1st week in JS

Okay...thought it's time for me to write a post after soooo long! Oh well, I started this blog but my hubby was the one who updated it since he's the 'photographer' and later, I made him the scribe as well haaaa. Okay, let me cut the crap and just describe to you our 1st week in JS.

My 1st week in JS

Though we've spent a bomb on the renovation and furnishings, I'm beginning to enjoy the 'returns' of our investment. ROI I must say is pretty high haaa. I really look forward to coming home every day after work. I almost felt as if I'm an expatriate who works in a foreign country only to return to my 'hotel' every night for a good rest. Here are some things I like about my reno:

1. I really love the lightings a lot. I believe the LED downlights (with warm white lightings) really made my place feel more cosy. The comforting lights, as opposed to glaring bright lights, soothe my senses the moment I step into the house. This is one investment I really feel is worthwhile. Somehow the downlights that come with diffusers really sort of reduced the 'glare' yet provide sufficient lighting to the entire place.

2. I love my study room's full height cabinets and tables. These are all custom made. When the carpentry was done, I finally understood why my quote was so high. We practically had custom made two long rows of tables that form an L shape. These two rows of tables also come with a total of 8 drawers with soft-closes. My ID listened to our needs and gave us 'compartments' with sockets inside to hide our wiring. There are also two rows of horizontal shelves with cove lighting to provide ample lighting when I have to scrutinise documents with 'fine print'.

3. I love my TV feature wall. It looks very simple and to me, it's timeless. Most importantly, it came with a full height storage cabinet for us to store DVDs. The cabinet door is also beautifully constructed with a brown tinted full height mirror on the outside, making the tv feature wall look more sleek.

4. I was rather hesitant about overlaying toilet tiles at first because I've heard of stories where tiles will pop in a few years time. Frankly at this stage, we still do not know if that will happen in the near or far future but after it's all done up, I realise that I have no regrets doing up my two toilets. I just can't bear the thought of having a nicely renovated kitchen, living room etc..only to walk into toilets that still remind me that I stay in a hdb. Yes..my aim is for my place NOT to look like an HDB unit (unfortunately some parts of the house, esp those beams, still scream of HDB). Anyway I like it that the ID is thoughtful about having many storage spaces in the toilets. I have three mirror cabinets in the master bathrm and one in the common bathrm. As my ID has aptly pointed out, these storage areas in toilets are important because in many households, due to lack of space, owners would usually buy 'hanging racks' and start displaying their 'barangs barangs' in the toilet and spoil the overall look - how true.

5. Kitchen - this is Ken's favourite place and not mine haaa..so I'll just comment a little on this space. What I like about the Kitchen is the very very deep undermount sink! It really helps to reduce splashes and also make washing bigger utensils an easy task. I like that the bottom cabinets are a distance away fr the floor as this makes my mopping really easy. Oh yes, I love the kitchen and foyer tiles - these are homogenous tiles that look like wood. :)

6. Master Bedroom - I like the good use of space as my bedframe (with storage), wardrobe, side table and dresser are in-built. The full height mirrors on the two sides of my bed also gave the illusion that the room is spacious. :) Because furniture is in-built, even with a king-sized bed in the room, there is still ample space in for walking. I like the matt timber flooring but simply hope the varnish fumes will soon dissipate into thin air!

Okay..because this is an unexpectedly long post from me, I shall post some areas for improvement regarding my reno experience in my next post. :)

Oh yes, my ID will be sending a photographer to our place soon to take some pics. As soon as we receive the softcopies, we'll upload them here. :))