Practice makes perfect – as this Bowen Road home so beautifully demonstrates. Its owners, artist Caroline and her husband Paul, a media investor, have worked on a long list of home renovations over the years; as a result, they have honed their vision of what an ideal family home should look like.

The flat didn’t always flow so smoothly. Originally, It had a very awkward layout, says Caroline, who was won over by the incredible views and the wrap-around balconies.

In order to make the flat their own, the couple changed absolutely everything. We enlarged the living room; we changed the hallway; we reconfigured the kitchen, says Caroline. She and Paul got rid of one of the bedrooms, turning this into a three-bedroom room, and they installed a second kitchen, so that there would be an enclosed kitchen for Chinese cooking and another open one in which to cook simple dishes and to hang out with friends.

The mix of beautiful art, design and music has certainly elevated this apartment’s aesthetic, but it is the careful layout and quality materials that really make it the happy home it is. The kids can do a whole loop through the house in a figure of eight, says Caroline. It’s such a pleasant and wonderful space to live in.

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