We collected the keys today and inspected the house right away. I can’t say we are happy with the developer’s work, but overall I can give it 7 out of 10. Not much major defects, major as in torn out door, wrecked window and such. Most of them are paint/plaster stains. But we both are major, let me repeat, major pain-in-the ass perfectionist so we checked every crook and corner.
As expected, we love the room that we are going to turn into a studio better than the master bedroom, tee hee. I decided to let him design the studio himself, I will just butt in when it comes to my craft tools and apparatus. This room has these ceiling to floor windows on one side, so the sun rays poured in perfectly.
When I bought the house, I didn’t expect it has any view. All units with nice views were way beyond my budget, I thought the balcony was going to be facing the other block. But when we checked out our unit, the view from balcony was not bad at all. The view of wangsa maju, batu caves and some parts of bukit tabur are just lovely. It was windy and the balcony is quite spacey. I’m not really into gardening but after seeing the balcony myself, I suddenly couldn’t wait to plant some herbs which can be used for cooking. Parsley, basil, curry leaves and stuff.
There are just so many things we want to do with the house, but first, we have to let the contractor rectified the defects first. I’m seriously not good with this waiting game.
I have no one to blame but myself on the lack of update. I don’t think I want to write about my everyday routine here, otherwise you don’t mind reading the same thing over and over again.
Aaaanyhooo.. I think I want to see if I can commit to something on this blog. Since I’m about to move to my own house soon, (which now I’m already used referring to ‘our house’ instead of ‘my house’ with my better half), I’m planning to have it documented here. So you will get to know the progress from a very basic condo (I bought it new from developer) until, well, it becomes a home.
As a start, I consider this condo as my second ‘grown-up’ purchase, after the car (I bought my first cosmetic when I was 13, so that’s not grown-up purchase). I bought it late 2007 and early this month, I received the letter informing the house is ready. I have to tell you, we were over the moon 
We already set an appointment with the developer for key collection and house inspection tomorrow, and we both applied for leave from work for this.
Please do not expect a snappy magic of the progress, due to our decision to involve loads of personal touch to our house, this might take a while. Which ever that can be done ourselves, will be done ourselves in stages. Both of us are into making things, and this will help with our financial too, owning a home does not come cheap.
There are progress bars on the side and I categorized it into house sections, so we can keep track of the progress.
Here are some pictures I could share, I already sew the dining table cloth (and another one soon). I also painted the dining table (chairs) white. I thought I could complete painting the dining table set (chairs and table) in one weekend, boy I was wrong. We only complete the chairs this weekend. Primed in one day, painted in one day. It didn’t help that this process can only be done during the day when sun is bright.
I bought this red checkered cloth in Bangkok during my trip in July 2009. Had the white ric-rac sewn around so it doesn’t look that plain. Table mats are from Daiso.
I got myself this dining table from IKEA when I moved into this apartment I’m renting, it’s an INGO dining table that came in plain wood color. Then I purchased the plain wood color STEFAN dining chairs to complete the set (I couldn’t find the plain wood color in IKEA website). Now they are white! 
New tag added - our crib. So stay tuned!