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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The Minton: Ideas and Renovation – 40 – Day 40

Day 40 of our renovation @ Minton, and more finishing touches to various things in our home. We are appreciative of our designer who has been quite amendable to our requests for numerous little additional features and complements to our

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The Minton: Ideas and Renovation – 38 – Day 35

Day 6 of carpentry installation and Day 35. We were just hearing from another neighbor staying in a block beside us who’s renovation project is now into its 11th week already, with long lull periods where nothing has been happening.

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