hello today I have a very exciting video hopefully it's exciting to you it's
exciting for me because I love this stuff but today I'm going to finally put
the final touches on my home so as you know we've moved into this place about
two months ago now I don't know but pretty recently and if you look around
you'll notice it's kind of a blank canvas it's white and black and grey
basically and it's quite cold feeling and that's because we don't have any
personal touches or color things like photo frames with memories and vases
with flowers and plants and art any pops of color or warmth are totally missing
and that is what we're gonna do today this is the last part of the journey and
my opinion it's the most fun but it's also one that I am NOT the best at today
I am gonna be joined by my interior designer whose name is Peggy Bels and
she is a French interior designer that is based here in Hong Kong in Paris and
she worked with me from the ground up of this apartment not not the apartment
building but my specific apartment she helped with the design of everything. I love her
because you can really see her characteristics and things she does like
you can tell us some things of Peggy Bels' thing I just I just love her
vision and her style of decor is exactly what I love and what I wanted to do here
so I hope to learn more today about interior design and I want to take you
guys along with me so you can see her favorite places to shop both offline and
online as well as how she does it and maybe any tips or tricks she wants to
share with us along the way. Natalie? oh where are you are you? are you excited for today?
no. do you like home decorations? did you say no? really?! ya
I thought you don't want any colour? no I definitely want pops of colour. oh. we're gonna go blues, like your hat basically and maybe some yellow
my hate isn't a pop of colour. It is. You've got some neutrals and pops of colour, you represent my house
okay we're excited don't listen to her we're excited with doing this we're
gonna make my house amazing yeah spend money is spend money I love to see Taylor spend money
but it's gonna be investment pieces that last forever I'm gonna learn how to do it properly
but I thought you're just going to buy vases and stuff? Ya but vases that are classic. Because I'm going with a French woman, it's going to be trés chic and classique
Horizon Plaza they have like Pottery Barn kind of stuff. We're going to 3 places, get out of here! What, what 3 places?
3! where? I don't know we're gonna find out
keep watching
you hear me you hear me
so right now we're on the way to Horizon Plaza which is our first stop and the
place that we're meeting Peggy at and horizon Plaza is a
converted factory building which has 25 floors of over a hundred shops of all
kinds of different furniture shops Natalie didn't realize this because she
thought we were going to a shopping mall but it's actually not a shopping mall
it's one of the coolest furniture shops here in Hong Kong so you're excited now
right? yes. we're all on board
hello I'm Peggy Bels, I'm an interior designer. I've been working in Hong
Kong for more than 10 years and before in Paris
Those are really nice plates. Ya, for your dining table, it will be very nice. Those are beautiful. For the end of the bed
will be nice, ya. If you're ok to stay with the navy blue for the...
ya I was thinking to do navy blue in the bedroom and then yellow in the guest bedroom
maybe. yes could be as well ya. so the first thing you decide is what colour you want to do?
though when you're adding the final touches
yes the color is a first but your place we know we want some blue from blue and
yellow that's the colour we are looking for and navy blue it's it's always very elegant
in your place. For the cushion I like to put 4 white cushion with a duvet
cover in white and just 2 strong colour on top of it and you can add one more in
between. okay. so we could buy 2 of this, 1 of this one for the bedroom
is there any way to predict the next decorating trends and do trends
come and go like fashion? ya if you go to the fair, there's some big fair in Paris
in Milan, if you go to the fairs you can see the next trends
but basically it's almost the same for a few years; a lot of velvet, marble, and brass
Do you get inspiration from any specific place from I like to go to Paris to the big fair
there's 2 per year as well and the press. and Pinterest right? I see you
on Pinterest sometimes. Pinterest as well. Pinterest and all the press from
everywhere in the world. Like magazines and stuff? Interior press, yup.
okay so you keep up to date and you're checking what's trending in what's new
do you follow the trends or do you stick.. because I noticed when I found you there
is a specific characteristic that you can tell like oh that's Peggy Bels
I like to use metal, I used a lot of metal in my place, so that's not something that is really a trend or I follow
It's something I really like, for a few years. And if you match it with something
like a nice elegant texture, it looks much more elegant, so it's not too
much industrial and the cement is something like a trend but
I like to use this kind of pattern on the wall because very well it's warm as well and
it adds something to the flat. yeah I noticed that with ours it's not
really exact cement-looking, It's very complicated to do but yes it really adds something.
It gives character to the place. yeah. I know that some people think that it is not
finished but..
it is what we are looking for. we were confused at first and we weren't sure if we liked it but
then the more you look at it and like when you actually live in the home and
you feel the feelings. Every wall is different and every wall has a different
pattern so it's it's what we are looking for, yeah. and that's we're looking for today and home pieces
too, things that are unique. exactly yeah. and different. and all these stuff are
handmade so you can't find even if you have two of them, they are all a bit
different in colour. yeah yeah okay so we are looking at walnut colour
stuff American walnut to put on your marble because you will brighten up the marble
mm-hmm so I would choose like a this kind of darker walnut
it's a good one. It's a good match
continue what were you doing did you find something? nothing happened. you were looking at these and said
"I want to buy one for my home"
I just want to document this moment because you're now a believer, I changed you.
ya but just for the bread and cheese plate
we're not done yet. Let's see. There's no marble here but we can try to put it on a
white. On the white coffee table or island top it would be very
nice hmm and you just what type of stuff would you
put in these? Even nothing. I like it if you keep it clean as well and you can
also use it when you come back okay to put your, your key for example you
if you put it on the island, it could be on the side and use it every day. That's
very Japanese too because they have a container for everything like when you
pay with your card for example there's a little thing there for it when you come
back you always have some stuff to put on the table and you would be nice to
have this kind of container
so this one will be super nice as well.
super heavy. ya, it will be perfect. what do you think is the most important part of the
home? like if you have to invest your money in one area would it be the
lighting the bathtub, the couch? It would be the kitchen. Ya the kitchen I love to have the open
kitchen open on the living room and I'd like to make it a part of the living so
it's just a very sleek look. I never show the fridge. That's why you hid my fridge. I always hide the fridge
A built in fridge with a nice top
always in stone in the natural stone okay
for me is the most important part. The kitchen, And the terrace or the rooftop yes
that's something important as well. mmm that makes sense cuz that's actually where you
spend the most time and when people come over that's where you gather. Ya after everything
is important as well, but yes. This one will be really nice on the counter top as well
to put some fruits uh-huh not to use for every day you can put it out sometime
bring it inside okay and when you do that you need one specific color like I
see the Kardashians, for example just putting lemons because
they want a pop of yellow. Yes. Don't put tons of fruit an colours? Yes
course it more practical to put a few fruits but yes just lemons would be nice
this collection would be very nice for the bathroom
with a bit of brass on the edge as well. And there's the box which matches as well.
so this one with the box will be nice for the bathroom
or your makeup table
these lights are so cool. So I really like this shop because it's
bit more special in the building. They have a nice mix of walnut and velvet and brass
yeah this actually looks like what my husband loves. perfect. It looks a
little bit vintage, a little bit 60s/70s. I love using this one
what would you say is your favorite online shops for homeware that deliver
internationally? for plates first there is one nice shop in Paris
That can deliver to Hong Kong very quickly which is Three Seven Paris they have some very nice
ceramics, all is handmade, all made in Paris and beautiful and very very elegant cuts
for candles I use a shop, a French shop and they deliver to Hong Kong in
few days and very convenient which is Premiereavenue.com and the
smell is so nice and they have like a kind of metal boxes and they have pot pourri but it's super nice because it's like a
black stone, which smell very good. you like the white company? For all the bed sheets
because it's quite complicated find some nice bed sheets and in the big
size in Hong Kong classic white I like to always white with a bit of piping so
very simple but the material is very nice
For lighting I like to use Bert/Frank from UK or Gong from UK nice okay thank you
very much they have a lot of nice wood pieces!
It's nice ya! You will see this one and another one as well. I wanna take a picture of
this this is really cute
so the whole point of today is mixing high and low right yep this is our
highest point? oh yeah, let's see at Lane Crawford..maybe not
Then we're gonna go to H&M home and you're gonna teach us how to make
something look really good on a budget yes how to add in some key points.
Actually you can really make something nice with a few stuff. You mentioned they have some amazing vases
that look really expensive. Vases, cushions, throws, some accessories, you have plenty.
Looking forward to that because when I go to things like H&M home or Zara I just look at whatever
is in the window and I buy all those items and re-do it in my home
because I don't know how to piece things together and then I get sick of it
because it's too much at once and then I want something new so finding those key
items that really work. I will show you how to shop in H&M. show me how to shop in H&M. but I prefer H&M more than Zara for home
for home.
I got a ton of questions on how you can make a small space look big?
any tips? I do a lot of spaces in Hong Kong
because ya in Hong Kong it's not a big flat, so I work on a 300 square feet 350 square feet
flat. yep. you can make it like a one-bedroom flat try to open the bedroom
and the living like a sliding window or like a kind of atelier window. Like you did for your guest room
ya.. you really don't like walls. At least for a small space so the light can go through
the light can go through the flat and
it makes the full living much bigger you can use it.sofa and bed are facing each
other and it makes the full space much bigger mm-hmm of course an open kitchen so
everything is open together so to open the space maximum then I don't
use too many furniture, I try more about accessories. so one nice sofa coffee table
and always use a rug to mark the space ..for the living room always
what about any storage tips because in Hong Kong it's hard to find storage so
always make the bed with a storage under. this one really works well, it's a huge
space for storage its 2 meters by 160 so you can put those suitcases bedsheets
we made it to our last stop
oh it's so empty yeah. There's not anybody in this shop, so it's good. even so if your dinner at night you set
up the table with the gray plates that you bought and you put
like a few different height of this one with black candles, it will be very nice
this one..either this or this, both will go very well for you place. this vase I
really like it! This one is nice. It's pretty..how much is this one? HKD$200
I really like this pink color. Your decor is very masculine as well so I
wouldn't be afraid to use some pink tone in the guest room so you could put two
like that on the white bed sheets so four pillows white and two of this one
pink. This one would be nice. And the blanket would be pink too?
let's see what we can find. we could even mix with a grey one, that could work as well.
another Natalie purchase, she got something else. Ya I'm the on budget kind of interior
I also love.. these are really cute
For the pink colour in the guest room I would use this one
as an accessory. They'r really nice. That's really nice! there's a big one small
oh that's really nice okay I'm sold because of this
They have the nice black plates and these. But this one are handmade, but this price
this one is normal price but this one very cheap, this one is much more expensive for H&M
this is only thirty Hong Kong dollars. These bowls are cute too. They're heavy.
yeah so everything is grey and you have this one and the white one and the 2
cushions, it will look good. But not this pink so try to hide this part
the dark one.. just show the light one
just setting up things that we got that I brought home with me
did you get something? I'm gonna make your space nice too! this one's for Rosie
Do you like it?