Taiwanese writer Huang Paolien, who now lives in Hong Kong, is never short of stories to tell, including the one about how she bought and furnished her own home.
I visited Ms Huang in her apartment in Fortune Garden in Mid-Levels and was met with a warm feeling of sunlight streaming through the windows and a mix of furniture styles that all seemed to work well together.
The flat on Seymour Road is more than 900 sqft and consists of a living room, dining room, open kitchen, bedroom, study and bathroom. The first thing I noticed in the dining room was the hanging light, which was an irregular translucent cone.
She said that she had made it using ink on parchment paper but that it was not finished. She had not drawn the eyes of the cats on the unfinished painting on the wall, either, but said she thought it suited the dining room well.
Ms Huang moved into the flat six months ago. It was the second flat in Mid-Levels that she had lived in.
'In different stages of life you want to live in different areas,' Ms Huang said.