DB Studio

Would like to thank ID Tommy Lim from DB Studio who provided extra miles services in delivering the outcome exceeding our expectations. Tommy is capable of playing the role of the main coordinator as well as the designer for the renovation of our unit. He will accede to our requests although it was very challenging due to the structure of the building and constraints by the management office. He managed to complete the entire renovation within a short turnaround time with good workmanship. He designed based on our preferences in a practical manner. We have received numerous compliments on the resort-style bathroom, barn door and opening for the kitchen and the overall Scandinavian theme. Furthermore, he has been searching high and low for the suppliers that we needed such as tables, curtains and etc. He was responsible and always be on-site to oversee the progress of the project and updated us daily. We knew that our unit is in safe hand even though we were overseas. Although there were hiccups along the way, Tommy will always respond swiftly, propose solutions and activate his teams to resolve the issues as soon as possible. We have been contacting Tommy frequently through Whatsapp on issues and suggestions, he will always respond promptly regardless on late nights weekends.

Jason did a great job of helping us to renovate our new home. He is very responsive to our requests and regularly communicated with us about the design and the progress of the project. He is very customer-centric and provided excellent services.

We would like to leave a message to thank and commend Katherine Cher from DB Studio, who has managed to turn our 4-Room BTO into our dream home. Kat is a brilliant designer who managed to fit in various design elements and lots of storage into a beautiful and efficient space plan. Imagine a kitchen with 2 separate cooking areas, a dining area and a service yard in a 4 room flat without having to eat into any of the other rooms. Kat is also very detail-oriented, and her experience helped us a lot during the renovation process. I recall going through multiple sets of drawings, the colour of laminates, placements of sockets, the type and size of lights to use. You will be surprised that sometimes the placement of one light can change the look of a room entirely. Kat has the eye and experience to make those small but critical design changes. Most importantly, Kat was very dedicated to the project and provided us with timely updates/pictures on the progress of works (even at the weekends). Thank you very much. We truly enjoyed working with you.

I love working with Katherine from DBStudio. She is very patient, detailed and will try her best to accommodate all my requests. She would update me regularly with pictures, double-check before any major work started to prevent any mistake and followed up on things that I need to decide on. She would come down to the site frequently to oversee things because I was busy working and could not check on progress frequently. Overall work done is good and neat! Thank you so much for making the renovation journey a pleasant one and thank you very much for being so kind despite the many changes I had. I truly love my home!

Linda Tan is our consultant and had been very patient and professional with us due to the tight timeline given to her and her team. Great Workmanship too! Happy with the Reno done. Will engage her again for my next home.

While my husband and I didn't have very specific ideas on how we wanted our new house to be like, Katherine was very helpful in suggesting designs and features which we could include in our house. The reason why we decided to engage Katherine as she was the only ID (we met quite a few) who provided a mood board during our further meetings. The features she suggested proved to be useful when we didn’t even know we had a need for it in the first place! Katherine was very reliable and accommodating throughout the process. She sat with us patiently when we were choosing laminates and tiles and colours and almost everything. She made the process especially easy and stress-free for the Libra in me. I could always count on her advice when matching colours. When we also wanted to scrap our original bedroom idea halfway through the renovation process, she was able to draw up a new plan for us which I totally love.

I wrote into 4 IDs but only 2 of them responded. Among these 2, we finally decided to engage Katherine from DB Studio. We are really glad and never regret to have engaged Katherine to help with the renovation of our new house and to help with all the projects coordination works. Personally, I felt that Katherine understands both old and young people well in relation to renovation matters. The renovation was completed successfully and promptly as planned and scheduled (within 2 months actually). During and after the project, Katherine also surprised us with complimentary items. Katherine has managed the renovation schedule well and she is very flexible in accommodating some of our last minute additions or changes. Katherine set up a WhatsApp chat group for us to communicate about the renovation. The progress of the renovation was reported to us via this chat group. Any irregularities of defects were also discussed via this chat group. She is very responsive, responsible, caring to old folks (my parents) and attentive to what we wanted and needed for our new house. Even after handing the new house to us, Katherine is still very responsive in replying to our queries. She even took the time to visit us personally to resolve some issues. During our first meeting with Katherine, we were actually still rather blur and totally have no idea of what we wanted. My parents prefer a traditional design while I prefer those latest designs that appear on various renovation apps or websites. Katherine is very professional in her works and has resolved that part for us by gathering our needs and wants in details individually during every meeting. She had also presented 2 quotes to us, one according to what we wanted and another one according to our budget. Knowing our limited knowledge in renovation, Katherine had been very patient in giving us the detailed explanation, especially to our parents. Also, knowing that it may not be convenient for my parents to travel around to shop for toiletries, lightings, ceiling fans, etc at a few places in half a day, Katherine had actually rented a van just to take us around to shop for these items. Katherine had arranged the van to pick us up and drop us at our old house for our convenience. During the trip, she is always the last one to board the van to ensure that parents are ok, safe and aboard the van already. During the info-gathering meetings with Katherine, my parent indicated that they prefer tiles for the flooring while I preferred vinyl. For our parents, we finally went with laying floor tiles. Knowing of my preference, Katherine surprised me by giving my room an island bed design with vinyl wood laid on top of the floor tiles. I personally love the island bed design, coz it suited my old dog too. As the island was not very high, my old pet dog is able to climb onto it and then onto my bed on his own, without me needing to carry him up and down every morning and night then. Many of the items that we bought were after seeking advice from Katherine and we never regret getting those items that she had suggested as they are really great looking and matches the new house’s design perfectly. She gave good advice on the spot to whatever items that we wanted to buy. Overall, we are very happy and satisfied with the renovation works, schedule and process, and also to have engaged Katherine of DB Studio as our ID.

My Wife and I engaged Linda as our ID for our new home. Throughout the whole process of renovation, we were given good advices. Linda has the sense of urgency that we looked for, for example, her promptness in replying messages when we have questions for her even in late nights she will reply and if she could not she will get back to us by the next day after asking her contractor.

We have seen 4 other IDs and nothing beats Tommy's professionalism and experience in home design. Our home renovation was smooth sailing with him leading the contractors, providing fantastic design; storage solution and most importantly provided us with an excellent choice of materials within the given budget. Workmanship for the cabinets is excellent too! Tommy was very responsible while overseeing the whole renovation process. Due to a busy schedule, we hardly could visit the site weekly. Tommy diligently provided us with progress updates via WhatsApp and solved all the problem arises (eg, HDB paperwork, liaising with HDB on cement screeding, electronics installation etc) on behalf of us. We only managed to visit the site TWICE during the whole 5 weeks Reno, and the next thing we saw, the house was already in MOVE-IN condition! Tommy made sure that every part of the house is clean and there’s no need to engage extra party to clean up the mess. Tommy is such an angel, we sincerely thankful for his contributions and dedication towards making our dream home a reality. Everything in the new house is perfect! Will definitely recommend him to everyone looking for the perfect ID.

We engaged Don Lim for the renovation of our 3-room BTO flat and we couldn't be happier with the end result! Our brief to Don was deceptively simple - a light Muji/Scandinavian theme and lots of built-in storage to maximise the small floor area. But as we worked through the plans with Don and went down to the actual site after collecting our keys, we realised that it was going to be a challenging project. Don was very helpful and patient throughout the whole reno process. For example, when we didn't like the original marble-look quartz countertop that we selected, he quickly found an alternative which turned out to be way better than we expected (Dekton Aura - thumbs up!). Another example - he suggested building a half-height shoe cabinet along the length of the living room which was both functional and aesthetically pleasing. We never had to chase him for updates or micromanage the project as he always Whatsapped us the progress and liaised with the other contractors independently. He also recommended good lobang for our kitchen, bathroom and lighting accessories. He was also diligent in itemising the various reno items and will proactively tell us if there are any additional costs whenever we decided to make changes. As a result, our reno was completed on time (3 mths) and on budget. We strongly recommend Don if you want a fuss-free renovation with outstanding results :)