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Posted at Saturday, January 27, 2007 |
Two weeks is a long time in the home construction business - our home is almost done up! I would say it's about 80% done. All that's left is just some minor carpentry, fixing up of bathroom accessories and a fresh coat of paint and walla, we're ready to move in!
It's beautiful (of course every home owner would say his own home is beautiful) and I must say it's been worth the wait. I'm gonna spend more time at home and less time outside in future. More DVD rentals and home popcorn & nacho chips. Less Golden Village. :p
It's certainly ironic, but we ended up spending the most time shopping for the littlest things. We decided on the big ticket items easily enough. Took only a day to decide on our bed, sofa and dining table. Took maybe a week or two in all to survey the market and get our kitchen cooker hood, hobs, fridge, washer and dryer. But we ended up spending all of a week just looking for a console table! And we travelled far and wide just to find a suitable one!
We had tried IMM and a couple of other places initially but we couldn't find any that could fit our budget. Then last Saturday, we saw in the papers that there were a couple of warehouse sales going on. So on Sunday, we took a mini-tour of north-western Singapore.
We hit the Barang-Barang warehouse in Senoko Loop first. Saw a table going for $200, down from it's usual retail price of $650. What a steal! But then we found out why. It was the last piece and was probably a display set. Closer inspection yielded a couple of scratches and stains. Oh well.. we still had three other places to explore.
So we went down to Picket & Rail at Sungei Kadut. They had nice stuff - just not what we wanted. So we went to Zen Tradition. That was a waste of time as they had only sales on a couple of items. The other items, i.e. console table, were all going for the usual retail price - which basically priced us out. Last stop was Scanteak. We saw a table that was good. Good price. We were tempted.
But the image of the table at Barang Barang was stuck in my head. For the same price, I could live with a few scratches. Anyway, wood is supposed to be imperfect ain't it?
So we plowed back to Barang Barang and bought our table and it's been delivered to Cheri's home. Looking at it, we are certain we made the right decision. It fits perfectly with our resort theme. :)
So anyway, in addition to the console table, we also ended up spending a fair amount of time looking for a bathroom shelf unit and soap dispensers. Such small items - one would imagine it should be easy to find a good one. But no.... we walked the whole of Jalan Besar and we had to grudgingly settle on a dispenser that was a little expensive.
Lucky for us, the store had no stock and had to deliver the items from their warehouse. So they said they'll call us the next day when it's ready.
Well the next day, we headed down to Mustafa. It was a kind of last resort thing but wow... we were pleasantly surprised at the immense range of items that they had. I always knew they were big but I had always been reluctant to visit the place since I didn't have a good impression from my last visit there. This time round, it was much cleaner and very well organised, certainly a far cry from the crowded, dirty place which I remembered. In the end, we found the dispenser that we wanted. Great price for the design and we also managed to get a couple of other small items from there. Hmm, guess we'll be heading there in future more often.
One more week and our home should be in move-in condition. We'll going to be moving in all the furniture and appliances the following week. It's gonna be fun!
As a footnote, we found our videographer for our wedding. It's Academy Video. Their studio was amazing! And the owner was a friendly gentle old man whom we both liked. In addition to the fact that they were a professional outfit, the clincher was that it wasn't a solo outfit. He had a team of workers - so that meant that a camera man could be shooting our customary vows while the video editor would be able to collect the earlier tapes and begin working on it. This was important to us as our customary ceremony was starting pretty late so we wanted to be sure that our morning highlights could be prepared in time for the wedding dinner. Oh well, one less thing to worry about now. |
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