Friday, October 19, 2007

Ours vs Others

Visiting our love nest to check its progress of maintenance.. Yupz, we bought coffee down for the uncles doing our house also, to ‘bribe’ him to help us do up the house better. Opps.. Hee I think their progress is quite fast wor! See just one week and the flooring is almost done =D keke.. Left the kitchen, master and 2 bedrooms. Tsk tsk~ Really excited, for this is where I know it's home..



Breathe Miffy breathe!! See, I am on cloud nine just like little Qoobee!!
Dear then suggested we make a trip down to the 2 EA showrooms around the area to take a look at their reno so as to pirate their ideas. So we set off to showroom number 1!


With my knowledge that is worth half bucket of water, I guess the theme for this house is quite warm, reddy in colour. Look at the LARGE living room, cosy corner and the mirrory wardrobe at the entrance of the master bedroom. Interesting? The floor glows!!! Anyway, the orientation of the master bedroom is slightly different from our concept. The bed is actually beside the toilet and not facing the bathroom. Bear don’t really like the design, so next on to showroom number 2:


A cooler theme, haha I supposed contemporary? We love the living room, coz there is an extended featured wall that is see-through. This will not cramp up the living area all the way to the balcony and leave a BIG empty space leading in from the entrance. Cool! I like the lights at the dinning area too, that’s why I posed with it, albeit being so auntie. roarRRR. Hmm, no-no to the master bedroom purple shades!!! o_O But the arrangement suits dear’s preference.

Thankful that we managed to have a sneak preview of the similar units, coz we can then have a better idea and clearer picture of how we want our nest to be. *hmm, miffy deep in thoughts* again displaying traits of a grown-up ^-^

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Furniture Shopping Round II

After a real hearty lunch treat by dear’s kor, we decided to drop by Courts and the Defu furniture store to budget for our household items and furniture. Went around comparing the different brands, functions, design and price. Yeah also doing online research concurrently, on renotalk forum.. hmm dunnoe, but it seems like I’ll get crossed eyes with all the inter-twining threads, a spectrum of all topics possible.. and at the end, its all info overload. Guess its only my bear who has the patience to scavenge through the forums page by page. =) yeah I’m busy + lazy.

To our astonishment, just calculating the normal must-haves already sum up to almost 16K!! And it’s not including sofa and bed yet! sweat~ keeping our options open, afterall, we are praying hard for a technology breakthrough such that maybe nano ion thingy à quantum electron technology then all the prices of washing machine and fridge will drop low low!! Will my bear be the next Einstein?? Muahahah~ =D

Gulp, suddenly I feel so adult hohoho~ no more baby talk, erhem. Anyway, we still have about a year to continue munch grass… hmm… meanwhile, let’s take a look at our furniture hunting trail…



Baby steps to fill up our cosy love nest $_$

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

☆★Glimpse of our love nest!!! ★☆

Meng’s Design called us down to take a look at their proposed ideas and quotation! So excited!!! So me and dear set off to Woodlands after school again.. But our excitement wasn’t that long-lived because the guy which I think is the contractor didn’t really convey our preference accurately to the designer and ended up some of the things are not what we requested initially, like a platform cosy corner in the living room with no extended feature wall. =( So we realigned our needs again to him and was told to wait for another week for the new design to materialize. Oh well, good things come to those who wait! =D

Nevertheless, we decided to pop by Sembawang since it was still early, to check out any renovated EAs around our neighbourhood on whatever possible ideas out there and also to measure the exact size of our master bedroom.

Hee, to our surprise, the main gate to our love nest is unlocked!!! So we held our breath and went in! *-* Yes, actually our house is undergoing massive maintenance work as HDB is replacing all the tiles, toilet bowls and repainting the whole unit!!! A glimpse of future gathering place for u guys!!! ;P

We spent a very long time inside, exploring every single corner we could, measuring lengths and breadths of these and that.. Oh, did I tell you hoooooow thrilled I was at that moment!!! Imprinting the owners’ footsteps in the new house!!

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Furniture Shopping Round I

Today is Joey & Jedrick's ROM (our blading frenz)! I shed tears of joy when they exchanged their vows.. moo moo me~ touched ma.. seeing my friends tying the knot.. Our turn next year... ...

After celebrating her solemnization at Yum Cha, we headed down to Furniture Mall to shop for furniture. Eeeee.. see how a 180 degree transformation of me from shopping of clothes to furniture searching!!! roarRRR

Most of the shops didn’t allow us to take pictures and followed us everywhere we went. I hate this type of salesperson.. I mean I would rather I look around on my own and if I need help then I approach them instead of them buzzing around like a fly! Hee but smartie me and dear decided to split up, so he chatted with the salesperson while I sneaked to photo them or vice versa.. In conclusion, these are some of the things that we took a fancy on:



Still looking around.. plenty of time to do our shopping.. must be value for $$$ and things we both ♡ alot!!