Scouting for Furniture & Kitchen

The interior part seems to be going smoothly. So now we started to scout for furniture and kitchen. We've told beverly homes that we will going to have a black couch, black tv cabinet, black dining, black coffee table. So now we spotted our ideal furniture in Harvey Norman...

As for the kitchen, we did a few rounds to several kitchen designer... Signature Kitchen, Kitchen Palace, Kuchen... Signature Kitchen provides a very good kitchen set, but quite common nowadays and ppl will straight away know it's from Signature Kitchen when they sees your kitchen ... pricing, expensive, just for the cabinet, work top and a few accesories. Kitchen Palace, well, I will never recommend anyone to visit Kitchen Palace. NEVER. When you first go in, they will treat you as a valuable customer, giving a lot of advices... very goood indeed. Normally after you discuss what kind of cabinet you would like to have, you will provide them your floor plan, and they will need 1 week to come out with the full 3D design. Kitchen Palace told us, they need 2 weeks to come out with an initial design, not 3D design yet. That is so long, fine. We waited for 3 weeks. Yet, no calls from them yet as they promise to call in 2 weeks time. So we drop by to check what happened. To my surprise, the salesman didnt even recognise us. So we explained everything and asked for our design. Well, he said he havent come out with the design yet! So i get very cranky. He said just give him 20 mins to draw out the initial design. WHATT?? He said he need 2 weeks to do that and now he said he can get it done by20 mins?? That's it, im outta here. Slammed.

So we went to next door, Kuchen, well, nice showroom they have, nice salesman, explaning everything in details, sound promising, very good. Nice and clean design, I love it... but the price is quite high though ... around 50K just for the kitchen.... very tempting ~~~~

Hunting for ID

Now we starts to look for ID [interior desiger]. My dear did a lot of web searching, forums, and he did email to some of the ID and ask for quotations... Well, to have the exactly / slightly different design as per the magz is quite expensive ... without 100K, dont ever think about getting a famous ID .... (T_T)'' anyway, we did not just stopped there... we continue to look for ID either from magz or from Home Decor Exhibition... Met a few IDs, don't quite like it though... some because of their reluctant to go according to our budget, some proposed a very simple, typical chinese design, some even worse, they do not listen to our requirement and needs, as we want what we planned since the beginning, and they said normally they will do like this this this, your idea is not very goood and this and that, the worse thing is, their attitude. ARGGHH, it's not easy to get a gooood ID.
After a few months of ID hunting, we found a goood and promising one. Beverly Homes. We both loves their design, and we spotted them on Magz too. To my surpise, they do accomodate our requirements, and came back with a fast response. Thumbs up. So we told them what we want, in details, and they begin to draft out the design. It will takes a week or so to come out with the initial design...

Start Planing

Ok, now we have to decide how we want to renovate our new house. Well, I personally do not want to follow the traditional chinese kinda reno... with white walls, and simple cabinet... I want something nice and modern. So we starts buying ID (interior design) Magazines. Instead of spending on Cleo and Women's Weekly, we invested on ID Magz instead. The design looks great and the figures looks GREAT tooo... T_T''

After so many rounds of reseaching, we finally knows what we want. We know how exactly we want the living room to be, how the bedrooms will look like. And the most exciting plan, is my dream room, da game room... I want to get the wall hacked down and replaced with a glass wall instead. Woww... after a long discussion, it seems to be quite expensive to do that, so we minimized it, and just have the door taken down, and replace with a glass sliding door instead. First of all, it will save space, where we can put the TV just beside the door...

Building

Since it is nearby, we can actually monitor the construction's progress. In each week, they can finished building 1 Floor. At least from the outside, it is a floor per week. Counting, Counting and Counting ....

And here is the location map. Good location huh ... hehe ... Can't get a unit anywhere around this area for 269 K .... Others that we browsed around, cost at least 290K - 300K and above .... pheww... So this unit is a good bargain, well, again, I hope the management is good enough to keep all the facilities and landscapes in good condition all the time....

The floor plan

So this is our unit. Type A-Corner with 1,137 square feet. Although it is not huge, it's enough for the 2 of us ... So we starts planing on the rooms... One of the room will be a guest room, and the smaller room will be our 'game' room. Which is my dream room!!

We found our comfy zone

At last we found our very own future house. After so many rounds of trips to countless showrooms, we found something that suits both of us and of cause an affortable unit. When we found this showroom, they almost fully sold all the units. We are lucky that we still can grab the largest unit [corner unit]. So here comes our future comfy zone for just both of us... Pelangi Utama.... A very good location, walking distance to 1 Utama, well, I won't walk to 1 Utama anyway... near Shell & Mobil petrol station, LDP and NKVE is just around the corner ....