Following are the lights in the living hall:-


- A: 2pcs of LED eyeball spotlights above the sofa. That's for additional lighting when needed for reading books or papers.

- B: Plaster ceiling cove with 2 rows of T5 tubes (one row of yellow tubes and another row of white tubes).
This is the general lighting which I normally just on the yellow lights for daily activities. A row of T5 is good enough to lit up the entire living hall with soft and nice ambience. Well, i'm personally not into the squarish cove with 4 sides of cove lightings.

- C: 2pcs of 4" LED downlights for additional illumination. In fact, I seldom on these lights due to its strong intensity. The strong light beam is somehow causing stress and discomfort to the eyes even though it's warm white (3000k color temp). Will only on those lights when I need very bright lighting.

- D: 2pcs of LED eyeball spotlights to light up the wall with painting and the vent blocks.


- Generally, i love the T5 light cove and all the eyeballs lighting in the house.
- For me, no lighting source beyond the sofa and the side of TV as I do not want any light to be shined directly to the eyes while watching TV.
- for the cost of track light, pls refer page#13, post#249.

Edit: the wall lamp at the staircase near tv cabinet will only be on when I need it while using the staircase.

This post has been edited by maxxon: Jun 10 2014, 02:02 PM

Wow, it's definitely much costly...but one thing better...yours is more original with real cement.

I took a video on the tile floor trap and its water flow. It is after a 3 weeks usage and no cleaning has been performed.
I think the flow is still ok... *pls pardon my shaky hand *



After that, I lifted the tile insert in the middle and found quite some hair stands were trapped around the 4 edges of the plastic base tray. I simply clean it by pulling out the hair strand. The cleaning is easy actually as the hair strands were cleared with one time pull. The amount of hair trapped that you see in the pic below are mostly mine, with a shoulder length hair.






Video took after the cleaning:


This post has been edited by maxxon: Jun 4 2014, 03:34 AM

Those Led eyeballs, track light and downlights are from Zealless.. Where as the T5 tubes are from Yet plus.

I just polished the floor. It is indeed very nice and it's actually one of the thing that I'm glad that I didn't change it. The stepping feel is so nice, cooling and smooth without tiling grouts. Mine is in very light beige/peachy tone, hence it matches nicely with any colour of interior including wood pieces. However, there are many marble floor in other places are grey in color (light or dark grey). If it is a grey marble, the color selection (including wall color and furniture) must be very careful...otherwise it will easily turns into an aunty's house.... Personally feel that all tones of marble floor must avoid interior wall with green or light blue tone.


About the centre courtyard:
There is a double volume void area in the house which I call it centre courtyard. It's not entirely covered with roof so that it gives a good ventilation to the house. There is my next project to plant a tree there and cover its entire floor area with pebble stones.


Centre court, view from living room



Views from the window of master bedroom. This window and upper floor sliding door were done in the renovation but not from the original layout.



View from the courtyard.


Will PM you about the rocking toys..

This post has been edited by maxxon: Jun 9 2014, 05:36 AM

Thanks bro! You really long time no 'pou tao' in LYN huh!?
You know what? I had the new-bed-syndrome like you eh....can't sleep well for the first few days...the bed is too high...kekeke~



Thanks guys for the compliments! Will show more pics later.

PM-ed as per requested.

Oh really? is that exactly the same design which your friend bought? if it is, your friend has got it pretty cheap... My neighbour (who has also the backyard facing the big park) is now listing for sale at RM1.4mil. It is a generally basic house with fully-extended kitchen. Another unit with slightly more renovation listing for around RM1.5mil.


Thanks for the compliments!
it's not perfect but it is a home sweet home built with blood and sweat....Now I can join the post-reno-pocket dry-club.

Haha....I've only get use to the new bed after a week...
Parents are like that, they don't want their children to spend money...
Show us your backyard garden when done, k?


Thanks! The coffee table itself is kinda small actually, less than 2k..

There are too many switches at home which they really put my no-longer-good kinda memory on the test... Bought a label-printing machine and got all those 'piano keys' sorted! This is so that I don't look like an ever-learning-idiot to keep 'trying and errors', EACH and EVERY TIME~


haha...I've got the spot light spelled wrongly...but just too lazy to re-take picture on the corrected ones...



This post has been edited by maxxon: Jun 11 2014, 02:44 AM

I bought it at Popular book store, less than RM40 as they have a promotion on this model (Casio brand).
It is indeed very useful, to label the storage containers, filing, and even on the stationery for kids.

Welcome! Going to bed soon...

I've just tried this out to clean my laminated floor. Bought them in Daiso. I'm very happy with the products looking at its result despite the cheap price.


A packet of dry tissue and another is a wet tissue. (RM5 each)


The stick with adjustable length cost RM5 and the flat mop head was also RM5.


This was the dry tissue used for getting rid of dust and fallen hair. Look at the dirts and hair collected!



The wet tissue was used after the dry ones...

Mine is actually the second phase next to the first phase houses..
I have viewed around 9 unit of dsl in ara (several different phases and designs) before I placed my deposit on this ones...

Oh...thanks for the tips! Will try the cosway's too..

The overall height of counter top is around 900cm. You may refer post#643 on how did I fit in the washer.
For the in and outlet piping consolidated under the kitchen sink, pls refer to post#909.

This post has been edited by maxxon: Jun 12 2014, 04:12 PM

I'm not into fengshui measurement. I'll consider those fengshui aspect which is on safety, health, flow of chi and psychology-comfort but not too particular on these measurements. Actually, these measurements are just a common "standard" old time ppl set for everyone to follow... The measurement just follows the average height of asian women...
As I'm a bit taller than the average lady, so i'm fine with that height...

This post has been edited by maxxon: Jun 12 2014, 11:39 PM

I bought the LED strips and the driver myself at House of Lighting Puchong (available in most lighting shops, i bought it there as I was happened to be around that area) and it was installed by my contractor's electrician.


Before the kitchen cab installation, the electrician need to get the power supply wires ready.
Point A: dropped down from plaster ceiling for the led driver.
Point B & C: power supplies for the led strips, to be concealed into the wall and wires come out at these 2 points.

The kitchen cab installer will then pull the wires (at point A) through and into the cabinet so that the driver can be hidden inside the cabinet.



The driver.



The driver was inserted into this box.



The driver box was installed at point A.



The LED strip (sellable in meters)



LED strip installed under wall cab.

P/s: The LED strips is one of the thing that I'm glad I did. It really helps to provide enough brightness especially when i'm doing washing at the sink, particularly washing vege, washing rice and some cutting task near the sink.
The light source on the ceiling is not enough as it is behind us and we have casted our shadow in front of ourselves...

This post has been edited by maxxon: Jun 13 2014, 07:08 PM

I've no idea what's the brand. No brand wan I presume...
They put a layer of MDF board underneath the quartz top, like following pic.
Not sure if plywood is better or otherwise, here's what Wiki says,
"MDF is generally denser than plywood. It is made up of separated fibres, but can be used as a building material similar in application to plywood. It is stronger and much more dense than particle board."

The installer guy, quite big guy about 90kg demo by hanging and swinging himself (with two hands support on the over-hanging top). It didn't move a bit or even shake a little at all....so, i think it's no prob for a kid to sit on it, but ofcoz i don't dare to try sit or stand on it lar.... Pressing it definitely no prob...

You are welcome. Actually i took those pics during installation and wanted to put up a sharing, but due to lack of motivation, i skipped it... and i've actually skipped quite some things since then...however, feel like abit motivated to do some sharing lately..

The box was given by the electrician... Yup, normal electrical shop has that. Not those electrical shop who sell tv and fridge though, but those shop who sell wires, pipes and switches...

This post has been edited by maxxon: Jun 14 2014, 05:48 AM

Huh!? Can't believe got ppl interested in the polka dots app i used... Coz i see others' are so pro and I sometimes malu to show mine...

If you are using iOS, you may look for an app called "you doodle plus". It's super easy to draw from scratch or like what I did, just draw on a photo/picture. Although it can't draw very technical drawing, but polka dots with free-hand can be done in just minutes.... As long as the drawing is able to be comprehended well by the contractor, I'm happy and do not wish to spend much time on those drawing.

This post has been edited by maxxon: Jun 15 2014, 04:28 PM