Brain Wrecking

After 3 nights of intensive scrutinizing the various quotations, I finally narrow it down to 3 competitors. Pricings are quite similar, now its base on the workmanship and their attitude. 1 thing to note, I have yet to bargain the price yet as I have not decide on who to pick. I dun wan to bargain thrice. Will juz bargain with the chosen 1.

Looking at the amount of work I requested, I cannot believe my quotations are at least 25K. Its daylight robbery or what? But since the 3 of them quoted similarly, I guess this is what we called market price le lo…

Anyways, many thanks to Hang papa who last min intro his ex-classmate to me and thus giving me 1 more choice. If ever we award the job to him, heheh I will not have to worry bout getting cheated/bully/over-charged by this contractor, cuz Hang Papa says will look out for me…I trust he will do so..hehe

Besides deciding the contractor, I’ve yet to settle for the design of my kitchen..More or less, I noe what I wan..the easiest way out, is to haf the contemporary aka the modern style, which essentially means no style..

But still, I gonna decide on the overall layout of my kitchen. I have some ideas of it. The only good thing about going to a lot of ID/Contractors is that they all give different ideas on the layout and I get to choose which 1 I deem best. Thus, I will gather the ideas and tell them to the chosen 1.

I foresee things are going to be more hectic after I decide on the contractor as I would den need to start choosing the materials, colour of the paints. Not to mentioned the miscellaneous items to be sourced and purchase. Luckily, I foresee that this is gonna be a busy period and put my acca studies on hold. Else, think I would collapse with all these things weighting me down.

Where is Mr Love, 1 might think. He is relaxing in 1 corner, waiting for me to go thru the quotes and select the handful for his final selection. Juz like a big boss. All the liaising are done by me till I find them completed then I will give him the final quotation to go thru.

We have however, went thru 2 rounds of furniture viewing to gauge the funding required. But nothing is concrete at this moment. Besides that, we also went around to view some completed projects of the contractors to see their workmanship.

These, can only be done during our precious wkend where housework, errands, parents visiting took up a big chunk of our time, not to mention the fact that I need catch up on my beauty sleep. It makes our wkend more packed than ever, tiring me out even more than my work days. Its like I’m working 7 days a week non stop.

But for the sake of getting the reno done, I still feel its worth it. After all, its  not every yr u will renovate ur hse, muz as well enjoy the process. Its juz like the days when we planned our wedding, the process will be once in a life time only though for renovation, it can be repeated.

Hopefully when my house is done, I am able to look back and felt proud of the efforts I’ve put in.