Renovation Journey

It's 4am now and I cannot sleep because I cannot make peace with myself on how things turned out for the renovation of my 1st home ! 

1. Semi-Veener Door 

Siong Door has an ongoing promotion of a full solid door for $250 per door but I thought why not just let my ID earn a bit more from me ($330 per door x 3 doors) and it turns out to be a bad move. 

 

I have problems with my bedroom door not being sound proof especially if you have guests outside and a light sleeping child. 

When you knock on the door, it's hollow inside and you can tell it's cheap quality stuff.

And check out the workmanship. All the doors did not fit the hinges properly leaving a gap around it. 

It's a pity I have bad blood with the quality because I do LOVE the colour of it. 

 2. Glass Bathroom Door 

When the monster daddy wants the Bathroom door to be glass, I reluctantly agreed. I was worried about safety with a child running around the house but deep inside I know how pretty it's gonna turn out. 

At the pre-renovation stage when we decide on the shower kerb, I remember asking my ID if the glass door will hit the kerb and he said NO. 

Oh well, it turns out otherwise. I am going to make the monster daddy speak to him since his words weigh more. 

I may nick pick but I feel if I am paying a premium price, I deserve a premium quality. 

Collection of Keys

Finally after 3 years of waiting, we finally gotten our keys to our new flat !

During this period of waiting, we visited countless number of new BTOs, studying their structure, criticizing the workmanship etc. It gave us an activity that we can do together and gave us inspirations and heads up on what we want or avoid at the new house.

We arrived at HDB Hub an hour before the appointment time and sign up for fire insurance and open an account with PUB before key collection. 

So for the traditional Chinese families, there are some rituals that needs to be done to bring "good luck" to the family. Although we are not superstitious, we thought why not just do it for the sake of doing it !

We prepared Pineapple (Wealth), Salt (Spirits), Rice (Food) and Green Bean (Growth)

1. Roll the pineapple to the middle of the house and shout "发啊“

2. Throw salt and rice to every corner of the house 

3. Plant green beans in the house 

*PS: Do not scatter the rice and salt if your house doesn't have any flooring unless you don't mind laying your tiles over it. 

We then proceeded to look for defects in the house and submitted the defects list within a week later.