Imagine staying in the apartment and going through a few phases of renovation. The few phases of renovation was not within one month but ended up in a few years. Yes...a few years, no joke and not a fun thing too – from 2003 till 2007.
It was a second hand apartment (845 sq ft) when we bought just less than one month after our wedding in 2003. The apartment had all the basic necessity such as lights, fans and grilles installed when we bought. So, we just shifted in because we were only renting room with PaPa’s PohPoh, so not many big items to shift – only bed, mattress, cupboard, TV, computer, boxes of books and misc. items. It was any empty apartment and looked spacious because it was empty. Now, it looked full and full and full.
Firstly
We got all the cement related renovation done (while we stayed in the apartment). We decided to redo the bathrooms tiles because it was badly stained and could not be removed. We were hunting for tiles from porcelain tile to ceramic tile. The contractor used a special glue to glue the new tiles on the old ones due to building warranty (water proofing); we were not allowed to break the old tiles. Besides that, it was not advisable to use cement because it would cause the bathroom floor to be same level with the living room or master bedroom floors.
Then it was the kitchen concrete top and tiles on the wet kitchen wall for long term easy maintenance. We were using the kitchen concrete top without any doors or drawers for some months.
We also extended the wet kitchen empty slot so that the washing machine could be place on the top to save the floor space of our tiny kitchen. We wanted to break the whole top down but couldn’t because the bottom part was where the water meter was placed outside the apartment.
It was a second hand apartment (845 sq ft) when we bought just less than one month after our wedding in 2003. The apartment had all the basic necessity such as lights, fans and grilles installed when we bought. So, we just shifted in because we were only renting room with PaPa’s PohPoh, so not many big items to shift – only bed, mattress, cupboard, TV, computer, boxes of books and misc. items. It was any empty apartment and looked spacious because it was empty. Now, it looked full and full and full.
Firstly
We got all the cement related renovation done (while we stayed in the apartment). We decided to redo the bathrooms tiles because it was badly stained and could not be removed. We were hunting for tiles from porcelain tile to ceramic tile. The contractor used a special glue to glue the new tiles on the old ones due to building warranty (water proofing); we were not allowed to break the old tiles. Besides that, it was not advisable to use cement because it would cause the bathroom floor to be same level with the living room or master bedroom floors.
Then it was the kitchen concrete top and tiles on the wet kitchen wall for long term easy maintenance. We were using the kitchen concrete top without any doors or drawers for some months.
We also extended the wet kitchen empty slot so that the washing machine could be place on the top to save the floor space of our tiny kitchen. We wanted to break the whole top down but couldn’t because the bottom part was where the water meter was placed outside the apartment.
to be continue....
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