Designed with functionality in mind 🤩! Originally we were quoted $3000 to do carpentry in the service yard. I decided to thrift furniture on Carousell and buy a dishwasher stand from Taobao, cutting our furniture cost to almost 10% of the original quote! All in all, I think we did good in hav

With a tight budget for Reno, no ID wanted to take us. We refused to go cheap on furnishings that would otherwise need replacement within a few years. We also didn’t like the generic beige/white theme that most IDs offered. So we decided to design the house own and work with a main contractor

To save money on office cabinets, I decided to not do carpentry. Armed with a paint roller and overalls, I started painting my IKEA IVAR cabinets! I sanded it down, added primer, painted, and varnished it. Also, I painted wooden moulding into a warm gold metal finish, measured the surface of th