Being the super-efficient, very enthusiastic (as Beth put it) ID of ours, he was right.
Last Sat, the first thing I saw was the (very striking) wall of red in the toilet.
When we were discussing toilets, Big & I had agreed we wanted our toilet to be cheery. We both had greys and dull blues in our toilets at home, so we wanted something different. Also, the toilet-cum-bath in the flat isn't the most palatial of loos, so we definitely needed a lighter colour scheme
to make it look bigger.It was a tough choice between normal coloured wall tiles or very mod and pretty moasaic tiles. But we're both quite happy about how it turned out. The white wall tiles with the checkered patterns are laid in such a way that it made the toilet look expansive. And thanks to Paul's suggestion, and Big's expansion on it, the white goes very nicely with the red & orange sections. The wall of red tiles behind those horrid huge HDB pipes actually do work. Big thinks it looks like something out of Hotel RE. I just think itz cute =)
The elusive toilet bowl & sink
Gushing over and done with, we had our feet firmly pulled back to the cardboard-protected marbled floor becos we needed to furnish the toilet quick. So, after taking measurements (again), we nipped back to Sparco to look at the sink & cabinet that Big liked on the last visit. It was 3cm longer than what Paul had specified, and did we really want to pay almost $400 for the toilet sink (albeit with storage space)?!
We had searched for a suitable toilet bowl & sink the previous Sat. After a while, I could name the different brands, and tell with a glance whether the toilet seat was too small/narrow. I still can't get over how many different types of toilet bowls there are, and the whole range of prices. Why would someone pay $500 for a place to shit?! And as Big declared in frustration after trying yet another similar-looking white toilet bowl - what was with all these newfangled toilet bowls! Why couldn't we just find a normal one (like the ones we have at home), with a flat, broad seat?? No, it had to be either sloping (you feel like you're gonna slip in if you don't hold on to the sides), raised (don't ask), circular (yes, circular), or too narrow (research shows people are bigger now cos we have better nutrition so why are toilet seats narrower than before?)
So, yesterday, we went back to trusty Ikea, only to find out their toilet furniture are not water-proof (?!) Much chagrin and gnashing of teeth (becos we had to circle Queensway a few times before finding a parking spot) later, we ended up with the living room lights, an Ikea hotdog and a cup of Ikea's very strong coffee (and STILL no toilet furnishings).
Then, someone (the credit goes to Beth & Big) had a brainwave, and pointed out the even more trusty IMM, since we were already "in the west" anyway. We braved the dark (it was almost 8pm when we left Lighted Pixels - our wedding photographer, THE wedding photographer in Singapore - saving this for another entry) and the unknown (itz the west, for goodness sake), and successfully navigated our way to IMM. Where we bought our wall-mounted toilet sink (and accompanying cabinet) - 50cm just nice - and our toilet bowl at a special Hari Raya Puasa price (still deciding if need to get a FLAT toilet seat) - within 1/2 an hour of our arrival. All in a day's work.
Ironic that we had to go all the way across the island to get these two items when there is a Hoe Kee closer to home at Geylang Serai... Talk about elusive...
P/S - we bought our stove and hood at Heritage Bathroom Gallery in Geylang (yes they sell kitchen stuff altho they are a Bathroom Gallery" for a rather good package deal)
Gushing over and done with, we had our feet firmly pulled back to the cardboard-protected marbled floor becos we needed to furnish the toilet quick. So, after taking measurements (again), we nipped back to Sparco to look at the sink & cabinet that Big liked on the last visit. It was 3cm longer than what Paul had specified, and did we really want to pay almost $400 for the toilet sink (albeit with storage space)?!
We had searched for a suitable toilet bowl & sink the previous Sat. After a while, I could name the different brands, and tell with a glance whether the toilet seat was too small/narrow. I still can't get over how many different types of toilet bowls there are, and the whole range of prices. Why would someone pay $500 for a place to shit?! And as Big declared in frustration after trying yet another similar-looking white toilet bowl - what was with all these newfangled toilet bowls! Why couldn't we just find a normal one (like the ones we have at home), with a flat, broad seat?? No, it had to be either sloping (you feel like you're gonna slip in if you don't hold on to the sides), raised (don't ask), circular (yes, circular), or too narrow (research shows people are bigger now cos we have better nutrition so why are toilet seats narrower than before?)
So, yesterday, we went back to trusty Ikea, only to find out their toilet furniture are not water-proof (?!) Much chagrin and gnashing of teeth (becos we had to circle Queensway a few times before finding a parking spot) later, we ended up with the living room lights, an Ikea hotdog and a cup of Ikea's very strong coffee (and STILL no toilet furnishings).
Then, someone (the credit goes to Beth & Big) had a brainwave, and pointed out the even more trusty IMM, since we were already "in the west" anyway. We braved the dark (it was almost 8pm when we left Lighted Pixels - our wedding photographer, THE wedding photographer in Singapore - saving this for another entry) and the unknown (itz the west, for goodness sake), and successfully navigated our way to IMM. Where we bought our wall-mounted toilet sink (and accompanying cabinet) - 50cm just nice - and our toilet bowl at a special Hari Raya Puasa price (still deciding if need to get a FLAT toilet seat) - within 1/2 an hour of our arrival. All in a day's work.
Ironic that we had to go all the way across the island to get these two items when there is a Hoe Kee closer to home at Geylang Serai... Talk about elusive...
P/S - we bought our stove and hood at Heritage Bathroom Gallery in Geylang (yes they sell kitchen stuff altho they are a Bathroom Gallery" for a rather good package deal)
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