My new home: The exterior

Let's talk about the ridiculous story of my new house. Remember one year ago, I blogged about it? You may check out here to refresh your memory. The application of the renovation took a bloody 1 year to be approved! Basically the renovation is not merely any renovation where you take a few planks and knock some nails on it or paint some walls. We are hacking down the whole house and rebuild from scratch. But I couldn't believe the government took 1 year, let me repeat, O N E Y E A R to process our application! From the architect drawing of the plans to submission and alteration of the plan to another submission, IT TOOK 1 YEAR!!!!! HOLY!!!!

The runner who so-called helped us to handle the submission charged us triple the market price and dare to drag us a year for the whole process! This runner is a "friend" of my father-in-law. He works in the government and claimed to have high power. Whatever! That gives him the right to charge us a bomb? I found out about this when Sharon told me the actual price people pay for architect drawing+plan submission to the government. Whatever we paid to that a-hole is triple the price, another HOLY!!!! We were cheated! My father-in-law did not say anything because this a-hole claimed to be very powderful. *PUI*

After one year, the application is FINAEFFINGLY approved and I wish not to meander with this a-hole ever again! You know how painful it is to wait for a year?! Every month I pay for the installment but yet I couldn't do anything or move into the house, it was just left there empty and rotted for a year!

Let's bygone be bygone, the old house was already hacked off and the new structure is being built piece by piece everyday. Let's see the progress!

The house was relatively old, it was probably triple my age. The bricks and the whole structure were too fragile to withstand renovation. So we decided to hack down the whole house.

The old structure. All walls within were hacked down in this picture.

The house were gone leaving only the concrete patio and gate.

MAGIC!

TADAAA!!!!!

The new structure was born.

Bricks were added on both sides to separate our wall with the neighbors. More privacy in terms of noise/sound.

The concrete structure is done on the first floor!

Second floor in progress.

Bricks were  laid on the first floor.

The concrete structure on the 2nd floor is done as well. Time for the new patio!

The outer structure of the house is all done with roof! Woohoo! Well done to the guys on the balcony!

The whole process of hacking down the house until the rebuild of the structure took a painstakingly 4 months. I pray I will be able to move-in in another 2 months. I want to spend Christmas in the new house. Christmas shopping is fun, and it's more fun to shop for Christmas tree for my new home =) Will post more updates again. The next post will be the interior. Stay tuned!

Dream came true!

If you have been following my blog, you should know that the biggest dream of my life is having my own house. A place where I can finally call my own, a home.

I am from a middle class family, not to say we do very well. The house that I grew up at in Ipoh was rented. After spending the first 16 years of my life in that suburban timber house, we had to move because the owner decided to sell it. Since then, we had been moving here and there for 3 times. When I was 18, I finally moved to KL and I rented a room. Within my 8 years in this city, I have moved around for 6 times. I never felt like I belong to anywhere. Because all I did for my whole life was moving around.

I must say that life has been good to me since I got married. I feel truly blessed and happy that most of my dreams are fulfilled and I'm living the life that I always wanted. Most of all, the husband is fulfilling my biggest dream with me. A house of our own. A place where I can finally call....home.

I LOVE MY HUSBAND!!!!

Since the beginning of the year, we had been looking around. And we found a modest house around the area we are currently staying with my family in law. It's a single storey house with an extra attic floor and it's rather old, about 60 years. My parents in law love the place because it's only 3 minutes drive from their house and we can rebuild it according to our preference, since the house itself is not quite in living condition.

The whole legal paperwork and bank loans took about 3 months. After another month, we finally got the drawings from the architect on the new structure of the house.

This is the floorplan of the existing structure of the house. Since it's an old single storey house, usually the master bedroom is placed at the front next to the living room and the shape is vertically rectangular. The attic floor is additionally built by the previous owner.

Here is the new structure on how we are going to revamp this old house.

Sorry for the messy drawing, blame the architect. It's seriously bloody detailed, he even drew the washing basin, toilet bowl and bath tub WTF! No wonder he charged a bomb. We are maintaining the master bedroom as what it is, just combining the 2 bedrooms as 1 and extending it a bit and adding a bathroom inside. And of course, a walk-in wardrobe for the queen! We are taking off one of the bedroom at the living hall area to convert it to dining area, dividing it with a partition in which the husband has planned to put his aquarium there. So the next time when we are having our dinner, the fish can see we are eating their species, muahahahahaha!!!!!

As for the attic floor, we are completely rebuilding it to become a second storey. Yeap, We are changing it to become a 2 storey house.

The guest room upstairs is the same size as the master bedroom downstairs. After adding the walk in wardrobe, the master bedroom will be much smaller, OMG! I'm still contemplating whether to have our room downstairs or upstairs. But the husband insist to have our room downstairs =_=

The workstation will be placed upstairs at the new family hall. As for the balcony, which surprisingly is placed at the back of the house, my father in law suggested to make it as a laundry place. Totally opposite of what I had in mind. I wanted to make it a leisure area with a lounging chair and some plants around. But after a while, I think it's not quite a good idea because it's at the back of the house and all I can see is probably my neighbor cooking =_= Yeah, scrap that!

This is how it's going to look like externally. The slanted dotted lines are the existing roof which we are going to tear them down.

Can't wait for the renovation work to start. I will take before, after and during photos to show you guys! Previously I harped on my wedding progress, then my honeymoon progress and now the progress of my new house. I hope you guys won't get bored with me and my never ending progress!

Hopefully I will have a new home to celebrate new year =)