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Our Home Renovation Journey - Our Design Preferences

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After the booking of our unit, we were invited to go back to HDB Hub on 25th February 2018, 10:50 am to sign the lease agreement and pay the downpayment. Previously, the officer mentioned that the appointment will be scheduled within 6 months of the unit booking (1 June) but we did not hear anything so I emailed HDB and they scheduled us to go down on 25th February. Its like asking them to hurry take our money.. 😂  Here's the floor plan of our new home.. The projected completion date is end December 2018. Its still going to be quite a long while, we decided to start looking through completed projects of different ID firms, to save some pictures that we like and also shortlist some companies. Since we went for Sales of Balance Flat, we could not choose whether we wanted the flooring or the wall for the kitchen. Everything was already decided for us... So our unit does not come with floor tiles in the living room and bedrooms, has tiles (but we have no idea how the tiles look)...

Our Home Renovation Journey - Background

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Decided to post some background stuff to remind ourselves what we have been through. 😂 So after several attempts of applying for BTO for the Bidadari Estate and obviously failed to get any ballot number, we decided to go for Sales of Balance Flat in Bukit Batok. There were a few options in Bukit Batok, such as Skyline I and II (only a few units here and there), Sky Peak (the estate near Keming) and several estates in Bukit Batok West.  We went ahead to submit our application for a 5 room unit in Bukit Batok West Edge under the Married Child Scheme on 26 November 2016. West Edge had the most units available. Supposedly, 30% of the units will be set aside for the Married Child Scheme. So for us, our 2 balloting tickets will go into the draw for the 30% first. BUT we didnt make it.... 😑 then the balloting tickets will then go into the remaining 70%. Only then did we get a queue number to choose our unit.  Though I cannot remember what our queue number was, but we we...