We decided to upgrade our choice of buying a K18-EBT to a K25-E full upright model from Kawai at Millenia Walk yesterday, as it seemed more expressive. A tough decision to make. Hopefully, when it gets delivered to our house, the sound and touch will be as good as it should be. We also got a set of coasters for its legs to prevent them from scratching the marble floor when it’s moved. A metronome was offered to us at a discount and we were even served special Chinese tea by their boss as we stayed to chat. Well, that’s a thumbs up from us for their warm service!

Our designer went lights shopping with us at Lightz Dshop and we settled all the light fittings in our house within an afternoon! I love the chandelier best of all!

 

We finally bought the Ariston washer dryer AML 125 from Mayer at Plaza Singapura yesterday , too, and it’s a gift from dad and mum! Thank you so much!

Right now, we are considering either the Panasonic or Mitsubishi refrigerator of preferably at least 400 litres (net) and made in Japan. Any recommendation? Following would be to purchase a Panasonic 32″ Viera LCD TV and a Panasonic Wireless Home Theatre SC-HT885W.

Another trip to our home-under-renovation today… Just before I went up though, I got a call from the Management Office of the condo: the neighbours are complaining about a large amount of dust flying out our windows and balconies and landing on their stuff! I gave an immediate call to the designer to get the workers to close up some of the windows. I can’t imagine how distressing it must be to get dust falling onto newly-washed laundry and things… erk!

Back to the renovation… The ceiling works have more or less been completed. Here are some pictures:

The false ceiling coves for the air-con units in the living and dining rooms have been nicely put in place. The necessary wiring for the light-points have also been done up.

Similarly, the false-ceiling for the master bedroom and cove for the aircon unit is up neatly :)

The wiring for the switch panels are in place although the switches have not been fixed up yet. I gave a call to the designer and was told that this would be fitted later on.

The parts of the walls that have been hacked to lay the electrical lines have now been patched up roughly with putty. The final finishing and repair to the walls have yet to be done.

One thing I wasn’t too happy with… I asked our designer to put up protection for our just-varnished door the other day. This hasn’t been done, but worse still, there is now two glaring scratches on the side-flap of the main door!!!

This is a close-up shot of the damage done. Not only are the scratches painfully obvious, they are also clearly palpable when you run your fingers over them. ARRRGH…. I gave an call and SMS to the designer and she gave me reassurances that they will clean up the door, put up the protection and rectify the damage. I stressed that she must put up protection for every single door in the house. Well, she’d better do so or otherwise I have a good mind to ask them to pay the property developer out of their own pockets to get the door panel replaced. And considering the effort that we went through to rectify all the defects originally!!!!

Hopefully this will be the most painful part of the renovation process. Next week, they should be starting on painting works and carpentry. This week has been a painful week seeing the whole house turned topsy-turvy after all the hacking and knocking. It can only get better after this (I hope :P).

I finally went down today to collect a set of the drawings we have been reviewing with our interior designer for the past few weeks. Here’s a peek at how our house will hopefully look when the renovation is completed.

This feature cabinet will house our TV and entertainment system.

As both Cy and myself will be using the study most often, the designer came out with a customised study table that will enable us to work together side-by-side :)

I hope that our bedroom will end up as cosy as we wish it to be :)

The wall-hacking works to our house started today with the laying of electrical wiring and new power and switch points. I went down to our house after work for a quick peek… Here are some pictures from my visit:

The switch-point from which our future water feature will be plugged-in. Yikes! What did they do to my main door which had just been varnished and touched up? I ended up informing our designer to ask her workers to clean up and protect the doors before carrying on with further work :P

The wiring for the switch point is run through the ceiling of the main door back into the switchboard area.

Our ceiling is wired up for the lighting points for the dining and living area prior to the false ceiling works.

This large hole in the wall (next to the study entrance) will house the main lights switch panel for the living/dining/corridor areas.

These are the hacking works to our study to move the switches/cable/phone points to a convenient location above our study table.

More wire work this time for the master bedroom.

An additional power point will be placed here outside the common bath so that Cy can plug in her hair dryer in the future.

Two things I highlighted to the designer…

The workers forgot to turn off the tap tight after using the yard toilet! And they forgot to close the yard window :P