4-Room HDBs Designs That Aren’t Your Cookie-Cutter Home

These 10 four-room apartments surprise us with what can be achieved design-wise.


1. Give a clean and timeless modern look a gritty spin with hues of black and grey. Sleek lines pull the look together, creating visual interest and cohesion.

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Interior designer: KDOT Associates
Location: McNair Road

2. With a simple colour palette, and one or two pieces of furniture in a bright wash of colour, and your living space will look livelier immediately.

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Interior designer: MET Interior
Location: Boon Lay Avenue

3. The plush sofa and fluffy rug in a rich shade of blue immediately draws our attention away from the white surroundings.

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Interior designer: D'Initial Concept
Location: Whampoa Dew

4. Bring about a lighter and airier mood at home with lots of white! The touches of grey are the sprinkles on the cake, giving the apartment a polished and completed look.

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Interior designer: Chapter One Interior Design
Location: Anchorvale Crescent

5. The brooding mood of this industrial-style apartment is evocative of a swanky underground pub, but also allows you the freedom to indulge your love for toys and collectible figurines.

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Interior designer: 82
Location: Toa Payoh Crest

6. To create an illusion of bigger space, do away with walls or partitions and play around with funky floor tiles or flooring designs to create a visual demarcation instead.

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Interior designer: DB Studio
Location: Anchorvale Crescent

7. Integrate big, leafy potted plants and faux animal skin rugs around the house for a lushness of the jungle.

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Interior designer: Free Space Intent
Location: Tampines GreenForest

8. Play elongated spaces to your advantage by keeping the furnishings sparse and down to the bare minimum, so that the area is always simple and clean.

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Interior designer: UNO Interior
Location: Punggol Walk

9. House your comic books and character figurines in a bookshelf that cleverly acts as a partition separating the bed from the work area for an apartment that is creative yet playful.

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Interior designer: AD. I. WRKS
Location: Telok Blangah Heights

10. This apartment is at once both homely and comforting, yet pleasantly surprising with an attention-grabbing mustard yellow wall in the dining area.

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Interior dsigner: Charlotte’s Carpentry
Location: Ang Mo Kio


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