We DIYed our washing machine installation. It sounds easy. Unfortunately, it wasn’t. Buying our washing machine without installation We bought our washing machine before renovation finished. We wanted to take advantage of LiveUp cashback by Lazada (non referral link, needed to put this for the nice SEO), which made it much cheaper than traditional stores…
We’ve settled in around half a year. We took some pictures of our final 4 room BTO design and outcome. Our home probably isn’t impressive enough to be featured! So we had to DIY with a Pixel camera, although on the plus side it’s not a staged photoshoot. All things considered, it’s quite similar to…
Our home is on the 19th storey. It doesn’t really face any other flats directly. At least not where others can peer directly. It also doesn’t get direct sunlight because it’s south facing. There was no real need to get curtains or blinds to cover up the windows. But we still got one because it’s…
We previously got the City Gas contractor down to install the gas pipe before we did our carpentry. That was the initial piping work. The pipe in the riser was still unconnected, as was the pipe in the kitchen. They were waiting for a second trip. The next milestone where gas was concerned was therefore…
After the flooring was done and while progress was ongoing for electrical work, we had carpentry work done to bring our HDB cabinet design to life. We had originally wanted our home to have as little carpentry as possible. But we ended up with quite a fair bit of carpentry in the end, because it…
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…
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…
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…
Jun Wei’s guys did minor wet works in the kitchen and toilets around the same time as the painting. Nothing fantastic or abnormal for those works. It seemed like our home already needed very minimal wet works. We have seen cases online where the wet works were extensive, and a large part of it was…