DIY painting our entire house because… why not? 😂🎨 Can’t believe this was already a year+ ago before we moved in. We really convinced ourselves that we could do everything from scratch! Scraping old paint, patching, sanding, protecting, taping, sealing, and finally painting 2 coats of colour. Hu

If you're looking for soft warm neutral paint colors that aren't too yellow or too grey, here are the shades we chose for our home! A little fun fact: We painted our entire home ourselves! From scraping off the old paint, patching holes and chips, sanding every wall smooth, applying seal

5/5⭐️ A little late, but too good not to share 😉 Quality exceeded expectations for the price, highly recommend! Sharing all the direct links on my IG stories highlights🤍 IG: @ 256haus #christmas tree #christmasdecoration #lemon8review #shopeehaul #taobaohaul

Renovating our very first home has been a journey of learning, experimenting, and finding the sweet spot between his & hers. Our private quarters reflect that balance: 🛏️ A moody, grey-toned master bedroom that feels like a cosy retreat at the end of the day. 💻 A bright, airy workshop with

✨ Two months into our new home, and the space is finally beginning to tell its story. Our living spaces, designed as a warm threshold for our guests, balance openness with intimacy, setting the tone before stepping into the private quarters. We never had a fixed theme, just a mix of everything

We’ve finally moved into our new home~ It’s been about 2 weeks now, and we’ve slowly been filling the space to make it ours. A new space and stepping out from my 29 years family home feels surreal. It’s a mixed bag of emotions, mostly excitement, but with a little nervousness as we navigate this

We are finally DONE with the renovation! It took us total for 15 weeks to complete all the messy works~ Probably slower than the norm, since we had many self DIY projects (which our contractor probably hates us for 😅). The house is finally clean, and we can start moving our things in and shop more

We’re not 100% done yet, still have somemore progress to log (and look back in the future)🤣 Here’s what got done in these two weeks: ✅ Installed customized slide and swing doors for both toilets. We went all black - frame, body, hinges, lock. Basically everything black😍 ✅ Main steel gate in

Probably the last reno update before full completion. Every week we tell ourselves it’s almost there😂 It doesn’t look like there’s much work for the house, but why it’s taking this long🫣 ~ Then we started laying the vinyl floor ourselves… and time just flew by. We came home every night aching all o

Here’s another log of our reno progress - works are still pretty slow, but we’re inching forward and finally seeing 👀 some major pieces coming together~ 🔨 Bedroom wardrobes - WIP The wardrobes are starting to take shape! - The carcass (skeleton!) is finally up - Some laminates from our sele

Here’s our HDB resale timeline without an agent and zero COV! Looking back, hubs made a bold move to purchase our home without an agent - and that saves us good amount of $$! We got our keys in just about 3months-ish! Luckily for us, the seller and their agents were responsive and helpful😌 Th

Work progress has been slow these past two weeks. Carpentry is still in factory fabrication, but we managed to get some minor works done: ✅ Air-conditioners - This is included in our reno quote, and the aircon sub-contractor did a really good job with the internal trunkings and piping layout -

Planning Your Renovation? Here’s something you might not have thought about—what happens to the existing gas pipes when you’re not using gas? In our case, the gas branch pipe in the kitchen was in the way of our new carpentry. To keep things safe and seamless, we had City Energy terminate the ga

✅ Tiling completed - Finally, all the tiling work is done! This includes both toilets, the kitchen, service yard, and entrance. - We had some extra stock of tiles gifted to us and wanted to use them in our extended service yard space as a meaningful integration into our design. We had a vision fo

Here’s a quick guide for toilet waterproofing works. ❗ Visit your house when your contractor’s workers are applying the waterproofing! It’s important to check with your own eyes before they screed over. We noticed that the workers didn’t apply the waterproofing upturn to 1.8m height in our show

🔨 Toilet updates - The tilers kinda screwed up the master toilet tile setting out - the linear floor trap alignment was off from our 600x600mm tile format. We got the main contractor to have them removed and redo. Luckily only some of the wall tiles affected, and we spotted the mistake in time.