Tag: Renovation

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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