Have to do frequent house keeping then...

My kitchen cab also glass.....

Something look nice, but when come to daily maintenance is pain in the azz. Unless got maid.

Don laugh. It is common amongst the chinese familes especially if you have elderly folks at home. My mum is trying very hard to convince me to put the old fridge in the wet kitchen so that she can put a lot of stuff during CNY.

Speechless.

Yalar, in the wet kitchen okay wat.... As long as not side-by-side with the new Toshiba fridge lor..

I had same headache months ago. Must get the biggest size you can afford now, 600-700L will be just nice even for a small family. Fridge is a long-term investment, if you are lucky it will stay will even till next house.
What brand the best? Very subjective answer, just believe yourself...

My current fridge is 411L but i only utilize up to 70% and there's only 2 of us. The fridge is consider big for me though so a 710L is quite big even for us

Frankly, its about whether you are a heavy user of the wok, require many spices, ingredients to prepare soup 2-3times, lunch and dinner everyday. Some even buy a week's worth of food to cook for that particular week. So the usage is different for each family habit, not about the size of the family.

For eg, I'm using electric hob, so no wok cooking on it and my cooking style is like 2 or 3 times a week, and sometimes once a week. But I bake, so need fridge space for my baked stuff.

Anyway, using an old fridge is ok in the wet kitchen. My parents have 2 fridge side by side, one of them is i think a single door commercial fridge, the glass type, similar to that used in restaurants serving steamboat, just smaller. And all their food stuff put inside also. I see it also, i don't bat an eye over it.

Good progress so far.
Looks like you are enjoying yourself !

I cook moderately, my aim is to cook at least 7 meals in a week as I would like to reduce eating outside. Self-cooking-meals are definitely more healthy..
Furthermore, I love food and I enjoy cooking.

Seriously, if I have an existing fridge before moving in and gonna have wet kitchen, I would also place it in the wet kitchen. Too 'sayang' to trash it, isn't it? (Of course, it is provided that the old fridge is not too 'old' and not having heavy electric consumption).
It is perfect to store all cooking stuff and raw material in the wet kitchen fridge, and keep another fridge in dry kitchen for things like ice-creams, cakes, milk, juices, beer, fruit jam,etc... If that's the case, the fridge in dry kitchen do not need to be in gigantic size actually...

This post has been edited by maxxon: Nov 13 2013, 02:16 AM

Perhaps, I just have to blindfold myself and point a finger to choose...

Btw, it's true that fridge does last for ages...the fridge in my mum's place is now around 16 years old and still running strong...

I do quite enjoy the process...
Every part of it is a learning for me, and eventually learnt to accept some imperfections too...
I just hope that I have another one month's time to spend so that I won't be so stress on the completion due date...

That's why. Practicality is better for the wallet

+1

Btw TS, nice process and hope to see the end result enjoy ur reno.

Progress updates as of 11th week:-

The storage heater has been installed in Master bathroom. It is a Joven 35L heater tank.



Copper piping from storage heater to rain shower and long bath.



The windows' frames have been installed. As these windows are just made of standard materials and not the 'big material', hence the sub frame method is not so suitable as the holding surface is not gonna be big enough. So, they installed the main frame straight away. This type of installation is normally done before the plastering of window edges, but as my contractor has already done the plastering before frame installation...we have got no choice but to hack a bit on all edges so that further cement can be added in to seal the gaps and hold the frames.



Some edges are with kinda big gaps...


Slight hacking on all edges.


Filled up the gaps with cement and plaster.

Finally starts tiling job...

First of all, the tiles need to be soaked with water...


Tiling the kitchen wall.


Tiling the bathroom's wall.


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Concrete table top for the semi-recessed basin. It will be the Johnson Suisse Arosa.


Making the concreate table for the counter top basin JS Jupiter. We found that the concrete height is too high as there gonna be a counter top basin sitting on it..we are lucky that the error was identify early hence avoided major hacking...

Nice progress.

Yup... always good to let your contractor see the type of sink and faucets you'll be using or at least bring it to the site and see for yourself. Better safe than sorry.

Tiling is the most exciting part for me. Once tiling is complete, majority of interior will start to take shape. Keep it coming.

The water closets, basins, and faucets are already sent to the site. The plumbing work is done by an indon guy and i had so far pointed out few errors on the plumbing job... Perhaps there was communication break down in between him and the site supervisor.....
That makes me so busy keeping an eye on the details...until wanna go back home town also feel so uneasy to leave...

This post has been edited by maxxon: Nov 18 2013, 04:58 AM

Ya... Can't wait really...
This team of chinese sifus are very hard to book as they have very tight work schedule... I have waited so long for the tiling because I insisted to use them particularly...as I have seen their work from my neighbor's renovation earlier...

This post has been edited by maxxon: Nov 18 2013, 05:15 AM