Musings

Day 1 of carpentry installation. Exactly after four weeks since our renovation started, our carpentry items – cabinets, shelves, tables, bedframes, feature walls, side-tables plus an assortment of other items – are finally ready for installation. The week-long installation of

The installation of invisible grills at our Minton home completed ahead of the original projection; we’d been early advised that it’d take four days when in actual fact it took just two. Generally speaking; the grills in the front and

As scheduled, workers from our invisible grill contractor – Legate – came by to start installing grills at just about every open spot in our Minton home. From the get go, we knew we’ll need grills. Not just for the

A mid-afternoon visit to the ongoing renovation at our Minton apartment on Day 21 showed that work has indeed slowed down. Again, not surprising since there’s a lot of time from now till the workshops finish the ton of carpentry

As Ling tells it, the electrician team had such a difficult time mounting our LED downlights yesterday that one of the two walked out in sheer frustration for a break. Apparently, the securing clip mechanisms in our downlights are ‘unique’

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

Here’s the last of our finalized renders; the shoe cabinet that’s going into the yard balcony. We didn’t request for much amendments to the original design, apart from asking for more internal shelving in the cabinet itself, and also reducing

Interestingly, like the last week, things at our Minton renovation went by very quickly in the first half of the week only to go back into lull in the latter half. The first and base coat of paint were laid

Paint work has started in our Minton home renovation project! Slightly earlier than I’d expected, but all good nonetheless. Ling went by for an afternoon visit, meeting our designer and lead carpenter for discussions and also final measurements for woodwork,

After a short lull in renovation progress at the tail end of last week, things picked up again considerably this week judging from this afternoon’s site visit to see what’s going on in our Minton home. The false ceilings for

Funny how sometimes our decisions change about things we thought we were sure of. We’d been intending to get our workroom chairs and barstools at a warehouse called Comfort Design we checked out earlier this year – Ling found them