House Tour: Seamless surfaces belie ample storage space in this three-bedroom apartment
By Home & Decor Team -
Just like most farsighted homeowners, this young family wanted to ensure their new home, a 1,140sq ft three-bedroom apartment, would have sufficient storage space to hold possessions they would accumulate over time. Tasked with the renovation, the main challenge facing Shermaine Wong, principal designer of Mow Interior, was creating adequate storage space without making the place looked cramped.
She achieved this by integrating storage units for separate purposes into a single monolithic unit. a perfect example is the living room’s full-height, TV console-cum-storage unit. Utilising the full length of the wall, the left portion serves as the TV console, while the right conceals a shoe cabinet and more storage options. The graphite wood-look laminate casts a visual shadow over the unit, subduing its scale and presence in the mostly-white living room.
Shermaine installed a tinted mirror on the living room wall beside the dining table so the living space would look wider.
To fulfil the en suite master bedroom walk-in wardrobe on the couple’s wish list, one bedroom had to go. It has full-height cabinets on both walls – an open cabinet on one side, and a glass-doored one on the other – and the LED lights along the shelves make looking at and picking out clothing convenient.
As for the master bedroom, the full-height headboard adds a loftier feel, while the white volakas marble from Greece, used on the bedside tabletop, adds an understated touch of elegance.The renovation, excluding furnishings, was $60,000.