Blue and white Lantau family home lets the living be easy
With its dazzling colour scheme and rustic vibe, this bright and breezy Lantau family home is a breath of fresh air, writes Viv Jones.
From the outside, Jo and Willy Lorenz’s village house in Lantau is unassuming and unremarkable. The 2,100-sq-ft, threestorey building looks much like its island neighbours – until you pass through the bold blue front door. Then the true nature of the house reveals itself as a breath of Australian fresh air in steamy Hong Kong.
A colour palette dominated by crisp white and blue, and accented with natural elements of wood and stone has created a “rustic country” style that speaks volumes about its owner’s occupation. A fashion, food and interiors stylist, Jo Lorenz knows a thing or two about putting together a look.
She wanted to create something very different to the usual Hong Kong interior. “There’s a distinctive style to Hong Kong houses – the herringbone floors and so on,” she says. “And we really wanted our house to feel like you’re not necessarily in Hong Kong.
We wanted to step into something a bit more provincial, a bit more like a home that Willy and I might have grown up in.”
For Jo, that meant the freedom of an outdoor lifestyle in Sydney, Australia, while her pilot husband grew up on a farm in the rural United States.