House Reno

Monday, June 26, 2006

House Reno

It's been a long week...

Renovation of the house officially started last thursday.. Aaron and me have been bustling in and out everyday.

Here's some pictures of the house...

Before Thursday:

The hall.. as viewed from the entrance. That's Anna playing maid.. thanks to Aaron.. he poured one whole packet of salt and half a pack of a 2kg rice around the house on Monday night. It's believed to keep spirits away. When me and Anna made our way there on Wednesday noon.. the salt have turned into water (yucks!!!)..

Note the flooring.. Aaron termed them as 'bloody river'. He can't stand them. Most of the capentry in here are built in.. we're tearing all of them off.

The kitchen. Small and cozy. Hate the brown though.. off it goes!!

Our bedroom. Love the space.. Don't know why but the built in furnitures in this house is bulky and takes up too much space. To make them studier? Or simply just poor workmanship? Your guess is as good as mine. Too much wooden brown again.. so, off everything goes!!

The study room. We initially planned to keep the wardrobe and the built in table. Just change the doors and the drawers. But the insides are falling apart. And after talking to Henry, it is more worth spending money to build new ones than to work on the old ones. Well... off these goes too!!

Anna's room. Please make way for this gargantum piece of wood. Nuff said.

The bathrooms. First wooden brown, now dark blue?? Talk about difference in taste. Yup, we're changing these too.

Thursday:

Aaron, Dave, Anna and I purposely met up before our badminton session to see how the hacking have taken toll on the house. To Aaron's glee, his 'bloody river' no longer rules in the house.. instead it lies there tattered and torn.. The house looks like it a tornado just passed by.. everything was torned down and the whole place were in a big mess... We've never been happier..

Saturday:

Everything has been cleared by Friday. When we made our way there on Saturday morning, the tiles have arrived. Boy.. were we excited.

A big pile of sand now lies in the hall.

'Bloody river' no more....

Our kitchen and hall tiles.

The rooms looks and the kitchen looks spaciously empty... Bye bye wooden brown built ins...

Talked to the air con man and the electrician. More money added into our budget.. but at the end of the day.. Aaron had a big smile on his face. So, despite a big hole in the pocket, I think he's happy.

Well, if all goes according to plan, the homogenous tiles in the living room and the kitchen tiles will be laid by mid week. Air con works starts this friday and paintings starts early next week. Stay tune..