Journey of our Pigeonhole

the following are copied from my man's reno blog... 反正他都写了，那我也没必要去交警脑汁，坏死我的细胞对贝。。。

Months ago, my man had decided that we should just go for a 3 room flat due to the high and ever increasing COV now requested by sellers these days. Fast enough shortly right after my 35th DOB, we secured a 3NG in TPY. The only great part was it is a corner but sadly low low floor and the house interior is already 30 years old thus require major renovation.

30 years old un touch Kitchen


Master Bdroom

Master Bdrm

Common Bdrm


Common Bdrm

HDB upgraded Bathroom



Miserable Small Bathroom



Going to be open Kitchen concept so this wall is going to be taken down



After so many round of selection and quotes from contractors and ID firm.

We decided to short list SG Concept - Team I.D. Note - Wills ID & Design - Alan Tan, Aian Furniture & renovation Contractor


SG Concept

Was very comfortable with his ideas but decided to drop them as they were on very tight time line.


Team I.D. Note

Very experience ID who had alot of ideas for us after we had a hard time locating their office. Sat down with them and discussed alot of pricing, material, timing etc. But after 3 weeks with no reply on the quote we decided to select another ID.


Wills ID & Design

They were late for our appointment, after 2 rounds of meeting up and alot of ideas talk their quote came back extremely high and they seem in-experience as most of the time, their reply would be i need to check with my boss. So we did not get any confirm idea of what would be our material and costing as everything had to wait for his boss. Plus they keep pushy us a package deal which we DONT like it ...

Alan Tan, Aian Furniture & renovation Contractor

We love his attitude and attention to details when we met the 1st time. He was the ONLY id that suggested to meet at our new home to give us a better idea which we rang him up last mins.

We felt so bad when we found out he drop his dinner with his family just to meet us at a short notice. He is extremely down to earth and patient who gave us very good practical ideas. He is not pushy with his sales or type of material we would like to use. But explain to us each materials pro and cons and he knew the pricing on the spot. Even he did not have 3D drawing, we decided to use him due to our comfort level with him and his A1 attitude toward us 1st time home owners.

After meeting Alan Tan for 2 rounds and together with him we study the floor plan the feeling i got was he really understand a customer well.
He know when to pull the plug as some of our wanted design would not be practical on day to day house keeping or cleaning.

He could have just kept silent and just reno our crazy idea which cost more to renovate thus he earn more but instead he told us to tone it down.

He even ask if we have a maid or how many people staying? Where we plan to iron our cloth and our life style like do we cook alot or how many TV we need?

We decided Alan would be our trusted guy for the job.

Here comes the hacking of the whole house - as our theme would be simple, plan, white & black.