Residential

The Cavendish Project

Cavendish Heights, Hong Kong

Partial renovation with bespoke joinery, family apartment

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.

Glazed blue and sage tile, brushed brass fittings, quartz stone, wood veneered joinery.

Primary shower in deep blue tile with brushed brass fittings — Deep blue artisanal tile lines the shower floor to ceiling, with brushed brass fittings and a frameless glass panel that keeps the enclosure open to the rest of the room. Holding the strong color inside the wet zone and keeping every dry surface in a pale neutral tile is what lets a small bathroom carry a saturated material without closing in.

Living room media wall with floating wood veneer shelves and desk — Custom millwork runs the media wall as one continuous line, with floating wood veneer shelves that turn the corner and land on a rounded built-in desk. Carrying the joinery across as a single unbroken run instead of setting separate furniture against the wall is what lets a study area sit inside a living room without costing you the room.

Primary bathroom vanity with a brass tap and glazed blue tile — The vanity pairs a wall-mounted brushed brass tap with a glazed blue tile band, a quartz counter and a wood veneer base that curves away at the open end. Wall-mounting the tap clears the whole counter for wiping down, and rounding the one exposed corner of the joinery buys back circulation in a bathroom this narrow.

Curved full-height entry cabinet in white with wood-lined niches — One curved, full-height cabinet in white joinery does the whole entry, with wood-lined niches at either end for open shelving and coat hooks while closed doors take the bulk of the storage. Giving the drop zone its own recess is what keeps coats, shoes and school bags off the floor, and the soft radius on the exposed corners is what stops a full-height run from reading as a wall of cupboards.

Guest bathroom in sage tile with a wood vanity and bathtub — Sage glazed tile takes the bath wall full height, against warm neutral tile, a light wood veneer vanity and a built-in tub under a glass screen. Tiling only the wet wall in the color and leaving everything else quiet is both the cheaper move and the calmer one, and a built-in tub with a screen over it gives a family a bath and a shower in one footprint.

Pull-out desk with a concealed piano keyboard tray below shelves — Beneath the floating wood veneer shelves, a tray slides out of the desk to bring a piano keyboard to playing height and pushes back in flush when it is not in use. Building the instrument into the desk instead of giving it its own furniture is how a musical family keeps practice in the main room, and the same drawer logic works for anything you want within reach but not on display.

Guest bathroom vanity with a quartz counter and tall wood storage — A quartz counter sits on a light wood veneer vanity that rounds off at the open end and runs into a full-height wood-lined shelving tower, with sage tile and warm stone-look tile meeting at the bath. Pushing storage vertical into the narrow strip beside a vanity is how you find a linen cupboard in an apartment with no room for one, and rounding the exposed corner keeps that bulk from catching you on the way past.

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