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Sunday, 26 October 2014

Timber Cladding and Electrical Work

We are really getting closer to the really exciting part of the renovation. The theme for our home is "Modern Resort" living. I've seen plenty of ID work locally but sadly nothing much worth mentioning except for 1 or 2 landed project that we've came across so far. It seem theme like Scandinavia and Industrial are more popular these days. To each it's own, but for us we are a hardcore modern resort theme lover. It all begin when we first visit Bali. We stay in one of their villa called "Villa De Daun" immediately we fall in love with the villa decoration and overall vibe of the theme.

Look at this OMFG!! How can anyone not fall in love with this?!!

This beautiful villa is conveniently located at the heart of Kuta. Highly recommended to try their "intimate moments honeymoon package". It is super good and value for money loh.. You get a lovely one bedroom villa with your own private pool. A two hours full body massage for two in a private couple room with shower area.. so after massage you can make out ya know what i'm saying all ya cheeky monkeys.. Just make sure to keep the noise down.. After your spa treatment, they will decorate your whole villa with candles and bed full of rose petal in the pool with candlelit dinner setup for you two love birds.. And did I mentioned there will be a private chef preparing the dinner for you!? Song right.. After the rosematic dinner confirm you will make out one more time then call it a night cause by then all mojo used up and you both will be damn shag.. Next morning free breakfast to your villa.. took your morning skinny dip in your private pool and AHEM again... Wahahaha.. Trust me Ben Teo recommend lobang such good one.. House got kids liao no mood right?! Come for short getaway like this la confirm all your kick lai liao.. Wahahah.. KNN how come suddenly my blog become like sammyboy blog sia.. lol better stop but PS la see all these photo make me really high again.. 

But the most sibei kan phua zai villa is this.. The Banyan Tree Ungasan Bali  at uluwatu area. Yes as per the name it is at a located really sibei ULU.. 

Trust me stay here you really feel like king and feel like you in a place called HEAVEN.

Call me siao or what la.. I spent I think about USD$1.5k to stay here for 1 night.. But no regret la money can earn back and experience is forever one mah.. So since that day I told myself if I day limbei got my own house. I must recreate the USD$1.5k experience! The "Modern Resort" theme experience!

And so Ladies and Gentlemen, I am glad to present to you the 3D of my "Modern Resort theme" home.

What is "Resort theme" without wood? Hahaha.. Look at the amount of Burmese teak wood I am using for my home!

Start work with MBR!

Very serious working because I watched them like an eagle! Hahaha

Remind me of D&T.. Wahaha

Baton and supporting layer up!

Just so you are wondering WTH am I doing.. This is a rough sketch of how my bedhead will look like.. Power right I own self design one ok!


TATA!!! Finish cladding but not end product yet cause haven't lacquer! SWEE right?!

Wooo I love the sexy protruding portion.. So sweet and sexy..

Now to my living room.. no la mai siao this is not my living room.. where got so big.. if my house so big I don't need so xin ku type my blog liao loh.. I will hire one writer and command him "ah first sentence start with similanjiao.. TYPE!!" Hahaha being rich is so song sia.. but not gonna happen la.. Anyway this is where I get my inspiration and ideas from for my ceiling cladding.. While others spend money overlay timber flooring.. very popular these days loh.. but I decided to do something more unique.. rather then timber my bottom I timber my top! Wahahaha..

Before they do the cladding they need to fix a support structure first. I think they called it the Batons.

Next they will fixed a layer of panel to allow the timber strip to run on later.


Look at how they cut out the holes for my spotlight and allocated the spacer for my AC unit so beautifully! I am truly impressed with their work.

Piece by piece my timber ceiling is taking shape!!

Final product! I am so damn happy with it la cause it look gan phua zai lo.. This will be one of the star feature of my home. However this is not done up by my ID because the quotation they've given me from their contractor is too high.. But my ID steady la he let me use the supplier that I've source outside.. Therefore my cladding and decking work is all done by Wood & Wood. Do check them out ya. Their workmanship, quality and efficiency is really good!

LIGHTINGS!! Before I begin to touch on my lighting work, I've done up a summary for your easy reading and references. All my lighting are from Taobao and JB (Tampoi). Initially I've set aside $3k for lighting but I ended up only spending less then $2k lo.. Talk about saving! According to my ID as I am quite anal when come to my lighting.. for the type of lighting that I wanted for my home if I get it locally it could easily cost me around $4-5k loh.. Yaya warranty whatever la.. For the price I pay my warranty is I can buy 3-4 piece and change if spoil lo.. anyway downlight so easy to change. 

Some told me if house burn down insurance bo cover leh how?! I'm like simi LJ how many house burn down in Singapore before? I think the probability of coconut dropping on your head and kill you is higher then your house burn down lo.. and seriously if you really so suai house burn down.. how the f does the insurance company going to verify if your light got the what stupid approve decal?! Everything will probably be chao ta liao la.. Well no offend to the conservative folks out there ah.. this is just me.. hahaha.. well well if you are conservative most likely you will not read my blog la cause the content is too brutal for you..  Anyway I made a silly mistake and buy extra lighting la cause it's so cheap until I anyhow hoot hoot hoot.. So I have one extra balcony designer light with timber frame and one extra dining pendant light. If anyone interested just contact me ya.. Cash and Carry!

Hehehe.. My home will be also fully automated as well. Check out my livolo switch from Taobao!

Fixing my ceiling spotlight!

TADA!! Swee Bo!? Hahaha..

Trying to figure out how to fix my automated curtain. Haha chiem ah this one

Two motor for day and night curtain

Due to the size of the motor, I've to allocate such a big space for your curtain lo.. Sianz...

Fixing the rest of the downlight.

Using the cable tray to play with his kuku bird i think...

MBR downlight and spotlight installed!

My whole house is using this kind of recessed downlight and spotlight. More swee leh I think.. Machiam those hotel and showflat.. I don't like those kuku typical square shape big big one leh..

My livolo smart switch and USB power socket! Woo these panel look so damn sexy on my timber wall.

Fixing my bed side hanging timber pendant light

Woo.. I like..

My LED strip light from Taobao.. I tell you my friend... This is cheap until lao sai lo.. And the quality is sibei ho la..

Ok Light up!!

Let there be light!

I like how the cove lighting shine on my timber ceiling!

Dining Pendant to be up sooN!


My foyer spotlight

Don't know why this picture look abit dim but the actual effect is much brighter then this.. ahahha

Walk-in walkrobe area downlight and cove light.

Ok I'll come to the end of this blog post liao.. I also damn shag already.. tml need to go down site and monitor some work.. Till the next post.. BYE BYE









Monday, 20 October 2014

KEY COLLECTION AND RENOVATION START!!

WHATSUPPPPPPPP!!! Finally I got time to blog again! Been really busy with my work and house recently man and got no time for this blog shit but hey, when I was away I was really happy to receive compliments from readers... seriously till today I am still thinking how do you guys manage to find my kuku blog one ah? I mean I am only writing this blog like my online dairy where I can heck care and say all kind of shit but not like some full time blogger lo. Anyway doesn't matter la. What's most important is to have fun and hopefully learn something from my experiences tio bo? On a side note, recently I play around with what stupid Adsense and it got approve leh.. the next thing I know there's one kuku box thingy on my blog leh u see..


WTF is this doing on my blog ah? No ID contacted me to tell me about this leh.

But I guess it is some kind of an ad space thingy which give me money la.. but 46cents.. 你拿杯 not even enough for me to buy tissue paper from the "one dollar one dollar hello one dollar~" tissue auntie lo..

Anyway don't OT liao la back to my home. This post really is damn overdue because I am like halfway through my renovation liao lo. Let's turn back time to when I collect my keys la. Lai!

Look at how happy is my lovely wife when we finally is able to enter our EC instead of viewing from outside.

For child play one

Hahaha my gal is so excited loh.. She really love water and swimming.

50m lap pool.

Rainshower like shiok only la!

Sand beach

Alfresco chill out corner

Koi pond with no koi

Kids playground with similan sand. Damn stupid sia this..

FINALLY!!! OUR HOME!!! Nothing can describe the feeling when we first walk to our unit, enter our unit and feel the vibe in our unit man! It was so damn good till I felt like running around butt naked in my house and scream at the top of my lung..

Welcome to my home in stock condition! We bought a 3 bedroom dual key unit. So technically it is 2 bedder + studio. As usual, we did our blessing and offering in the whole house for good luck and good health. I'm not exactly sure of the procedure so don't ask me la.. haha I only know HUAT AH!!

Our glass casement kitchen. Swee bo?!

View from balcony. Ok la my house not very big but I love the overall shape and layout.

My tiny kitchen.

Our fridge corner

Washer dryer corner

WAHAHAHA SWEE RIGHT MY VIEW?

Hard to find such view in Singapore liao lo unless you are rich la... Although I will be living in ulu Punggol soon but for this kind of breathtaking view ok la can la.. hahaha.. some might say enjoy while it least.. Ya ya whatever.. not like I will stay here forever anyway..

Hallway to our Mbr and Common rm. Haha see my power huat huat pineapple row until here.

Our shared bathroom. I like! The only sian thing is the 2 bedder area only have 1 bathroom which will be shared by the MBR and Common bedroom. Well what to do.. no money buy bigger unit is like this one lo.

Our common room. No bay window! hehe... Size still consider decent la

MBR with balcony. 

I quite like the space for our MBR. Alot of ppl complaint the laminate flooring cmi but I think it's ok leh.

The window view when we wake up every morning! YummY!

The very long balcony that link the studio to our 2bedder.

Now that you've tour my 2bedder. Let's go into my studio. Hehehe. The studio area comes with built-in wardrobe, mini-kitchen and en-suite bathroom with washer/dryer compartment. 

As I'll probably be renting out my studio. This is the potential view my tenant will enjoy.

Spacious area that can be further divide into living and bed area.

Studio to balcony view

Studio view from foyer area.

The moment we've been waiting for. RENOVATION START! As we are not doing any flooring work. The first thing they do is lay a protective layer all over our house and proceed with wiring work.

Prior to doing all these octopus like cable thingy all over our house...

**FLASHBACK**

 Our ID first meet us with the electrician to confirm the lighting point and power point. After which the electrician will work out a quotation for us. In our case $3600 for whole house

Point to note: We are not obligated to engage the electrician recommended by our ID.

So what I did is find another electrician recommended in my EC Facebook group. Meet him at my place, tell him exactly what I wanted and get his quotation. Normally hor quotation from these independent electrician will be cheaper.. haha you know I know la.. But hor this ah pek very yaya papaya.. why?! Because he's cheap and many people in our project using him la.. I tell him to install my Livolo switch and smart curtain he like very not willing loh.. say what he don't know la wait spoil is my whole problem.. SMLJ normal only mah the connection. Anyway he quoted $2800. Power right close to $1k saving leh.

But for me I look at things from a bigger picture la. Price is price. Sometime cannot be too kiam gana if not really will suffer. So I go back to my ID tell him, hey brother your electrician quote really CMI la.. I really wanna support you and your electrician but my wallet don't wanna support. I am also not that unreasonable kind of mutherfker la.. I know electrician and ID rapport also very important one. I steady, I don't need you to match outside electrician price la.. I let you earn but don't earn so much give and take la.. $3000 swee bo?! We close this and let your electrician do.

My ID also steady and smart la. He Onz me! Actually hor I don't know whether any ID read my blog anot sia.. I hope they don't because they will curse and swear at me for teaching and spoiling the market like this.. Please forgive me all the brothers and sisters out there.. I know you all also making a living.. but we also have budget la.. so really PS man..

Ok back to my home. The wiring work took about 2 days and ceiling work another 2 days.

From this picture, we can see that most of the octopus cable is well hidden in the ceiling already. 

This center ceiling will have something exciting coming up soon! Stay Tuned!

L-shaped cove for curtain pelmet.

After ceiling work is down, the painter will come in to paint the whole house. Painting work is around 3-4days. For our MBR we are painting the whole room Beige.  

For our Princess room we are using Barely Pink

Living room we are using light grey to add a earthly hue to our overall Resort Theme concept.

Perspective from balcony

Walkway

We will be getting rid of this two stupid door and customize a iMac corner here. Hehehe.

This post very long liao la.. Let's stop here and continue in the next post ok?