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| The lens effect makes the living room look bigger than it actually is...really. |
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| TV console, Haiku fan, Q Audio speakers, old TV - a 55 inch Samsung curved UHDTV. |
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| View from the bedroom doors. |
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| Rear speakers for a surround sound. This is the first time we are able to hide the speaker cables within the false ceiling - well almost. There is a short vertical trunking as HDB doesn't allow cables to be concealed within walls. Since the two speakers are wall mounted, there needed to be a short length of wire from the ceiling. |
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| Our recliner sofa from King Living, an Australian brand. It's comfy and rather luxurious, all for the sake of the middle-aged man known as the husband, who has a back problem and needs to be pampered. |
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| Two of our three concrete German-made pendant lights for our yet-to-be-purchased dining table. The lights will be lowered to a height of 1.4m from the floor when the dining table is in place. We've cable tied it up so that no one bumps into it. |
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| The kitchen counter with the kitchen in the background and the entrance way on the right. |
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| The view as you enter the house. |
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| The fire rated solid wood main door with a Samsung digital door lock. Goodbye to keys! |
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| The first door to the right after entering the apartment is the kitchen. We bought a black Hitachi fridge with a mirror finish - hard to maintain as the finger prints are visible every time we touch it! |
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| We got a La Germania stainless steel standing cooker with red knobs; and a Fujioh cooker hood. Looking at the kitchen colour scheme, I now think it's rather bland. We should've had some strong colours for a more striking look. |
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| The reputable Electrolux washer and dryer. The brand is Swedish but the washer is Made in Thailand while the heat pump dryer is Made in Poland. |
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| The kitchen counter view from the kitchen. |
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| An angled view showing the TV area. |
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| The tiny kitchen bathroom. |
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| The study room. It's long because we joined the original balcony with the study room to make it a long, almost 7 metre long space. |
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| One part of the bookshelf incorporating a glass display section for our old cameras. |
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| There are two entrances to the study room. This is the view from the other end. The lone chair in the room is mine. It's a super comfortable gamer's chair that hugs the body - mine at least. I've not sat in a more comfy chair so I decided to get it even though it looks a bit 'obiang' (old fashioned and not stylish), at this stage of my life, function takes precedence over form! |
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| Meg's room. It's the smallest bedroom in the house and it's smaller than her current bedroom at our old place. Once the super single bed is assembled, it will look even more cramped. |
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| A view from the other corner of her room. We had the girls' desks built and they are similar, just mirrored on the other side in Emma's room. |
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| The pocket door between the girls' rooms were specially made in the hope that they will communicate better and bond throughout their lives, despite the age gap. The opening also helps to create an expanse of space so the rooms don't feel too 'tight'. |
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| Em's room, which is about a foot wider than Meg's. |
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| Em has another additional wardrobe section - four, compared to Meg's three. |
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| A mirror of Meg's room. |
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| Alas, our master bedroom had a problem of a leaky opening from the rotted wood of the window unit air-conditioning panel, seen on the top right, so we had to have it replaced with a casement window then seal it up again. We'd discovered the wall 'popping out' last week because the rain water had seeped in between the original wall and the newly plastered layer like a huge pimple that was waiting to burst. Luckily it was discovered and rectified before handover of the house. I had to bear the cost of the window and the repair works but it's something that has to be done, otherwise the problem will worsen and surface later on. |
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| The problem has since been fixed and the opening sealed up and painted. I will add the updated picture once I've shot it. |
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| The master bedroom bathroom. We got black shower fittings but the water pressure in old blocks isn't great. It's bearable but nothing like our old place in Sengkang. |
