Guide to interior design and home improvement in Singapore
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Recovered renovation guides, project journals and home-improvement articles from the original Vincent Interior Blog.
Finally after 7 weeks of renovation, this 5 room HDB renovation project is almost complete. What are yet to be completed are painting works, cleaning and 2 pieces of mirror for the TV feature all. From the respond of the homeowner, I am glad that they are
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Before any carpentry works can be carried out, the Interior Designer will need to confirm all the carpentry designs and materials used with the homeowner. For this Parc Seabreeze condominium, I am going to show you the detailed drawings for all the carpent
Read article →What I am going to tell you in this post might seems unbelievable. I cannot believe it myself when my wife told me until I personally experienced it. The poor quality aluminium windows and window grilles of some window manufacturers in Singapore have posed
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This resale 3 room HDB renovation is approaching its final stage. The tiling work is almost completed and the kitchen cabinet is already installed. What is left is some minor touch up, installation of kitchen top and the cleaning up of the site. By the nex
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This BTO 3 Room HDB renovation project update that I am posting shows that its almost completed. (It is actually completed and I am in the process of taking the photos). The carpentry (which accounts for majority of the renovation works) is completed and I
Read article →Have you experienced falling in your own bathroom or any wet surface? If the fall is a bad one, you can get seriously hurt. Slippery floor is already posing a danger to any strong adult. Can you imagine your elderly parents or young children falling due to
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This 5 room HDB renovation project is progressing at a very fast pace and many works are already completed since the last time I post. Works completed include: Bath accessories installation Tiling Window installation Plastering Air conditioning
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Partial renovation (kitchen and toilet only) like this 3 room HDB unit seems like a small job as compare to those full scale renovation. However, the work and effort put in behind the completion of this job is still very substantial. I would also like to m
Read article →This is the update on the Parc Seabreeze Condominium renovation project located at Marine Parade. Hacking for this site was completed. After removing all the selected wall, the whole house look much bigger and spacious. Hopefully on my next post (for this
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This is a resale 4 room HDB renovation project at Potong Pasir. In this project, only the kitchen and the common toilet will be renovated. For this post, it will contain more details than my usual post. Not only will I post the perspective and the quotatio
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I am happy to present you the first renovation project from PLUS Interior Design. As I do not have much information about this project at the moment, do check out my next post (on this project) for more information. This is a old 3 room HDB unit (easily mo
Read article →For this brand new BTO 3 room Singapore HDB, the majority of the work comes from carpentry. The following pictures cover all the areas where the carpentry works are carried out. I took the pictures on the second day of the carpentry works. The carpenters t
Read article →For this 5 room HDB unit, all floor will be fully tiled (homogeneous tiles) except for the bedrooms. The bedrooms will be cement screeded and vinyl tiles will be laid. The wall of the kitchen and the two toilets will be tiled as well. The whole tiling proc
Read article →I am really excited to bring you my blog's first condominium renovation project by my preferred Interior Designer, Raymond Kua. Raymond is a very talented and experienced Interior Designer who likes to make use of different materials for his renovation pro
Read article →Hacking was the first stage for this renovation project. For any resale unit (especially true for older unit), hacking can be a big portion of the renovation cost. For a big apartment, hacking cost can go as high as SGD7,000 to SGD8,000 depending on whats
Read article →In this post, I am going to show you all the details (documents) regarding this BTO 3 room HDB renovation at Sengkang. All these information allows the homeowners to have a clearer picture about their renovation and their expected end product. For those fi
Read article →This resale 5 room HDB flat renovation feature is another contribution by Interior Designer Ben Ng. I am also proud to mention that this HDB unit belongs to one of my readers! I really want to thank Mr C for allowing me to feature this renovation project.
Read article →This featured renovation project is a brand new 3 room HDB at Sengkang west way. The unit comes with pre-installed doors and flooring. I want to thank Interior Design Ben Ng for his contribution to this feature. Living Room Protective sheets are used t
Read article →Different interior designers or interior design companies provide different types of documentation for their customers. In this post, I will show you how this particular company sets a very high standard of customer satisfaction by providing very detailed
Read article →There are many furniture showrooms in Singapore and in this post, I am going to introduce one furniture company that stand out from the rest. Herman Furniture sells solid wood furniture made out of Teak, Suar, Tamarind and Rosewood. Most of their furnit
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This is another of Interior Designer, Ben's completed renovation works. Just look at how similar the perspectives are to the actual finished work. This prove to homeowner that they are getting 80% to 90% of what they see in their perspectives. This shows h
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One of the many decisions that one needs to make during home renovation is TV, telephone, and electrical points’ positioning. It seems a really simple task. However, it is after living inside the house that one will wish that he had took the matter more se
Read article →Cleaning of the renovated house is usually done after completing all the renovation works. At owners’ request, the house was cleaned before the carpentry installation. Renovation works completed: Tiling of living room floor, dining area floor, 2 toi
Read article →The first few weeks are usually the “hell weeks” for a full renovation. There are simply too many works going on at the same time and the place is usually in a mass. The renovation works that were carried concurrently include hacking, tiling, construction
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