$78k reno for 4rm resale: what went down ⚒️

✨TOFU V DIARIES: HOUSE!

If buying our house has cost a kidney, renovating it has cost an arm & a leg 🥹

For context, our house is a 31 year-old 103-sqm 4-room resale flat, which meant that a lot of work had to be done for sanitary, safety, and aesthetic reasons. The top 4 areas that we spent on were carpentry, masonry, electrical works, and demolition - swipe left to see details of each scope of work!

🪚 Carpentry: very expensive due to the extensive built-in furniture, especially the platform, conceal wall backing, kitchen cabinets, and wardrobe. We had opted for built-in for a seamless look across the house, but if you’re on a tight budget, do buy off-the-rack instead.

⛏️ Masonry: also a substantial cost as our house was relatively bigger than the newer BTO units. We also spent some money building a new wall after knocking down the existing one to make the study room smaller.

We are slowly unveiling the container as we furnish it, but in the meantime do type in the comments what you’d like to know more about! ✨

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