My expectations of Hong Kong did not include much in the way of natural beauty. I was pleasantly surprised to discover, however, that there is a very green presence within the density of the built env...
We recently scrapped our plans for a custom built home office in the den. We couldn’t sacrifice the valuable square footage on something that would inevitably become littered with junk and remain mo...
Don’t you just love it when free stuff just lands in your lap? With few second hand shopping options, we’ve had to get creative with our decorating. Never a fan of buying new, we were searching fo...
Lately, we’ve been preparing our guest bedroom for a new arrival; today’s task was installing black out blinds and a curtain rod. Sounded easy enough. In North America, we’d always been pretty g...
When we were searching for an apartment, we put outdoor space very high on our list of priorities. It didn’t matter if it was just a small deck on which to grow some plants and step onto for a breat...
Where do you find design inspiration? Sometimes it can be found in the mundane, everyday items that we usually take for granted. I’ve long been admiring tramcars, a mode of transportation I take alm...
Hong Kong correspondent Liz highlights one of the wholesale home textile resources in Asia... Sham Shui Po, a Hong Kong neighborhood, can be a dangerous place if you have an addiction to collecting f...
We're especially excited about inviting a couple new AT Asia correspondents into regular coverage. Today we're starting off with Liz in Hong Kong, who shows us where residents keep their shoes in HK h...
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