Wednesday, 27 November 2013

IKEA and Chai Aluminum Builder (Kitchen Cabinet)

Warning: Verbose entry

Salam

Kitchen Cabinet hunting starts on Sunday. Sebab Saturday we just lazed around at home, spending quality time with family plus doing some house chores…hihi.  Ye la, 2 weeks in a row Azman and Aisyah tak sihat, really cannot do anything lah…haiyoh…on Saturday tu dah buat 3D hand drawing and dah amek ape-ape ukuran yang patut.

Beginilah rupa hasil kerja tangan Azman

The next day, which is Sunday, pagi2 dah keluar, first destination of course la pi breakie dulu…hihi…having heavy breakfast since kitaorg expecting to have late lunch or most probably kene skip lunch. We don’t have much time.

Weekend is the only time yang we can go out hunting for the home deco stuff. Usually I and Azman won’t opt to go out on weekdays. Lepas tuuuu.......out of the blue Azman said, let’s go to IKEA first. So, after breakfast, instead of heading off to KC store, we went to IKEA!!!! YAY!!

Guess what? We spent 2 hours surveying around the IKEA…so sekarang we have a clear picture of the KC design. Inside the KC tu, nak letak shelf semua ke, nak ade pull out drawer ke, wire drawer ke...macam-macam la info yang dapat when pegi IKEA. We didn’t buy anything pon kat IKEA. Jalan-jalan. tengok-tengok, planning-planning and go off.

IKEA here and there

Cantik tak Mellby Armchair ni?


Next stop is Chai Aluminum Builder (CAB).

We brought our so-called layout KC plan to CAB, and sampai2 jek, terus discuss pasal kitchen measurement and KC design. Eceh..tanya2 soalan pon macam expert jek. Mentang2 la baru pergi IKEA kan..bhahahaha.

Discuss punye discuss, keluarla satu price from CAB. Mak aiiiii makcik oiii…memang definitely out of our budget la. Wuwuwu…so devastated la you…I was taken aback with the cost actually, but I tgk muka Azman rilex jek. Okke then.

The sales girl said she quoted us based on the promotion price, normal price would be double the price. Whoaaahh….the KC really cost us a fortune laaaa. I’m afraid that we might have to postpone. There you go. No Consensus been made. The End. Balik. L


Chai Aluminum Builder Kitchen Cabinet
Address: No 53, Jalan Sanggul 1F, 41200 Klang.Malaysia.
Contact Number: 03-5166 2956

In the car

Aisyah pon dah tak larat nak jalan...tido jek la ecah ye....

Me: B, y u doesn’t look surprised with the price yg CAB tu quote(RM18K)?
Azman : I tau je yang memang KC is around that price.
Me: Oooww…meaning u know that we will be out of our budget ker?
Azman: We won’t. Trust me.
Me: (Dumbfounded) are we going to cut down allocations for others (autogate, flooring, plaster ceiling)?
Azman: We work it out okke.
Me: (Tak menjawab soalan)

We were home by 430pm.

After Maghrib Azman start working on the KC again. Aisyah went to bed dy. Relatively keadaan agak tenang untuk berfikir. After cracking our head, we come to a decision to go for IKEA KC.

We'd downloaded IKEA KITCHEN PLANNER to design the KC. Tapi using this gizmo is quite troublesome jugak la. (TIPS: Do register yourselves first before start using the planner). Bukan quite troublesome, memang SANGAT mendokusai (menyusahkan). But you have to be patience la and u’ll be amazed and contented with the aftermath. We took almost 5hours to completely patching up the cabinets.

Azman said nak buat guna autocad kat ofis je on Monday tapi dah tak sabar sangat nak tgk the outcome, gigih jugak guna planner IKEA ni.

Lepas tu kami buat kira2, and you know what, the cost is much much much cheaper than CAB. Cost of CAB KC is RM18K, while IKEA (based on what we've choose) is RM 9090.Can you see the difference.

IKEA's KC can be mahal and can be murah depends on your design and preference sebab IKEA offers a wide range of harga based on your budget and your kebesaran dapur.

Costing:
Left hand side: CAB,
Right hand side: IKEA (Yang we do on our own)

Indeed because of the material la, CAB guna aluminum with granite table top while IKEA, we choose particleboard, fiberboard and segala board bagai (most likely to get termite infestation). Takpe, panggil orang pest control buat service before install the KC ye (sedapkan hati).

Bye bye Mellby.....JJJ

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