Who knew Fluted Panels can be so expensive?

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Contemporary
HDB (BTO)
~1,000 sqft
3 br
Couple Living

Research about entryway was pretty much futile in the initial day, guess not a lot people post about their entryways. We were inspired by a couple of concepts and fluted panel was one of the "in" thing back in 2021-2022. We wanted a fluted panel sliding door to hide our bombshelter. Or have a fluted panel ceiling, but who knew fluted panels are so expensive!
We pitched to our ID our ideas and was quoted exorbitantly. In the end, after 3 rounds 3D modelling discussion, our ID mentioned that it would be cheaper to do fluted panels on the a smaller portion of the wall. Hence we ended up with a seamless fluted panel look, into our open concept kitchen!
It was brillant of our ID to suggest carpentry around the bombshelter area, because we now have a lot of storage space that we have yet to fully utilised.
Case in point #1, we have storage for our shoes at the bottom cabinet, so this is where the Mr shoes go, while the Mrs shoes are in the DB box. We've also installed light switches, so that we can have a 2 way switch to switch on the living area light when we enter the house. It has been really useful so far especially at night.
Space planning has alway been important in renovating our home, yet still pretty much unpredictable. Hence, by having adjustable shelves, we can easkly adjust the height of the shelving we need for certain things, and also to have a dedicated space for our cleaning appliances e.g. Vacuum cleaner/mob etc. Pro tip is to have a switch installed in your cleaning appliance cabinet so that you can charge your appliances :)