Dubbed the Kasah House, this terrace link home in Kuala Lumpur boasts an enormous dining room for the family to gather and bond
What makes a house a home?
This is the question that interior designer Ee Lin Loo of ELD (Ee Lin Design) asks herself before any project she embarks on; and her handiwork on this beautiful family home in Damansara Heights, Kuala Lumpur is no exception.
For this Kasah House project, Loo and architect Leong Seng Kheong were tasked to create a timeless but contemporary family home out of what was previously a Balinese-themed abode. The former structure was torn down almost in its entirety to make way for a new house whose architecture and interior design all point to the 'heart' of the home; namely, the communal areas of the dining and living rooms.
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"One of the main requests from the homeowners was to ensure that I made this house a home for a family," Loo says. "One that is warm, simplistic and contemporary so that the design would withstand the test of time, bring in as much light as possible and make use of every corner of the house."
Very soon, the contemporary aesthetic took on a life of its own, merging the blank canvas of an all-white interior with deliberate bursts of colour by way of furniture, art, light fittings and artefacts from the owner's travels.
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