2. Home Layout: Balance of Small and Wide Open Spaces

The layout design focuses on how Mimi, Fabrice and the two cats interact and use the space. The living room is the wide-open centre piece of the home. It includes a Spanish-designed 7-foot pool table surrounded by art pieces and a 4-meter long dry kitchen and bar in eco oak wood with matte finishing. The special highlight of the living room is the massive 1.7x1.7m art painting, framed in recycled metals by the talented French artist, Jerome Peschard.

The most challenging and most interesting area to design was the dedicated multi-purpose well being room which was initially a 20m2 bedroom. This unique fully soundproofed room features an infrared sauna, hidden wet vanity, yoga set, concealed murphy bed and even a complete karaoke set. The well being room is the perfect example of a small intimate, comforting and multi-purpose space that we tried to create.

3. Two Existing Bedrooms Transformed Into One Wide Office
Initially, the 160m2-apartment was included two small bedrooms, 13m2 each. Mimi and Fabrice work most of the time from home. The office is there an important space that needs to be work-friendly and multi-purpose. It features two desks (one foldable), a large book library, a reading corner which can be extended as a guest bed and a Japanese bonsai tree.

4. Master Bedroom: The Only Bedroom Left
From the original 4-bedroom apartment layout, we kept the master bedroom to serve the role of the main sleeping room. The room includes a dimmable ambient light with the shape of a full moon above the bed, a Japanese wall art and oak wood concealed wardrobes. The idea was to have a comforting space providing a sense of shelter and intimacy. Even though on the design we can see a projector, Mimi and Fabrice later decided to make the master bedroom free of digital distractions.

5. What we learnt from designing a well being home
For this home project, we collaborated with Duy Tran, a talented architect from Ha Noi, who led the entire creative interior design work.
Two take aways that we learnt through the project:

• Every detail of a room is important. Every aspect of a room is capable of producing different well being experience in each person.

• Designing and planning a well being home is not only about what people think they like but a little more on how people actually feel and react on the design.