Size the piece to the doors, not to a showroom drawing

Last updated 31 October 2026.

Questions about size arrive as “what dining table fits a 4-room”, “how high should a study table be”, and “how wide should the sofa be”. A room count is not a measurement. Flats with the same label do not share a living-room length, a window sill, or a lift. The small-HDB guide lists the eight numbers to send. This page says what those numbers are for, piece by piece. It does not invent a centimetre we have not taken from an official standard. If a seller prints 750 millimetres as a desk height, that is their drawing. It is not a HomeySG rule.

Sofas are the 2/3 conversation. Sellers often draw the sofa at about two thirds of the wall it sits on. That proportion is not an HDB dimension and not a length we certify from a photo of the cushion. Measure the wall, the walkway you still need in front of it, and the door the frame must pass. A deep sofa plus a deep console can close the path even when each piece was called slim. The sofa page is the quote. A clean of a sofa you already own is S$140 to S$280 when that steam sentence matches. It does not change the size.

A dining table fails at the chairs, not at the top. People need to pull a chair out and still pass behind it. A round top can help in a bay and can still be wider than the door. A rectangular top that seats six on paper can seat four once the sideboard and the shelter door are drawn open. The dining page is the quote. Four to six existing seats re-covered are S$240 to S$480. New chairs are not that row. A sintered-stone top is not the kitchen cutout at S$250 to S$550. Weight through the lift is the moving guide.

Study depth is the bedroom door and the wardrobe door. An L that ignores either swing fails on the first morning. We do not publish a correct desk height. Sit on the chair you own, with the shoes you wear, and see whether your forearms land on the top without your shoulders up at your ears. That is a check you can do. It is not a millimetre we will print as a standard. A motorised standing desk in a carton is S$140 to S$260 on the desk page. A carpenter L is quote on inspection on the study page. A new power point is an electrician.

A TV console’s depth is whatever walkway remains after the sofa. Measure from the wall to the sofa front and subtract the path you need. A console the width of the wall is quote on inspection. A small flat-pack is S$50 to S$80 only when it is actually small. The television bracket is the mounting page, not a size. Bookshelves need a span and a load, not a species. We do not publish how far a shelf may run without a support. Send the span. Tall units are anchored into structure, not into a shelter wall.

Sizing is not a permit. A loose piece at the right size needs no HDB renovation. Making it fit by hacking a nib is a permit. HDB’s renovation page and the fine of up to $5,000 apply when a renovation breaches the rules. BCA plan approval is not a tape measure. Curtains do not make a sofa the right length.

Homey Furnishing Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 202018148K), 27 Mandai Estate, #06-10 Innovation Place, Singapore 729931, invoices permit-exempt furniture assembly and repair. V On Construction Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 201611708H), on the HDB Directory of Renovation Contractors, invoices an HDB renovation permit when the work is a new layout, hacking, or a built-in strip-out. Homey Furnishing is not a removal company and does not publish a truck rate.

Curtains, blinds and roller shades are not part of this booking. Fabric window treatments are a different product, and these pages do not quote them.

Look at the piece in the room. Do not drag a tall wardrobe across a wet floor to test it.

1. Measure this flat’s doors, swings and walkway.
2. Do not copy a desk height from a catalogue into the brief as if it were law.
3. Say sofa, table, desk or console. They are different pages.
4. Include the mattress or the chair you already own.
5. Expect a quote for a carpenter size and a band only for a matching carton.

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

We will not print a Singapore desk height, a monitor height, or a dining knee clearance as if a statute stated them. Those drawings live on sellers’ pages. What you can check is whether the chair you own hits the top, whether the door still opens, and whether someone can pass. If that check fails, the piece is the wrong size even if a chart said it was correct.

A child using an adult top is not solved by a number on this page. Say who sits there. A lower top for a child is quote on inspection if a carpenter builds it. It is not the standing-desk band.

A coffee table is the same test as a console: the path between the sofa and the table. A round table that looked small can still block the route to the kitchen. There is no coffee-table band. A small flat-pack side table is S$50 to S$80 only when it is small. A carpenter coffee table is quote on inspection, same as a dining top that happens to be lower.

Do not add a rug size, a curtain drop, or a blind width to this measurement. Those are other products. The tape is for the timber or the sofa frame.

How you're charged

A furniture job that already has a sentence on HomeySG uses that sentence. Nothing in this table is a fuel surcharge, and the handyman hour is not added on top of a band unless the written scope says so. IKEA publishes its own checkout fee. That percentage is not a HomeySG band.

Who is allowed to do the work

The permit guide on this site already splits hardware from a renovation. A cabinet hinge, a gas strut and a drawer runner do not need an HDB renovation permit when the layout stays. A new kitchen or bathroom layout, hacking, or removing a wall does. Fines for unauthorised work are already written there as up to S$5,000. Homey Furnishing does not sign the permit invoice.

• Flat-pack assembly uses the furniture assembly catalogue. Tall units are wall-anchored on that visit. A separate anti-tip price is not printed, except the child-gate and anti-tip bundle at S$180 to S$420 when that bundle is the job.
• A built-in that has to come off the wall can become a strip-out. That is V On Construction if the flat is HDB and the work needs a permit. A loose shelf inside a carcass is not a strip-out.
• Town councils collect some bulky loose items on their own rules. We are not the collector, and we do not publish their fee.
• A new cable inside a wardrobe is an electrician. Assembly does not include a new circuit.
• Do not anchor into a household shelter wall. The permit guide already keeps TV brackets and shelves off that wall.
• A hollow partition or a false ceiling is a poor anchor for a tall wardrobe. If the fixing cannot reach structure, the visit stops.
• Active termites are not painted over. Skirting and door-frame replacement after damage uses the termite page bands. We do not claim to be the pest-control operator.
• Curtains, blinds and roller shades are not quoted here.

Ways to keep the bill smaller

• Photograph every piece before a carpenter is booked. A hinge visit is not a new kitchen.
• Put the flat-pack in the room where it will stand. Carrying a built wardrobe down an HDB corridor is a second job.
• If the drawer only sticks, use the published slide row. A new carcass is the cabinet page, and only when the board is swollen.
• Book the town council bulky slot before you pay anyone to truck a loose sofa. Many councils collect a limited number of loose items. Built-ins are usually excluded.
• Write millimetres from this flat. A neighbour’s sofa length is not a specification.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

Sizes do not have their own prices. The product does.

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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