Renovation Stage 1: Emptying the flat

How does the flat look when striped bare?

Kitchen, before
Kitchen After
Master bedroom, before.  Laminate floor.

Master Bedroom, ceramic tiles revealed.

Bedroom 1.  The frame in the middle is the storeroom.

Bedroom 2
Common Toilet.  It used was the squatting type.  You can see the square concrete box on the top right corner.

We were wrong...everything had to be changed!

This was perhaps the expensive lesson we learned: looks can be deceiving.  We Thought that we could still use the laminate flooring but they popped out in some places.  We thought that we could still use the aircon but it was using an old refrigerant and the aircon pipping's layout was horrid.

The aircon duct ran towards the window...

Went around the room...

Across to the other bedroom before entering the master bedroom toilet.


We thought that we could use back the ceiling box but the position of some of the down lights were wrong.  So we decided to ripped it all off.

Ceiling, stripped bare.


Actually, I was happy to not have ceiling box with down lights.  I hate down lights.  There were always so many. The thought of having to change them when the bulb blew was a turn off.  There must be a better way to light the room.

Now we are looking at an emptied apartment with just walls...and wonder how much more we have to spend.

Emptied flat, empty wallet. :(

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