Our Life Together

We scheduled to meet our ID at Hafary Eunos at 11:30 am. The place has a huge collection. Just after entering the building for a short while, we were both stunned at the range of tiles they had, wondering how in the world are we going to choose from all those tiles. Sometimes having a huge range can be a headache as well 😂. From the different tile sizes, to designs, patterns, finishing and textures, not including the huge range of colours with just the slightest variations to the undertones. 😨 We walked around excitedly and energetically in the beginning, touching and feeling the tiles for its texture and feel. After some time, the both of us were literally lost. Everything started to look the same to us.  Thankfully our ID arrived earlier and shortlisted some tiles that would best suit what we previously described to him and also some unique tiles that would help make a certain area stand out more. Our first choice for the flooring of the entire house (Living Room, Be...

We spent a pretty long time trying to screenshot pictures online that we would love for our dream home. We wanted to go for Scandinavian theme with grey tones. I guess in most cases, lighting plays a very important part to bring out the cosy feeling that we love. Some pictures of living rooms that we found cosy and nice.  We shortlisted a number of ID firms and met up with the IDs assigned to us to try to find one that would best suit our needs, be it in terms of pricing, rough design ideas and also whether we could understand each other and felt comfortable with. Can't believe it but we actually met up with 7 or 8 ID companies. The companies that we spoke to were:  Superhome Design  Jialux Interior  DB Studio  Cozyspace  DS2000  Earth Interior Lemonfridge Studio  It was definitely a tiring experience, having to explain what we want in our house and what we are going for over and over and over again. 😂 Hence I suppose we ...

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)...

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...