After a long, hard day at the office, nothing beats the tranquillity of one comfortable, open bachelorette pad in Wan Chai.
When working hours are long and business travel takes up more than 50 per cent of your time, it's vital that your home ticks all the right boxes when it comes to convenience and comfort. Busy professional Bonnie Leung chose to roost in increasingly gentrified Wan Chai, just a stone's throw from Pacific Place and her office.
Having lived in the apartment for some time, she decided it needed a makeover and called on architect Anderson Lee of Index Architecture to turn the 1,000 sq ft space into a bachelorette suite.
The original - and rather boring - standard three-bedroom layout was not working for Leung, so the first thing Lee did was to knock down as many internal walls as he could, enlarging Leung's master bedroom and bathroom, and creating an open kitchen, dining and living zone. He also devised a flexible study area with moving panels in place of doors and a bed that drops down from the wall.
'The original layout was aimed at a family but as a single professional woman, Bonnie had no need for that kind of formality,' says Lee. The space now is much more fluid, with interlocking panels used to change its configurations.
To one side of the foyer is the open kitchen, with black acrylic and stainless-steel cabinetry that wraps around into the dining area, giving a sense of continuity. The dining and living area is an open rectangular space, with a corridor leading off at 90 degrees.