Pen to Paper

Finally, we put the pen to paper after 4 months of negotiation! After 3 months since starting the blog, we have decided to contract Earnest Interiors to build our new place.

Went to select the tiles floor tiles with our ID today and decided on having Volacas Marble for our living room and a variety of homogeneous tiles for the bathrooms, kitchen (if you call it one), yard and utility room. Bedrooms had already been decided as parquet, and the old balcony would be decked up with my wife's favourite Chengai wood. With flooring finally decided, and only 10 days to key collection, we are getting really hyped up!

The first of our 3D drawings has been posted and more photos coming as we chug along.

Lets get it on.

Almost there to starting work

Here we go. The renovation permit has been submitted and we are awaiting approval from HDB due next week. Our ID (to be announced once we pen the deal) has given us, probably the second last quotation. (The Corian top is a bit ex...) We've also been shown the first 3D drawing, though not to our expectations so we aren't showing it here. Yet.

Next up, we are now checking up the prices of the living room flooring and praying hard that I don't burn too big a hole in my pockets! The expected start date is now only 2 weeks away! Getting a little excited, lets hope it all goes smoothly as planned.

Ending the planning phase

Alrighty. March was a supremely disappointing month with the sickening announcement of a 8 week lag before the handover of the keys. Biz trips, chores and other stuff kept the two of us pretty much stuffed that we didn't have much time for planning our new home.

Thankfully March ended relatively fast.

Anyway, we've finalized our ID and hope this turns out to be a great piece of work for both him and us. All that's left is to receive the finally quotation, get the new owners to sign the indemnity form, and the renovation approval will be under way. 03 May is hand over and 04 May will be the start date. Lets get it on!!

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