Service Balcony Revamp

Chinese New Year's coming, so naturally my mind is in full gear once again. Cleaning, baking, and most importantly, rearranging furniture to maximise storage space. There seemed to be quite alot of potential in my service balcony, so after some discussions and measurements, we headed down to IKEA to hunt for our cupboards.

We decided on something more hardy, so we chose the FAKTUM kitchen cabinet series. I love the flexibility of IKEA furniture, how we can custom make the whole cupboard according to our needs. It was too big for us to carry home, so we arranged for delivery the next day.


It didn't help that the IKEA delivery men work on rubber-band timing:

The delivery slip says 3pm-6pm.
At 3.30pm they say they'll be there in 30mins
They arrived nearing 5pm. -_-


We made a decision to put together the cupboard ourselves. Afterall, Cobby and I were experts in putting together IKEA furniture. I mean, how hard can that be right? Turns out that the cupboard was the toughest thing we have ever assembled. Not because it was complicated or anything. It's just that, there were SO many parts, and the thing was quite tall, so most parts were tall, long, heavy and tough to manoeuvre around our little kitchen.

Not forgetting we weren't experts, so much time was taken up figuring out the instructions and the trial and error of putting things in, taking it out and putting things in again. THANKFULLY, Cobby decided to buy a BOSCH heavy duty cordless screwdriver a few days ahead and that has helped tremendously during the assembly.

Meanwhile, Jolie was at my Mom's place. So we quickly got to work, but we had to stop around 6.30pm, as it was getting late. We had to go to mom's place for dinner and pick up Jolie. Besides, we could tell we were getting tired when Cobby counted the number of holes in the cupboard 3 times and still gets it wrong! Hahaha...

So we quickly cleaned up and headed to Mom's place. When we got back, Cobby wanted to finish it, so we got busy again and put on the finishing pieces. Finally it's done!

I loved my new cupboards to the max!!! The smaller one was made a day earlier, simple one to keep all my rags and cleaning tools and double as a bamboo stick holder. The big one was so spacious, we managed to liberate quite alot of space in the store room by transferring some stuff over. So happy! Best of all, we managed to finish it in a day, so tomorrow, we could check in into the Ritz Carlton and enjoy our little family vacation in peace. Cheers to that!