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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 cupboards added to finished rooms, we drew the cabinetry first and let it define how each space reads, so that the things a busy household actually owns have somewhere to go before the furniture arrives.

The living room is a single full-height wall in dark timber, fluted and caned, that gives nothing away when it is closed. Sliding panels draw back to uncover the television; a flap above lifts to a display shelf; and the bays at either end swing open to a bicycle hung vertically on each side with the tennis rackets stood below. 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 answers in the opposite register. Deep green shaker joinery runs beneath a walnut bench top, with open cubbies below for woven baskets and a bank of drawers above, while a botanical paper climbs the upper wall and carries across the ceiling. Brass hooks take coats at adult and child height, and a black marble floor absorbs everything Hong Kong weather brings in through the door.

Two pieces show the same thinking at smaller scale. A Montessori wardrobe was drawn to a child's reach, 1580 by 580 millimetres with its hanging rail low enough that a young child dresses themselves, finished to match the existing cabinetry so it never reads as furniture bought separately. The hallway door was redrawn as a timber panel with a mitred plank pattern and a narrow vertical light slot, so a door that is only ever passed through still earns its detail.

An apartment with a harbour on one side and very little floor area on the other. The whole scheme is built from light oak and white lacquer, kept deliberately quiet so that the view is the thing you notice when you walk in, and every piece of joinery was drawn to give back floor space rather than take it.

The main bedroom is a platform. The bed sits on a drawer base, the step up to it is itself a run of drawers, and the headboard is a curved oak panel with an upholstered centre and a recessed ledge above holding a socket for a phone. 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.

Behind the bed, a dressing table turns the platform's end wall into something useful: a curved oak counter with a wide sliding mirror above it, open shelving to one side and drawers below. Elsewhere, a wall of white joinery holds an oak-lined niche with a cushioned bench, three open shelves, tall cupboards, and a desk built into the window bay where the daylight and the view already are.

The corners are the tell. Every exposed edge in the flat is rounded, on the headboard, on the dressing table, on the end of the wardrobe run. In a compact apartment you brush past joinery constantly, and a radiused corner is the difference between furniture you live with and furniture you keep catching.

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.