THE STORY OF US
Sep 06, 2022
4 minutes
EDITED BY CHARMAINE HO
Photographed by Phyllicia Wang.
Styled by Gracia Phang
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Back in 2018, interior designer Cherin Tan and her husband, Jason Tong, were almost ready to put in an offer on a HDB point block flat in the Jalan Besar neighbourhood. Then, a text message from a friend came to inform them of the availability of a walk-up apartment just a few streets away.
“I was very keen on walk-ups because we wanted a bigger space,” says the founder and Creative Director of interior design and architecture design company, LAANK. “So I think it took us less than 10 minutes after viewing the unit to make an offer.”
At that time, the two-and-a-half storey penthouse apartment, which measures
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