One Silversea, Modern Home Issue 520

The text below is a translation of the original Modern Home feature.

The home sits in One Silversea, Tai Kok Tsui, with a saleable area of about 1,026 square feet in a waterfront residence on West Kowloon's reclaimed shore, looking out toward Hong Kong Island. The owners are a travel-loving couple who had lived in the original three-bedroom layout for more than ten years. As Modern Home reports, with overseas trips on hold the pair decided to give the flat a full transformation, so that coming home would feel like checking into a fine hotel abroad.

Regina Kwok reworked the plan from the ground up, merging the rarely used guest room and store room into a single master suite that folds a walk-in wardrobe, a work area and a generous bedroom into one. As she puts it, persuading a client to turn a three-bedroom flat into a one-bedroom home is the most rewarding part of the job. The move enlarged the living space and finally solved the storage problems that had long dogged the couple, a decision they say has proved itself since moving in.

Much of the atmosphere is built from the detail of the materials. In the main bathroom the designer set four stones against one another, blue gold sand, snow white, black steel stone and moon black, letting a broad sweep of grey-brown veining read far more vividly than ordinary tiled walls; the mirror cabinet is framed in a white-rooted black stone and accented with cross-grain black steel, echoing the crisp polish of a hotel.

Within that richness, Regina Kwok also layered in a warmth that hotels rarely have. A warm grey feature paint, brushed in uneven tones, wraps the living and dining television wall and plays against a herringbone timber floor and soft leather sofas in graduated browns, while warm grey and skin-toned upholstery and joinery run through the whole home for an easy, comfortable feel. To see One Silversea's hotel-led transformation in full, visit the complete project page.

Originally published by Modern Home, Issue 520 . June 2022