The Minton: Ideas and Renovation – 50 – Post Mortem: Lessons Learned Part B

Continuing from the last post. Be firm yet polite There’s a poster at the NTUC Fairprice supermarket check-out counters that remind us that even as store customers, we should try to be polite to the checkout cashiers and that they

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The Minton: Ideas and Renovation – 49 – Post Mortem: Lessons Learned Part A

Lessons learned during the approximately 7 months we spent in preliminary home renovation discussions to deciding who to go with to key collection and defect rectification and finally to the actual renovation project itself. Start planning early As these things

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The Minton: Ideas and Renovation – 48 – Post Mortem: Regrets

If we could turn back the clock… We would have got the fan manufacturer’s electricians to install fans. As with many homeowners and usually because it’s convenient, many renovation projects routinely engage the designer’s electrician, or a general electrician to

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The Minton: Ideas and Renovation – 47 – Before and After

Now that our renovation has wrapped and we’ve finished a good part of our decorating the place, thought it’d be fun to post up pictures of the 3D renders our designer prepared during the planning phase, and the actual renovated

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The Minton: Ideas and Renovation – 46 – Clotheslines

Another decision we made early on in our new Minton home was to move away from bamboo poles (or ‘tekkos’) for laundry clotheslines. Bamboo poles with laundry are common sights here on the island. They’re simple in function and design,

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The Minton: Ideas and Renovation – 45 – The Yard, The Washer, The Door

Many of the unit types at The Minton have a yard toilet, and one interesting challenge for such unit type owners has been if the yard toilet can be repurposed into a washer area. I’ve blogged about our intention to

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The Minton: Ideas and Renovation – 44 – Renovation Post-Mortem and Evaluation

The first round of touch-up work in our Minton renovation completed on Tuesday, which also saw our project handover from our designer back to us. He’ll still be having someone come by next week to help us fix up the

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The Minton: Ideas and Renovation – 42 – Curtains and Blinds

We’ll be moving into our new Minton home this weekend, and that’s meant a lot of trips between our current and new homes transporting fragile equipment that we’re not trusting to the movers. These have included the many electronic appliances

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The Minton: Ideas and Renovation – 41 – Timelines

Our main renovation project at the Minton has concluded, with just a few more items to touch-up and fix. At this point, I thought it’d be useful for me to share about timelines, the different phases of our home renovation,

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