Jasmine Wong and Rainier Ng have been living in their 5-room apartment for more than eight months. They bought the 1,350-square-foot home in Singapore for $450,000 and designed it on their own.

SINGAPORE – When devising the brief for their home, the owners of this four-room HDB maisonette had just returned from a trip to Japan.Their designer, Mr Jacob Low of Happe Design Atelier, was ...