Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
We were again out of home for a good part of the weekend scouting around various places for furniture and fixtures for our Minton home. As our renovation has just started too – will blog about it next – we’ve
One home renovation mistake we made with our first home at the Rivervale was not installing ceiling fans. We thought we’d do fine with standing fans at the onset – and it didn’t take long before we realized how much
We had the project handover from the defect team yesterday afternoon, and were fortunate that our appointed interior designer was present to help us negotiate some parts of the outstanding issues. Our defect list was about two pages long and
Bit of a funny experience to relate here that happened about 5 weeks ago during our key collection event. I arrived early at The Minton ahead of my scheduled appointment – I was the first resident to receive keys for
Things have been moving very briskly since the last post. The defect team in charge of our apartment unit at The Minton stated yesterday that the unit will be ready for the handover inspection early next week (excepting a couple
We met another bunch of specialist contractors over the latter part of the last week and last weekend, and they included persons for curtains, and also different types of grills. I think we’ve got a pretty good idea of our
We spent a good part of our weekend at The Minton checking on the state of defect rectification – it’s in its third week now – and also meeting several specialist contractors. We’re still hoping that the defects get sorted
It’s just been over two weeks since our defect rectification exercise began with our submission of our first defect list, and we’ve added a few more defects to the list for the team to sort out. Fortunately, all fairly minor
My fifth and last post in the series commenting on the renovation package and proposal. The long holiday weekend meant that no progress was observed in our defect rectification, though we did see that parts of the kitchen had been
Continuing our notes on the Meeting #7 concept proposals. Here are the first concept proposals for our Master Bedroom: Our requirement for our room was a king-sized bedframe, bedhead, night stands – and that the bedframe should have storage. We
Continuing my series of posts on our discussions with our appointed Interior Designer renovating our new home at The Minton. For those of us who’re interested, we didn’t have that many meetings with our appointee, and in fact, sealed the
We went by The Minton over the weekend for a meeting with a curtains/blinds maker we’re interested in engaging. This particular contractor is based in Johore Bahru, but commutes to Singapore every day for work. He was a particularly jolly
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