To fulfil his late father’s wishes, a designer modified a multi-storey house in Stanley so his elderly mother could continue to call it home
Before Clifton Leung’s father passed away last year, he expressed the wish that his wife could continue living in the town house in Stanley they had shared for almost three decades.
Not renovated in decades, the tall, skinny building was due for a refit, and as the only designer among him and his two sisters, Leung, founder of Clifton Leung Design Workshop, naturally took on the task of remodelling the family home into an age-appropriate retirement space for his 84-year-old mother, Mabel.
Not only would the 3,000 sq ft building, split over eight levels, accommodate her current and future needs, its three bedrooms and four bathrooms would also continue to accommodate visiting children and grandchildren.
“With so many memories in that home, it was important to keep the connection going,” says Leung, who had lived there for seven years, before his marriage in 2008, while his older sisters put down roots in Canada.
