{"id":2377,"date":"2009-02-04T07:30:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T23:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=2377"},"modified":"2009-02-04T07:30:59","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T23:30:59","slug":"furniture-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/02\/04\/furniture-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Furniture upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"

I blogged six months ago<\/a> about gradually changing our furniture.:)<\/p>\n

Now, just explaining things a bit again; we didn\u2019t have much of a budget to work with when we were planning for our first home, especially after taking into account that most of my personal savings had been exhausted from the Ph.D program. It was thus a huge blessing that the family (also a Christian couple) we were buying our home from had kept very good care of the unit.<\/p>\n

\"blog-my-favourite-things.jpg\"We spent just over $7K in renovations: just polishing of the floor places, installation of the door and window grills, repainting, replacement of bathrooms and kitchen fixtures and lighting. I didn\u2019t do any hacking of walls and the like, and the one \u2018indulgence\u2019 we had was the choice of colors, which Ling has blogged about here<\/a> then. Our renovations were, in short, quite minimalist.<\/p>\n

Now as for furnishing we scoured the newspapers every weekend looking for bargains, eventually hitting a Macpherson warehouse, Beng Tuan, where we bought at least three quarters of furniture in the house: all the stuff in the bedroom, the living room and kitchen. The only room that wasn\u2019t decked out with Beng Tuan furniture was the work room (with the exception of the green chairs), which we filled out with IKEA furniture.<\/p>\n

Now fast forward to 2.5 years. Most of what we got at the warehouse has turned out pretty alright\u2026 all except for the cheapo fabric sofa which isn\u2019t really comfortable. So, starting this month we\u2019re keeping an eye out for a replacement sofa set. Pretty low key requirements: they just have to fit into our living room space, have a foot rest, and definitely no fabric sofas this time.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I blogged six months ago about gradually changing our furniture.:) Now, just explaining things a bit again; we didn\u2019t have much of a budget to work with when we were planning for our first home, especially after taking into account<\/p>\n

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