Haha...sure you are enjoying your hard work now...   I've actually learnt lots of things from your thread. Thanks for your sharing bro! The termite vendor Stopest was also from your recommendation.

My reno progress is still not even up to 50% yet...hoping everythings gonna be fine.. 
The budget has actually been stretched at earlier stage when I was getting quotation and pressed the calculator...
I think you will definitely agree with me, nothings comes cheap...few Ks here and there added up to a scary figure!
My initial budget was only around 150-180k (included electrical appliances and basic furnitures). When I started pressing the calculator and go into each and every details, I realize it would be around 260-300k practically. So, I'm holding tight now to the revised budget and hope I won't touch 280k. 

I'm getting a Joven heating drum for my master bathroom as I'm placing a long bath there. Moreover, there will be only 2 of us newly-wedd living in the house. Will use normal heater in another 2 bathrooms.

Actually, I'm kinda curious how did you guys tell your contractor on what colour to paint on which wall?
To avoid mistakes and confusion, I've sent my contractor the following few pics, plotted out which part and which colour that I want (based on nippon paint colours brochure) . My contractor said he was amazed to see so many polka dots when he opened up the files....guess I'm the first ever client of his doing this...     









The first layer of paint was done and I'm kinda satisfied with the chosen colours accept the living room and family hall which has been painted in 'hush white'. The 'hush white' colour is too yellowish/creamy to my liking. It makes the room looks smaller and the walls were looked like those already painted for more than 10 years...
I failed to convince myself accepting the colours so I have to tell the contractor to re-paint it to another brighter colour (orchid white). I think I better change it now since it is just painted the 1st layer, rather than regretting for many years to come living in it... 

FYI, all electrical appliances (except TV) are going to have a price hike from 1st Jan. Gonna share with you some items that I've bought recently:-

Fridge-
Bought the Toshiba's 700L fridge @RM2500. Harvey Norman is selling at RM 3099.
Chose this 700L over the 650L as the difference is only rm250. I'm getting the big ones here as I've inherited my mum's habit of storing most dried cooking ingredients in the fridge. Bigger space means easier organizing.

The picture below is a 650L Toshiba that I took some times back.

Fans-
i) Fanco fan @RM350, swivel positioning by manual only. (No budget for the pricey NSB vento fan which is around rm13++).

ii) Deka baby fan in black @RM188.

iii) Alpha E-Light 5 blades fan with emergency light, 4 speeds @RM360.

iv) Alpha 828 5 blades fan, 4 speeds, @RM265.



v) Alpha Q28 5 blades fan, design same as 828 but with 5 speeds and reverse mechanism for natural wind function. @RM300.

vi) Alpha Axon 1 360 degree swirl fan, 5 speeds, @RM499.


Note: The sales guy from the shop which I bought the fridge said he will reckon Alpha's fan over KDK and Deka (I had already bought all my fans before knowing him and their shop sells Deka, KDK, Panasonic and Alpha). According to him, KDK (also the OEM for Panasonic fan) has various complains from customers for unstable swinging.
Air conditioning-
Bought all Mitsubishi brand (Mitsubishi Electric) as following:
- 3 units of 1.0HP, plasma, i-see sensor @RM1100 ea.
- 1 unit of 2.5HP, standard (plasma only available for 1.0 & 1.5HP), @RM2100 ea.
- 1 unit of 2.5HP cassette air-cond @RM2800 ea.

Note:
1) All above are non-inverter and price exclude installation as my main con will do it.
2) All Mitsubishi air-cond has increased in price. The shop agreed to grant me the old price as I brought the quotation they gave me before the increment.
3) The original warranty is 2 years on interior unit & 7 years on compressor. I've bought the additional 3 years warranty extension for the following:
- RM135 for 1.0HP (1 extension can use for all 3 units of my 1.0 HP as they do not track the serial number).
- RM175 for 2.5HP cassette air-cond.

It has been some times since my last updates. Just little progress thus far....

I find that the original fencing of my front porch will gonna be super awkward as it doesn't match with the gate (horizontal stripes) that I gonna install later. Good thing that my main con is so kind to brick it up FOC for me. So the fencing is now matching with the side wall fencing.

Original:



Now:


Tiling of table top for other two bathrooms with semi-recessed JS basin.




The ceiling mount ventilation fan for master bathroom.

Ok ok...i surrender...it's my bad fueling the speculation...me no good~~    
I shouldn't have bought this house. I should buy it further away....if the suburb house prices also speculated to 2 fold already now, I shoudn't buy it too...otherwise I will be speculating the suburb housing price and affect the suburb ppl who can't afford the new housing price....

Then, I should just rent...
oops, not good also...coz I will be then fueling the investor's pocket and indirectly fueling the housing speculation again...........     

You finally got it right. We are here to follow TS's renovation progress. We read too many of other stuff you mentioned in Property thread but definitely we don wish to see it here again ...

Love your reno TS ... can't wait to see your finished product.

You're welcome! 
Haha...ya...what a delay.. I've been over optimistic on the dateline earlier on...
Didn't fix date for move in yet...The kitchen may takes a bit longer coz I was well-informed that it was fully scheduled before CNY, so they just starting mine now.

Err...I don't quite understand what you mean by "that spot time stole my attention". Is it the "spotlights" that you are trying to say? If it is, yup...the spotlight is kinda obvious and might not looks nice but It still gonna sit there coz it really helpful. 
Hmmm... it's good to bring this out so that other forumer who are reading this thread got to take note.

Haha...thanks for following and I'm glad you find my posts helpful. 

More random updates:-

- Bought this dust cover for the door where it can be inserted into the hole made for ground lock.



- door guard with chain for bedrooms.
The earlier door guard that I've bought can't be used coz the frame and door are not at same level hence the latch can't be slot in. So, I changed to this chain type instead.

- Magnetic door stopper to avoid banging of door especially on windy days.

- Motion sensor installed on the ceiling to control the led downlight at the entrance, so that it lights up automatically when we step in the house before we reach the light switches.

- Power sockets located at a lower height so that it's hidden behind the tv console. An empty paip has been concealed up to the length where we gonna place our wall-mounted TV. As such, it gonna hide those ugly wires and I do not need a wood backing panel to cover the wires. I just not quite fancy those typical TV panels which can be found in most houses.
There is a master switch installed nearby (inside the DB compartment) for those sockets. The DB compartment will be hidden behind the curtain as the curtain is to be done up to the wall.

There are some work on master switch, I don't know the reliability of the master switch surge protector. So far the best serving me is Cal-Lab is an isolater.

What color is the pebble wash and tiles gonna be?

Haha... So, I should not be afraid to show my stupid works or stupid ideas (but pls don't laugh at me ok ).. so that we can have more discussions and learning.