One lesson I learned through the years of home ownership is to get your place readied before you move in. Our first home was a condo unit. We weren't able to ready it before we moved in because we already extended our rental. We had to cross out our rental expense because we had a mortgage to pay. So we moved in with just a fridge, haha.
It was hard because it was Christmas so all our orders for furniture were delayed. We slept on the floor for a long time. Our clothes were in boxes and it was a huge mess (yes, we made the same mistake again). Eventually we got our furniture, but it took a long time to get everything organized.
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| The old look. |
Since we realized we should have added built in cabinets in the bathrooms. The kitchen was useful, but we didn't have enough space to place our kitchen appliances. Our fridge was too big and the electric stove and oven took a gazillion years to heat up. The cabinet doors in the bedroom ate too much space. Our large bookshelf was an eyesore because it looked so cluttered. We knew it was time to upgrade.
Finally after 10 yeaars we had the unit updated. We removed everything in the unit. Got help from the Squeaky.ph angels to pack everything. We moved it to our new home. Thought I'd start with what we did to the kitchen. Here's how it looked before move in -
Just after we moved in -
The messy lived in kitchen just before we left -
Here's what we changed:
Electric range to induction stove but kept the rangehood exhaust
Oven to built in electric oven
Side by side fridge to a normal 2-door fridge
Small sink changed to a larger sink
Added a side pantry cabinet
Weird purple countertop changed to off-white
Cabinets were spruced up too (finally removed the plastic on the handles hahaha)
Our shiny new kitchen after the changes :)
Renovation was made by Alab Design & Construction (website and FB). Thank you Alab team, Arch Wansi, May, Mang Jo, Tukoy, Allan, Alvin and Kuya Gary!
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