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How To Renovate A 4-Room HDB Flat For A Family With Three Kids In Singapore

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Kendrick Khoo
Kendrick Khoo
1 month ago

Thank you for the article on “How to renovate a 4rm flat for 3 kids”. I can relate to this as I am current torn between renovating my current 4rm HDB or buying a resale 5rm (with 4bedrms). While renovating the current flat allows me to continue staying in a surrounding I am familiar and comfortable with, the idea of splitting up 2 rooms to form 3 rooms for the kids will mean the center room will have no access to a window or natural lighting. We are also not sure how the ventilation will be like for this center room without windows. We have been in the market since July 2024 looking for a suitable resale 5rm HDB with 4 bedrooms without much success as either the asking price is too high or location/floor is not to our liking. What we like about buying a 5 rm is that we are starting on a “clean state” on Reno and the “potential profit” (we retain half the sale proceed) from the selling of the 4rm can go towards funding the reno for the 5rm.

I would still like to explore the option of renovating the 4rm flat by splitting up the 2bed rooms to form 3. Would you have any IDs I can contact for this? Thank you.

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