WACK WACK VILLAGE, MANDALUYONG CITY
The brief for this renovation was rooted in a desire for ease — a home that had served its family well structurally, but needed to be felt differently: warmer in tone, more connected to the outdoors, and freed from the weight of its former finishes. IEO’s response was to work with the home’s generous volumes and existing architecture rather than against them, introducing an organic-modern sensibility that let the spaces breathe again. The double-height living room, already a spatial asset, was reframed around floor-to-ceiling glazing and a sculptural brass pendant cluster that reads like sunlight suspended mid-air; the dining room’s classical oval ceiling medallion was retained and honoured, now paired with a clean drum pendant and a round table that echoes its geometry in a more relaxed, contemporary key.
Throughout, IEO replaced hard, formal surfaces with travertine-toned stone, dark-framed joinery, raw timber, and layered natural textiles — materials that carry the memory of the original structure while giving the home an entirely new warmth. The master bedroom distils this philosophy most intimately: a backlit sculptural wave panel behind the bed head transforms what was a plain wall into a work of art, while sheer curtains, a crystal chandelier, and a garden-facing desk compose a room that feels simultaneously indulgent and serene. Even the sunroom — opened further to the garden through glass-framed sliding walls and finished with rough-cut stone cladding — now sits as the home’s most honest space, where inside and outside have simply agreed to become one.
