Marina Cove - Marina Magic
Like the yachts berthed outside, this 2,000 sq ft, four-bedroom Sai Kung town house is bright, fresh and streamlined. It was very run-down before the renovation. We have transformed the dated interior into a contemporary family home by changing the layout and reassigning the rooms.
In the living room, a wall of floor-to-ceiling bifold doors and large grey floor tiles create a barrier-free connection to the split-level outdoor spaces. Outside, we installed a series of large and small steps leading from the terrace to a private floating dock at the edge of the marina.
But it’s the large kitchen-diner that is the heart of the home. By moving the helpers’ quarters to the ground-floor lobby, we were able to reclaim the space for a “dirty kitchen” behind an opaque grey glass sliding door, which contains cooking smells and hides the washing up. The main kitchen is focused around a large island, kitted out with a breakfast bar, wine fridge, drawers and USB sockets and phone-charging area. Adding interest to the cool palette is an accent area of wooden open shelving, repeated in the wooden wine rack at the end of the island.
The most colourful spaces in the house are the girls’ bedrooms. They chose the colours themselves: yellow and purple.The twin rooms are peas in a pod, with mirror-image layouts, doors facing each other and matching walk-in wardrobes behind lush velvet curtains. While the girls each have their own rooms, they are not entirely separate: the two spaces are linked by a secret passageway in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, allowing the girls to visit each other and chat and play together.
The master suite is spread over two floors. On the fifth floor, the master bedroom has a glass-walled bathroom – complete with wet room, egg-shaped bath and marble vanity – and a large walk-in dressing room. Upstairs, the study is a narrow, high-ceilinged space with floating shelves that stretch up to the pitched roof, and sliding wood doors fitted with port¬holes, in a nod to the nautical setting.
In the living room, a wall of floor-to-ceiling bifold doors and large grey floor tiles create a barrier-free connection to the split-level outdoor spaces. Outside, we installed a series of large and small steps leading from the terrace to a private floating dock at the edge of the marina.
But it’s the large kitchen-diner that is the heart of the home. By moving the helpers’ quarters to the ground-floor lobby, we were able to reclaim the space for a “dirty kitchen” behind an opaque grey glass sliding door, which contains cooking smells and hides the washing up. The main kitchen is focused around a large island, kitted out with a breakfast bar, wine fridge, drawers and USB sockets and phone-charging area. Adding interest to the cool palette is an accent area of wooden open shelving, repeated in the wooden wine rack at the end of the island.
The most colourful spaces in the house are the girls’ bedrooms. They chose the colours themselves: yellow and purple.The twin rooms are peas in a pod, with mirror-image layouts, doors facing each other and matching walk-in wardrobes behind lush velvet curtains. While the girls each have their own rooms, they are not entirely separate: the two spaces are linked by a secret passageway in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, allowing the girls to visit each other and chat and play together.
The master suite is spread over two floors. On the fifth floor, the master bedroom has a glass-walled bathroom – complete with wet room, egg-shaped bath and marble vanity – and a large walk-in dressing room. Upstairs, the study is a narrow, high-ceilinged space with floating shelves that stretch up to the pitched roof, and sliding wood doors fitted with port¬holes, in a nod to the nautical setting.
Project Year: 2018
