A Tale Of Two Styles

Marrying two diverse styles is no mean feat. Seizing the opportunity, Untitled’s design team pulled off an individualized yet cohesive interior that this couple enjoys every day. LYNN TAN susses out the details.

- Lynn Tan

Banking relationship manager Joshua Chin prefers an industrial style while his wife, civil servant Kathleen Wong, is partial to mid-century designs. When they purchased this resale flat in 2019, they wanted the interior to reflect both styles.

Of the three interior design firms they shortlisted, Untitled, a sub-brand under EightyTwo, impressed them with a proposal that was en pointe and comprehensive.

“Their initial design was already more or less what we wanted. Untitled was also very thorough and the SketchUp 3D modeling made it easy for us to visualize the spaces,” Joshua comments.

Led by interior designer Ruth Tan, the Untitled team took approximately three months to overhaul the whole apartment at the cost of about $90,000, excluding furnishings. Even though it was only about six years old, the existing interior was “gaudy, outdated and mismatched,” Ruth points out. “The layout was also compartmentalized, making the spaces appear disconnected, and there was no storage space,” she adds.

The study, dining and kitchen areas underwent extensive reconfiguration, and walls were pulled down to open up the spaces. The original study and dining are now an open-concept kitchen with an island separating it from the new dining area that used to be the kitchen. And Kathleen is super pleased with it.