Landed · Bukit Timah

Bukit Timah Landed Home

A two-storey landed home re-planned as one continuous sequence — arrival to garden, ground floor to attic — for a three-generation household with different rhythms and one shared table.

Warm landed-home living room with leather ottomans, timber tones and garden view

Project Facts

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Property type: Landed
Location: Bukit Timah
Size: 420 sqm · Two storeys + attic
Completion: 2024
Scope: Whole-house interior design, Custom joinery, Lighting design
Style: Tropical modern

The brief

The family had lived in the house for a decade and renovated nothing. Grandparents had moved in; teenagers had outgrown their rooms; the kitchen served more meals than ever. They wanted the house to work for the next fifteen years without feeling like a new hotel.

The challenge

Three generations share 420 square metres but not schedules. The plan needed privacy gradients — quiet zones for grandparents, social zones for teenagers, overlap where the family actually meets — while keeping the house's tropical-modern bones and garden connection intact.

Design approach

01 — Whole-house sequence

The ground floor was replanned as a continuous sequence: arrival court, threshold hall, living room, dining, kitchen, garden terrace. Sightlines run the full depth of the house, so the garden is visible from the front door — the design's single organising idea.

02 — Zoning by level

Grandparents claimed the ground-floor guest suite with its own sitting corner; teenagers took the attic as a self-contained zone with study bays; parents hold the first floor. Acoustic separation and bathroom access were planned per zone.

03 — Joinery at architectural scale

The staircase wall became a full-height walnut bookcase running two storeys; the kitchen gained a ten-metre working run with a concealed pantry; every bedroom received built-in storage designed to the occupant.

04 — Light for volumes

Double-height spaces got layered schemes — daylight managed with sheers and shade, evenings lit in warm pools rather than uniform brightness. The garden terrace lights write the house's final scene every night.

Key decisions

The garden sightline: Furniture, doorways and lighting were aligned to keep the garden visible from arrival — the house feels twice its size for one preserved view.
Two-storey bookcase: The staircase wall's bookcase gave the house its memory wall: three generations of objects, one architectural frame.
Attic as teenager state: Giving the attic to the teenagers — with proper sound separation and study joinery — returned calm to the first floor.