A Few Words About

About D-8 Limited — Our Firm, Our Credentials, Our Team

Award Winning Honorary Credential China International Architectural Decoration And Design Art Fair

D-8 Limited is an integrated design firm on interior design in Hong Kong, and at the same time an experienced design cum construction practice registered as a Minor Works Contractor Class II. Design, drawings, joinery and site works all sit inside one company, at 2/F, Unit C, Selwyn Factory Building, 404 Kwun Tong Road, Kwun Tong. Call 9135 3998, browse our portfolio of 25 case studies, or request a quotation.

Brian Koon

Interior Designer. Co-founder

Keith Keller

D-8 Limited is an integrated design firm on interior design.

It emphasizes on details in its design philosophy, which could be reflected on both the user experience and form of its works. As an evolving design studio, it offers animation visualization as an advanced presentation tool for their client to easily understand the design and outcome in a more comprehensive way.

D-8 Limited also is an experienced design cum construction practice in Hong Kong. It practice is based on detailed documentation and clear communication with clients. As minor work class II contractor in Hong Kong. It involves in a lot of project in different scales. D-8 Limited concerns the craftsmanship of our works. To achieve stable quality of our works, it maintains a group of experienced and stable workers for our construction projects.

Details are a budget decision, not a decoration decision

Emphasis on detail sounds like an aesthetic claim, but in Hong Kong it is a financial one. A door swing that clashes with a wardrobe, a socket placed 80 millimetres inside a cabinet, a beam that was never measured — each of those is a variation order once construction starts. Resolving them on paper is free. Resolving them on site is not. That is why our practice is based on detailed documentation and why we draw joinery at shop-drawing level before the carpenter begins.

Our two co-founders both work as interior designers, so the person you brief is the person shaping the drawings, and the drawings are checked against the site by the same studio that produced them. If you want to see how this reads in finished work, the featured case notes in our portfolio explain what problem each unit presented and how it was solved.

D-8 Limited design team - Brian Koon

D-8 Limited at a glance

25
Project Case Studies
12
Furniture Case Studies
4
Core Services
II
Minor Works Class

Every figure above is verifiable on this website: the case studies are published in the portfolio, the four services each have their own page, and our Minor Works Contractor class can be checked in the Buildings Department's public register of registered contractors.

What We Are

What "Integrated Design Firm" Actually Means

Hong Kong owners usually choose between two very different suppliers, and the vocabulary hides the difference.

A renovation contractor

Focuses on construction processes — cement work, painting, carpentry, electrical wiring, plumbing. Excellent contractors exist, but they build what they are given. If the drawings are thin, the decisions get made on site by whoever is standing there.

An interior design firm

Starts from requirements and constraints: how the family actually lives, what the property allows, where the structure is fixed, what the budget can carry. The output is a scheme and a drawing set. Some design firms then step back and let a third party build it.

An integrated design cum construction practice

D-8 Limited is the third model. We design, document, and build with our own team, which removes the single most common Hong Kong renovation dispute: the gap between what was drawn and what was built. One contract, one schedule, one party accountable for both the drawing and the wall. Practically, it means the designer who planned the layout answers the carpenter's question at 9am, verifies wall lines before tiling, and confirms socket positions against joinery shop drawings.

If you prefer to keep construction with your own contractor, that is a legitimate choice and we support it — the Design Project service supplies drawings and 3D visualization only.

Credentials

Award and Statutory Registration

Award winning honorary credential

D-8 Limited holds an award winning honorary credential from the China International Architectural Decoration And Design Art Fair: the 2020-2021 Asia-Pacific Chinese Design Most Original Designer Award. Awards do not build kitchens, but originality assessed by peers is one of the few external signals available to owners comparing studios.

Registered Minor Works Contractor Class II — what it means

Hong Kong classifies 187 items of building works as minor works, divided into Class I, Class II and Class III according to their scale, complexity and risk to safety. For Class II minor works, the owner must appoint a prescribed registered contractor, which includes a Minor Works Contractor (Company) registered for Class II. Registration is granted by class and by type of works — A for alteration and addition, B for repair, D for drainage, F for finishes — and a registered contractor may only carry out the classes and items for which it is registered.

How to verify any contractor, including us

The Buildings Department publishes a searchable register of registered professionals and contractors. Select the register of Minor Works Contractors (Company), then the class, type and business district, and confirm the company's registration before you sign anything. We encourage owners to do this with every quotation they receive, not only ours.

The Class II submission trail

  • Appointment of a prescribed registered contractor before works begin
  • Checking approved building records against the proposed works
  • Form MW03 — notice of commencement of Class II minor works, submitted before works start
  • Form MW04 — certificate of completion of Class II minor works, submitted after completion

This trail is why spalling repairing works is not a cosmetic trade. Repair of a structural element — a column, load bearing wall, slab or beam — falls inside this regime, and doing it without a registered contractor exposes the owner, not just the builder.

How We Work

Documentation, Communication, Craftsmanship

Three commitments define the practice, and each one is a concrete deliverable rather than a slogan.

Detailed documentation

Every engagement is drawn before it is built: demolition and layout plans, dimensioned floor plans, elevations and sections, ceiling and lighting plans, electrical and plumbing point plans, joinery shop drawings for each cabinet, a material and finishes schedule, and 3D renderings or animation walkthroughs. Existing conditions are photographed before demolition so any later variation is provable rather than arguable.

Clear communication with clients

Quotations are itemized by trade with quantities and unit rates, so you can see where money is going instead of accepting a lump sum. Progress is reported during construction, and variations are priced and approved before they are executed.

Craftsmanship and a stable team

D-8 Limited maintains a group of experienced and stable workers for construction projects. Consistency of people is what produces consistency of finish — a team that already knows the studio's tolerance for a cabinet reveal or a paint edge does not need to be re-taught on every job.

Animation visualization as a decision tool

A still render sells a mood. A walkthrough tests a plan. Animation visualization lets clients feel circulation, door swings, sightlines and storage access before construction, which is when changes are still free. The full eight-stage sequence from enquiry to handover is set out on our process section, and the fee models are explained in the fee structure section.

Scope

Our Four Core Services

Design & Build

Integrated design and professional decoration works under one contract: concept, drawings, demolition, wet trades, ceiling and lighting, electrical and plumbing, painting, flooring, joinery installation, cleaning and defect rectification. Service details.

Custom Made Furniture

Contemporary, eco wood home furniture built to actual wall dimensions — wardrobes, shoe cabinets, TV feature walls, bookshelves, kitchen cabinets, platform beds and tatami storage. Service details and 12 furniture case studies.

Spalling Repairing Works

Concrete spalling repair carried out as a Registered Minor Works Contractor Class II, including the statutory submissions. Service details.

Design Project

Design, drawings and 3D visualization for owners who already have a contractor, for landlords preparing a unit for lease, or for anyone wanting a professional layout before committing to construction. Service details.

Track Record

Project Experience Across Hong Kong

Our published portfolio contains 27 interior design and renovation case studies plus 12 custom made furniture case studies, spanning Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, the New Territories and the outlying islands.

New developments and modern apartments

Units such as Hemera at LOHAS Park in Tseung Kwan O, Ocean Pride and Novum East, where almost the whole budget goes to joinery, lighting and finishes rather than demolition.

Established estates and second-hand flats

Buildings such as Chevalier Garden in Ma On Shan, completed in 1988, where rewiring, drainage replacement, waterproofing and floor levelling come before any styling discussion. Also Broom Garden, Grandview Garden, Lido Garden and Beverly Garden.

Village houses and low density homes

Three separate village house projects in Lam Tsuen, Tai Po — plus unit two and unit three — covering staircases, roof and external wall waterproofing, water pressure and structural care.

Island and restricted-access homes

Peng Chau, and two flats in the same Discovery Bay building: Graceful Mansion, Siena II — Flat B and Flat C, where ferry logistics and works hours shape the programme.

Subsidised housing and compact units

Ho Tak Court, Lung Fung House, Oceanaire — projects where budget sequencing decides what gets built first.

Commercial premises

Central Plaza and China Hong Kong City, where landlord fit-out guidelines, after-hours works and fire services coordination govern the schedule. Browse all case studies by property type.

Our Team

Meet Our Team

D-8 Limited is led by its two co-founders, both practising interior designers. Behind them is the group of experienced and stable construction workers who build what the studio draws.

Brian Koon - Interior Designer, Co-founder

Brian Koon

Interior Designer. Co-founder

Leads design direction and client briefing, from first site measurement through concept options, scheme finalization and material selection.

Keith Keller - Interior Designer. Co-founder

Keith Keller

Interior Designer. Co-founder

Focuses on design documentation and delivery, keeping drawings, joinery shop details and site execution aligned through to handover.

Why a two-founder studio suits renovation work

Renovation goes wrong in the handovers — designer to contractor, contractor to carpenter, carpenter to painter. A small principal-led studio removes most of those handovers, because the people who made the promise are the people who keep it. It also means our capacity is finite, so we would rather tell you honestly that a schedule does not fit than take a project we cannot supervise properly.

Straight Answers

What You Can and Cannot Expect From Us

What you can expect

  • A free site visit, measurement and a written itemized quotation before any commitment
  • Drawings detailed enough that the site does not have to improvise
  • 3D renderings or animation visualization so you approve a space, not a mood board
  • Statutory submissions handled where the works fall under the Minor Works Control System
  • The same construction team across the project, and a warranty period after handover
  • Honest sequencing advice, including telling you when to spend on wiring instead of marble

What we will not do

  • Quote a headline price and recover it through variations later
  • Touch structural walls, slabs or beams without proper assessment and the correct statutory route
  • Promise a construction period that ignores building management access rules or material lead times
  • Pretend a nano unit can hold the storage of a three-bedroom flat

If that is the way you want to work, the next step is simple: send a floor plan through the quotation form or contact us to arrange a visit.

Visit Us

Our Kwun Tong Studio

D-8 Limited is based at 2/F, Unit C, Selwyn Factory Building, 404 Kwun Tong Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. An East Kowloon base keeps site attendance and after-sales visits fast for Kowloon and New Territories clients, and material samples are kept in the office so you can compare boards, laminates, stone and hardware in person rather than on screen.

Contact channels

What to bring to a first meeting

  • The floor plan or sales brochure layout of your unit
  • Your realistic budget range and target move-in date
  • Two references you like and one you dislike
  • A list of appliances and furniture you intend to keep
  • Any building management fit-out rules you already have

About D-8 Limited — FAQ

D-8 Limited is an integrated design firm on interior design in Hong Kong, and at the same time an experienced design cum construction practice. The same company produces the design drawings and carries out the construction, rather than handing drawings to a separate contractor. D-8 Limited is registered as a Minor Works Contractor Class II. See what integrated practice means.
Hong Kong classifies 187 items of building works as minor works, divided into Class I, Class II and Class III according to scale, complexity and risk to safety. For Class II minor works the owner must appoint a prescribed registered contractor, which includes a Minor Works Contractor (Company) registered for Class II. Class II submissions use Form MW03 as the notice of commencement and Form MW04 as the certificate of completion, and registration can be verified through the Buildings Department's public register. Details in our credentials section.
D-8 Limited was co-founded by Brian Koon and Keith Keller, both interior designers. They lead the design direction and stay involved through delivery rather than handing work to an unnamed team after signing.
An award winning honorary credential from the China International Architectural Decoration And Design Art Fair — the 2020-2021 Asia-Pacific Chinese Design Most Original Designer Award.
Animation visualization renders a walkthrough of the proposed design rather than a single still image, so clients understand the design and the outcome in a more comprehensive way. Circulation, door swings, sightlines and storage access get tested while changes are still free on screen instead of expensive on site.
D-8 Limited maintains a group of experienced and stable workers for its construction projects. Keeping the same tradespeople across projects is how the practice achieves stable quality of workmanship, because the team already knows the studio's detailing standards.
Four core services: Design & Build, Custom Made Furniture, Spalling Repairing Works as a Registered Minor Works Contractor Class II, and Design Project for design, drawings and 3D visualization only.
2/F, Unit C, Selwyn Factory Building, 404 Kwun Tong Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Call 9135 3998, email enquiry@designd8.com, or see the map on our contact page.
Published case studies cover private apartments, subsidised housing units, compact flats, village houses in Tai Po Lam Tsuen, homes in Discovery Bay and on Peng Chau, and commercial premises including Central Plaza and China Hong Kong City. The portfolio publishes 25 project case studies plus 12 custom made furniture case studies.
Send your floor plan, budget range and target move-in date, then book a free site visit. We measure the unit, discuss the brief, and issue a written itemized quotation before any commitment. Start on the quotation page or call 9135 3998.
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