The Minton – Post Renovation One Year On – Part 1

It’s just past a full year since our Minton renovation project ended, and I thought it’d be fun to do a retrospective review of how the new home has been since it’s now lived-in for a year. Most things and

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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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