Final paint touch ups

Recently, a friend suggested that patching up the joining lines of our pre-cast walls will make the house look nicer thus increasing its value. His comment came only after we had finished our paint and threw away all our brushes..darn. So a reminder for those who are doing renovation to make sure your contractors patch up those "gutters" and smoothen the walls before painting. Ugly looking lines below, some photos with patch work in progress:

We had to get some different type of wall putty to fill those deep gaps. Had to plaster 3 times before we could sand the walls to smoothen it. Quite xiong to plaster and after sanding, the whole place was full of fine white particles and we had to clean up the whole house again! To tell the truth, I was cursing and swearing (in my heart) about this friend who commented on it..ha ha. After everything was done, it really looks much better. Take a look at the before/after photos:

There were many more join lines in the house. Shall not post so many photos so that no one will come and point out that they can still see the join lines when they come over...keke. Finally we can retire our paint and brushes to the corner again.

Kitchen is operational...finally!

Finally, after a whole weekend (plus one day holiday) of cleaning, our efforts to show. Our kitchen is now operational as fengping declare. Below are some photos of the transformation of our kitchen. I'm sure there are more things to be added slowly once we really use it. For now, we're just glad that we can walk in and out while maintaining clean feets.

After tiles, wiring, gas pipes were done...

Rubbish cleared, cabinet base and sink support up..

Fridge, washing m/c and capentary in...

Solid surface, sink, hood & hob installed...

Finishing touches...

With simple bar stools, air tight containers, lots of cleaning solution, mopping, gas turned on etc etc. Our kitchen is operational...finally!

Decorations

Take a look at the photos above and you'll see why we wanted to use WINK www.winkplay.com to decorate the house. Those above were done by professionals and its looks neat and nice. We had to settle for the CIRCAS theme as there were not many that suited our home theme. The main purpose was also to give our clear glass door to the kitchen some visible design to prevent anyone from knocking into it, it could hurt (our glass door) you know..

And so, the planning stage started with cutting up a big piece and the use of masking tape to preview how things will turn out:

As you can see, we failed badly on our first attempt and we decided to postpone the completion and stopped at that. Need to crack our brains for our next attempts. Will post pictures when its done!

We did manage to get our first set of ornaments. Smiling Jap Cats from Daiso, we love them so much and it'll sure bring us lotsa smiles around the house. Total cost: $6 ONLY! Worth it..worth it.. =)