As a lover of vintage, Mandy has incorporated Chinese colonial furniture and more modern Art Deco pieces to create a balance of old and new. ‘For example, my coffee table used to be a door,’ she says. As for her favourite item in her space? ‘A large, broken vase. I bought it in China and it smashed during the trip over. I glued all the pieces back together, but there’s still one more part missing, and I liked it better this way. It feel like it has so much more character. So much so, I was very close to smashing a second vase on purpose! My husband thinks I’m crazy.’
If Mandy’s plaster walls look familiar, you might have seen similar versions on @jerseyicecreamco. ‘I’m totally copying Tara Mangini and Percy Bright of Jersey Ice Cream Co!’ she says. ‘I found them on Instagram and I love their style. If I could hire them, I would! Their signature feature is plaster walls, something I wanted to replicate here. I couldn’t find any contractors in Hong Kong who knew how to, or were willing to, apply it, so my husband and I did it ourselves. It was back-breaking work. It took almost a year to plaster the whole place, and we were living in here at the time, so it was quite a project!’
Mandy incorporated Chinese colonial-era pieces complemented by Art Deco influences