Hong Kong house gets an Asian holiday home vibe, with Hermès-inspired colours and warm wood all over
- A two-storey house in Hong Lok Yuen in Hong Kong’s New Territories is redesigned to feel ‘like a vacation space – somewhere truly relaxing’
- It has nods to Chinese architecture, Japanese influences and furniture with Southeast Asia touches, and a garage with a glass wall for owner to admire his cars
The brief for this 1,800 sq ft (167 square metre) house in Hong Lok Yuen, in Hong Kong’s New Territories, was to make coming home feel like going on holiday. An Asian holiday, to be precise.
“It’s a long drive from the city, and after a day at work, it can be exhausting,” says homeowner Kevin Li Hung-mau, who shares the two-storey, three-bedroom house with his wife, Regina Chan Sun-tei, and their two dogs. “So during the design process we asked for somewhere that feels like a vacation space – somewhere truly relaxing.”
Turning the dream into reality was a job for Keith Chan Shing-hin and Stephanie Ip Si-tung, from Hong Kong design company Hintegro.
By the time construction began, Regina was pregnant with the couple’s first baby, requiring a few child-friendly tweaks to the design, including a gender-neutral yellow and green colour scheme for the guest bathroom and a rounded cabinet in the guest bedroom-turned-nursery.
Other considerations included Kevin’s cars, Regina’s Hermès collection and Sundae the Welsh corgi and Panda the shiba inu.
The new design begins at the totally renovated entrance, where a double door opens into an indoor-outdoor courtyard that designer Chan describes as “poetic” for its koi pond fed by a Japanese rain pipe, century-old bonsai tree on a tall wooden stand, and a full-length mirror “for a final check on the way out”.
