Homeowners using IKEA Singapore’s Home Design Service at IKEA Alexandra and IKEA Tampines can now add gas hobs, cooker hoods, water heaters, and dryers from Life by City Energy to their plans, according to a joint announcement dated 3 November 2026. If you’re collecting keys to a BTO (Build-To-Order) flat soon, your cabinets and gas piping can be sorted in the same conversation, before a contractor touches a wall.
That’s the part worth paying attention to. IKEA’s own release describes the old routine: customers who wanted gas appliances had to source them separately, then come back with the specifications before their kitchen plans could be finalised. Anyone who has renovated an HDB (Housing & Development Board) home will recognise the shuffle, where you become the messenger carrying hob measurements between people who never speak to each other.
One Contact Instead of Three
Under the partnership, IKEA says the Home Design specialist stays your single point of contact. Once you pick a gas appliance, that specialist works with Life by City Energy’s experts to build the appliance dimensions, placement, and gas-piping requirements into the design.
The release splits the work clearly. IKEA handles the cabinetry and appliance positioning, while Life by City Energy arranges delivery, installation, and gas connections through its own teams and partners, right up to gas activation. Site visits and further technical checks are arranged where needed once you go ahead with the proposal.
Steve Croasdale, Commercial Manager for IKEA Singapore, put it plainly: “Creating a home involves many connected decisions, but the experience does not have to feel complicated.”
How the Plan Comes Together
Life by City Energy is the home solutions arm of City Energy, the national town gas provider, which says it supplies piped town gas to more than 930,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers islandwide. Soh Guan Hong, City Energy’s Senior Vice President of Residential Sales, pointed out that town gas infrastructure is available in all new HDB flats. For most BTO owners, then, the real question is which gas appliances to fit, rather than whether gas is on the table at all.
IKEA says the water heaters, gas dryers, smart hobs, and cooker hoods are on display inside its showrooms, so you can see them next to the kitchens they’d sit in. The companies describe the range as IoT-enabled (Internet of Things, meaning the appliances connect over Wi-Fi) and pitch it as energy-efficient and lower-carbon.
The companies’ infographic lists what gets coordinated: hob cut-out dimensions, where the gas water heater or dryer goes, how the gas pipes are routed, and the cabinetry works. Those are four classic renovation headaches in one diagram, and getting any one of them wrong usually means somebody re-drilling a cabinet!
IKEA says its Home Design Service has helped 300 homeowners plan, furnish, and complete their spaces since its soft launch in 2025, and that Life by City Energy is the first partner brought in to expand it. If you’ve followed IKEA Singapore’s in-store add-ons over the years, from its sustainability offerings and new ways to shop onwards, this one reaches furthest into the actual renovation.
The Launch Deals Worth Knowing
IKEA and Life by City Energy are running launch packages with IKEA gift cards on qualifying purchases at IKEA Alexandra and IKEA Tampines. All prices below are launch promotional prices, the “usual price” figures are as listed by the two companies, and terms and conditions apply.
- Home Essentials Package: from S$1,459 (usual price S$1,797), with a Life gas hob, cooker hood, gas water heater, and a S$150 IKEA gift card. Upgrade to a Life Safety Timer Hob for S$20 more, or a Küche smart hob and hood for S$100 more.
- Life Hob & Hood Bundle: S$839 (usual price S$1,112), with a S$50 IKEA gift card.
- Life Safety Timer Hob & Hood Bundle: S$859 (usual price S$1,132), with a S$50 IKEA gift card.
- Standalone Life gas water heater: a S$50 IKEA gift card for a new HDB or BTO installation, or S$100 when converting from an electric to a gas water heater.
- Add-ons with any bundle or package: a Rinnai gas dryer for S$1,220 (usual price S$1,335), or a Küche smart oven at 50% off its usual price of S$1,463.
Kitting out an empty BTO kitchen? The Home Essentials Package is the one to look at first, since it bundles the hob, hood, and water heater you’d need anyway. It comes with a S$150 gift card that can go towards shelves or a sofa.
Already living with an electric water heater? The S$100 gift card for switching to gas is the better fit for you, as it’s double what a new installation gets.
Who Should Book a Consultation
If you’re only swapping out a hob, this partnership won’t change much for you. For first-time owners staring at a bare HDB unit with a renovation timeline to juggle, though, having one person hold the cabinet plans and the gas requirements together cuts out the most tiring job of the lot, which is being the go-between for vendors.
Life by City Energy’s flagship store sits at Plaza Singapura, #03-77/78, with another outlet at Toa Payoh HDB Hub, #01-08A, if you’d like to browse the range before your consultation. When you’re ready, make an enquiry through IKEA Singapore’s Home Design Service and head down to IKEA Alexandra or IKEA Tampines, where the gas appliances are waiting in the showroom for your next renovation chapter!
Photos and Visuals courtesy of IKEA Singapore and Life by City Energy.
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