Harper's Bazaar Singapore

TAKING CHIC TO THE NEXT LEVEL

The ultra-chic Wendy Long is a self-professed city girl—and by city, she really means the heart of Singapore’s shopping belt, Orchard Road. So, when the time came to find a new home that would be larger than the four-bedroom apartment in the Marina Bay area that she shares with her husband, Long decided to look for properties that are a stone’s throw away from all the places she usually frequents.

The advantages of a bigger space, Long explains, was something she had come to appreciate during the last two years of the pandemic. However, instead of going for a Good Class Bungalow or—as she calls them—“cookie cutter inter-terrace landed properties”, Long fell in love with a pre-war conservation house on Cairnhill Road.

“Whether it is your own style or the house that you live in, personality is very important. I’m very particular when it comes to

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