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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

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Anne and Stephen Jones’ house on Lamma Island. Styling: Shana Buchanan. Photography and video: John Butlin. Photography assistant: Timothy Tsang

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.

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