We received our project handover date for our Minton apartment last week – which meant that the numerous other activities that had been kept in view could move quickly too. These included picking up several more small items and fixtures for various parts of the house – these will be installed by our designer’s workers in a single swoop – scheduling our own cleaners to clean up the place before moving in, appointing our clothesline system contractor to fix up two pulley-based systems in the yard, and making orders for large household appliances and fixing up a delivery date for them. And our boxes for our moving arrived midweek too – all 90 of them – and packing and disposing all our current furniture and items in our current home has take up pretty much all our free time in the last few days.
The large household appliances – TV, laundry machine, washer, refrigerator etc. – at our current home were mostly purchased 8 years ago at a electrical appliance store situated in the heartland. The notion then was that these stores offer appliances at price-points that were routinely cheaper than normal stores. Interestingly, this time round, we found pretty good deals for appliances at Parisilk, an appliance store with several outlets in heartland areas, and settled on a Sony KDL50W704A 50″ LED Smart TV, the Bosch half-height dishwasher that we’d constructed a kitchen cabinet for, and an Electrolux EWF10932 9kg washer that we’re hoping very hard will be able to fit past the yard toilet door frame. The rest of the household appliances – the 8 year old fridge and similarly-aged dryer, and a 2 year old 46″ Panasonic Plasma TV – will be following us to the new home.
The carpenter was also finishing up his carpentry work today on Day 39 after taking a break over the weekend. We met him with our designer late this evening to go through some final details before he wraps work the next day (or so). Our assigned carpenter is a one man (and his wife) team and his workshop isn’t far from The Minton, and all the furniture in our home was handmade by him. While inspecting the various furniture items we’ve got in our home just now, he shared a story: that the children’s bedframe was super complex for him to fabricate and he thought very hard how to implement our designer’s plans, and he was very proud of how he fabricated it. But when his wife saw what he did for this children’s bedframe the other week, she asked him “How come you do this owner’s house so nice, but you do our own house like sh*t?!”
Too funny for words.:)
Just a couple of pictures this time.
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