Colored Layers of Unique Taste

The design team utilized color as the medium to find the balance through diverse functionality portfolio, spacious circulation to outline the public and private domains that meet the everyday needs. This project was the space for a young couple and their cats, with the public domain adopting a reserved grey-tone scheme with bold contrasting colors, a harmonious yet dramatic scenario amongst the real and the virtual. While the entrance detailing decimated the volumetric oppressions, the dining area was treated with personal warmth and functional flexibility. The master bedroom adopted white-masonry textured cabinets with symmetrical large storage embedded by the painted glass and LED strips. The design team boldly utilized sharp colors and variable form to shape a rich spatial expression, with material detailing to trigger a psychological impulse. The living room floor was interwoven with two types of scratch-resistant timber flooring extended all the way to the dining area wall to subtly demarcate interior domains. Given the limited floor area, the consideration for visual continuity was considered by the design team by utilizing the design of Hidden Doors to shape a clean-lined domain outlook with the added benefits of spacious interior and a flowing living circulation, which, when applied in the living room wall, the hidden bedroom door did create a visual extension through the circulation guide of cascading materials and colors. As this is the living space for a young couple and their cats, and given the limited budget and the humble interior footage, the design team was asked to think beyond the pre-conceived singular usage, and to synergize multiple functions so as to create an optimal spatial economy. As the public domain linking the living room and the dining area horizontally with fluid openness, space adopted a reserved grey-tone scheme, generating harmonious yet dramatic scenarios.