Musings

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.

Day 32 of our home renovation project @ Minton, and Day 3 of carpentry installation. We’ve been quite pleased with the internal structures of our various carpentry items in our home – though we also ran into our first hitch

While both the front and back facades of our Minton apartment looks pretty cool, with its liberal use of glass, concrete and colors, practically, that even the toilets are featuring full glass windows have posed problems. Basically, as pretty as

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