Tag: Renovation

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

Day 5 of our Minton renovation. Our designer had already informed us earlier on that our electrical work will commence the day before, and true to his word, we saw that many of the power point fixtures had been removed

Our first sofa set was a cheapo fabric-based unit that we picked up for around $300 from Beng Tuan, a local furniture shop here. The sofa’s fabric cover wasn’t comfortable and didn’t fare well against our tropical humidity, so we

Our Minton renovation project finally started on the 28 Feb Friday – exactly 7 weeks after key collection. Defect rectification is still ongoing though with a few more issues to resolve, but these concerns areas that aren’t affected by the

We were again out of home for a good part of the weekend scouting around various places for furniture and fixtures for our Minton home. As our renovation has just started too – will blog about it next – we’ve