Thursday, August 06, 2009

History of our mini apartment renovation – Part 3

This is the last part after Part 1 & Part 2

Lastly (hopefully...), we had our apartment refinance to a fixed rate. Our bank loan back then only tied us for 3 years. We had some balance from refinancing that we were thinking whether we should do our last piece of renovation (Mummy hoped this would the last one).

After discussion that we would never be able to afford any landed property for next many years, so we decided to carry on building a full height cupboard in the dining area to store books (top) and toys (bottom) then another connected cupboard just the bottom part making the bottom cupboard L-shape.

The top part was made as swing door (cheaper) and the bottom was sliding door due to space constraint. The bottom part was built much deeper to keep all the kids’ toys as compared to the top part. We were pleased with the outcome because it made the dining hall and living room looked neater.


Staying in the apartment, all our cupboards were built up to the ceiling to maximize the space usage. All the cupboards were designed simple with not great fixtures like drawer baskets, soft touch drawers close etc. All was just simple with basic shelves to keep the cost low.

After all these renovation in our mini apartment, Mummy wondered whether should we get home insurance or not?

Photos ar? Until Mummy could figure how to take a nice shot first because due to space, it would be quite hard to take photos of the whole kitchen cabinets and cupboards.

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