Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
Bit of bad news; apparently TOP has been delayed from a hopeful Oct 2013 to probably Dec 2013 now, and one Interior Designer I just spoke to said the same too according to their own sources of information. A check
Doing a post on our project scope for The Minton since visitors queried, and also it’s great for my own collective memory in years to come what was going on in our heads when we planned for our new home!
I was doing some folder maintenance of my picture folders, and saw that I’ve taken just over 3,000 pictures of The Minton construction over the last several years now, and averaging usually about a hundred or so pictures each time.
Like the last visit to The Minton site, it’s getting harder to spot visible or significant changes to the ongoing construction now. Given how close the project now is to the award of Temporary Occupancy Permit, I guess most of
Another week and another visit to the construction site of The Minton. Bit of unfortunate news too; the BCA web site indicated on the 18th September that some plans submitted required resubmission while the rest were noted as “In order”.
We concluded that we’d identified enough IDs for first proposals after last weekend’s visits. Most of the quotations as a result of those visitations have come in, and notwithstanding some back and forth for each proposal on the inevitable amendments
Bit of both good and also bad news at The Minton project. On the first; the TOP inspection earlier this week was passed successfully, according to persons on the inside and across several sources. No clue if that’s really true
The weather on our island has been, surprisingly, quite wet and cold over the last several days – and it’s not even November monsoon yet. We’ve been experiencing rain everyday for nearly a week now, some of which has been
Another weekend of Contractor and Interior Design visitations – and with almost each new visit, we’re learning something about considerations we’d not thought about earlier. For example, that the windows in the room we’re designating as our workroom are casement
After taking a week to put together our desired build list and project scope, we finally began with visitations to Interior Designer companies over the weekend. We covered several companies over the two days. We’re not experienced clients in this
Another weekend visit to the ongoing construction at The Minton. Just 4 more weeks away to the projected TOP – Temporary Occupation Permit – and from residents who’ve checked out the place at the early evenings, construction hours seem to
We bought Peter to his PD this morning for a check on a possible skin condition, and were relieved that it was nothing serious but just a mild case of neonatal Eczema. Here’s a noon-time visit to The Minton after
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