False Ceiling & Cornices

False ceiling & cornices were finally completed.
False ceilings were done in the following areas:
1) main door foyer
2) living room (L-boxed)
3) paasageway from dining hall to living room
4) common toilet foyer
5) master bedroom


Living Room [L-boxed]

Cornices were only installed in the dining hall & staircase area. Having cornice in the dining hall will give a different feel from the "boxy" living room. Moreover, it gives a more spacious elevation.


Dining Hall [Cornice]

The storeroom under the staircase was also constructed. After construction, we found that the height of the door is a bit too low. Guess we need to lower our head when entering the storeroom due to the space constraint.


Storeroom

Painting works will start off next week, followed by the laying of parquet for the staircases & bedrooms.

Lightings

The aircon installation workers from Gain City had come to lay the pipings on last friday. Aircon would be installed after the painting works are completed. The best possible way of laying was done to minimise over exposure of the piping. Our ID was kind enough to offer to cover some of the pipings with false ceiling.

Over the weekend, we had done all purchase of lightings - downlights, room lights, kitchen lights, dining light, staircase light & etc. Total cost is ~$2.4K. The dining light is a five piece individual rectangular shape egyptian crystal light. We spent weeks looking for a suitable light (in terms of budget and quality). Finally, we bought it from House of Light along Balestier. The sales person, Jason, was also friendly and nice. We managed to see a staircase light that we really loved at first sight from the same shop. It was a 5 piece tinted black glass with crystals inside. It will be hung from a circular silver base from the 2nd storey ceiling to lit up the 1st & 2nd floors. So looking forward of how the house will look like!


Dining Light

As for the downlights and other lightings, we bought from our ID recommended shop - Pantech Lightings along Jurong East. The boss is also a friendly one.

All toilet accessories were also finalised. We were still deciding on instant heater or storage one. Eventually, we went ahead with the storage one though it would up our cost by about $280. I prefer stronger water for showering, hence my hubby let me decide on this. Apart from these, the toilet will look nicer without the instant heater being wall mounted and disrupted the mosaic workpiece. Haha....

Tiling Works Completed

All the tiling works had been completed. For the next 5 days, plastering for the whole house will be done. The guest room had been plastered first. You can see that the walls are smooth.

Guest room with walls being plastered:


Common toilet:

Common Toilet Shower Area

Master Toilet is completed!

The mosaic for master toilet was up finally. You can definitely see a great contrast when the toilet is with and without mosaic. The mosaic added a classy modern touch to a plain white and black toilet.



The common toilet mosaic was also up. It gives a very sandy resort feel... The floor tiling is supposed to be completed tomorrow. My hubby said this will be his personalised toilet.





Windows were also installed for all the rooms. It was so infuriating to find out that the window contractor had installed the window frame at our balcony, where we were supposed to have full height glass door to segregate the living room and balcony. Our balcony was supposed to go windowless. How can you imagine having glass door at the living room and windows at the balcony? Doesn't it look weird???

The pure white kitchen wall had been filled with silverish glass-like mosaic as well. The kitchen tiles are completed. Now looking forward to the kitchen cabinets.



Next phase will be lying of electrical wires and sand-blasting. Aircon installation will commence next friday after sand-blasting.

Living Room Flooring

Visited my new house on Labour Day & the living room flooring had been completed! The contractor had placed some cardboard protection over my homogenous flooring to prevent scratches while they are still in the progress of other works. I hope they do take good care of the new flooring.



Master toilet flooring was also done. The mosaic in the shower area was not up yet. The shower area flooring was made about 1cm lower so as to prevent water from spilling out. The unfinished include shower screen installation, vanity, my glass bowl, tap, mirror, WC & other toilet accessories.



The room's windows were also extracted, leaving it bare. Our new silverish window frame with tinted black glass had arrived too. This week, the contractors were going to install the windows.