Japandi, Muji, Scandinavian, industrial, wabi-sabi

Last updated 31 October 2026.

Style searches are how a new flat gets a single price it should not have. A board labelled Japandi and a board labelled Scandinavian can be the same oak-looking shelf and the same white wall. Muji, in the way people use the word here, is a preference for plain storage. Wabi-sabi is a preference for uneven natural material. Industrial is either a metal shelf that already exists as furniture or a chase in the concrete. Those are not one invoice. We do not publish a rate for any of the names.

Furniture that matches a row stays on the row. Wardrobe assembly S$100 to S$650. A small item S$50 to S$80. A standing desk S$140 to S$260. A dining chair re-cover is not a new table. A built-in that copies a picture is quote on inspection. The materials guide explains solid wood, veneer and laminate without a species price. The laminate versus veneer note is the face. A style does not upgrade the core. A 2-room and a 5-room can share a colour and still need the layout notes, because the doors are different.

Industrial is the name that hides hacking. A conduit on the surface may be an electrician. A chase that removes plaster is removing a finish, weekday hours, and HDB’s renovation page. A false ceiling of exposed pipe that blocks a shelter vent is refused. Clause 7.2 is the shelter. We will not run a pipe across that wall because the board said industrial. A metal shelf that is a loose rack is the metal or furniture page, quote on inspection if it is not a carton.

Floors and bathrooms are the other hiding place. A wabi-sabi or Scandinavian plank is the flooring note. There is no per-metre rate. Stripping a new bathroom because the tile is not “quiet” enough is the three-year note. Paint is the paint pages. We do not publish a litre count for a 4-room by copying the 3-room paint guide. Smell after paint or new boards is the formaldehyde guide, not a style called natural.

If a quote says “Japandi package, 4-room, one price”, use the quote note. Ask what is hacked. The move-in package for a 4-room is S$1,048 and is not the style. We do not rank designers and we do not publish a markup. An estate does not have a required style. Tengah and a central flat follow the same renovation sentences on HDB’s page. We do not publish project palettes.

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. Replace the style word with a list of objects.
2. Match cartons to printed rows.
3. Mark anything that removes a wall or a finish as a hack.
4. Keep the bathroom if the three-year rule applies.
5. Refuse a single package price that hides those lines.

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

Keep the pictures for colour. Do not let them set the structure. A pale floor, a low shelf and a plain desk can be bought or built without a name. If the picture shows a wall that your flat uses as a bedroom, the picture is of a different flat.

Curtains and blinds are not how we deliver “soft minimal”. They are not in the booking. A frosted film on glass is quote on inspection on the film page, and it is not a curtain.

Muji-style storage is still a wardrobe. If it is a carton, it is S$100 to S$650 to assemble. If it is built to a beam, it is a quote. The plainness does not remove the shelter clearance or the door swing. Scandinavian light is often just a white paint decision. Paint pages own paint. We do not convert a paint colour into a carpentry rate. A sample pot on the real wall is more useful than a second board.

Wabi-sabi timber that cups in a shut, wet room is the materials guide, not a charming crack we will call intentional. If a top arrives split, the delivery checklist is the place to refuse it. A style does not waive that check. Industrial metal that rusts outdoors is the fabrication pages, with no colour chart. Indoor and outdoor are different quotes. Do not put a garden pergola price, which is also a quote, onto a living-room shelf. A pale Scandinavian floor is still the flooring note, with no per-metre rate, and it still stops at a fire door that must not be planed. If the board shows a low platform bed, the platform-bed page is that conversation, and a storage bed that blocks the only path is the wrong bed even when the fabric matches the board. Measure the path with the bed made, not with the mattress still in plastic. A headboard recovered because vinyl cracked is S$380 to S$850 on the bed page when that panel already exists. A new headboard to match a board is a quote, not that recovery. Count the path in shoes you actually wear, not in the render. A board is not a measuring tape. Bring one.

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.
• Replace the style word with the object: desk, floor, wall, kitchen. The price follows the object.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

Style names add no row of their own.

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.

• Without hacking
• Floors
• Materials
• Quotes
• Laminate and veneer
• Assembly