Indoor-outdoor living in Hong Kong: organic design blurs the boundaries
A family’s spacious Pok Fu Lam flat, complete with expansive terrace, brings the outdoors in
The perfect home usually requires a few must-haves. Sometimes, after the basics are taken care of, it comes down to just one thing. For Britons Joanne Macer and David Konn, who have lived in Hong Kong since 1997, it was a large, easily accessible terrace.
“That was the clincher,” says Konn, referring to the 1,000 sq ft terrace that made their Pok Fu Lam flat so appealing. “Joanne really likes plants, and she’s always wanted a big terrace, so this ticked all the boxes.”
When the couple bought the 2,600 sq ft, three-bedroom flat in 2015, after several years of searching, it required only minimal alteration.
“We fell in love with the flat because of the layout, so we didn’t want to touch it,” Macer says.
Its attraction is immediately obvious in the living room, which segues into a dining area on one side and a charming, light-filled nook on the other. Off the dining space are an office-cum-sitting room and the kitchen, which is enclosed but visible through a glass wall. A corridor by the entrance leads to the private quarters.
Rather than enlist an interior designer, the couple decorated their own home, personalising rooms with furniture and artwork collected over the years. Their aim, they say, was to create an “uncluttered and coordinated” interior that evolved naturally.
