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A partial renovation for a young family in Hong Kong, with storage and functionality at the forefront. We designed the home around a single sculptural gesture: a curved, full-height cabinet that creates a dedicated entry moment while quietly absorbing the daily clutter of coats, shoes and school bags behind its soft radius.

The living room reads as one continuous line: custom millwork with soft curves wrap the media wall, flowing into floating wood veneer shelves that tie in with a rounded study desk. For this musical family, we integrated a piano keyboard tray into the desk that slides away out of sight. Each child has a purpose-built desk with generous shelving to house their growing collection of books.

The two bathrooms set the tone. The primary shower is wrapped in deep blue artisanal tile with brushed brass fittings. The guest bathroom answers in a softer sage green. Warm and light wood, durable quartz and tactile glazed tile keep the palette calm and built to last, without feeling boring.

A family apartment carried by its joinery. Rather than treat storage as cabinets added to finished rooms, we designed the cabinetry first and let it define how each space reads and functions, so that the things a busy household actually owns have somewhere to go before the furniture arrives.

The living room centerpiece is both the workhorse and visual superstar. The custom full-height, wall-to-wall cabinet is constructed in plywood and finished with solid walnut doors with rattan center panels, lending an organic and tropical feel that carries throughout the apartment. We added directional louvers to the sliding doors; they assist with heat dissipation while directing sight lines away from the TV when the doors are closed. A generous upper compartment lifts open effortlessly with pressurized rods. It houses the family's tennis gear. The deep bays at either end swing open to store the family's bikes, which hang from long stainless steel rods. A family that cycles and plays gets to keep its equipment in the main room without the room ever looking like a garage.

The entry's multifunctional piece is a deep green cabinet-bench hybrid. The flat panel joinery with weathered brass handles hints at a vintage aesthetic, while the walnut bench top echoes the other walnut tones in the apartment. Each child has their own woven basket below for shoe storage. Grab-and-go items such as car keys and bug spray live in the bank of drawers above. The solid brass coat hooks are hung at a height that caters to the average height of the five family members, because everyone matters.

In the toddler's room, a custom Montessori-style wardrobe allows the child to dress themselves. It is finished to match the existing cabinetry so it doesn't read as furniture that was added as an afterthought.

The custom hallway door has a distinctive mitered plank pattern, and a vertical fluted glass panel ensures that the door isn't opened while someone is standing on the other side. The linear texture of the solid brass handles from Buster + Punch echoes the lines of the fluted glass panel.

An apartment with the harbour on one side and very little floor area on the other. The color scheme is kept deliberately quiet so that the view is the thing you notice when you walk in.

We removed the wall separating the bedroom from the main living space, and replaced it with a double-sided, floor-to-ceiling cabinet that maximizes storage while providing privacy for the sleeping and dressing zone. A dining bench is integrated into the cabinet in the dining area, saving floor area. The fewer loose pieces of furniture in this space, the less cluttered it feels. Per the client's request, the dining bench faces the TV to accommodate her preference for watching shows during mealtime.

The bed sits on a platform. The step up to it is itself a run of drawers, and the entire bed lifts up to reveal more storage. Even the space at the bay window (often wasted) was utilized, as it supports the foot end of the mattress, reducing the total length of the bed by 1/5. A platform bed of this size buys back roughly the storage of a full wall of wardrobes without a single cupboard door appearing in the room. The headboard is a curved oak panel with an upholstered center and a recessed ledge above holding a socket for a phone.

The bed's headboard serves double duty as the backside is a dressing table, conveniently located by the wardrobe. There is ample storage for skincare and make-up, with open shelving to one side and drawers below. The mirror has integrated LED lights for optimal make-up application. A dedicated work desk is built into the bay window to take advantage of the natural daylight and the jaw-dropping view.

Every exposed edge in the flat is rounded, on the headboard, on the dressing table, on the end of the main cabinet run. In a compact apartment, you brush past joinery constantly, and a curved corner is the difference between furniture you live with and furniture that quite literally hurts you.

We assisted with the furnishing and styling of a three bed, two bath penthouse apartment in Shoreditch, London, for a busy professional and her adorable Shiba Inu pup.

The design inspiration was scandi-modern without sacrificing warmth and comfort. Our client loves to host, so having ample seating and open space for socializing was crucial, along with a functional bar cart for easy self-service.