Few more Minor Touch Ups

Ever since we officially moved into the house, we have brought many electronics into our home. Due to their high values, we insisted in replacing the number lock to our house with a legit padlock. This way, it is more secure than a number lock, which could be broken into in less than a minute, and it also restrict the contractors from entering without the supervision of my interior designer. However, such security resulted in a standstill in our renovation. It has been almost a month of no updates, and it is slowly draining our patience out. The only thing that is making us hold on is that we constantly find new things to get our contractors to touch up or install, so it all works well somehow.

Just a rough list of what there are to do....

Wild hairline cracks appeared at our entrance. It is not obvious but upon a closer inspection, it becomes hard to ignore. A repaint job would have to be done.

Previously had plastered the ceiling, but because it was so similar to the ceiling paint, we missed it out and only found out several days later. Touch up paint would be required.

Several grout lines has some holes on closer inspection. Although this was probably there since the beginning of time, our designer said it could be fixed up and he can take it up so we are looking forward to it

We had requested for this netting thing to be changed to an acrylic board so as to prevent cobwebs and dusts from collecting, and also it look nicer with the toilet ambiance lights. Still waiting for the acrylic boards to be delivered and put up.

Had installed LED lights at our bedhead, and the drivers are placed in the display cabinet at the side. Had requested for a cover to be made to hide the drivers, and is still waiting for it. There were also some problem with our lights, where it kept losing power after a while, and had requested for our electrician to take a look at it.

After trying our designer tap for a while, we really dislike it and intend to change it. The water power is too low, and the water stream is too close to the edge. Kind of an installation issue when they drilled the holes on the quartz top, but a change in the tap should fix the issue.

Where the walls meet the floors will often have gaps like this. It is unavoidable, but that is the reason why trimming are always used around the house. Here shows an area of the wall where the trimming was forgotten and the hole was visible. Now we need it to be covered up.

Another area where there the trimming is missing, but because this area is quite small, we would be covering it with the brown sealant to cover the gap.

And lastly, because we had chose for such a bold solid color, the painters need to apply many layers of coat to achieve the desired result. However, this also mean that the paint is prone to being chipped off whenever we accidentally knock something against it. Here is yet another hole that require to be painted over again due to our carelessness. Being extremely careful is the price to pay for having our walls painted with such bold colors.

Would there be more discoveries after another round of inspection?

Carpentry VII - Platform Bed

Our platform bed is up! Love the choice of laminates here. When we first saw it, it looked like unfinished wood for our bedhead. We were almost wondering why did they put the barn frame up without finishing the laminate first. Then we realized that the effect is just like that, and gosh is it unfinishingly beautiful.

Probably the biggest reason for a platform bed is the additional storage space found within in. All around the bed could be opened up to store things which are not commonly used. Our ID had kindly included the hydraulics for us so that the pieces could stay open without us having to hold onto it. However, that caused it to feel like 100x heavier to lift up, and we may resort to disengaging the hydraulics to make it easier to open. Shall see how it goes next time.

Love the green so much! This platform was the largest contributor to us wanting to get the grilles. It was quite dangerous without the grilles as more than half of our body would be above the window. Well, things are much safer now.

And we have finally settled on the trimming for the platform in the living room. We did not want to risk another mismatch so we have went with the safe matte black, which look fitting with the black tv console and black frame of the shoe cabinet. This problem is solved! Much happier with this end result now.

Just when you thought it couldn't get worse

We had the platform in the living room and everything was great except the trimming around it. Perhaps it was due to our unique choice of color for the vinyl flooring which is not as simple as light wood or brown wood. However, that is not an excuse we accepted because apparently this was introduced to us as one of the most popular choices among the homeowners. Perhaps all the homeowners were happy with the grey trimming, but definitely not us. To recap, when we first saw it, it looked like a metal construction piece which we mistook as a tool to hold the vinyl flooring in position, like to let the glue stick, but not as a final piece of product.

We told our ID about it, and he got the contractor to deliver some samples down so that we can repick another trimming. On this note, we are really happy how our ID is so accommodating on our changes. Afterall, we want the best look for the house, and if we are dissatisfied with something, it ought to go. The samples came and we picked the bottom middle one because the wood grain were close to our platform and it seemed to match pretty well. So it was decided, and we thought all was well. Nope.

The outcome of our choice was horrible. It was not close to how the sample looked like at all. We almost just called our ID to tell him to just bring back the grey metal construction looking trimming because this was so much worse.

A closer look at the current trimming. We called our ID to express our displeasure with how the actual product was so different from the sample, but he continuously assured us that the trimming was exactly the one we picked. Regardless, we were upset with it, and demanded to change it again. This time round we headed down to their factory to take a look at the big pieces so that hopefully we could pick one that we like and matches. However, there were no ready stock for us to pick from, and we were unwilling to take another chance where we picked the sample and the profile of the trimming came drastically different again. In the end, we decided on a matte black trimming, which would not have any profile issues, and hopefully it matches our tv console and shoe cabinet. Let's cross our finger and hope it goes well this time.