…
Theme We wanted a clean BTO home design. Our requirement was to have a home that is clean-cut, easy to maintain, and nothing that was too expensive. Space wise, we will only ever use the bedroom. I’ll be gaming or using the computer. PQ will only be sleeping or using her phone. We won’t be…
What did we do? We started searching for an ID or contractor online roughly in October last year, before the estimated completion date, which was in Q1 2018. There really were many IDs and contractors, some advertising on Facebook, many on sites like Renotalk, Hometrust, etc. Before the search, we were leaning towards going for…