Handing Over...

Just a very quick post before I go to bed.

I finally found the pictures of the Master Bedroom and have put them up below. We've payed up 90% now, and just have the finally nitty gritty touching up to do. Again as I mentioned, the furniture will be rolling in bit by bit as over the next two weeks. Lets hope I manage to find a nice mattress.

MBR Toilet. Mirror makes it look much bigger.

MBR Wardrobe. I hope its enough for the two of us.

Off to bed, and let's hope I have time to post more pictures tomorrow.

Let there be light

As I mentioned a few posts earlier, we had bought lights from Marsling Lighting House. Good prices, good service, and they provided a decent range for your regular lighting needs. Yes they might be a bit far away though. Anyway, we didn't buy all our lights from them though, as one particular light, the centre piece of the living room, would be purchased from Million Lighting in Park Mall. (Google: Pirce from Artemide)

Anyway, all lights are up less the one in the living room which is due to arrive this week, essentially becoming the finishing touch of the house. Here are some pictures:

Entrance Lights

Living Room Lights

Kitchen Lights

Study and Guest Rooms

Common and MBR Toilets

Now, for some reason, I failed to locate the picture of my master bedroom. Will update this post once I manage to dig it out.
Having saved the best for the last, the almost completed picture of the common area lies below.

I finally got the panaromic shot right!

Well, that's all for now. There are still a lot of kinks to be ironed out, but hopefully we can see the fridge, TV, furniture roll out slowly bit by bit.

...We're just halfway there, keep on moving...

Carpentry and plumbing

Almost there to hand over...

The carpenters were here the entire of last week and this. The kitchen island was the first to be up, along with the MBR wardrobe, before the set-up of the tall unit of the kitchen and the little console for our SCV box and PS3.

Before the pictures come in, I must say that one has got to keep a close eye for the small little things. Fortunately for me, I had a wife with a strong eye for detail and was able to spot all the tiny little defects here and there. On the face, things looked good as the apartment took shape, but if you looked closely, there were problems with the skirtings, the laminates of the cupboards, the switches, the walls, the ceiling, the painting, everything had glitches here and there that amounted to quite a substantial bit. (of agony)

Future home owners beware, fix it, before your aunties get to them first.

And now for the pictures:

Building the island

MBR Wardrobe

More Carpentary Pics

The above are the pictures of the fabrication, and below is the end-product, well, almost.

My kitchen faucet!

One thing that we had to do, when bringing down the entire kitchen wall, was to somehow hide the yard that was connected to it. The tall unit was the ultimate solution.

Now you see it, Now you don't

Think this is enough for one post, will post the pictures of the lights after installation soon.

More pictures of the carpentry works can be found here.

Color the world

The last couple of weeks have been pretty packed with various activities for the two of us and I finally manage to find time to update our blog.

In the last two weeks, we have finished up the marble flooring, after a lot of pain and anguish (not kidding), and the lighting started, followed closely by the carpentary.

The painting work was done up reasonably fast, though there will be another round of touch up towards the end of the project. We had earlier chosen the colors over the weekend and have the color plan below. The effect of the paint job was quite siginificant in the sense that it completely changed the look and feel of the place (the old orange walls were gruesome to say the least).

By the time we found time to check out the paint job, parts of the lightings were already fixed up, and that really made the place look more spacious and clean. My favourite area then was probably the balcony. The light we chose matched the chengai decking perfectingly, and created a really cosy atmosphere at the area we planned to use for chilling out and relaxing after a long day's work.

Paint Plan

Painting Process

MBR Wall

Study Room

I like the look, and all that's left here is the Chengai sanding.

So far so good as far as the painting is concerned, though there is still much to worry about with regards to my flooring. Hopefully we can get that sorted out soon and I can then post pictures of that up here.

Will be posting carpentary pictures up soon, so watch this space.