The sofa with pocket spring. I'm very picky with sofa but I fell in love with the height of the sofa. The colours are not what we'll be getting though. We felt that we overpaid for it but I really love pocket spring leh!

Our first purchase for the house. It was an impulse purchase but we both love it. A look a like of Barang Barang. The invoice no. of this purchase came out 3rd place for 4D the same night. The luck/unlucky chair.

The F&P fridge- Choose stainless steel in the end though white was cheaper. Will be delivered on Mon. =)

The sink which we bought on impulse and overpaid for. Haha.. I like the tap though.

Vitroceremic Hob which will make cleaning the stove a breeze. Perfect for lazy me.
We decide to do away with the hood coz we are too lazy to clean it.Will need to go down and cancel our order.

We've firmed our contractor! First stage to building our home!

Yes, we finally did it, after the long quest for the perfect contractor. We were kinda tired so we decided that to proceed with the most active contractor. Impress21. We told him we are looking at late september to have the house handed over latest which he accepted as a reasonable delivery date. Upon confirmation, he applied for our renovation permit cause we were doing hacking. We received the approval on 26th, but only saw the physical approval in our mailbox today. Realised that hacking was supposed to take place today, Mon and Tue. But Henry said that his workers might only be able to do it on Wed- Fri. I have no idea whether it's illegal to carry out reno after the permit period. Going to check with him later.

We choose our tiles last weekend. Shortlisted a few for the living, bedrooms and the kitchen area. How we wished we could have solid black tiles. Argh.... We were treading on thin grounds by selecting dark brown tiles. That's the closest we can get to black tiles. We should be opting for a non-skirting look to achieve a more modern feel. (Oh yah, I think we are going for modern look coz we dun want to risk having Hershey biting all our furniture. ) The usage of homo tiles for the entire house, in matt finishing was also our attempt to make the house more condusive for his stay. Matt finishing are better for dogs, so they don't slide when they run.

We read that there were cases of uneven flooring in our area, and true enough, when our contractor came down to check, they advised that HDB be called in to discuss ways to avoid having uneven flooring within the house. Heard from SO that they have this interesting spider like equipment that can detect the height discrepancy very easily. Cool. That aside, we have the option to lower our foyer area or build a kerb at the kitchen area. I'm fine with the foyer area but just feel shortchanged by HDB. The slanted walls might also pose problems to carpentary in the later stage. Thank godness the HDB guy was apologetic and promised to help us all he can. They'll also make my bomb shelter door shorter cause of the flooring issue. On top of that, we will be given a written permit to spare us from having to keep to the ceiling height requirement set by HDB. I always thought that the bomb shelter is untouchable- how wrong I was. Cutting the bomb shelter door will take 3 weeks. Meanwhile, hacking will take place first and we're likely to meet up with the electrician this weekend.

We spent last Sunday doing some wallpaper hunting too. Found ourselves in wallpaper paradise at Goodrich global. Some many wall paper. We had a big heahache trying to fine colour themes to match the modern look and fit in the fengshui requirements.

Shortlisted wallpaper:

But we have no idea whether we'll be going ahead with usage paper. Till then.

View from aircon ledge again: Beautiful sky...

View from the aircon ledge gives the best view: sun setting

the current entrance of the MBR which will become the WIW

the vanity area in the MBR bathroom

my kitchen entrance which has to be resized due to fengshui reasons

the dinning area window

The full height windows at the living area

Foyer area cum ugly bomb shelter

We've collected our Keys!

This is actually a post dated entry coz I didn't manage to download the photos from my hp for a million years.
We've finally collected our keys on 8th April only to realise that we can't open our door till 29th April. The agonising wait did disappoint my SO but we did enjoy ourselves when we were at HDB collecting our keys.

We took these pictures while waiting for the lady to prepare the documents.