The One with Our Future Home

After many months of waiting, we finally went down to sign the lease of our new flat. Since we haven't been working long, the payment nearly wiped out our CPF. :(  But purchasing a house is a good investment and I'm certain we will build an extremely comfy home for the two of us and our children. The CSO expects the delivery date to be set around 2Q2014. But through the experience of many others, building HDBs in Singapore is equivalent to building a lego set and that we can assume key collection to be brought forward by a year. Which means less time to save to our desired sum! *horrors*

There goes short trips and weekend binge-ing out the window.
But nonetheless, she got us really excited! Wifey's thinking of turning our home into a showflat and I seem to need to increase budget every week. Here's keeping our fingers crossed that everything will turn out perfect!

The One with the Awesome Queue Number

Our amazing queue number "54" granted us with an excellent array of choice flats in which we got first dips.

Finally... all the selection of housing unit and the fengshui fla-di-dahs are over.
Here's our selected unit.

5-room layout

Do click on the picture to enlarge :)

This unit was selected in conjuction with the general fengshui beliefs of luck, romance, success, education, money and whathaveyous. This, according to Master Koh of House of Feng Shui (HOFS for short), whom incidentally is our good friend Jay's dad, said is the BEST unit of all there is.

Hence our choice.

Not exactly our dream unit since it has a tad of afternoon sun but as I said to Eugene, "Ok lor, now I can sun my clothes and we don't have to worry about bats."
And looking on the very bright side, we got the second highest floor. It has been a while since I stayed anywhere higher than 2nd storey but I suppose there's plenty of wind yes?

So there! One down, a thousand more tasks to go.

The One with the Balloting

Anticipating the balloting results of Punggol Emerald.

I do hope however that even if we do get it, our queue number will be fantastic.

5 rooms are freaking 7 times over-subscribed.Can't be as bad as the 4 rooms which are 8 times over-subscribed. Geez..




9284 applications for 1429 flats. Wow, talk about cherry picking.

HDB has launched Punggol Wave and Punggol Emerald under its April Build-to-Order exercise and is offering 1429 units altogether.

Punggol Emerald is located at the junction of Punggol Way and Punggol Central. The project comprises of 188 units of Studio Apartments, 96 units of 3-room, 350 units of 4-room and 222 units of 5-room flats for sale. A mini-mart and a shop have been planned in this development.

Punggol Wave is located along Punggol Walk comprising of 105 units of 3-room, 259 units of 4-room and 209 units of 5-room flats. A Student Care Centre will be provided in this development.

In line with HDB’s plans to develop Punggol as an Eco-Town, Punggol Emerald and Punggol Waves will be designed for Green Mark Certification incorporating eco-friendly features to achieve energy efficiency, environmental protection, indoor environmental quality and other green features such as use of precast construction methods to reduce wastage, reduction of air and sound pollutants during installation as well as secondary roof system to reduce heat.

The selling price ranges from $73,000 for a Studio Apartment to $403,000 for a 5-room flat. Application will close on 3 May 2010.

Keeping my fingers super crossed because I'm already thinking about renovations! Talk about jumping the gun...

Bedroom Layout 1

Bedroom Layout 2

Walk-in wardrobe (if possible)

Vanity and side tables (I think I'm going overboard)

Living Layout 1

Living Layout 2




Living Layout 3








Dining Layout



  



Bathroom (I can feel Eugene's sweatbeads forming)

Bathroom Simplified

Bathroom Simplified 2

Kitchen Layout 1

Kitchen Layout 1a



Potential window frames




Study Room (Teeny tiny bookshelf is obviously for non-nerds)





Door Decor







Dining Area



Toilet layout