good point. i was wearing short n sliper when i went to new house show unit. most of them just ignored me (perhap i look like a student) until here come a sale lady who attended to me and showed me a smile face and never looked down on me. i was happy with her service. after a day of consideration, i decided to buy the unit which is worth more than half a million. so i went back to sales gallery and looked for her. but she was on leave tat day. then i left and went back again the next day just to look for her to seal the purchase as im happy tat she earn the commission from my purchase.

Saw their advertisements on Astro a few times. Apparently this company is from Singapore. Never crossed my mind to look for them cause I know they are definitely expensive. Out of my range.

Btw, I drive Kelisa, and also wear bermudas and t-shirt. Went to Sri Petaling SenQ and HLK a week back, walked-in, look-see, walked-out, no one entertained us. All sales persons were talking among themselves. Maybe they are thinking, "Poor old man, sure won't buy anything" Lol. Good service is rare in Malaysia. They either follow me like a hawk, or totally ignore me, not sure which is better.

I visited MV branch, got the same 'treatment'. Wondering are they keen to do sales or not now i ended up using defuro.

not using haus dining table and yea! i've got all my staff just moved in last saturday. tmr i will post some pic in your thread

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8231/8390559...370786d6b_m.jpg

I spent a lot of time doing frequent trips and loading stuffs from the Ikea As Is. Managed to get this for about 7k, not including the appliances and the porcelain sink. There are ways to get cheaper kitchen

No idea where I keep the original pic. This is the one that I keep in flickr. Think yours is definitely doable. I imagine using the 60cm wide high cabinet, maybe can use similar to mine (the one with the oven) if you want to stack the dryer on top of your front loading machine. Or use the higher cabinet.

BTW, I designed my kitchen first and look for what I wanted in the As Is and brought home a few pieces at a time. Some cabinets I bought new. After that, I got the ikea staff to draw the design, ask for a quotation to assemble, and get the contractor from Ikea to assemble for me. I saved about 4-5k from the original quotation that I got from Ikea.

That's my strategy.  Wear short pants and bargain with them. Then give them the price I want.  If can't,  i will leave them my contact and tell them if can offer the price I want then call me.

Surprisingly,  it works most of the time. Coz sales hard to do.  If they want hit target or what or no sales in certain month or day. .. They will definitely call you up. Haha.