Renovation Blues
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partly because of the appreciated australian $?
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Originally posted by SydneyLibrarian:That's what we thought too, thus we weren't that keen on buying the house. And dragg, this house would cost approx. 800,000 SGD.
So expensive!
That is not expensive! That's super-duper expensive!! -
Yep, and the fact that the olympics was held in Sydney pushed all property prices unrealistically highOriginally posted by dragg:partly because of the appreciated australian $?
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I don't like laminates. I love parquet.Originally posted by laurence82:ok, firstly, if i ever own my hse
i am gonna lay the floor with parquet or laminate -
i am sure many singaporeans love to own something like that. but it remains a dream.
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Yeah, sad, isn't it?Originally posted by dragg:i am sure many singaporeans love to own something like that. but it remains a dream.
Property prices are crazy here. Even 'govt flats' are sooooo terribly expensive! And rent can be quite a killer too!
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the gabrament flats are inflated because they factored in the "land costs" which actually cost nothing to the gabrament
oh well.. we live here
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land are scarce. how many times have we heard this? yet we see plots and plots of land not developed at all.
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Land is scarce... that's why there's a high density per plot.Originally posted by dragg:land are scarce. how many times have we heard this? yet we see plots and plots of land not developed at all.
You can't develop until NO undeveloped land is left, y'know. Have you played SimCity? It's a great game to play to get more into the idea and concept of urban planning. 
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I wonder if anyone has used one of their spare rooms and renovated it to become an entertainment centre?
I'd love to do that, of course, if the purse's fat enough. Imagine... sound-proof your walls, put heavy draperies on the windows, carpet the room, plush couches, good surround sound system... Imagine... you can watch movies there, enjoy your music, play games and BLAST the hell outta your enemies when you turn up the volume... 
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i wish..
but, apart from making my room really dark, it's pretty okay now..
got a 29" tv, a DVD player with 5.1 speakers, a PS2
that pretty much covers all the music, gaming and video entertainment
and i got a hi-fi i want to throw away but it still looks totally brand new (although 20 years old) -
i'd wanna pull down the walls separating the dinin room and kitchen, and have this bar top thingy over there... so i'd have place to place cooked food.. instead of leavin them all over the place.. the way we're doin now, n last time
and i could hav stools by teh counter top.. n it'd be better if the fridge is there
imagine 1 or 2 ppl sittin over there while drinks are prepared behind the counter..
i like the idea of havin 2 basins, 1 for the dishes, 1 for handwashin.. and maybe.. for brushin of teeth etc... read somewhere that its not healthy to have the tooth brush near the toilet bowls..
den i'd wanna have a door, that we can push.. esp those wooden kind we see on tv... that swings here n there
chances are, i'd be playing with that all the time
i like to have a door, that separates teh rooms from the livin room it'll look nice from the livin room etc but i guess it'd be kinda stupid yea? 
n the livin room shall have no furnitures!
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A$600K+ for that place? I knew prices were silly in Sydney, but that's outright ridiculous.Originally posted by SydneyLibrarian:That's what we thought too, thus we weren't that keen on buying the house. And dragg, this house would cost approx. 800,000 SGD. So expensive!
For the same price, my best mate just bought a 2-storey townhouse in Kew, polished floorboards and all the mod cons included, with eight private schools within walking distance to boot. Even at that rate, I thought it was a questionable purchase - still and all, it's a nice place.
Maybe you ought to think about becoming MelbourneLibrarian instead! -
i wan sth like this too!Originally posted by Rhonda:I wonder if anyone has used one of their spare rooms and renovated it to become an entertainment centre?
I'd love to do that, of course, if the purse's fat enough. Imagine... sound-proof your walls, put heavy draperies on the windows, carpet the room, plush couches, good surround sound system... Imagine... you can watch movies there, enjoy your music, play games and BLAST the hell outta your enemies when you turn up the volume...
in that room we'd have the system, playstation2 and books
assumin i'm stayin there wid nel, it'd be him playin teh games, while i read the mangas there
kinda nice too
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after reading this post, i suddenly have the urge to improve our movie roomOriginally posted by Rhonda:I wonder if anyone has used one of their spare rooms and renovated it to become an entertainment centre?
I'd love to do that, of course, if the purse's fat enough. Imagine... sound-proof your walls, put heavy draperies on the windows, carpet the room, plush couches, good surround sound system... Imagine... you can watch movies there, enjoy your music, play games and BLAST the hell outta your enemies when you turn up the volume...
its now a very messy room, with watever we have no place to put ended up in that room yet to find a suitable (reasonable price) seats too.
umm maybe improving that room shall be my june 'project'.... -
I knocked down a wall seperating a room and the living room and replaced it with glass. it's not a entertaiment centre but the "cosy" room will have a piano, a floor-to-roof pigeon hole book shelfs, wine rack, carpet flooring, plush half-sofa.Originally posted by Rhonda:I wonder if anyone has used one of their spare rooms and renovated it to become an entertainment centre?
I'd love to do that, of course, if the purse's fat enough. Imagine... sound-proof your walls, put heavy draperies on the windows, carpet the room, plush couches, good surround sound system... Imagine... you can watch movies there, enjoy your music, play games and BLAST the hell outta your enemies when you turn up the volume... -
Wahhhhh Rhonda!!! I'm not having that much problems. In fact I'm having more work problems than renovation problems. It's the time I have to spend on work that is making it difficult for me to juggle between the two!!! Plus I'll be gone for over a week travelling!Originally posted by Rhonda:Elindra seems to be having tons of that lately. I thought we could start a thread on renovations to share our experiences with this or to imagine how we'd renovate our pad should we do it.
Phua Chu Kang not invited to this discussion, ah!
Also, I'm a worry wart. I start imagining the worst!I think everything should turn out ok.
Yes, I love the woody feel in a house too but having everything in solid wood is wayyyy over our budget so we are substituting with veneer finishing which looks really good too
The flooring for every room will be Burmese parquet though, with the exception of the kitchen and toliet flooring!
We're going for a zen + contemporary feel and we are going to have our own tatami area as well as a revolving bookshelf which I got the contractor to make. Behind the bookshelf is our storeroom. Anyway, there is a lot of wood and a lot of glass to balance things up.
I think I am going to start a blog on the whole renovation. Need to take pictures of the empty house first. Hehehe. Should be fun. I will be much less stressed up after my trip. Ahhhhh Murphey's Law is in-force for me now. Whatever can go wrong, is all going wrong!!!! Work-wise at least. -
Originally posted by Gedanken:A$600K+ for that place? I knew prices were silly in Sydney, but that's outright ridiculous.
For the same price, my best mate just bought a 2-storey townhouse in Kew, polished floorboards and all the mod cons included, with eight private schools within walking distance to boot. Even at that rate, I thought it was a questionable purchase - still and all, it's a nice place.
Maybe you ought to think about becoming MelbourneLibrarian instead! Well, we never know, maybe we'll end up in Melbourne one day, if hubby gets a job there! I'd really prefer Perth, though (yea tho some ppl think it may be a dangerous place to go to )
Yea... the house we were looking at was about that price, reason being it was in a good suburb, near private schools, university, shopping ctres, churches, parks. But it was a tad small at 500 sqm (land area).
hey do you know much about houses? building materials & that sorta stuff? -
Yup! Yup!Originally posted by shinta:i wan sth like this too!
in that room we'd have the system, playstation2 and books
assumin i'm stayin there wid nel, it'd be him playin teh games, while i read the mangas there
kinda nice too
sound proof the room
For the playstation bit, I'll be Player 2, battling my guy in some game! hehehe!! If I lose too much too often, just throw a tantrum and say, 'AAAaaaargh!! Not fun anymore!!' *fling joystick onto couch and sulk in a corner...
In my teenage years, it was the Nintendo that brought my mom and I closer... we'd sit and play games together, and as we play, we'd chat. -
*chants...Originally posted by SydneyLibrarian: Well, we never know, maybe we'll end up in Melbourne one day, if hubby gets a job there! I'd really prefer Perth, though (yea tho some ppl think it may be a dangerous place to go to )
Yea... the house we were looking at was about that price, reason being it was in a good suburb, near private schools, university, shopping ctres, churches, parks. But it was a tad small at 500 sqm (land area).
hey do you know much about houses? building materials & that sorta stuff?
Melbourne! Melbourne! Melbourne!! -
I have PS2Originally posted by Rhonda:Yup! Yup!
For the playstation bit, I'll be Player 2, battling my guy in some game! hehehe!! If I lose too much too often, just throw a tantrum and say, 'AAAaaaargh!! Not fun anymore!!' *fling joystick onto couch and sulk in a corner...
In my teenage years, it was the Nintendo that brought my mom and I closer... we'd sit and play games together, and as we play, we'd chat. Can't wait to plug it into my new TV to play
Too bad Chris is not interested in games. Haha but my dad and mum had so much fun competing between themselves especially withe Tetris and Puzzle Bobble. -
hehehe...Originally posted by elindra:I have PS2 Can't wait to plug it into my new TV to play
Too bad Chris is not interested in games. Haha but my dad and mum had so much fun competing between themselves especially withe Tetris and Puzzle Bobble.
My mom and dad compete using my brother's X-box too! They play some crazy Wrestling game!
I must get a guy who loves these games too... otherwise, sianz!! -
The funny thing is that I'm a pretty hardcore gamer, but none of my bfs are gamersOriginally posted by Rhonda:hehehe...
My mom and dad compete using my brother's X-box too! They play some crazy Wrestling game!
I must get a guy who loves these games too... otherwise, sianz!!
Opposites attract? -
Perhaps!Originally posted by elindra:The funny thing is that I'm a pretty hardcore gamer, but none of my bfs are gamers
Opposites attract?
I guess it might be frustrating for both at some time - because the non-gamer won't be able to understand it when the gamer gets addicted to a game and he/she starts to live, eat, breathe, sleep and dream the game! Know what I mean? -
BTW, wanna share an interesting fact - did y'all know that there are shopping malls that state in their rental agreements with the stores in the mall, that every stipulated no. of years, they would have to undergo some sort of renovation to change their storefront? Apparently, that is to kinda give the store a makeover and keep the overall appearance of the shopping mall updated and new.
I thought that was pretty interesting. This also helps the economy by ensuring that renovation work will always be in demand by these stores, and then the good ol' multiplier effect kicks in!