House Accessories Shopping..(Part 1)

Spent our whole saturday afternoon shopping for housing accessories...

Started off with the selection of tiles for toilets and the kitchen at a shop along balestier. Somehow, we managed to choose the tiles that we liked that was within the budget. (hooray!) Best of all, we were done within an hour.

Followed our contractor to his supplier's shop at Joo Chiat area after that. Our contractor actually drives a chio yellow Mitsubishi Evo!!! Imagine our pathetic Nissan sunny following behind him.. He did zoom by a couple of times wor. How sad. LOL.

Went on to the accessories shop for us to shop for toilet and kitchen accessories. It's scary how much there was to consider just to decide on what to purchase. Not only must we think of the kind of sink we wanted to get, we had to match the right tap to it, erm round sink supposed to be matched with a round tap.. erm... (OMFG). After choosing the tap, we had to decide on the toilet bowls. (One stoopid bowl costs $220!!!! ) Once the selection was done, we had to choose the shower taps. (NOT CHEAP either.. costs about $300+ for a complete shower set.) After all these, we had to choose the toilet accessories.. the towel bars, the glass shelves, blah blah blah.

Kitchen accessories also almost killed us. We had to decide on the sink, the tap (AGAIN), the oven and the stove. Turned out that we couldn't have a 4-stove ceramic or induction hob as the power volt of the HDB flat is unable to support it. (erm, apparently, it will trip if we use more than 2 of the hobs at any point of time), hence we ended up with the combination of a 2-cooker stove and 2-hob ceramic plate. Best buy of the day was the Ariston oven! Can't wait till we can start using it!

Finally.. managed to settle everything after almost 3 hours! (Our poor contractor, despite running a fever, had to sit around and wait for us to finish selecting.) Well, definitely a huge relief that we were finally done! (my head was spinning, stomach growling...) The bill came up to be within our budget (hooray again!) and we were very satisfied with what we have chosen! Hope everything turn out just fine during installation...Was so tired that I completely zonked out on the journey back...

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Part 2 of shopping trip will resume in two weeks.. to shop for lights for the house... Till then...