A New Place To Call Home

It was the moment that the family has been waiting anxiously for the past 2 years. We finally got the key to our new house addressed in Kota Seriemas Nilai. Too many stories behind it if I can recall starting from the booking of the house, where we could not get the booking fee until the day we move in into the house.  As i said, we have been waiting anxiously for the house due to a slow process of financing the house. The financing part was split between my father and me. It has to go through a slight complex arrangement as it involve the selling of my father house to my sister, Deah. I have not much issue on getting the loan from bank, however the selling part of the family house did encountered few bumps and roadblock. I never knew that bank look into BMI when they wanted to offer loan to my sister. Alhamdullilah, abah's preseverence and follow up, the bank transaction was finalized last month and finally we got the keys to the house afterwards.

The day when the family walk in the house

Once we received the keys, it is time to execute the plan to furnish the house. With careful planning and not forgetting the tight budget, we plan so that we will do simple renovation in the kitchen and fill up the living rooms with necessary home furniture. Key word here is tight budget. Though budget is always be the primary concern, we have at our own  disposal furniture from my house. We have been thinking how to transfer my things from my own house, less than 5 min drive, and where to put and arrange them in the new house. Considering all these, here come the conflicts when we want to stuff the house. My mom idea is to stuff with minimum furniture, simple arrangement will do because she wants to retain the spacious ambience for the house. Then Abah idea of furnishing the house is, it must be made of kayu jati, yg berat-berat, so do the sisters. Instead of ceiling mounted light with 3 bulbs, they want chandelier. With IKEA having lot of simple cabinet and dinning table practical to the modern design, they want Jati instead, So now, you can see how the conflict reveal. We just have to wait in a year time, who's idea and authority that the family will oblige to when the house are fully furnished by then. Definitely there will be lots of bargaining, long faces and noises coming through until the process of furnishing the house completed. Until then, let's wait and see. Afterall it is stil Work In Progres

Front View of the house and its proud gate keeper 

 

The mandur supervising the work

                     

And guess who is the coolie