Musings

We finally moved to our new home @ The Minton about 3 months 1 week after we collecting our keys in January. The previous two weeks after we signed on with our Moving company – and especially the last four

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,

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

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

The other home renovation item to complete earlier this week was installation of our Internet service. I’ve stayed with Cable Internet for more than a decade now, but in our new home transited to Fiber broadband. There’s been an interesting

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

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,

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

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

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.

Day 5 visit of carpentry work and Day 34 of our overall renovation project @ Minton. We were glad to see that several of the carpentry issues we identified in the last few days had been rectified or in the

Looking at the carpentry work done so far at our Minton home, we now really understand why so many homeowners complain about carpentry in their own home renovation projects. If anything can go potentially go wrong in renovation, it’s here.