Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
One common project item seems to be in changing the general structure of homes, and typically entails either creating of new walls and partitions, or hacking and removal of existing ones. The Minton’s renovation rules at this point forbade structural
One critical event that takes place after key collection to our new home is defect identification, and depending on one’s disposition and optimism, it can be either or both an exhaustive, fun, or depressing exercise! Basically, once one has collected
Most important piece of information first. The final package cost was just a shade under $32,000, and excluding balcony work, window grills, and curtains/blinds (we’ll be getting our own separate contractors for that). Over the months leading up to our
After just over 4 months of searching and discussions, we finally decided on an Interior Designer and committed (i.e. signed off) on the project last evening. It was a bit of a relief to finally be able to make this
The weekend was a pretty busy one for us, with a good part of it spent at The Minton inspecting the unit for defects, cleaning up the place to host visits from neighbors, and also for our very small number
Part two of pictures taken at our keys handover day. There wasn’t many persons about, but once most residents have moved in, the scene will probably look quite different.
About nearly 2 years 4 months after we made the big decision to buy a new condo apartment near the school we are hoping to enroll Hannah into in a few years’ time, we finally got the newly minted keys
We apologize for the lack of updates over the last month of our new home @ The Minton. Key distribution for the first phase of blocks began in early December, and we received our own notification from our lawyers on
If there’s one thing I dislike about living in this part of the island, it’s the amount of dust that gets blown around the house. When we first moved in our current home, we actually had a routine where we’d
The Minton finally TOPed last week on the 29 November. Though now comes the real wait – keys collection, and since the project is so large with so many apartment units, we’ve been hearing anywhere between 3 to 6 months
It’s been another 3 weeks, and The Minton has still yet to reach temporary occupancy status. No one seems quite certain what’s the cause for the hold-up, but at this point and how long we’d been told key distribution will
The Minton development has seemingly stalled for a couple of weeks now. From visual exterior looks, and apart from some minor patch-up work, the condo seems done and ready for temporary occupancy. The process of attaining the issue of TOP
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