The Minton: Ideas and Renovation – 28 – Day 19

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We met with our designer and lead electrician yesterday @ Minton to finalize the different placements and positions of our lighting fixtures. As Ling tells it, it was not easy and even exhaustive too, going from room to room, wall to ceiling, fixture to fixture to measure, determine, and mark-out. Actual fixture began today – Day 19 – seems to be going along briskly. Ling was again, on-site, to observe and take pictures; and as she tells it, the LED downlights we purchased were quite tricky for the electricians to install. Hopefully they are properly fastened and not going to drop on our heads anytime soon – but we’ll check on this later this week and see what’s really the situation regarding these lights.

From the looks of it, it’ll take a couple of days for everything to get installed. We didn’t want to get in the way of the workers, so pictures were taken semi-discretely. More pictures will come later once we’ve done a proper inspection of the progress thus far.

LED downlights against the living hall wall. These will be five of these in the living hall.
LED downlights against the living hall wall. These will be five of these in the living hall.
Electrician in our children's room preparing the wall for Philips Kid's Space wall lights.
Electrician in our children’s room preparing the wall for Philips Kid’s Space wall lights.
Our Master Bedroom; 5 downlights and a track with two spotlights too.
Our Master Bedroom; 5 downlights and a track with two spotlights too.
These spotlights are modular, so we can add more into the track if we need to later.
These spotlights are modular, so we can add more into the track if we need to later.
The Fanco FF303 36" fan installed into our workroom.
The Fanco FF303 36″ fan installed into our workroom.
Three downlights in the Foyer.
Three downlights in the Foyer.
Ling relates that this poor fellow spent 30 minutes trying to fix the downlight into the yard toilet (now converted into the washer/dryer room)!
Ling relates that this poor fellow spent 30 minutes trying to fix the downlight into the yard toilet (now converted into the washer/dryer room)!

We were briefed also on an updated project timeline too; the carpentry work – now getting fabricated at the workshops – will be installed starting from the end of next week, and will take several days. A but later than we originally projected for that will put a bit of a squeeze on our other specialist contractor dates, but we’ll see about managing it nonetheless and stick to our current planned-for moving in date (mid-April). More to come soon.:)