A Couple's Decision to DIY their Home Renovation (part 8)

  • Jun 10, 2016
Following up from Previous Posts: A Couple's Decision to DIY their Home Renovation (part 1)(part 2), (part 3.1), (part 3.2), (part 4), (part 5), (part 6), (part 7)  

Chapter 8 – Feel the Touch See the Difference

  Wanna design your wall but have no ideas where to start from? Why not consider CraftStone? After our visit to CraftStones Showroom, we learnt that wall design can be so Simple with CraftStones. Thus this concludes why, we have Double Confirmed using CraftStone for our very own featured wall at our Dinning area (Café style) and Balcony area (Garden feel). So let’s take a quick look at our wall before designing:

BEFORE

Dining area:

craftstone-dining-area

Balcony:

craftstone-balcony-area

Just base on the pictures, isn’t it an obvious choice to give the white walls a Special Touch?


PLANNING

Given the huge living room, HER evil thought came naturally to extend our master room into the living room, in order to Create her very own WALK-IN Wardrobe.

Well for him, there isn’t any objection option available. However the built-up wall comes at the right spot to Create his very own BRICKWALL

Our Dining Our Café We have used Calcium Silicate material to build the extended wall so that our CraftBricks can hold on it Tips: Reinforcement metal bone or wooden block is needed for stronger partition wall foundation

Calcium-Silicate-to-hold-CraftBricks

Next: Calcium silicate wall is up & ready to give Craftstone team a “Heads up”

Calcium-silicate-wall


Our Balcony Our Garden

As the balcony is rather simple & empty; we took a more straightforward approach to design and CraftStone LineaireStone is our wisest choice!

Of course by having only LineaireStone on the two walls is not enough. We went experimentary by laying carpet grass on with the LineaireStone to make our balcony Greener and more Garden-feel.

Our Artistes’ impressions – Middle full length carpet (left) and Random carpet design (right) Craftstone-artistes-impressions-balcony-garden


EXECUTION

On the installation day, as early as 8am, our Craftstone Team is already here (Earlier than us)

Craftstone-Team

All the BrickWall Ingredients have arrived!

BrickWall-Ingredients

Tips: Before laying the Craftbrick on your wall, make sure you do a layout preview like us

craftbrick-CSI-094-Citrus-and-CSI-096-ManhattanFor us, we wanna Get Bold and Wild so we did a Random Mix of CSI 094 Citrus and CSI 096 Manhattan

Here we go the 3 Simple Steps to install the Craftbricks:

3-Simple-Steps-to-install-the-Craftbricks

1st: Paint a layer of adhesive liquid 2nd: Apply a layer of special cement 3rd: Lay the Craftbricks

So SIMPLE RIGHT?

How about Balcony?

balcony-LineaireStone

Before CraftStone is here, MY had provided some markings with shelving installed so that CraftStone team knows the exact location of the carpet grass & the LineaireStone CSI 204 Silver Grey

craftstone-LineaireStone

Unlike CraftBricks, LineaireStone comes in 3 different sizes per box which make it better for our random design of CraftStone LineaireStone and carpet grass.

Lastly, one of the main icons - The Carpet Grass is here

Carpet-Grass

 
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Tips: Unlike installation on calcium silicate wall, multiple holes are required to strengthen the holding grip of the veneer stones on concrete wall Next: 2nd: Apply a layer of special cemen Last: Lay the LineaireStones

So SIMPLE too right??

Not exactly

Why?

We thought that laying of carpet grass on the wall would be a simpler job for the team. However, we realise that our simple design requires great team work, years of experience & master skill to get the best design out of it.

grass-installation1 grass-installation2 grass-installation3
Supporting poles are required to support the top stones Installing dry board in order to let the carpet grass project out evenly with the LineaireStone. Finally lay the grass!
hoosing-the-right-size Cutting-the-LineaireStone setting-up-the-dry-board
Choosing the right size Cutting the LineaireStone if size don’t fit our design Lastly setting up the dry board for carpet grass installation

So, it is really a hard earned money for them just to make sure that we are happy with the designs *KUDOS*

And after 1.5 days of hardwork (damn efficient), let’s

Feel the Touch See the Difference!

 Dining - Before craftstone-dining-area

After craftstone-wall

craftstone-wall2

Balcony - Beforecraftstone-balcony-area

After – LOVE IT! craftstone-wall-balcony

Just some simple shot of our newly done up Dining and Balcony space, it speaks all for before and after effect. The Special Touch real refreshing styles and helps to relax the drained minds of people like us. Let’s check out the installation video =)

Next: A Couple’s Decision to DIY their Home Renovation (part 9 - Final)


Written by MYPS. Do email to us at support@renonation.sg if you wish to know more details on our renovation.

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