Friend, you shouldn't say scared by newbies.. Everyone here just to help and give you some opinion...

Well, is your decision whether to proceed with whatever renovation you intended..

Actually, there's also a good reason for buying all the stuffs earlier.

1) Budget.. sometimes, u indeed need the item and got budget for it. And it happen there's a sale which usually lasts for a short time.. By buying earlier, you get sales prices instead of normal price.

2) If you got your stuff ready... the contractor can do better judgement of how to renovate your house, considering the size of the the stuff that you are planning to put at certain locations. Eg : you're doing table top and want to have space for Fridge next to it. If you got the fridge ready, the contractor can estimate how long the table top should be.. Same thing with hood & hob.. The item must exist first before they can make a hole to fit your hob..

3) You can bring it your lamp/fan, and try putting it at your favourite location. You can see whether it looks beautiful at that location or not. That way, you can advise the wiremen on how and where to do the wiring.. If you buy the stuff once the renovation complete, you walk in into lighting house and saw a nice light and attracted to it but since you've never imagine about such thing before, there's no power point to fix your light.. If you buy it, you need to call the wiremen to hack your house again. So, it's also good to do some shopping first while renovation in progress, so, there won't be unexpected extra stuff that buy after that..


All above are true from my own experience, not from my own theory

This post has been edited by zeese: Jun 15 2011, 12:27 PM

1) Budget, yes, u are right, but sometime, offer item some are going to discontinue item, or some are continue offer item in future, so is depent.

2) Space planing can be done by only look at cataloge, coz most of them are have detail measurement on the cataloge, and for those fridge, build-in oven, hood and hob are about the same measurement, not very hard to plan. Just point the model you interested on the cataloge to your contractor, they will know how to do already.

3) Those loose item like you say floor lamp, table lamp and all the decorative item, there is no problem to buy it 1st, but just like i siad, B4 GET THE KEY, u not even know is the place got switch or not, so u can buy those thing once you got your key, but not at when the renovation is done.

Aaarr.. I see.. Sorry..I misunderstood the situation. TS are talking about, "BEFORE GETTING THE KEY". What have I been thinking!

Well, in that case... it's a risk because lot's buyer end up canceling their purchase, or never get their keys for years due to reasons - among others
- lawyers are too slow
- cannot get permission from land office to transfer land title
- caveat
- prblm with banks
- seller change their mind.. don't want to sell
- etc..

as for me..i tried to plan and started buy things month by month..
sales....price bargain time then go and buy furnitures..

Hi, I just bought my first unit as well, and I do advise you to GET your keys first before buying or even bookng all your listed items. And trust me, there are a lot more moving costs to be considered other than furnitures and appliances.
sales/promotions/etc will always be there. When i moved in, i just bought my stuffs little by little as I'm on a very tight budget as well.
Once I kumpul enough money, i'll buy 1 item. Give me more excuse to go shopping even more...lol... Just buy whatever necessary first if you don't have a lot of budget, then slow slow shop for the rest.

good luck!

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http://lifestylereno.blogspot.com/

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Added on June 25, 2011, 12:06 amsee below link contractor info

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This post has been edited by vatiore: Jun 25 2011, 12:06 AM