Sunday, May 16, 2010

Facelift

Finally.......... finished compiling the pictures of our new home:) It's our first major project... we literally revamped everything. So voilà! Here're the Before & After look.

The previous owners painted their whole living hall yellowish brown, with yellow wallpaper. But we saw the potential in this unit;)
The color throughout our new home - black/grey/silver/white was first conceived back in last July, when we purchased our flat. We only got the keys 4 months later, in Nov, it's definitely a long wait...
Our bombshelter is hidden behind the mirror and next to the mirror is our 3-door ceiling to floor shoe cabinet:D

The previous owner tore down the wall between the kitchen & the yard. We reconstructed it & added a frosted glass door to hide the miscellaneous items. And mum can still cook while we dry our clothes.

The common toilet. We use lots of white as it's preferred by most people especially old people...

... like mum, since she's the one using it

The old kitchen cabinets were pretty run down & the wall was filled with brown stains which we believe were accumulated from years of cooking.

Gone was the ceiling fan & thin wooden strips (in the middle) nailed onto the walls surrounding the living room

The walls that formed the bedroom next to the balcony were first tore down by the previous owners to have a much bigger living room. But later they wanted back the bedroom so built the false walls (seen in the top pic). Part of the wall was already shaky when we bought it & the bedroom sliding door's mechanism was no longer working. The area without door was a dining room.
We re-erected the concrete walls (hollow blocks)... we converted the previous dining area into our study with a clear swing door. The bedroom behind our tv is mum's... we gave her a bigger bedroom by shifting the wall into the study
In fact we've rebuilt a number of walls around the house & paid quite a sum just on that.

Our bedroom. We hacked the wall between the MBR & bedroom 2. Bedroom 2 is turned into our Walk-in Wardrobe. Till now we still can't believe that I got my dream Walk-in so soon! :)

Our bedroom

The wall (where the fan was hanged) was hacked.
Bought a bar table as my make-up counter... prefer this height as it saves me lots of standing/sitting movements when in a rush. Originally wanted to custom make but due to budget constraint, we gotta put it aside.

Our all-black toilet!:D

Our Walk-in Wardrobe. Everyone visiting it thought they'd walked into a boutique. That's exactly the feel that we wanted!;)

An all-glass showcase in the middle of our Walk-in Wardrobe.

Mama has a Walk-in Wardrobe too!

The previous owners' dining area.. now our study room.

The balcony flooring was retiled too.


More pix here .....

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