From mood board to dream home, and rural France to a Hong Kong flat
After a decade of planning and some heartbreak, a Hongkonger finally gets her dream home, writes Charmaine Chan
First she got the thumbs up; then, crushingly, the thumbs down. When Angelina Chand was gazumped after two years of apartment hunting in Hong Kong, she was understandably heartbroken.
“They said, ‘Congratulations, you’ve got the flat,’ and then 12 hours later they told me someone had put in an offer for HK$25,000 more.”
“Numb” and keen to take a break from the world of real estate, she was, however, persuaded by an agent to view another flat.
“I really liked it but I didn’t get my hopes high,” says Chand, who works in hospitality, marketing and communication.
“It was only when it became mine that I started to say, ‘I can do this and that’.”
That 520 sq ft, two-bedroom apartment, a stone’s throw from Sai Ying Pun MTR station, now tells the story of decade-old design aspirations brought to life.