X-Building in Bahagia #4 - Keys collected. What to Hack?

Good news, we got the keys! Tomorrow will also be the first time we're meeting an ID. We found her contact when we were doing our rounds some time back around the area. The contractor Christina told us she designed some homes in the same area so we reckon she should be experienced to offer some good ideas and solutions to very problematic space planning issues.



I'm pretty excited about it and have been thinking about what changes we want to do to our new home. I would like to bring our concerns up to the ID and listen out to sound advice. That of course, includes staying within budget. We need a major revamp here!


We gave our new home a lot of thoughts and explored many ways to go about creating what we want.

Overall Design and Theme

Contemporary Modern. Spacious and Open.

Living Room

- Featured Wall for TV
- Hacking of Ceiling Fan
- Hacking away of staircase wall and doing up it's railing

Front patio

- Convert main door into folding doors
- Changing of tiles
- Making space for shoe cabinet and overhanging plants
- Mini garden (perhaps at a later stage)
- Changing of walls at gate

Front patio - take away those windows and hack away the lower wall to make way for bi-folds.


Font patio - Changing of tiles (don't you agree)

Kitchen and Bathroom

- Space Planning (including storage area)
- Bathroom Ventilation Issues
- Combine Bathroom and Toilet into 1
- Enlarge the Bathroom space

Kitchen - we're thinking about space planning issues since there is ample space to do so.


On the left, you'll see the 2 bathrooms separated by a wall *one side is the bathing area, the other side is the WC area*. On the right, you see one side of the WC area.

Backyard

The backyard should be a washing area, a place to dry clothes
- Changing of tiles (floor and wall)
- Semi open space for air ventilation and brightness

The backyard that needs a lot of work.


The backyard - changing the tiles.

Bedroom

- Open up ceiling
- Changing of window grills
- Add an attached bathroom accesible by both rooms
- Overlaying of wooden strips on floor

Bedrooms don't come with any attached bathroom.


Bedroom - Changing of grills



As you can see, there's a lot of hacking to be done. Expectations to be managed and things to change along the way. This is the start of a major transformation and it fFeels like a mountain ahead of us now.