Our new house...what's it like now

Geesh.. it's been a pretty long wait for our new house. And finally the waiting period will be just one week and from 18th September onwards the flat in Blk 486 is ours. Some general info:

1) A 5 room improved (5I) apartment on the 3rd floor
3) Cost is less than $300K
3) Floor space is approximately 121 square metres (I really treasure big floor space apartments rather than having to squeeze into those 'new' flats in Sengkang or Punggol)

Now the question is, how far are we going to refurbish or renovate the apartment? Typical renovation packages nowadays would cost more than $20K and definitely you can get the look of your dream house with that kind of budget.

But I think we would do things slowly instead of renovating everything in one shot. Here's some images taken from the apartment 'inspection' that I went just now.

Here's the dining area facing the kitchen (those kids are the children of the current owner!)





















Here's the view of the dining area facing the kitchen:


















Lots of work need to be done. Painting, repairs, etc. But all that can be done slowly and most importantly both of us must love the finished product. So looks like any form of open-house can be done much later.. haha.. I hope that Iffah would adjust easily to our new home. Hopefully I can post some pictures of our house after we moved in and done some touchups. Till then...