You did the cement rendering? How was it? Successful? How much they charge you?

Hi Maxxon, your living room using cove light and two downlight only?

how much is the track led light? mind pm me hehe

it doesn't even look as good as your paint. price pdf can't remember now, but for whole living room wall, kitchen wall, was about RM5k.

/heartpain

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

Thanks for the reply, forgot to add, where did you bought from ? from zealess as well?

This post has been edited by MtV: Jun 4 2014, 09:09 PM

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

yay! finally it is completed and your house is very interesting indeed!

and i wonder how is laminated flooring gonna match marble floor because my hubby wanna keep the marble floor since it is cool. well, it isn't that bad actually

did you buy any marble to replace or you just do polishing? if you bought, where from, how much and any moq?

what is a the centre courtyard? is there any roof?

also, where and how much did you pay for the rocking toys?

thanks in advance (and for sharing your journey)

This post has been edited by zoe33: Jun 6 2014, 11:34 AM

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

Maxxon, very "chun" leh your house !!! Beh tahan man ..... It's very tastefully done.

Very nice...
I like the air-well area!
Lovely...

love this lamp.... nice ones lah..

This post has been edited by MANSTIR: Jun 9 2014, 02:55 PM

Nice. There is just so much you can do to that area will wait for pics of the area once 'completed' !

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 me too

also the electrician quotation which i cant find haha

You have brought renovation to another level. Love your detail and design.

Heee. You will soon get used to it. From CNY till now, I have never spent overnight in my old hse. The weekend is just too short for me. Now I need to start sourcing for the CCTV and ask my contractor to do small garden at the back of my kitcken. Initially my mum said no need and I said sudah bayar woh then she said nevermind lah. Then all in a sudden she asked me last week when the contractor will be starting his job ?? I was like

Thanks for the update on the wall and congrats on moving in to your lovely new home! Loving that suar wood coffee table also. Costed a couple of RM'000 I'm guessing?

By the way friend of my brought the same unit at your area for 1.15M in jan 2014... great investment..