when we first got the keys to our new house, ah long and me just wanted a simple master bedroom with minimal furniture.
so we came up with the idea of doing a raised platform for most of the bedroom area and do away with buying a bedframe.
back then, our dependable contractor did all the necessary and ensured that our renovation works complied with HDB laws and regulations.
and SO, the requirement then is the between any raised platform to the bottom of the window pane, there must be at least 90cm gap. to which we did better, ours was a 95cm gap.
so when the HDB officer came our house to do the routine check to ensure everything is in order before our HDB 1st appt to sell the house to our sellers, we were berry confident that we will pass with flying colors.
which we did. WITH THE EXCEPTION of the raised platform in our master bedroom. @_@
apparantly, the regulations changed in the last 2 or 3 years that the distance between any raised platform and window must be at least 1metre now............
*pui*
so we just went from legal to illegal unknowingly.
nothing too terrible. or so the HDB Officer said.
you just need to remove the platform soon and let me inspect again - he said. @_@
and so we did. :
luckily, our contractor was able to help us do so at a nominal fee.
but the bare cement floor thereafter rendered our master bedroom no longer one......
so we did a 乾坤大挪移。 hahaha.
so for the next 6-8 weeks, our master bedroom will become our study/store room.
and we have shifted our mattress to the study room since.
we are surprisingly zen with the new arrangement and actually think its fun to do so!
well, im now blogging away in my master bedroom ... haha while ah long is zzzing away in the study room.
new set up can be fun, i suppose. :)
tada, our master bedroom became a makeshift study room cum storeroom. *messy*
our new "bedroom". the boys dived onto the mattress once we laid it down. tsk tsk.
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