What went on in my new house on 20th December 2012?
No, I did not skip 19th December 2012, its just that we had something on that day and did not go down to take a look at our new house's progress.
We arrived there at 9am on 20th Dec.....
Remember how a NEW REGULATION gave us a crazy surprise at the very beginning of the renovation work? In fact, BEFORE anything started.
If you are not sure of what I am talking about? Read Here "Progress of New House ~ Update 1"
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The floor tiles had been laid long ago (in Update 6), but why was this not done till now? Well, we were exploring new ways of replacing the polyfoam. We, especially my hubby, were not in favour of using the wooden board as a replacement of the polyfoam, as the sound of footstep magnifies every time we step on that area.
The work you see below is incomplete as the tiles are not on the wooden planks yet.
We counter proposed to the relevant department, who changed the regulation of using polyfoam, to use hollow block instead, but they took so long to come back with a "YES" or "NO".
After much calling and even running down to their office, their answer was "NO."
*sigh*
Then my renovation company counter proposed to use ANOTHER material and once again, after many calls from our side to hurry them into making a decision, they still did not agree.
So we were back to square one.
The original plan of using wooden board to raised the floor of that small walkway towards the kitchen.
Not only will there be sound, the white cement that lines the edges of the joining tiles will also come off easily; and when that happens, we will need to fill up the gap again with white cement. Sound like a hassle isn't? Well, we were mentally prepared for these to happen.
NEXT,
our small cabinet beside our sofa is also up from the unfinished work on 18th December:
AND SO ARE THE DOORS OF MY KITCHEN CABINETS :
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| and the doors of my beautiful BLUM corner unit drawers |
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| See the L-SHAPE shelf at the corner? I LOVE IT! 'cos FINALLY can see MY IDEA come to LIFE! |
I do NOT like to have top kitchen cabinets because I like things to be accessible. If I had to put something so high up, whereby I need to take a chair or stool to get it, I will probably not use it anyway.
If so, then I might as put them in the storeroom, whereby it makes more sense.
Thus, why bother to spend my money on making top kitchen cabinets whereby it will only store things I would not use?
Does not make any sense to me though.
This way, I can also make sure that I do not end up stocking up or buying lots of UNNECESSARY things; because I don't have 'extra' space to store them.
Therefore teaching me to shop wisely each time.
GOOD FOR MY POCKET, for sure!
*thumbs up*
This house is a new beginning for me (emotionally) and the last thing I want is to bring over UNWANTED things that bring back unpleasant memories from the old house into this new home of mine.
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All appeared to be going pretty well eh?
NAH!
If so, then I would not have dropped so much hair during this last week of renovation, before we moved in officially.
1) The carpenter had completed all his tasks. He had left with all his tools and not coming back already. Only then, did we realise that our wardrobe DID NOT HAVE THE METAL POLES for us to hang clothes!!!
I called my renovation coordinator and she said that they will bring the poles down soon...but no dates were promised.
Hhhmmm.....
2) Then the window maker COULD NOT get my window grilles up till AFTER WE HAVE MOVED IN!!!
*faint*
He said his work on hand is so full, he just could not get it done in time.
*AAAaaarrrrggghhhhh...*
Anyway, I have SOOOOOOOOOOOOO MANY ISSUES with this window maker.
Will do a separate post on him another day.
*HUMPH*
3) This was followed by another horror!
The wallpaper contractor, which we SOURCED ON OUR OWN (not from our renovation company), and had paid deposit to before we even completed the HDB transaction, came today.
*laugh*
We were so 'KIASU' (eager)!
He came and did the measurement to make sure that the 3 rolls of wall paper which we purchased were sufficient.
All was good until he said this, "The wallpaper cannot stick on this laminated door (my storeroom door). It will peel off. This laminated door must be changed, otherwise we are going to leave it as it is without any wallpaper."
I, with my eyes opened wide begged, "You try lah. Maybe can stick?"
He refused:"We give 5 years warranty and we would NOT warranty for this."
Oh no!
That is not what I want.
He continued to say that he has done it before on laminated doors and he received complains from those clients, which is why he refused to even give it a try.
My head was going "Shit! That means its another delay again if I need the carpenter to cut out another piece of wood to make the new storeroom door.
He would need to FIND TIME to come and remove this and fix the new one up.
And my money?!
My money spent on this wooden door and the lamination would go to waste!
And I still need to pay extra for an additional new storeroom door!??
Noooo....."
Imagine the sides of the storeroom is with wallpaper and the storeroom door (at the left corner in picture below) is not?!??
SUPER UGLY!!!
Immediately I called my renovation coordinator again and asked the big "HOW?!?" because during the discussion, she was confident that wallpaper can stick well on laminated doors.
Then again, come to think of it. I was quite silly to spend money on the lamination, since I have already decided to put wallpaper.
Well, our original plan was to have lamination on the BACK of the door, so that when the storeroom door opens up, the 'inside' of the door would be presentable, since only the front of the storeroom door is with wallpaper.
Little did I think of wrapping the ENTIRE door with wallpaper!!!
Alas!
*Slap Forehead*
Guess what?
The painter agreed to come to paint the entire door for me the next day; front and back, so that the surface becomes slightly rough for the wallpaper to stick on.
*sigh*
What a waste of money on the lamination work on the storeroom door!
*heart pain*
Well, its a lesson learned indeed!
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Did the rest of my renovation work go smoothly after this?
NOoooooooooooooooo...........
*cry*
Come back for the next renovation post, should be up soon.......
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