2025 | Professional

MUSE Design Awards Silver Winner

Echoes of Hue

Entrant Company

Chance Interior Design

Category

Interior Design - Residential 

Client's Name

Country / Region

Taiwan

As the door opens, a warm and mellow glow washes over the space, like candlelight softly welcoming a weary traveler home. The eye is drawn to the finely grained wood wall as if time had brushed across its surface, leaving behind delicate traces of its passing. Track lighting dances shadows across the textures, while the handcrafted barn door, in its muted tones, pulls the cool gray palette toward gentle warmth, subtly infusing the space with a quiet sense of calm.



In response to the couple’s differing aesthetic preferences, the design team curated a hybrid style that blends industrial strength with understated luxury. A handcrafted barn door serves as a defining feature, while wood, stone, and metal interplay to strike a refined equilibrium between rugged character and delicate detail. Warm wooden furnishings, introducing just the right degree of softness to counterbalance the raw edge of industrial elements, thoughtfully temper the chill restraint of the gray palette. Built-in cabinetry and concealed doors enhance function and flow, creating a streamlined layout along the narrow corridor where utility and visual clarity coexist in quiet harmony.

True refinement in home design is not defined by costly materials but by ingenious execution and creative intention. Against a backdrop of calm gray tones, tactile elements such as leather seating and wooden coffee tables introduce grounded warmth, and metal-accented track lights and pendant fixtures artfully add an industrial flair. The resulting aesthetic is edgy and refined, accurately integrating the couple’s contrasting preferences. The TV wall features built-in cabinetry in a clean, unified layout, offering storage without visual clutter. The conventional horizontal grain in the dining area is reimagined with 45-degree veneer paneling, bringing a sense of movement and understated vibrancy to a life of enduring strength and quiet elegance.

Thoughtfully defined the open-plan living and dining area by an L-shaped built-in cabinet, which not only separates the corridor but also discreetly conceals the entrance to the bedroom, preserving an airy and seamless spatial flow.

Credits

Design Director
Wu Suz Ying
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