Mini-reno - Part 2

17 May 2011 (Tues) - Vesak Day. Ah Tao came to clean up our house for 4 hours and the Low Clan came over. The EL repaired our vacuum cleaner!!!!!!!! He removed the plug and attached a new one and reconnected the wires. It worked!!! Super happy!!!

Went to Marina to shop but there was nothing much so we went back to good old Jurong Point. Went to Selfix and bought a tin of Nippon Premium Odourless Orchid White paint. Went home and Kitty started preparing the area for painting!

Covering the floor:

Sandpaper-ing the rough edges and cleaning with a damp cloth.

Progress by the end of the day:

18 May 2011 (Wed) - Kitty continued to paint the balcony. Finally finished the first coat. He said we will probably need 3 coats of paint.

19 May 2011 (Thurs) - 2nd coat of paint done except for the pipe.

20 May 2011 (Sat) - Applied the 3rd coat of paint.

And finally its completed!!!

Our living room looks so bright and spacious now!

I think Kitty can go work as a freelance painter next time, wahahahhaha!

Mini-reno - Part 1

16 May 2011 (Mon) - Mini-reno for the house. Kitty took leave to oversee the progress and I brought Claris to the Low Clan's to escape the noise and dust.

Haiz there goes our balcony glass doors and walls, kitchen swing door (replaced with sliding glass door) and common toilet swing door (replaced with bi-fold door) and in comes the dreaded window grilles. We also had casement windows done for the main balcony and replaced the sliding windows in the service balcony with casement ones. The men came at 10am and completed the job at 5pm. Whole house was super dirty. I left C with Mdm Yik and came back to help Kitty with the cleaning. And guess what? Our vacuum cleaner died on us!!!!!!!!! It chose to die on us at all times, just when we needed it most!!!!!!!!!! ARRRRGH!!!! Thankfully, Mdm Yik lives just across the street and I asked Kitty to go borrow her set, which is the same model, lol.

Living room and main balcony:

MBR and Claris's room:

Study and service balcony:

Sliding door for the kitchen and Bifold for the common toilet:

I vacuumed and he mopped the floor (been years since I did chores, nearly killed my old bones). He also did a brief clean-up of the common toilet which was super dirty and scrubbed the main balcony floor (have to, since now its gonna be part of the living room). I cleaned the walls of the main balcony. Decided to paint it Orchid White so that it will blend in with the rest of the living room.

Super tired when we finally cleaned up the mess at 8.20pm. Quickly went to JP to eat Ayam Penyet. Must go eat there since for once we don't have to worry about where to put a stroller, haha. Went to Courts and Harvey to check out vacuum cleaners (why are the good ones so expensive??). Sian. Don't know whether to send the current one for repair ($290, if don't repair a bit wasted?) or should we just buy a new one. Went back to the Low Clan's to shower and fetch C then its home sweet home.