Scandinavian design from living room to bedrooms and kitchen turns Hong Kong family apartment into a future-proofed home
- The complete renovation of a 1,400 sq ft Discovery Bay apartment saw it tailored to suit the needs of each family member
- All the furniture is custom made to maximise space in the two ‘wings’ and the living room, while two home offices mean work from home is no issue
When Luke and Mari Logan first laid eyes on what was to become their new home, they were brutally honest.
“It was pretty ugly,” concedes Luke of the grey, angular building, one of the first to be built in Discovery Bay in the early 1990s. But it was what was inside that counted, and the 1,400 sq ft (130 square metre) fifth-floor flat – the sum of two flats joined side by side before they bought it in 2021 – met their needs precisely.
The layout allowed not only a bedroom each for their two young sons, but also two home offices, which were must-haves. Despite the odd angles, “we thought, we could make this work”, Luke says.
The couple’s criteria were honed by the pandemic. Having lived through several waves of Covid-19 in a smaller, rented Causeway Bay flat, with both working remotely and the boys home-schooled in a shared bedroom, the flat they were buying needed to be future-proof.
“We’d realised the hybrid working model would be here to stay,” says Luke, an Australian business development consultant, who has lived in Hong Kong for 12 years.
The location was another favourable factor. Luke and his Japanese wife, who works in financial services, wanted their boys to grow up semi-independently, riding bikes and skateboards around the quiet, tree-lined neighbourhood.