Ipoh House Renovation Progress - Part 5

It's been months since I last post my house renovation progress, the last one being Ipoh House Renovation Progress - Part 4. Indeed during the last few months there was not much updates except to move some of the smaller stuff to the house bit by bit, but more importantly the progress have to be stalled halfway due to the death of both my grandparents, one after another.

The living hall

We were supposed to move in to the house by then, but the schedule have to push out slightly for the funeral as well as other stuff. Even if those incidents did not take place, the moving in progress will also be delayed slightly due to the the delay in delivery of our dining table and chairs.

The dining set, which the delivery was delayed more than a month

Anyway, everything is over and so here we go again, continue the progress of the house renovation. Major renovation has been completed since the Part 4 post, and in this post is mostly on the installation of my living hall's home theater set.
 
So, we get transporter service from a friend of our aunt's and had bigger stuff move into the house via the lorry last Saturday morning and have those unpack in within few hours before we finally decided to have our lunch at the McD nearby.

After our lunch, we passed by Sen Heng, so we decided to get the TV set as well, while waiting TM technicians to fix our telephone line and have our broadband service ready. Bought 2 sets of TV and a home theater set and it those really burn a big hole in my pocket - but I was feeling a bit excited as the salesman told me that they can deliver on that day itself, only to have me disappointed at night when he called and told me that they will deliver the next day.


Nevertheless the home theater and TVs were delivered the next day and the technician helped me to fix the bracket to fix the TV against my TV cabinet and setup the TV with the TV antenna as well as the home theater, and to cut the story short, we have the TV and home theater up and running in about few hours of setting up - too bad I don't really have much time to play with it yet :(

The back of the TV

Bracket installed

It's so messy with speakers and stuff

Later at night, me and my sister setup the Christmas as Christmas is just around the corner - so we fill the house with Christmas mood.

Another view of the living hall

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Ipoh House Renovation Progress - Part 4

It's been more than a month since I last update on my Ipoh house renovation progress - the last post on the renovation progress being at the Ipoh House Renovation Progress - Part 3 in July. Nevertheless, during August time frame, we do a lot of moving in stuff, like moving in those clothes that we rarely wear, disassemble and assemble my display cabinet which I bought in Ikea like one to two years back.

My collection of Starbucks tumblers and cups from places that I went before, limited ed. Starbucks anniversary mugs and tumblers and mugs from Universal Studio, Singapore

Anyway, during this time also we source our bar stools, dining table and chairs and other furniture which might deemed important in a home - well, the bar stools are important as I have a bar over there. It also took us a while to decide on the dining table and chairs set - after considering the budget and the size of the whole set, although the bar stools selection was like a swift due to I have it in mind what I wanted.

My bar

After that, I decided I have enough money to build another 2 built-in wardrobes - in my room and my sister's room and another table in my room. We ask our interior designer to draw out the plan for us and I feel that is what I wanted, so we asked him to go ahead and build the wardrobe. And finally, we have that installed as well.

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Ipoh House Renovation Progress - Part 3

This is the 3rd installment of my Ipoh house renovation progress. Refer to Ipoh House Renovation Progress and Ipoh House Renovation Progress - Part 2 for the first two part of the renovation progress.

Living hall

Finally, after about a month of waiting, the house TV cabinet is up and the same goes to my parents wardrobe - so, can say the house is in move in condition. Other upgrades include some minor add-on to the bar.

Bar with some new add-ons. Do you know what are the changes?

Completed wardrobe

Another view of the living hall

The best part of the whole house renovation is the mini garden of the house is about 50% done, well, the grass started to grow, the same goes to those plants. I'm not sure how long will it takes for me to be able to have roselle drink from my own garden or umbra juice, although our mint plant grow so fast that we can start to eat from it already :D

Mini Garden

My mum and my sister will be going over to the house to clean up as well to move some stuff over.

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Ipoh House Renovation Progress - Part 2

Last 2 weeks, I blogged about the progress of the renovation of my house in Ipoh, so decided to continue the momentum of blogging about it this round. Refer to the Ipoh House Renovation Progress for that post.

Kitchen cabinet work in progress

Mini bar work in progress

This post will be more of the progress of kitchen cabinets and the mini bar that I have in my house. Well, the cabinets were supposedly done in the mid of May, finally completed last weekends, well not really 100% done, but can consider so - only awaiting some minor touch up to the cabinets. If you asked me, I will not say the workmanship is perfect, but I can say it's totally acceptable and I'm ok with it, anyway.

Completed view of the wet kitchen cabinet

The whole process of waiting the cabinets to be up was like crazy. I mean the whole process of assembling the cabinet to be completed like a month back, only to realized that he re-took the measurement on and off to finalized his design. And then when I was back there during one of the weekend, he only managed to complete the wet kitchen cabinet, which is too slow, but unfortunately he must do all the sawing back in his factory due to the complaint from my neighbour. Anyway, was glad that finally he manage to assemble everything for me to see over the last weekends while I was still in Ipoh. Next step is to design the TV cabinets and some wardrobes - which I'm hopeful to see the everyone moving in by end of the year - and have house warming during the Christmas season.

Completed dry kitchen cabinet

Another view of the completed dry kitchen cabinet

Completed mini bar, with me inside

Another view of the completed mini bar

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Ipoh House Renovation Progress

I have never blogged about the progress of the renovation of my house back in Ipoh but I think maybe I can blog about it in this blog. Well, I got this house about 2 years back and the only reason me and my younger sister decided to get it is because of the location. The house is quite old, to be honest, so, we are sort of getting the land only, which also means that the house will need a major renovation which would definitely cost a bomb - in fact the cost of building a new house.

Sofas and coffee table

Ok. After completed the house transaction with the lawyer and bank loans, we spend some time to decide whether we want to have full 2 storeys or rather have a one and half storey and we finally decided to have a full 2 storeys so that we can build another master room. Fast forward three to four months later, the construction house structure is completed and then fast forward another two to three months, we have all the plaster ceiling, tiling, painting, wiring and piping installation done.

Just last few months back, we finally have the windows and grill and doors installed and finally the house is completed and we finally get the key from our contractor. No lighting and fans yet, but yea, the house is ready for move in. I took few days off to decide on curtains and the decorative lights, down lights and fans as we think these are the most important things in a house. And now we got the curtains and lightings as well.

My favourite

Sofas and coffee from another view

While all those were installed, I talked to one guy to do our kitchen cabinets and now we are in the progress of waiting for the kitchen cabinets. Last few weeks, finally we decided to start buying some furniture slowly while awaiting for our kitchen cabinet and finally we got our sofas and coffee table already.

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