Professionals

We spoke to 5-6 interior designers. Jocelyn stood out with the way she listened attentively to us and presented her initial ideas and concept for our 3-room resale flat. She understood our needs for a vintage/eclectic theme and farmhouse/country kitchen and is able to work around our budget as well. Jack is our operations manager and helped us to manage the overall renovation process, other contractors, deliveries, renovation schedule. He was very responsive and always updated us regularly on the renovation process. He was very dependable and helped us to receive many of our deliveries. Forefront partners with Hafary for tiles. Overall, the wood-like tiles we chose with Jocelyn were very suitable for the ‘raw’ and ‘eclectic’ style that we were going for. The tiles are very compatible with a variety of wooden and country furniture. Jocelyn guided us through the selection for 2h, recommending designs and types. Super grateful for her patience! However, the tiles that we eventually received at our house was not representative of the sample shown on display. There were some that were in darker shades. It was not Forefront’s fault, but Hafary’s. The placement of tiles by the tiler was slightly disappointing. They did not care about design - did not spread out the different shades of tiles evenly across the house. There were some clusters of very light/very dark tiles. We had to feedback to Jocelyn halfway through the tiling works and she informed the tilers promptly. After the renovation was fully done, we discovered some hollow tiles (about 7 of them) that needed to be hacked and redone. It was promptly arranged by Jack for rectification works. Overall, there is still unevenness of the tiles at some corners of the house, with some grout lines done shabbily, clumping together. We were offered bi-fold doors for the bathrooms. Choices were limited and there were no real full door samples to choose from, except a catalogue of colours and frame designs. Lastly, the kitchen cabinets were done as we have envisioned. Jocelyn was able to ensure that even the smallest of details that we wanted for our carpentry could be met. As our renovation was halted by the circuit breaker, Jocelyn discussed with us in detail the design and specifications of the carpentry over Zoom call. There were many uncertainties during this period, but Forefront did what they could to progress the renovation works. The fabrication of the carpentry was done in Malaysia during the circuit breaker period so that the carpentry could be installed as soon as renovation works could continue. Kudos to Jocelyn and her team for the forward planning! We’re very grateful to have engaged Jocelyn and Jack to help us in our renovation journey especially during the very uncertain times of Covid. They were very patient and provided constant updates. Thank you for your professionalism, dedication and hard work!

I was searching around for a design and home renovation company to embark on a room make-over for my teenage boys' room and found Swiss Interior Design from the web. Decided to proceed with them as I found their quotation to be reasonable, detailed and transparent. Worked with Jeff from Swiss Interior Design for this make-over project and was very happy with the work done for the following reasons: 1. Meticulous follow-up 2. Project management was well done with timely updates and on-site visits 3. Efficient planning of work that allowed for the project to be completed without hassle 4. Fast resolution of issues that surfaced 5. Patient and helpful Will definitely recommend them to friends who are looking for an interior design company.

Lina is not your typical ID who will just listen to your ideas and carry out the task. She gives inputs, valuable ones, on how to improvise your idea of a perfect home. We wanted a Scandi theme initially, but she gave inputs on how to match colours based on the given floor and wall tiles of our BTO. "Why pay more when you can work with what you have?", Lina always said. She ensures that our budgets are met, and also tried her best to meet our wants. New homeowners can be really hard to please, but Lina did so with full professionalism. To add on, she was present at the reno site 90% of the time to ensure everything was in order and will send us pictures to update us on our reno so we don't always have to come down personally to have a look. Overall, me and my wife is pretty much satisfied with the outcome of Lina's brilliance, and will definitely recommend her to new homeowners. Thanks Lina and D4S!

I selected Starry Homestead be my first home reno ID without knowing Ryan Linardy.i came across starry homestead on Quanvast and also some Other reno blogs, IG and website when I was doing my home Reno research. there were a few other ID I was talking to but Ryan is the one whom I can clique best and most importantly he understand and we shares the same points of view. He always correct me and address a more practical way in order to achieve the looks that I want. Ryan is always Reply promptly patiently answer to my questions and provide alternative suggestions when I’m in doubts. He always swift replied to my questions as and when even sometimes I texts him at night. Ryan shows his professionalism by putting all the part and parcel ideas together and conceptualised them Into functional and also achieved the good looks. I enjoy the whole process working with Ryan and most importantly, he work within my budget and It was a very good learning process for me too! I am so happy with this new renovation for my first home and I already start to quote Ryan name to my friends who are planing on their home reno, Thank you Ryan and Starry Homestead!

1. Response to enquiries before signing contract - EXCELLENT! 2. ID Design and Guidance/Recommendations - EXCELLENT 3. ID Vincent has been approachable, understand site issues faced and communicates well with all - AWESOME 4. Service and Workmanship - EXCELLENT 5. Budget and Timeline - EXCELLENT *****Recommended for all future ID works and fully trusted ID Firm where all of my requirements were completed beautifully! Thank you.

Would definitely recommend The Local INN.terior. In fact, I’ve actually already recommended a friend after I got my house reno signed! Andrew was a creative ID who would recommend logical inputs as opposed to pure aesthetic without functonality during my house’s planning. Inputs received/recommended was on point and considered within the theme I’ve requested. On the go, some physical alteration was required for my house and Andrew was kind enough to accomodate it, tailoring it to our needs.

We met up with Jordan since he was recommended by one of my colleague. Actually we are quite careful to decide the interior designs. The most attractive point when we made the decision is that Jordan showed us the initial interior render picture of the planning on our first meet-up and briefed us how the work would go on. We only told him bullet points of our design ideas through WhatsApp before the meet-up. So with the virtualization, the first meet-up is quite smooth and the planning indeed was a kind of what we want to accomplish for our renovation after the detailed discussion. After an actual site view on his on-going project, we finally chose Jordan as our interior design for our renovation with their past experience, work quality, expert knowledge and the reasonable price quotation. Our reno work started on end of March, but due to the serious COVID-19 situation, there was a two-month delay of the circuit-breaker period. Just after the circuit breaker was lifted, Jordan helped us to apply the work resumption permit and arranged the labor resources accordingly to immediately resume our Reno work in this difficult time. After the resumption, Jordan would check with us and inform us the actual daily work before the work started so that we know the schedule and work well. He kept us updated with the photos and videos about the progress. As we are quite detail-oriented, we often checked the work onsite and feedback any unsatisfied details to him. Jordan would reply our message promptly and advise us patiently. He also arranged the contractors next day to rectify the work based on our feedback. After 8-week’s time, the renovation work has been completed and it was exactly the same as the render image planning. We are quite satisfied with the work, especially the tiling work and carpentry work. The carpenter also came few times after the work done for some minor touch up to make things look much better. Jordan also followed up with us after the completion. Since we have some furniture assembly work by ourselves, we are afraid that there might be minor scratches on the painted wall. Jordan also promised to have another round to re-paint after we settled down. All in all, we are quite satisfied the renovation work by Jordan from Zenith Arc and will highly recommend him to our friends.

We were the ‘fortunate’ owners of experiencing covid and circuit breaker restrictions. With a halt to all renovation of works implemented by the government. The completion of project was longer than usual. Although with the implementation of govt restriction, the quality are not compromised. Quality and precise carpentry workmanship was build and customized to our likes and taste. 3D drawing proposed versus actual works was almost 99% similar to proposed artwork and plans. We were well informed of the milestones and timeline. Thank you fineline for completing our home and works. Keep up the good job.

Darren from Juz Interior handled the renovation for my home back in late 2019. It was generally a fuss free and pleasant experience working with him and he managed to meet my requirements in his designs. Writing this review now, I am still pleased with the quality of the workmanship. Would definitely recommend Darren and Juz Interior if you are looking for someone to help ease the hassle of moving into a new home.