Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Countdown... 3 days...
We're only 3 days from moving (in fact, less than 3 days now). But we still have so much left undone! So many things to move, so much to clean up. I hope all will turn out well in the end...
Monday, July 20, 2009
More renovation updates
Finally things are moving at a better pace. I'm still rather worried about whether it can finish by 22nd though. There are a lot of places that need to be touched up.
The lights and ceiling fan are finally up. As can be seen, the balcony is also painted.
The kitchen cabinets
Dish rack
Another part of the kitchen cabinet
The study table
This is the sliding door between the living room and the study room
I quite like the effect of the spotlight on the altar
The colour of bedroom 3
Another pic of the sliding door. This time closed.
The masterbedroom light and the built in wardrobe. The wardrobe hides the entrance of the toilet.
Showing a bit of the inside of the wardrobe
More of the inside
Dining lights
Study room light. I like the wall colour.
The lights and ceiling fan are finally up. As can be seen, the balcony is also painted.
The kitchen cabinets
Dish rack
Another part of the kitchen cabinet
The study table
This is the sliding door between the living room and the study room
I quite like the effect of the spotlight on the altar
The colour of bedroom 3
Another pic of the sliding door. This time closed.
The masterbedroom light and the built in wardrobe. The wardrobe hides the entrance of the toilet.
Showing a bit of the inside of the wardrobe
More of the inside
Dining lights
Study room light. I like the wall colour.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Frustrated with Renovations Progress
I can't believe this. After more than 1 month of renovations, our house is still quite far from complete. Before they started work, the contractors told us in 4 to 6 weeks time, it'll be completed. After starting, they say end of June. After some time, it became early July. A few days ago, it became 22nd July. Now, everything is still behind schedule.
The contractors don't seem to be able to activate their workers well. All they did today was to paint a few walls. A lot of the walls are still left undone. They were supposed to have completed painting last Saturday! Lights are not up though it was supposed to be completed by today.
Anyway, here are some photos of the house in progress.
Painting in progress:
Small window in living room. Bottom is now boxed up.
Grilles are up for all the windows
Probably our favourite part of the renovation. The platform at the balcony.
Store room door. For goodness sake, why would we need a magnetic door stopper for the storeroom door which is supposed to be kept closed all the time?!?! And now that the workers fixed it on, we can't remove the part on the door as it'll leave a hole...
The tight toilet bowl space and the window screen in the common toilet. Although it's still dirty now, it really looks much better than the old green flooring.
Messy kitchen
Messy living room as well. Can't wait for the old lights to be taken down.
Masterbed room toilet door. We wanted only 2 panels for the door (same for the common toilet door), but the contractor forgot to tell the sub-contractors, and both doors turned out to have 4 panels. The contractor asked us to accept it, and we actually said OK, provided everything goes well. Looking at things now, I'm so unhappy... We were willing to give and take, but they just kept doing things wrongly and delaying.
We're going to meet the contractors in the morning to talk things through and sort things out. Do they actually need me to teach them how to manage their workers?
The contractors don't seem to be able to activate their workers well. All they did today was to paint a few walls. A lot of the walls are still left undone. They were supposed to have completed painting last Saturday! Lights are not up though it was supposed to be completed by today.
Anyway, here are some photos of the house in progress.
Painting in progress:
Small window in living room. Bottom is now boxed up.
Grilles are up for all the windows
Probably our favourite part of the renovation. The platform at the balcony.
Store room door. For goodness sake, why would we need a magnetic door stopper for the storeroom door which is supposed to be kept closed all the time?!?! And now that the workers fixed it on, we can't remove the part on the door as it'll leave a hole...
The tight toilet bowl space and the window screen in the common toilet. Although it's still dirty now, it really looks much better than the old green flooring.
Messy kitchen
Messy living room as well. Can't wait for the old lights to be taken down.
Masterbed room toilet door. We wanted only 2 panels for the door (same for the common toilet door), but the contractor forgot to tell the sub-contractors, and both doors turned out to have 4 panels. The contractor asked us to accept it, and we actually said OK, provided everything goes well. Looking at things now, I'm so unhappy... We were willing to give and take, but they just kept doing things wrongly and delaying.
We're going to meet the contractors in the morning to talk things through and sort things out. Do they actually need me to teach them how to manage their workers?
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