6 unconventional HDB layouts that may be tricky for your ID

Despite being a public housing scheme, HDB is surprisingly experimental; over the years they’ve come up with many ingenious designs. And uh… some that aren’t.

So, when you have a curved interior or one with a lot of angles, your contractor needs to make more measurements, cuts, and adjustments to get things flush against the walls. Floor tiles also tend to have more alignment problems, when your room has odd or circular shapes. Some contractors even charge extra if they need to do flooring for weird-shaped rooms.

Finally, twists and turns make a room less spacious and are less conducive to natural lighting. Between a square 200 sq. ft. room and a 150 sq. ft. room with a 50 sq. ft. corner, the square room will look and feel more spacious.The units in this project consist mainly of four and five-room flats. They were one of the replacement options for Hillview Avenue residents, whose homes underwent the Selective En-bloc Redevelopment Scheme in 2003.

The funnel-like shape makes it hard to position furniture, and something just feels off about a huge living room that tapers to a point. Visually, the layout is uncomfortable because it’s difficult to process where the centre of the living room is. Consider how awkward it would be to find a spot to centre the coffee table/sofa set.

This Executive Apartment has one of the oddest study areas we’ve seen. One of the study room walls is curved; and while it may look interesting, there are few pieces of furniture that are designed to fit such spaces. Finally, note the uncomfortably cramped bottleneck, which forms at the nexus of the bedrooms, bathroom, and study room. This area is also bound to be quite dark, as it doesn’t admit much natural light.

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