Sunday, November 15, 2009

RENOVATION PART 3 - CHOICE OF MATERIALS AND COLOURS

Chooing the right materials and colours could be one of the
most difficult and time consuming phrase in the
whole renovation process.

I have seem people taking 3-5 hrs just to pick the right tiles
Another 2-3hrs just to pick colours and laminates.

Its really tough going though all the samples..
easily hundreds to go through.
For laymen like us, its difficult to visualize how the outcome will
be like based on the tiny samples we have.

If you pick the make the wrong choice, results could be disastrous
as its non-reversible.

We are fortunate, our ID have filter out a few choices for us..
and based on her recommendations,
We have a fuss free choosing experience

30mins to confirm our choice of times..
another 1hr to pick all the colours and laminates
for the whole house

There's a preview of some items we have picked
out for the house. Hope it would turn out too badly.

Didn't manage to take picture of everything as we are
moving through too quickly.

This is something i picked out myself. *proud*
its really nice, and its textured.
Can really feel the suede material on the surface
doesnt feels like wall paper.





This is my favourite tiles, meant for MBR toilet feature wall.
Original choice wasn't this mock croc tile, but a black glossy
flowery tiles which the ID have picked out

But i just couldn't give this up, over the next 3 days
I woke up with thinking of this print.
This gotta be it, so it should be!!


Textured Black laminates for my WIW.
A similiar off white colour laminates was chosen for
my kitchen cabinet.

Like i have mentioned before, not sure how a textured kitchen
cabinet will turn out to be.

But im more worried about scratches on a glossy surface.

So Emma told me to use this instead of getting irritated
with scratches later on.The orginal floor laminates was no longer available too
as power dekor had a new shipment, so colour range have change too

We have to make a choice between the two,
of cos my #1 choice will be the darker piece on the right from Power dekor.
But because of the grading issue, me and emma prefer using AC5
hence ID picked the darkest colour possible
from Supreme which is the on e left.

While i was comparing both pieces, my boys actually help us to make the choice!
They are playing round and stepping on the laminates
while im comparing on the floor.
Eto's hair look so obvious on the darker piece..totally
cannot make it.
Its gonna be difficult maintaining it.Sure will look dirty
everytime Eto wag his little tail!

Therefore we decided to go for this, as his white fur
looks less obvious on it.
The colour looks a bit different under flash light thou.



Finally the colours for the walls, ID have picked out for us
I think they are all quite pretty:)




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