Spending Spree....

Today was a spending spree day. Bought our lights at Chelsea Lighting (aka Chuan Seng) at Jurong East, our bed frame and bedside table at OM (IMM) and made partial payment to Creation Air for our LG System 3 Aircon.

Today we both took half day to settle on how the air con trunking and drainage will go and after which they will fixed up the trunking. Daniel from Creation Air was a friendly chap and luckily his method of the drainage trunk was not used. His expert worker was around to do the site assessment and advised us on a better way to do the drainage trunking. Phew...

Daniel's plan is on the left and his expert's plan is on the right.

We nearly give up on having a System 3 if Daniel's plan really took off. I guess in the end every thing work out well. :)

After waiting for 2 hrs++ for Miss xiaofang who goes for her interview with a job agency and claimed that it will be chop chop, we proceeded to Chelsea Lighting with Sebasten (he is late too!!) to get our lighting. When he called me at 1pm to inform me that he will be late due to site survey, he also told me that Chelsea Lighting was previously known as Chuan Seng and told me to look for a lady called Amy. This lady Amy was the one who served us on Monday when we popped by to look at their lighting. Sebasten said that she used to work in a Lighting shop in IMM before the shop made way for Daiso. I guess after many years in the renovation industry, everyone knows each other.

We got 7 lights which total up to S$931. The master bedroom light cost the most ($321) but it come with a remote which can toggle the lights in 3 different modes. Mode 1 on 2 of the 4 bulbs (warm light), Mode 2 on the other 2 of the 4 bulbs (daylight) and Mode 3 on the 4 bulbs. Interesting!! we also managed to get a matching light for our master bedroom entrance and Amy will modify it from a ceiling to a hang light.

In the end, I did not get the light that I fancy for the dining area but Amy is able to modify it to use it as a passageway light. So for dining, we chose a round aluminium ball like light which we think the diffuse lighting effect will be good. The other kitchen light is a rectangle with aluminium skirting to match the dining area hang light.

To cut the budget, we got normal glass round lights for the 2 other bedrooms. 32W should be sufficient to light up the 2 small rooms. :P

Due to no empty white lot, Sebasten parked on a red lot when we arrived at Chelsea. Luckily, the human alarm system was good and Sebasten managed to siam the ticket aunties. If not, we will feel pai sei to let him kena 'san man'. His advice on the lighting was good and matched our liking.

After getting the lights, it was already 5:30pm. He drove us to IMM to take a look at the bed frame at OM. At OM, we met Andy the 4th time and surprisingly he knows Sebasten and Sebasten knows Michael (from Henderson OM). We both like the bed frame and Xiaofang, not wanting to make the decision, ask me to decide to get it or not. Well having done some research, I feel the price ($799 -10% + 7% GST) is ok and the design is sleek, nice and structure is firm and steady. I decided to get it and together with the side table (Xiaofang wants one :P).

A grand total of S$2931 damage to our pockets...

After spending so much, we went back to Sebasten office and managed to settle on the color and internal and external design of kitchen cabinets, shoe cabinet, wardrobe and feature wall/console. We had also selected our living room and bedroom 2 color which is Morning Dew, master bedroom colors which are Lavender Mist and Kashmir, bedroom 3 colors which are Cool Lime and Morning Dew and lastly kitchen color which is Bisque.

Our renovation will be going at 120km/h that what Sebasten said. :P