Updates @ 17 Nov

We spent almost the whole day today on the house! I hope this blog is kept permanent by blogspot so when my children grow up they can see these entries and understand that their parents have no intention to ignore them - instead their parents are struggling hard to ensure that our HOME is completed as soon as possible and close to, if not, PERFECT!

Well, the day started with a drive to Bandar to pay the lawyer fees (for the financing), dropped by Insurans TAIB to query about the Mortgage Insurance (and also got a copy of Brunei Report by Oxford Business Group but that's a different matter) and then we drove up to Kiarong Complex to check out tiles at Nordin Jaya.

Spent a good 2 hours at Nordin Jaya Kiarong from 11 to 1, found tiles for Muhammad's (4 options) & Iman's (2 option) bathrooms, and tiles - 5 options :) & bathtub for our master bathroom. why options? These options are a set of different wall tiles, floor tiles & wall border and we need to play around the $$ - get the best compromise of the options if you may - to ensure we meet the contractor set budget. If we exceed the contractor set budget, it means we have to pay more than the agreed construction cost... lets see if I can defer the flat screen TV .... or the AV system by another year....

Well, we moved on to Thomson Furniture in Beribi, spent a good 1/2 hour there looking for potential dining table but couldn't find the right one. 

FOCUS! we need to get the tiles & bathroom stuffs first, so we moved on to Sengkurong's Nordin Jaya,.

There we found a very desirable bath tub for our master bath - we initially planned for a corner bath but it seems too small, so we had our eyes on a spacious long bath.... but it cost almost double our budgeted cost for a corner bath... so, cross out another flat screen TV.. tssk tssk

Well, here are some more pics as promised.

Our HOME as it was late yesterday.

View of the Family Lounge big window... I love this shot - will take a similar

shot once the house is completed.

View from a cornet of the house. Notice the concrete platforms,

intended to install the A/C compressor units.

View from the east side of the house... we accidentally have these theme of "threes"

- 3 windows at this side, 3 windows along the corridor and 3 rows of ceiling inserts

in our family lounge - and we love it.

Tips: we hide the A/C pipes into the wall and up the ceiling,

 and to avoid condensation of the pipes, our contractor recommended

to separate the hot and cold pipes as you run the pipes in the ceiling.