One For The Team

Like a marriage, designing a home requires a collaborative effort for the best results. Lynn Tan gets pointers on how the interior design here was guided by the owners’ personlities.

Kenneth Sim and Lee Xinrong’s journey towards getting their home began when they were still in university. They’d already been dating for a few years when the couple decided to apply for a flat even before graduation. After about a four-year wait, they finally collected the keys to their matrimonial home in 2017.

They came across Three-d Conceptwerke while browsing through magazines. The firm’s eclectic style caught their eye, but it was interior designer Meiyi Li’s ability to incorporate an understanding of their lifestyle and personalities into her design vision that ultimately won the couple over.

Starting with the dining area, Kenneth and Xinrong have friends and family over for meals quite often. The original was a small corner just beyond the kitchen. Meiyi suggested that it should take pride of place in what would otherwise have been the living room. “The zoning works well. Our guests mostly gather around the dining area once they enter. This helps to maintain the privacy of the bedrooms,” says Xinrong.