A Long Night Of Renovation Discussion

Since everything was at a standstill we thought we might use the down time to work on the rest of the renovation details. We have been spending some nights discussing the colour scheme for the kitchen. It's a tough choice between a mink or organic white caesar stone counter top. That itself drives the colours for the laminate. So to give us more options, we are back at Ciseern's showroom to run through the ton of laminate samples from Arova, Formica, Jennings etc.

There is just so much to choose from. We started at 7.30pm and didn't finish till past midnight at 12.30am. It was extremely tough to try and judge laminate shades, especially where the samples are so small. It was a good thing Ciseern had booklets of bigger samples for Arova and Jennings. Oddly they only have wood grain series for Formica. So eventually we went with Arova and Jennings since we could better visualise the shades of the carpentry.

I'm never one for colours ... all shades of white look pretty much the same to me. So the tough chore of choosing the right tones for our home fell to Meimei. While she was at it, I shared with Norman the homework we have done on the kitchen cabinet, master bedroom wardrobe and TV console.

I used excel to draft out the sections of the carpentry. One for what we think we will be using that section for, then another to mark down the type of accessory we need to fix. All these took us a couple of weeks to tie down. And it wasn't all smooth sailing ... we had our differences and quarrels along the way while going at it.

Now besides the laminates, there was also the colours for the frames of the various aluminium bi-flod and swing doors. And to add on to the mix, different shades of laminated glass for the door panels. By this time, we were already exhausted. We shortlisted the glass panels and took a picture with the frame and promise Norman we would get back to him on our selection the next couple of days.

Finally to top it off, Norman passed us a Nippon Paint catalogue. By this time I was totally drained from all the different colours. Somehow even through the coughing and tiredness, there was a tiny shimmer of light in Meimei's eyes when she saw the booklet. Colours are her thing and I'm gladly passing her this responsibility to decide the colours for our walls. Phew ... what a night!