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HDB’s new ‘white flats’: How to make open-concept living work for you
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In this five-room BTO in Sumang Walk, Punggol, light wood tones and fluted glass doors come together to form a space that looks and feels ample, breezy and meditative.
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SINGAPORE – Open-concept living is not a new trend in interior design. In fact, it has been around so long that Britain’s influential design magazine Homes & Gardens published a story at the end of 2023 asking: “Is open plan going out of style?”
In Singapore, public housing flats have been incorporating open-concept design into their layouts since at least 2012. That was when HDB began offering the option of open-concept kitchens to buyers of new Build-To-Order (BTO) flats.
