Musings

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

Alright; so we had our designer make customize bedframes for us, which in turn necessitated the hunt for new bed mattresses. Our bed at our current Rivervale home is a Queen-sized, and we decided early on to bump it up

Our Minton renovation went into a bit of a lull in the latter half of this week after the initial spurt of fast progress – cardboard protection was laid, foundational electrical work was completed, and the craftbrick wall was laid

Now that our renovation is well-underway with the foundational electrical work completed, it’s about time when the carpentry workshop gets busy with the numerous custom designed and fabricate planned for in in the renovation project. Our designer had already booked

One nice thing about The Minton is that it’s pretty close to both our workplaces – which has made it possible for us to swing by during our lunch hours for a quick check on the ongoing renovation work done