The Minton: Ideas and Renovation – 15 – Everything Electrical (III)

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

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The Minton: Ideas and Renovation – 14 – Everything Electrical (II)

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

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The Minton: Ideas and Renovation – 13 – Everything Electrical (I)

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

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The Minton: Ideas and Renovation – 12 – Colors and Materials

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

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The Minton: Ideas and Renovation – 11 – The Proposal and Package (E)

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

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The Minton: Ideas and Renovation – 10 – The Proposal and Package (D)

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

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The Minton: Ideas and Renovation – 9 – The Proposal and Package (C)

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

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Work-in-Progress – Part 44 – Flora @ Tranquil World

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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The Minton: Ideas and Renovation – 8 – The Proposal and Package (B)

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

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