Project: Puncak Alam Housing Project

Topic : Works Sharing & Hot Tips

Project: Puncak Alam Housing Project

Topic : Works Sharing & Hot Tips

Hello everyone, we would like to share with you some hot tips based on our previous experience, giving you more options to consider, comparing the pros and cons, while allowing you to cinterprete your own thoughts while making decision.

As we always mentioned before, you can do in whatever way as long as it really satisfy your needs. However, what if sometimes things doesn't go as planned, and you had spent alot of money in doing this, what should you do? This is why we are here to share the tips with you.

1. Is L-box ceiling design really good? Yes, it looks classy, the installation work is not difficult. It creates more options in displaying lights, breaking the conventional way of only using LED downlight. However, there will be more dust taking place in that area, making housekeeping work has to be done more frequently. Why not just doing a simple flat plaster ceiling with pelmet ceiling at side, concealing the curtain track.

2. Not sticker wallpaper but apply simple emulsion paint ( playing with tones of colour) - Cheaper, modern, different moods available, easy transformation in future.

3. Not using heavy bedhead set - Heavy, Takes up alot of space, expensive. Replacing it with simple wood veneer design.

4. Sliding door cabinet can be good or vice versa depending on your needs. We thought that it can somehow save space as it only moves left/ right, however, the track can actually takes up almost 100mm which bigly reduce your storage. Sometimes, the door might not closed up completely due to the track. Using side-hung door can be sometimes much better, however, all of this subjective to person.

5. Not doing too much of split level in your cabinet, try to customised more spaces for hanging clothes, looks more neat. Instead of doing split level, making the operable big drawer to store your clothes can be so much neater as it wont make your whole cabinets clumsy.

6. LED strip lighting can somehow bring your kitchen area to a higher level, giving more ambient feel.

Project: Puncak Alam Housing Project

Topic : Hot Tips on How You Should Design Your Kitchen Cabinet

Project: Puncak Alam Housing Project

Topic : Hot Tips on How You Should Design Your Kitchen Cabinet

Before moving into today's sharing, lets talk about what is Ergonomics Design. An ergonomic design is specially designed to the user's needs, and it helps to achieve comfort and increase usage efficiency. After discussing with your designer on what types / quantities of storage you need in your kitchen, lets start designing your own customized cabinets.

Firstly, there is always a standard formula to go with, in order to achieve ergonomics.
1. The bottom cabinet would normally go around 800mm height. The height of washing basin/tray, and the countertop always suit to the height of users ( Taking height of users divide by 2 with extra 5 to 10 cm added)
2. For the top hung cabinet, the depth would go around 350 to 400mm. This is the suitable size to place all your stuff, and at the same time prevent your head from knocking to it.
3. For the bottom cabinet, we would go around 550mm while the countertop is slightly larger than the cabinet (600mm) in order to cover the whole area. At the same time 600mm is the standard measurement as if you apply tiling on top, there is no wastage of it as standard tiling size is either 1 by 2 or 2 by 2.
4. The overall height of the top hung cabinet is around 700 to 800mm , and is set around 650 to 700mm above the countertop. However, we would normally make box-up all the way up to the ceiling, looks more neat and reduce dust accumulation.
5. For the washing tray, if your countertop is large enough (more than 4m), can choose one big single tray / double tray. If small, just go for one big single tray is more than enough as long as it can fit the big wok and other kitchen appliances.

hi
if new house want to add on alot of electrical power point and light point.
is it possible without plaster ceiling ?

or must have plaster celling to hide all the wires?

hi Sifu!

can you share about marble flooring installation?
Roughly how much per square foot?

also, have you heard of marble from gua Musang, Kelantan? I think it's called pallandro grey.

It's a lot cheaper than imported marble but im not sure of the quality.

TIA.

Hi,

This is my undercon house that I've just bought (corner cluster semi-d). My idea is as following:

RED = plan to extend the dining area about 9 feet towards the land and surround it with glass / windows / sliding door. At the top, plan to do a balcony (entry from family hall)
BLUE = plan to extend the wet kitchen area but as you can see, I left some gap at the bathroom window in order not to disturb the ventilation of the toilet

Do you think such idea is feasible?

Sorry, I can't attach or link any images in my post. Here's the floor plan:

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Hi, for your information, with or without plaster ceiling design is depending on your own selection. If there is no plaster ceiling, your lighting conduits will be exposing, and it will more to industrial feel like what you see in cafe, for example. ( If this is your intention). However, it is not recommended if you are looking for a clean and sleek design in home (typical design), and with plaster ceiling, it minimizes alot of work. However, if you go for industrial mood, yes it is definitely possible

This post has been edited by My Maison: Dec 19 2021, 08:59 PM

Yes. Definitely possible, and with further developed on space integration, things work better.

Project: Midfield Condominum

Topic :Preparation Work + Lighting Installation

Project: Midfield Condominum

Topic :Preparation Work + Lighting Installation

As usual, when starting off with any project, ensure a clean and neat working place, to protect the property as well as for ease while working, reduce risk of accident!!

Yeap. For this project, we start off with installing lighting conduits below soffit, with designed/required amount of points after discussion with designer/ lighting specialist. In this scenario, we are going to install plaster ceiling in future, to hide all the conduits. Yes, some of your might curious, is it a must to do plaster ceiling, will it cost me alot? Actually it all depends on you, if you dont prefer ceiling as you wanna a higher floor to ceiling height, more sense of space, yes, you may hack slightly a little on your slab, place the electrical wirings inside the gap and plaster it back. It would not spoilt your building structure. However, there will be more works for your worker for sure. And Skills is important!!!!!

Maybe in future, we can talk about how the types of lighting can performed in your house!! Stay tuned.

Hi, for marble, it is estimated around around RM100-130 per sqft for supply and installation work

Project: Midfield Condominum

Topic : Ceiling Installation & Design Possibilities

Project: Midfield Condominum

Topic : Ceiling Installation & Design Possibilities

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Disclaimer: Photos Source is taken online for learning purpose

Project: Midfield Condominum

Topic : Ceiling Installation & Design Possibilities

Hi, i believe that from the photos above, you guys would have better understanding on how we actually ceiling for you. Beside from the flat ceiling which is quite common used and highly accepted by most users, there are actually a few design possibilities that can bring your house to another levels or mood.
As usual, we install the metal studs as our framework, with proper spanning and depth as required to secure the plasterboard later. Screw the plasterboard below it and give it a smooth covering to seal up the gaps in between.

Remember that we do need to cut off some locations for the purpose of lighting fixture installation, either downlight/eyeballs selection. In this scenario, we provide circular shape downlight. Hope you enjoy our work on the construction of flat ceiling in this scenario. However, there are actually alot more possibilities that can be explored, please look at the photos i shared above ( Photos credited to online source)

Yes, beside from flat ceiling, there are options such as
(a) Partially constructed plaster ceiling (局部吊顶） Option 1 - (正面灯带效果）- constructed directly next to both sides of the wall, and allow the L-shape pattern as finishing. The lights can be placed on that location, creating lighting effect

(b) Partially constructed plaster ceiling (局部吊顶) Option 2 - (反面灯带效果）- Around the same as flat ceiling, but we leave the L-shape finishing pattern next to the walls. The lights are reflected to the wall, passive lighting

© Partially constructed plaster ceiling (局部吊顶）Option 3 - (分层) - Emphasize box-up ceiling on four corners of the wall, creating layers of ceiling. You may consider to locate your lights to emphasize the are as well.

(d) Flat ceiling with gaps (阴隐缝）- Basically leaving a 20mm gap on the finishing edges between ceiling and the wall, creating more effects with lowest cost. In advance, if there is a big beam protruding, this is a good way to blend the design with big beam.

Thanks for reply. Appreciate it

Project: Midfield Condominum

Topic : Light Types & Possibilities

Project: Midfield Condominium

Topic : Light Types & Possibilities

With all of the plaster ceiling getting ready, its time to cut out the holes for your placement of lighting. SO, some of you might curious about the amount of lighting we should be putting in each area. Dont worry, actually you may consult your designer or even the lighting shop owner. They are experienced in this and with only plans provided, they can actually calculate for you.

In this scenario, i would roughly share with you the typical downlight features. It is very durable, easy to install, cheaper compared to eyeball, bright and clear. However, it can only penetrate in one direction, which is downward. Types of installation includes recessed type- using compression clips/ spring clips to hold the lights in the ceiling hole by pushing the springs vertically. For the surface mounted one, it is specially for concrete ceiling, and it can only fixed by supplied bracket. The third types of downlight is called suspended downlight, also specially designed for concrete ceiling, providing a soft, non glaring yet classy lighting.

As a comparison between typical downlight and eyeball, i would say downlight can penetrate up to 4.5 till 5 feet, while eyeball can go up to 3.5 to 4 feet. However, Eyeball is smaller in size, and it can be installed in larger quantity as it looks tiny and not as obvious as compared to downlight. One typical downlight is around RM 17++ while eyeball can go up to RM 25++. However, please refer to your seller, and ID to receive the latest pricing information. Both of them have their own good / bad. And all of this is depending on you. Hope you enjoy our works today. We will share more in future.!!

Hi Maison, will a 3-strip timber flooring look better for a small house?