Décor House is outstanding in innovative interior designs

Décor House’s business revolves around the design-and-build service for high-end residential properties, plus innovative custom-made furniture, working with different major property developers for show flats and design reference, plus exporting furniture to the overseas market.

Décor House, with two large showrooms in Wan Chai and North Point, is very like a funhouse where nothing is what it seems to be at first. It is a place where creative people show you how to double the usable space in your home. Décor provides comprehensive interior design space planning solutions, and transforms concepts into reality to make the impossible to be possible.

Flexible swiveling arms for televisions or home entertainment centres let the TV face in several directions, coffee tables rise and unfold to become desks or dining tables, and beds slide under false floors or into walls, freeing up valuable living areas. A sofa turns into a twolevel bunk bed with only a slight tug on a strap.

The eager chief interior designers, Philip Yeung and Simon Wong, gleefully wave their arms over a seemingly solid pieces of wood, which suddenly slide up or down, or move right or left to expose recessed storage space, shelving, dresser drawers, DVD stands, bookcases, or whatever the family needs in that room. Many of the cabinets seem flush with the walls, but moving aside the textured feature door or wall in front exposes more space inside. Décor House designers are very creative and go much further than just designing furniture. They are also space planning magicians who help homeowners to gain space visually and functionally.

They can’t help but grin when sliding a twin bed out from under a step-up floor holding a student’s desk, or pushing one top bunk bed over a desk to reveal more drawers that double as steps up to the bed. Residences are the main focus of the company, which provides both customers and property developers with ideas for most rooms, home offices, kitchens, bathrooms and bedrooms.

“The company employs over 23 designers to accommodate the needs of multi-generational families in all sizes of flats. The designers are divided into categories, modernism, simplism, naturalism, cyberism, traditional Chinese and European traditional, plus a mix and match style that utilises the best of each”, said Marketing Manager Eric Law. “Every designer is a graduate of the Hong Kong Interior Design School, and they all study environments, interior design and furniture Design. Some of them are architects as well”.

There are few criteria’s that lead to the excellent quality, innovative, custom-made furniture. First of all is the designer’s innovative idea. Second is the excellent imported German raw material, and lastly is the exclusive foreign manufacturing machinery.

“Although all the furniture and pieces are assembled in China, under our supervision, in order to be completive in price”, Law said, “we use only imported materials, such as E-1 Standard Solid MDF Wood from Germany, and accessories from Italy and Germany. We know not only are they safe and environmentally friendly, they are also sturdy and durable. All of our imported E-1 wood has passed the Formaldehyde Emission EN717-1:2004 standard.

“We work with the different, name-brand furniture companies found at the Milan furniture Exhibition every year. Our designers import the most updated, trendy and functional furniture and introduce it into the Hong Kong market.

“We also will work with other material suppliers’ goods so that we can provide a complete service for our clients. For example, our clients may buy mattresses, wallpaper, wall paint and fabrics, and kitchen appliances as well as hardware, toilet fixtures, and flooring materials from others. Our client may simply place an order with Décor House for a two- or three-bedroom furniture package from us and he or she is able to take advantage of our one-stop design service”, Law added.

“In Décor House, about 40 percents of our business is from our existing customers who come again when they move to another house or from customers satisfied with our interior design service will refer us to their friends and associates”, Law said.

The care taken with the home designs have paid off with two patented furniture systems. One is an Automatic Panel TV Wardrobe that can go in a living room or bedroom, with an automatic electronic sliding panel behind the TV, opening onto a wardrobe, shelves and drawers for clothes and accessories, or in the living room, a bookcase and other shelves for storage.

There is also space for the DVD player and other equipment that is already wired into the unit. One drawer has a top that lifts up to reveal a mirror, acting as a vanity foldable dressing table for makeup and fixing one’s hair. The designers love motion sensors for the sliding doors and moveable mirrors so people don’t have to tug or pull them and are very clever in the use of hydraulic systems in all their designs.

Ever practical, the designers take into account the heat generated by wiring and electronics by building in cooling systems to wick away the heat and keep the units from melting down or overheat itself. They are also keenly aware of the importance of lighting, as they have a lighting designer who focuses on lighting for studying, lighting for a home theater, lighting for family gatherings and install false windows backed with soft lights to brighten up a small room without taking up any space.

The visitor to Décor’s showrooms requires quite a bit of time to grasp the full extent of the sheer ingenuity of Décor House designs. Each client is unique to the staff, and they take the time they need to make each home or flat as efficient and easy to use as possible by creating one-of-a-kind furniture systems that are flexible, durable, functional and lovely.

“As our company understands that sometimes our customers have a tight timeframe for remodeling or interior decoration, it is also a very important factor for us. Décor House is the first interior design and custommade furniture company which has a $1000 per night penalty guarantee for our all of customer.

This philosophy extends to their own offices, where the management invests a lot of time and money making a comfortable, modern, efficient, friendly workspace for employees.

The company also pays for annual trips for teambuilding learning experience and having fun (countries like Dubai, Shanghai, Switzerland, France and Germany). The company also provides a name brand car for experience coworkers, a clothing and haircut allowance and the company offers emergency funding for staff, so employee retention is extremely high.