The Hong Kong beach house that becomes Party Central at weekends
Despite their backgrounds in design, a French expat and her Australian husband decided to keep their 2,100 sq ft island home simple and cosy

On their first night in their Lamma Island house, French expat Anne Jones and her Australian husband, Stephen, thought a removal man had left a tap on.
“We could hear water running but we didn’t know where it was coming from,” Jones recalls.
They searched the house, but soon realised it wasn’t a tap after all – it was the sound of the waves lapping against the shore just beneath their window.
Hidden in a remote corner of Lamma, the couple’s home is a traditional 2,100 sq ft, three-floor village house with terrace.
Jones trained as a graphic and interior designer before becoming a real-estate agent, and Stephen is the regional director of international architecture firm Woods Bagot. Despite both of them having a design background, they didn’t want the house to be complicated, Jones says.
“We wanted to do a liveable, comfortable beach house,” she adds.