With furniture and collectables carefully assembled from all over the world, one family home reflects its owners' cultural heritage.
Here's what happens when you design a home to suit a modern family that exhibits a cosmopolitan mixture of cultures and languages. The Richards - Maurice, an American; Lucille, a French-Canadian; and three-year-old Noelle, who was born in Indonesia - moved to Hong Kong two years ago from Singapore.
'The story of our apartment is the story of our family,' explains Lucille. 'Everything from everywhere all combined together.' While this may be true, their interior style is a cohesive blend of elements, designed to their specifications with the aid of a contractor.
The 1,450 sq ft unit is in an old building on Kennedy Road. 'We like the neighbourhood, the building is well managed and it has amazing views,' says Lucille of their decision to buy.
Their renovations were extensive. The first thing they did was restore the enclosed balcony and install a glass balustrade to make the most of the views of Wan Chai.
'We have people over often and now, when we open the balcony doors, it brings in the exterior space. We didn't want any partitions cutting off the view so now you look straight out and have the whole of Wan Chai in the living room,' she says.