*** Sing Mansion,
Tai Koo Shing
The Brief:
Our client in her late twenties came to Apartmentary after buying her first home — a higher-floor apartment in Chi S. Mansion, Tai Koo. She has lived on Hong Kong Island her whole life, most recently in busier Causeway Bay, and chose Tai Koo for a quieter rhythm and a better view.
This was also her first fully managed renovation. With a demanding work schedule, she wanted one point of contact rather than coordinating contractors herself. The brief was clear: a mainly minimal home, but not the default beige-and-white of her generation. She arrived with specific colours already decided — green for the kitchen, blue for the bathroom — and asked for materials that felt mid-range, durable, and reliable in a building that needed new plumbing and electrical work.
Working with Design Manager Joane, we set those colours against a calm greyish-beige envelope, then let the tiles carry the personality. The result is a first home that feels considered rather than generic: open, easy to live in alone, and designed so details can shift as her life does.
Address
*** Shing Mansion, Tai Koo Shing
Features
Open kitchen, studyroom + closet room, beautiful bedroomm, spacious bathroom
Size
502 Sq.Ft
Date of Completion
July. 2026
Building Age
1981
Keywords
Open kitchen, first home, green tiles, blue tiles, colour, SPC flooring
Project Overview
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Our client found Apartmentary on Instagram while looking for minimal projects that still allowed personal character. She followed the process closely — especially the kitchen layout — and raised questions as they came. The team explained decisions quickly. The longest conversation of the project was a practical one: how to give a compact kitchen the feeling of an island without locking the dining table in place.
Because the building is older, the remodel included a full refresh of plumbing and electrical. Floors were finished in SPC. Walls and kitchen cabinets were built in the same greyish beige, so colour could live in the tiles rather than compete across every surface. Joane also helped source new loose furniture, so the rooms felt complete on move-in.
Entryway/Foyer
The entrance is kept quiet on purpose. Greyish-beige walls pick up the same tone as the kitchen cabinets beyond, so the first impression is calm rather than decorative. From here the apartment reads as one continuous home — a deliberate shift from the busier Causeway Bay life our client left behind, and a cleaner arrival into the social spaces and the view she bought the flat for.
Kitchen
The kitchen is the heart of the brief, and our client’s favourite room alongside the bathroom. She wanted it open, and she wanted green tiles — a sharp, specific colour chosen after watching a long stretch of design videos, not a generic accent. Cabinets share the greyish-beige of the walls, so the tiles do the talking and the room still sits inside a minimal envelope.
The plan is compact, but she still wanted something close to an island. After working through options with Joane, the dining setup was resolved as a flexible piece rather than a fixed block: it gives her the gathering surface she wanted now, without making the layout harder to adapt later. Materials were specified in the mid-range she asked for — durable enough for daily cooking, and consistent with the quality of the new plumbing and electrical behind the walls.
Social Spaces
The living and dining area is the quiet counterpart to the kitchen’s colour. SPC flooring and the same greyish-beige walls keep the room even, while new loose furniture — selected with Joane — gives the space a finished, lived-in feel without crowding it. Because the kitchen is open, this is where conversation happens while she cooks. The dining table was the one element that took the longest to resolve: a bar, a movable table, or the original piece. The final arrangement keeps a light island-like presence in a compact plan, and can be changed later if her needs shift.
Private Quarters
The private rooms are planned for one person living well, not for unused guest space. In the study and wardrobe, a structural constraint fixed the air-conditioner in one position. Rather than leave the unit exposed, we built it into the wardrobe cabinetry so the room stays clean and the storage still works hard. The same greyish-beige language continues here, so the stronger colours remain reserved for the kitchen and bathroom. It is a practical first-home bedroom and study: quiet, ordered, and pointed toward the higher-floor view that brought her to Tai Koo.
Office/Studyroom
The office sits with the wardrobe, which is how the room had to work. A structural constraint fixed the air-conditioner in one position — it could not move — so the unit is built into the wardrobe cabinets instead of sitting on the wall. Storage stays full-height; the room stays clear enough to use as a study.
The same greyish beige as the walls and kitchen cabinets continues here, so the space reads as part of the home rather than a leftover bedroom. For a lawyer living and working on her own, that matters: the desk can take the day, the wardrobe can close over the mechanics, and the stronger colours remain in the kitchen and bathroom.
Bathrooms
The bathroom takes the second colour our client was sure about: blue tiles, again chosen with a clear idea of shape and combination. To keep that idea looking finished, the water heater — usually left exposed in flats of this age — is built into a cabinet. The room reads sleeker as a result: one continuous surface instead of a utility object on the wall. Together with the new plumbing, the bathroom is less a leftover wet room and more a counterpart to the kitchen — the other place in the home where her own colour, not a default palette, sets the tone.
“The kitchen and the bathroom are my favourites. The colour combinations and the tile shapes came from ideas I put together after watching a lot of design videos. The final result carries exactly the kind of effect I wanted — a comfortable atmosphere.”
Client, *** Sing Mansion