Small Renovation of my house - Part 2(Sourcing of IDs)

We look through various of ID companies through Renotalk forum. Here a lot of ppl also will recommend the ID which they use of cuz  provided is up to standard..

What owner needs is to forward them a copy of your floor plan and let know your type of HDB. Ours is Premium BTO, hence, doors, floor tiles finishing has been done for us.. 

So I hereby state the list of ID companies which we approach..We begin our search before chinese new year..

1. Chew'S Interior Design

Since this is the first one we approach, we decided to drop by their show room to get a idea of what ID normally proposed. The price was rather costly so we have give it a miss..

2. Weiken

We went to tampines show room but disappointed to see that it did not open. Not sure why.. My husband has forward them our floor plan. But they did not reply either. Too many enquries coming in due to the show hosted by Mark Lee, I guess?

3. The Carpenters

They have their own wrkshp. After we told the ID what we have in mind. He asked us to come to their office again and refuse to disclose how much he is quoting us. I did not think is very right to ask ppl come down all the way but only to find out the pricing is not within the budget. I guess is one of the tactic to get ppl confirm on the spot.. So we give it a miss too.

Small Renovation of my house - Part 1(Collection of keys and check out house defects)

We got our keys last year December. So on the day of collection, we went to pay for the fire insurance is a must at level before proceeding to collect our keys at level 1 office.

So we were given a pouch of keys which consist of the two bedrooms, master bedroom, mail box etc..

My mother-in-law has also help us prepare pineapple, incense etc.. Pineapple is for you to roll inside your house once you open the door, as it represent luck and coming in your house. After that we pray and sprinkle water with a kind of leaf at all the corner of our house.

Next step is to check for defects. No defects were found that time because we did not check more throughly. It was until we invite a few ID personel and they highlighted like windows issue etc.. 

Things to note: do check out your tiles if there is any of them not even, your gate color whether has it been alittle discoloured. We notice our shower pipes has stain on it after about 3 months and consult our ID for advise. We also bought some detergent to clean it off but not able to. So we went to BCSS office to brought up this matter to them. 

Ohya within the week of collection date, they will usually pre turn on the electricity and water supply, So this is your best chance to check if all water supply can flow out as normal with nothing chock on it and every powerpoint to test if there is any electricity detected. Tips: bring along your hp charger so that you can test it. 

Make sure all your house had been clear of defects before you let the ID of your choice to start carpentry works etc for your house.

Next part will be on the sourcing of ID..So stay tunned!

Lady M Confections at Orchard Central

Meet my group of sweet and lovely gfs for dessert and as well as for my belated birthday celebration last month.

veri classy decoration they have!

Mei Zhen and I have cafe latte and puay san have her tea. I forgotten what tea she order..

Grub at Bishan Park

Last month I finally meet up with my dearie fren, Iris for I think 1 year plus or more din catch up with her. I am indeed to see her again. hehe So I decided to bring her to this nice place located at Bishan Park. Reason why I wana come here is because they are famous for their Churros. 

I had made a reservation beforehand via their website. About a hr before the time which I booked, I received a automatic systematic call from them to double confirm the time which I booked. I am very impress with this kinda service. At first I thought is a spam call as the call is not a human being who called me. =P

Cafes in Toa Payoh area Part 2 - Shrove Tuesday & The Little Prince Creamery

Meet up with Puay San and Mei Zhen somewhere in March for a day of cafe hopping. N guess what is their first time meeting each other. hehe... In actual fact we went to three cafe but however the first cafe we went to the food not that nice so here I will only blog about the other two..

Shrove Tuesday

Nice and pretty deco they have!!!

Cafes in Toa Payoh area Part 1 - Les Patisseries, The Daily Press and Creamier

Helo there! This blog was again on hiatus for a long time due to I am recently busy with hse renovation matters and also researching on my honeymoon trip. So I decided to post some food review again. Toa Payoh recently has quite a few cafe so today, I gona post three of them first. There will be a few mores in another part of my cafe review so do stay tune..  

Les Patisseries

Well, you know what? This picture was taken about 5 months plus back when I visited this cafe with my husband. =P Anyway back to the point, this was my first time eating a macoron. Their strawberry smoothie was nice, smooth texture with rich frangant smell and so do the mocha. Their waffle was soft yet not to soggy kinda texture. Just nice. However I find the macoron rather too sweet for me..

Address:186 Toa Payoh Central Singapore 310186

The Daily Press