A family flat in Tai Hang with a luxury hotel twist
It was architect Arnold Wong Yok-fai's lucky day when he and his wife, Grace, moved into a harbour-view
Tai Hang apartment just before Lunar New Year in 2024.
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Watching fireworks from the living room invited good fortune into their home, he says, and the 'birth year' of the building – 1989 – was the same as his own, which augurs well, according to
feng shui beliefs.
'It was some sort of fate,' says Wong, co-founder of ARTA Architects, whose projects include installations made with recycled glass.
At 620 sq ft, the flat was twice the size of the previous apartment shared by the couple, who had recently welcomed their first child, Alfie.
Wong's plan was to convert the original three-bedroom, one-bathroom flat into a more practical two-and-a-half-bedroom, two-bathroom home, and he had 80 per cent of the redesign worked out before the final settlement.
Main bedroom. Photo: @matteisthenewblack
Removing a wall between the two largest bedrooms, and cribbing space from a corridor, allowed Wong to tick two must-haves and one would-like-to-have feature on their wish list.
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