A 4-room has a living room, not a spare study

Last updated 31 October 2026.

Four-room searches ask for a study, a dining set for six, and a feature wall. The flat has a living room that is also the dining room, two bedrooms that are not equal, and a kitchen that may already be a separate room. We do not publish which bedroom is larger. Measure. The 3-room design note is a different plan. Copying a 3-room kitchen into a 4-room, or the reverse, is how a quote describes a flat you do not have.

The work-from-home corner is the piece that causes hacking. If you add a plasterboard room, that is a layout change. HDB’s renovation page and the permit guide are the path. V On Construction invoices the permit. A desk against a bedroom wall that already exists is not that permit. The standing-desk row is S$140 to S$260. A carpenter return that closes a window or a door is quote on inspection and may be the permit. The study-corner note is the version that does not build a room.

Dining length is not a standard. The size guide already refuses a printed length for every HDB. Four chairs that hit the kitchen door are four chairs too many. A loose table that you already own is not a carpentry job. A bench built along the wall is quote on inspection. Do not bolt it to the shelter. Clause 7.2 is the shelter. The entry, the gate swing and the shoe cabinet are the entry note.

Money follows the same split as every other flat. The 4-room move-in package is S$1,048. Painting quantity for a 3-room is a different page and is not reused here as a 4-room litre count. A full kitchen replacement is S$5,000 to S$6,500 when the kitchen page’s sentence matches. A 4-room kitchen that only needs a hinge is from S$38. Bathroom tiles in the first three years stay. Hollow tiles that are intact can be injected at S$350 to S$750 for four to ten tiles. That is not a new bathroom.

Style boards for a 4-room are the style note. Japandi is not a package price. An estate name is not a layout. If your keys were for a named town, the defects and the hours are still the same HDB sentences. Report defects before carpentry. Book noisy work on the weekday clock in the hours guide. We do not publish how many weeks a 4-room takes.

Homey Furnishing Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 202018148K), 27 Mandai Estate, #06-10 Innovation Place, Singapore 729931, invoices permit-exempt maintenance. V On Construction Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 201611708H), on the HDB Directory of Renovation Contractors, invoices hacking, a new layout, and other work that needs an HDB renovation permit. Homey Furnishing is not a Council for Estate Agencies licensed estate agent and does not sell, rent or market flats. It is not a Ministry of Manpower licensed employment agency and does not place helpers.

Curtains, blinds and roller shades are not part of this booking. This page also does not sell or rent the home, and it does not place a domestic worker.

Photograph the fitting before you buy a product or book a hack.

1. Measure the living room with doors open.
2. Decide the work corner before you commission a partition.
3. Keep the 3-room design note for a 3-room.
4. Use S$1,048 only for the move-in package.
5. Quote carpentry after photos, not after a mood board.

The building changes the permission. It does not invent a second price.

A panel glued to a dry wall is not the same as a wall removed. If the work is only a lining, say so. If it needs the wall to come down, it is hacking and the hours guide’s restricted window. We will not call a hack a feature to avoid the permit.

The television bracket is the TV page. Moving a bracket between homes is S$40 to S$70. A new point for the television is an electrician if the circuit is new. It is not included in a carpentry quote.

Bedrooms in a 4-room are often unequal. The smaller one may not take a queen bed and a wardrobe on the same wall. Measure the bed you own, not a catalogue bed. If the door opens onto the only wardrobe wall, the wardrobe moves or the door stays and you live with a shorter rail. We will not reverse a door that is a fire door. A bedroom door that is not a fire door and only sags is S$60 to S$120 to align. A new leaf has no published price.

Aircon in the living room changes the wall you wanted for the dining bench. Read the electrical and aircon note before the bench is drawn. A trunk that lands on the bench is a second visit. Couples who both work at home still have one living room. The study-corner note is the desk. Do not commission both a bench and a desk for the same metres and then ask which one we should have refused. If both people need a seat at once, one of those seats is the dining chair. A second built-in in the same room is two quotes, not a discount, and it still has to leave a path to the kitchen with a door open. A trolley parked in that path is not a third quote. It is a reason to shorten the bench. Leave room for a folded drying rack if the yard is too small for one. The laundry-rack page is that product, not a built-in.

How you're charged

A job that already has a sentence on HomeySG uses that sentence. The hour is not added on top of a band unless the written scope says so. There is no fuel surcharge. A whole-flat repaint, a private defect-scan fee, and a litre of a named paint brand are not in the catalogue.

Who is allowed to do the work

HDB’s important information on renovation says renovation in a flat, including some work that does not need a permit, is carried out by a contractor from the Directory of Renovation Contractors. The same page says failing to use a listed contractor for renovations, or breaching the renovation rules, can lead to a fine of up to $5,000. That sentence is HDB’s. It is not a ruling on your flat. Read the page before you treat a handyman visit as a renovation.

• Permit-exempt maintenance that already has a band, such as a hinge, a silicone joint or a small hole patch, stays on the Homey Furnishing invoice.
• Hacking, a new layout, and replacement of toilet finishes inside HDB’s restriction period move to V On Construction Pte. Ltd. UEN 201611708H. The price of that permit scope is quote on inspection.
• A new cable or a consumer unit is an EMA licensed electrician. A new water point is a PUB licensed plumber. Piped gas is a licensed gas worker.
• Window installation and replacement on an HDB flat is a BCA approved window contractor on HDB’s directory, with a renovation permit first. BCA describes workhead RW01. Homey Furnishing is not that contractor.
• Selling, renting or marketing the flat is estate agency work. CEA registers property agents. We do not do that work.
• A weekly cleaner on this site is not a migrant domestic worker placement. We do not hire out helpers.
• Curtains, blinds and roller shades are not part of this booking.

Ways to keep the bill smaller

• Photograph every mark before you book a full repaint. A hole that matches the S$150 to S$280 sentence does not need a whole-flat price.
• Put several permit-exempt tasks on one visit. The S$55 call-out is one task. Further permit-exempt time is S$45 an hour, not a second trip.
• Report a new-flat defect to HDB, or the developer if the contract says so, before you pay anyone to cover it.
• Do not hack a bathroom floor to “save” a later leak. HDB’s three-year restriction exists so the flat below stays dry.
• Sit at the proposed dining spot with the chairs pulled out. If the bedroom door hits a chair, the table is too long.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

The 4-room package is a move-in visit. Layout carpentry is quote on inspection.

Anything not in that table is quote on inspection.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630. The reply uses a band already printed on HomeySG, or it says quote on inspection.

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