[Feature Story by Grande Interior Design] Haven By The Sea: Gorgeous and luxurious family home with sweeping sea views

By Gafencu
Feb 19, 2025

Experience the joys of seaside living

This detached family home nestled by the sea is designed to integrate the serene ocean views seamlessly. Extensive floor-to-ceiling windows flood the interior with natural light, creating a profound sense of openness. Grounded in a soothing, earthy color palette and rich oak accents, minimalist lighting and high-quality materials further elevate the refined, artistic ambience. Tailored to the owners’ love of entertaining, the versatile layout includes indoor and outdoor dining areas, allowing them to fully immerse in the leisurely, luxurious experience of seaside living.


Fabulous foyer

The foyer design of this detached house serves as the introductory prelude to the home, where our designer deliberately accentuates this space to imbue a refined quality. The use of wall panels conceals the entry door, simultaneously creating a cohesive, continuous feel. Given the space available on both sides, our designer cleverly incorporated a walk-in closet on one side, while the other side is fashioned into a guest powder room, effectively maximizing the expansive foyer area. The central feature wall intentionally added a half-height cabinet to frame a mirror and oil painting, adding richness to the layered composition.


Living & dining room, kitchen

For this exceptionally long-shaped living and dining room, the design maximizes the ceiling height to create an open, airy feel, allowing the natural light and sweeping sea views to permeate the interior spaces. Catering to the homeowners’ hospitality, in addition to the main dining area, the design incorporates various other dining zones, such as a small breakfast nook within the dining room, a kitchen island with stools for casual meals or food-prep, and an outdoor dining setup on the spacious balcony.


This allows them to host family and friends for a joyful dining experience throughout the home. As for the living room design, the focus is on a more subdued aesthetic, with dark oak wood, oil paintings, and metal display shelves imbuing the space with a profound, artistic ambience. The kitchen is designed with both Chinese and Western culinary zones, utilizing sliding doors to allow for connectivity while also creating separation to contain cooking fumes.


Master ensuite & family room

The master suite enjoys an open, sea-facing vista, and the design adopts a serene, pale-toned European style to cultivate a tranquil, mindful ambience. The decorative headboard and spherical pendant lights further accentuate the suite’s Continental design character. Capitalizing on the ample space, a small private alcove has been created at the foot of the bed, allowing the homeowners to enjoy a personal retreat during their leisure time. The master bathroom features a more classical color palette, with cobalt blue tiles complemented by metallic accents to create a vintage, distinguished ambience. This spacious layout also accommodates a freestanding bathtub, a walk-in shower, and dual vanities. Directly connected to the master bathroom is a dedicated walk-in closet, further optimizing the space to suit the homeowners’ lifestyle.


Guest bedroom

The house is also equipped with several guest rooms to accommodate visiting friends. In one of the guest rooms, a storage cabinet has been built into the wall. Inside is a hidden, fold-down bed that can be easily pulled down when needed. When there are no guests, this space can be used as a massage room with a massage bed. Another guest room is located on a separate floor from the master suite and features a private balcony, providing the same expansive, panoramic sea views as the master bedroom.


Home office

To accommodate the owner’s need for a dedicated workspace, one of the rooms has been designated as a home office. We expanded the study area, adding not only a work desk but also a lounge space with sofas, providing a suitable setting to host meetings. Due to the constraints posed by the ceiling beams, the area utilizes a combination of low and high ceilings. The low ceiling area serves as the work zone, while the high ceiling section offers a relaxation space.


Media room

The family also places great emphasis on their children’s growth and development. In addition to providing each child with their own independent private space in the bedrooms, the indoor and outdoor areas have been designed to offer shared play spaces for the children, including an outdoor swimming pool, and a grassy lawn. Furthermore, one of the rooms has been converted into a dedicated media room, allowing the children to have a designated space for entertainment and relaxation, creating a pleasant environment for their growth and well-being.


Children’s bedroom

The daughter’s room is relatively more spacious. Within the room, we have created a dedicated sleeping area. On the other side, we have designed an ensuite bathroom, a walk-in closet, and a study area, transforming the bedroom into a comprehensive and comfortable living space. The bedroom design features curved lines throughout the furniture, complemented by vibrant wallpaper patterns, creating a personalized environment tailored to the daughter. As for the son’s room, we have added a long row of wardrobes along the corridor, increasing the storage space while saving more room for the sleeping area.


Contact Details | Grande Interior Design | Tel: 3114 8683 Email: info@grandeinterior.com Showroom: 27C, TML Tower, 3 Hoi Shing Road, Tsuen Wan | Contact Person | Ms. Celia Ng Marketing & Business Development Manager


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About Us | Grande Interior Design | Found in 2013, a global award-winning interior design studio by Matthew Li and Maggy Cheung, with a team of talented and creative designers to enhance the quality of life through spaces that combine aesthetics, lifestyle, functionality, and sustainability all in one. We gather insights from research, experimentation, and experiences to create customized living ways and it is widely considered to be one of the most unique practices to emerge in recent years. We believe in the importance of curating a bespoke design for every property, and unique home for everyone. With a breadth of experience in the industry, the studio works across a range of residential, commercial, hospitality, F&B, and mixed-use projects with a reputation for producing highquality designs that are innovative, with a collaborative approach to procure projects on time, and on budget, thus to achieve perfection. [Haute Couture for Life]