Green with envy: unusual colour used to transform art-filled Hong Kong flat into spacious home
Green sets the tone for a couple's warm, art-filled Sai Ying Pun apartment, writes Charmaine Chan.
Few in Hong Kong have the nerve to paint their home interior a deep celadon hue. But Richard Blight had no difficulty persuading two expatriate art lovers of its charms.
Displaying the colour beside earthy seagrass wallpaper, rich cinnabar red and Jim Thompson silk upholstery to match the walls, he was immediately given the green light, literally, to transform a nondescript new apartment in Sai Ying Pun into a warm, distinctive pad.
Blight was also tasked with adapting the layout to suit the lifestyle of his clients: James, who is from Australia, and Luisa Kay, an Italian writer of children's books on art.
Kay doesn't mince words when describing the 900 sq ft apartment they bought last year.
"The good thing was the view," she says. "But it was a stupid apartment with stupid rooms. You couldn't even put a bed in them."