The Finale

Our renovation has officially ended a couple of months back, but we were still getting our stuffs ready, hanging up clocks and photos, setting up new gadgets and completing our home. With our housewarming party due the following week, we did a mini photoshoot of our house so that we could compare how much transformation the house has gone through. We have always seen others posting their before and after photos so we had made it a point to do it too, else it is too late once the walls starts coming down and the carpentry up. So for those that does visit this blog, here is the preview of our home....

The entrance, where we had sealed up the original door to the kitchen.

Our shoe cabinet which also concealed the unsightly bomb shelter door.

The view of our living room once we step into our home.

Here's the open concept kitchen as well as the entrance to it.

Presenting the deep-end sofa for us to lie down comfortably to enjoy our movies.

A custom made sword case as our tv console. And a plain wall behind it.

which transform to anything we want at a touch of a button.

Open-concept kitchen which we have not been cooking much.

and the other end of it with our service yard behind those doors.

The corridor splashed with maroon and the doors framed black.

Our recreational room where we work out and namaste.

keeping the room simple so that it could be anything we want next time.

Here's our study area where we get the work done.

Took down much of the walls to combine both rooms into one.

Bedroom cum study room cum walk in wardrobe.

Our platformed curb for our beauty sleep.

which opens up to store (and hide) our future belongings.

Our wardrobe which closed up the original door to the masterbed room.

and the other side of the wardrobe.

A little changes to the toilet, with the toilet bowl remaining constant.

and finally, how our vanity cabinet had enlarged to this.

This is home... truly...

Touching up minor details

We have another clock up, this time at our dining area. Loving the classical feel of the roman numerals

Did some minor touch up to our living room track light. We usually keep this lights on during our movie time so that we could see what we are eating and not fiddle with our spoons in the dark. However, the track lights were too strong and overpowered the screen, turning it too orange-ly. So we cut some papers up to act as a filter, reducing the amount of lights to just sufficient only. It turns out great and we could now watch our movies while having our meals without compromising either.

Christmas is coming, time to get ready for it!

Back from our Bridal Photoshoot in Taiwan

Just got back from our taiwan trip! It had been a great time with the massive shopping at the night markets and nature explorations. But the number #1 reason for our travel was the bridal photoshoot package which we had bought earlier this year. It was our first bridal photoshoot, and we were quite clueless with poses most of the time, but with the guidance from our photographer, the photos had turned out beautifully! Our package had also included a huge framed up canvas and we had carried it back all the way from Taiwan back to our humble home. How does it look? You have to come over to see it yourselves!

Quality does Matter - Bedhead Lights

Previously we had bought our LED strips from Qoo10 in our attempt to save some money considering that the whole package cost at least one-fifth of what the local lighting shops are selling at. Most of them were working fine, except our bedhead ones which burns out every 30min. We assessed the fault to lie with the adaptor, and suspected that it could have overheated in that enclosed cabinet. Regardless, it was quite disruptive having to off-on the switch again only to have it burn out again in 30min. Thinking it was a faulty adaptor, i ordered another adaptor from Qoo10, and that burned out in like 5min. Zzz.

So i decided to head down to my local lighting store to get their expensive adaptor which look like this, and it definitely feels better than those laptop-charger-like adaptors from the Qoo10 seller. At almost three-times the price, it better be good. Turns out, it did work, and the burn out issues did not happen again.

Now we could enjoy some proper ambiance lights at our bedroom without having it blackout every now and then. Fortunately though, the other adaptors for my LED strips at the kitchen and living room had no issues so far, but if they do burn out, I know the appropriate solution now.

My ID had also made a fitting box for the adaptor as it could not fit inside the bedhead. Not the ideal situation i have to say, but this does make it look better than having the adaptor exposed in this shelves. Hopefully, it does not cause it to overheat further.

Glimpse of the Projector

With the last touch up completed and the final payment settled, our renovations for the house has officially come to an end. It has been a long long journey, one that we are almost too embarrassed to talk about. The planned completion was in May 2017, but it was delayed for almost half a year. Many things happened along the way and we gained many learning pointers which would hopefully help us and anyone with any future houses renovation next time. It has been an eye-opening experience for us, setting up our little place called home. We are definitely glad that this is all over, although it only marks the beginning of our beautiful lives ahead in this nest....

And showcasing a glimpse of our home entertainment system right now. A whooping 150 inch screen punched into our wall to give us the feel of a movie theatre. Although we have some light leaked from the glaring afternoon sun in the middle of the day, which we would touch up soon, the projector did a fantastic job at providing us our shows and movies. This is our first time exploring the projector world instead of a regular television, and we have to say... we are definitely here to stay.

Future: Kids Room. Present: Yoga Room

Finally found a breather to come back to post about our house. Preparation for school projects and exams has taken a toll on our leisure time, but we are back!

Having a five-room unit means we have more space than what's really required for us. Actually, there isn't much difference between a four-unit and five-unit beside a larger living room, but we wanted the huge living room so regardless we still have one spare room. That room was meant to be kept vacant for the future kid but it would be a waste not to use it considering we are paying taxes for it. So we have used it as our yoga room for the time being.

Busy fixing up the TV console from IKEA. We ain't going to put a television here though, but it was a right sized right priced table for us to put our yoga stuffs so we bought it immediately.

How the table/tv console looks like. Here is where we will place our phones, mats, towels, drinks, and other miscellaneous things during our workout. It does serve its purpose.

What better way to tell the time in a yoga room than from a yoga clock made with yoga poses? Painstakingly placed them up where we have to ensure that the layout is accurate like a clock.

Introducing the Mandala Tapestry. It was a word (or two words to be exact) that I have just learnt today. This is the dedicated corner where we will be doing our photo taking at with interchangeable background.