Crate & Barrel - Orchard Gateway

Crate & Barrel finally opened their latest store at the new Orchard Gateway. Needless to say I am extremely thrilled when I visited the store recently.

There are 5 levels showcasing the beautiful home furniture and accessories:

• Level B2 - Kitchen accessories & Christmas decorations/ornaments
• Level B1 - Kitchen accessories, utensil, furniture
• Level 1 - Home Living & Bedding furniture
• Level 2 - Home Living & Bedding furniture, lighting, bathroom accessories, cushions, wall decorative
• Level 3 - Furniture & wall decorative  

Website: http://www.crateandbarrel.com/

I am loving this extendable dining table! Perfect for a small home!

Care & Barrel is having 15% discount all full priced dining tables, chairs, bar stools and more from now till 31 December 2014!

Kitchen / Dining photos (Completed)

Renovation is finally completed and I will be posting the updated photos by the respective rooms category (Kitchen/Dining, Living room/Balcony, Study cum guest bedroom, Common bathroom, Master bathroom and Master bedroom).

Please bear with me as I have taken quite a lot of photos and I am trying to select the best quality photos :) I am really happy that our home turns out to be 90% close to my design concept and ideas. Decorating the apartment took some time as I purchased most of the home accessories after the completion of the renovation.

I am excited to upload photos of our Kitchen and Dining room!!

As you enter the home, you will see the kitchen and dining area first. We try to create the best first impression:)

The beautiful Ark dining table.

Small but very functional kitchen island!

Retractable Bosch hood - Perfect fit for our small kitchen!

Loving my Bath & Body Works 3-wicks candle!
Tip: Useful to have in an open-concept kitchen to get rid of post-cooking smell;)

Check out the below pictures! See how close it is to the 3D drawing?

Hidden spaces to maximize storage!

Furniture shopping at Air, Commune & more!

We Love Air....or should I say I Love Air! 

Air has a beautiful collection of modern contemporary and wood furniture. I fell in love with their glass coffee table but as I have inherited a solid wood coffee table (it has been with my family for more than 30 years).... this coffee table shall just remain in my wish list :(

Look how gorgeous this coffee table is!

Totally adore this TV console and we spent weeks thinking if we should but it or not. Even though it is on sale, it is still expensive.

TV console from Air

 Eventually we settled for this console (see below) from Commune as it cost half the price of the console from Air.

TV console from Commune

We saw this 8-seater dining table from Air and it was love at first sight for both of us. We enjoy inviting friends and family over for dinner and the size and length of the table is perfect for us! As the price was out of our budget even after 40% discount, we decided that we will try to look for a similar table elsewhere. 

Ark dining table from Air.

Another view of the amazing Ark table.

We saw a similar table from Picket & Rail (it looks quite similar but of course it cannot be compared to the Ark table) at a very attractive price. The package price comes with a set of 6 dining chairs.

Picket & Rail dining table

We almost settled for the Picket & Rail dining set but I just could not bring myself to proceed with the purchased (I must have visitied the store 5 or 6 times). After months of pondering, both myself and hubby decided we will go with out first love...the Amazing Ark table :-))

If it took us this long just to decide on a dining table, in our hearts we should know that we do not want any other table but the Ark.....

Mirror from Air which we also purchased.
Picture does not do justice to how beautiful this mirror is.

Next is the serch for the perfect sofa. Our requirement...it must be in leather with extendable leg rest in the middle seat (so we could both stretch out and cuddle up while watching a movie...haha)! Finally after a long search, we found our sofa at City Square Mall!

Renovation progress - Part 3

Finally the carpentry work is more or less completed....

However we noticed that the dishwasher was not installed correctly. This is how it ended up...the bottom part of the dishwasher dangling! It turned out our carpenter do not know how to install a dishwasher and neither do our ID! We asked our ID and carpenter to visit the Harvey Norman store where we bought our dishwasher so they could see how it was installed and the sales person who sold it to us informed us that he will be able to explain to our ID in detail. Both our ID and carpenter were extremely reluctant to go and we ended up going to Harvey Norman showroom ourselves and took photos and instruction for our ID as we were not willing to delay the project any longer. So much for counting on our ID to go the extra mile!!! This small issue caused us so much stress. But in the end we managed to get it fixed.

More pictures! :)

We bought a new hydroculture plant (maintenance free) for the balcony.

Renovation progress - Part 2 (Carpentry)

Due to the tight schedule my ID assigned 2 different carpenter to work on my home. One carpenter will be doing the kitchen and bathrooms (light colour laminate). The other carpenter will work on the two bedrooms (dark colour laminate).

Kitchen

Kitchen/Fridge area

Common bathroom

Study cum guest room

Custom desk

Master bedroom wardrobe

Renovation progress - Part 1

The cove lights are done, aircon and dining room mirrors installed...looking good so far! When we bought our apartment there were 2 units of air-conditioner located in the living and dining room. We removed the both air-conditioners and installed one brand new 18,000 btu unit.

Another view of full length mirror, strategically placed on this part of the wall so light could reflect off the mirror and make the dining area looks more spacious. Marble flooring of the living room has been polished till it gleams.

Study cum guest bedroom parquet flooring sand and varnished. We kept the natural colour of the parquet and decide against tinting it a darker shade, which we wanted to originally.

Master bathroom shower screen, bathtub and glass window installed. Loving the bathroom.

This is where rain shower will be installed!