Match a new piece to the carpentry you already have

Last updated 31 October 2026.

The usual job is one new cabinet next to a ten-year-old run, or a shelf in an alcove beside a wardrobe that is staying. The face name on both quotations can be the same word and still be two products. The laminate versus veneer note is the difference between those faces. The peeling and paint page is what to do when the old face has already failed. This page is how a new piece is agreed so it does not embarrass the old one.

Approve a physical sample on the wall, in daylight and with the lights you actually use. A photograph compresses colour. We will not treat a screenshot as the specification, and we will not publish a “colour match fee”. If the sample is refused, the piece is not cut. If you approve it and the delivered face is a different sheen, that is a delivery note on the checklist page, not a statistic about the trade. If you never approved a sample, the mismatch is the brief, not a defect we have counted.

The core has to be able to live where the old piece lived. A new particle-board door on a wet sink will swell beside an aluminium door that survived. Matching the colour and missing the core is how the repair returns. The materials guide is that choice. A sink repair stays S$280 to S$700 on the sectional path. A new door on a dry, sound box is quote on inspection. It is not ten times S$160 to S$350. That patch is one room door whose core is sound, or a pet scratch of the same kind.

Height, depth and scribe are the match people forget. An old wardrobe may be shorter than the ceiling because of a beam. A new one built to the slab will not line through. Measure the old cornice, the plinth and the door swing. A shelf that is 20 millimetres proud of the old run is a trip and a shadow line. We do not publish a tolerance in millimetres as a standard. We do say to write the existing height on the brief. The size guide is the room. This paragraph is the neighbour piece.

Hardware should be named if the old doors are to stay in the same family. A generic hinge is from S$38 a door. A Blum pair is S$90 to S$180 or S$120 to S$220 depending on the degree, when the cup matches. Mixing a new soft-close hinge on one door of a pair that is not soft-close feels broken even when both doors shut. Ask. Slides for one to three drawers are S$110 to S$220 when the drawers exist. New drawers are not that row.

Matching is not a permit. Replacing a loose door is not an HDB renovation. Replacing a built-in run can be a strip-out. HDB’s renovation page and the fine of up to $5,000 apply when a renovation breaches the rules. Do not sand a shelter door to stain it to match a wardrobe. BCA plan approval is not a laminate sample. Paint is quote on inspection, as the peeling page says. Curtains are not a way to hide a mismatch.

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. Put a sample on the existing face in daylight and at night.
2. Photograph the old edge so the core is visible.
3. Write the old height, plinth and cornice.
4. Name the hinge if the old doors stay.
5. Do not approve colour from a phone.

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

If the old core is swollen, matching a new skin to it wastes the new piece. Repair or replace the wet box first. If the old face is a printed grain that is no longer sold, a near match is still a different product. Say whether you will accept “close” before anyone cuts. We will not promise identical.

If the old piece is the landlord’s, do not match a repair to it by sanding it. The rental page says leave what you do not own.

A bookcase that is too tall for the next flat, or a table that will not pass the next lift, is the resize page. Cutting it down is quote on inspection. It is not a colour match and it is not the assembly band run backwards.

A carton that is simply the wrong size is often cheaper to replace than to cut. Say which you own. We will not cut an IKEA panel into a custom shape and still call the visit S$50.

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.
• Look at the sample at noon and with the lights on. A showroom spotlight hides the mismatch.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

One door with a sound core has a band. A match for a whole run does not.

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.

• Laminate versus veneer
• Peeling and paint
• Cores
• Resize and refinish
• Hinges
• Wardrobes
• Check the match on delivery
• Custom furniture
• Handyman price list