Home Tour: This 4-room HDB in Compassvale Link has a round living room!

It's a rare sight to behold a round living room in an HDB flat. However, this resale home, crafted by Woon from Metre Architects, flawlessly embraces the unconventional with its airy, expansive communal area encircled by a gentle curve that hugs the perimeter. This curved round living room exudes both coziness and a playful charm simultaneously.

As the homeowner enjoys cooking and hosting gatherings with friends, one of the bedrooms was sacrificed to enlarge the round living room. The curve of this unique living space echoes the outer curved wall of the block at Compassvale Link.

Home: 4-room HDB resale flat in Compassvale Link
Size: 91sqm
Who Lives Here: A homeowner in her 30s
Interior Designer: Metre Architects

Practical curved surface

Beyond aesthetics, the curve offers practical functionality, serving as a display shelf or seating, depending on creativity. For this homeowner, the curved surface provides extra seating when friends come over. Woon cleverly utilized the space beneath the curve to incorporate much-needed storage.

It's not all just aesthetics, either -- the curve provides plenty of practical space that is at times a display shelf, and at times seating, depending on how creative one gets. For this homeowner, the surface provides extra seating for when her friends come over. Woon also made use of the space beneath to add much-needed storage.

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The round living room

The curve frames the space, while offering plenty of flexibility depending on the occasion. It’s both shelf space and seating (check out the reading nook by the window!) while allowing for storage space beneath. The overall result is that of an open conversational space where friends can gather and spend time together.

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Ease of arranging furniture

The dining table is custom-made with the owner’s favourite terrazzo top.

With the lack of corners in this round living room, the homeowner can rearrange the furniture according to preference. Since there is no designated "dining" or "living" area, every piece of furniture looks at home in any configuration, like this dining table.

Woon likens it to a ship that docks at different places along the concave bay of the curve. “It has a spontaneity that makes each gathering unique and unrepeatable, akin to the Japanese concept of ‘ichi-go ichi-e’,” he says.

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Curved storage space

Storage, seating, display — the curved frame offers a myriad of options. The round living room space is furnished with pictures, plants, and wooden stools, all gifts from friends.

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Designed for communal activities

While one part allows for the typical television-watching activity, the rest of the curved round living room space is designed for communal activities and conversation. The curve beside the television tapers off into a little display shelf, while the rest of the space is made whimsical and playful with bright colors and wallpaper.

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Terrazzo backsplash

The homeowner’s favourite terrazzo makes another appearance in the kitchen as the backsplash. Here, the colours are bright and playful since the homeowner loves cooking with friends.

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Muted bedroom colours

The bedroom, by contrast, is done in a muted palette for a relaxed atmosphere.

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Round bathroom mirror

The curved theme is echoed in the bathroom’s mirror.

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Ambient curved lighting

At night, the curve is lit up from beneath, emphasising the linear continuity of the space.

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