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120 Feature Site Visits “Check on the house as often as you can. I popped over after work and during the weekends to check on the work progression and that all the design details were to my expectations.” TIM, HOMEOWNER Smoke-Free Zones “If you are a stickler for people smoking in your unit during the renovation, voice out your concerns with your designer or contractor and set some ground rules.” ELAINE, HOMEOWNER Cost- Friendly Designs Be practical about the design of your carpentry works. Rounded, irregular designs will definitely cost more and take longer to build than the standard linear designs. PEIXIN & GEORGE, HOMEOWNERS Photo Hunt “Before the renovation starts, take a photo of every room. Having ‘before’ photos helped me to determine that one of the cracked flooring tiles wasn’t chipped before the renovation commenced.” ELAINE, HOMEOWNER Logistics Planning “Make sure the furniture you’re about to buy can fit into your elevator or be moved up through the staircase. I made the mistake of buying a sofa which was much too big to fit through my HDB flat estate’s staircase and in the end, I had to exchange it for a smaller model.” KEAN HOU, HOMEOWNER Key Convenience “There was a lot of activity and different groups of people entering my unfinished unit. To minimise the hassle of having to come back to open the door for the contractor, design crew or even accept last-minute deliveries, I used a number lock to allow some of these people to let themselves in. That said, I changed the number combination pretty often for security measures.” GWEN, HOMEOWNER IMAGE COURTESY OF DULUX DESIGN BY KDOT