Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion

by Erina

This is a place you do not want to miss when you visit Penang, Malaysia. It's part of Penang Heritage trails.

"A Grade One" restoration has been carried out at Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion and has culminated in the project being judged the winner in the UNESCO Heritage 2000 Awards. The total restoration cost +/- USD2 Million.

More information about this place can be found at following URL: ... (more)

1st floor corridor

1st floor corridor #2

Antique room design
Being to the right place at the right time, i love the way the...

ground floor walk-way

Beautiful colour and design
I couldn't stop taking photos of the walls and design. the fade...

Window
The "bleeding" Windows.

1st floor - Perspective

Look up from ground floor

Staircase

Corner

Windows
Interesting pattern of windows

Place to relax & gather

Center of the Mansion

Backyard

The public toilet

The door
everything within the mansion look so old, even a simple door near the public...

Antique feel
~130am in the morning. i could feel the cold, "emptyness" and...

Ground floor at 2am in the morning.
Extremely difficult exposure, took 5 photos to get it right. The blue...

Door within door
Night photography of this mansion create totally different mood as compare to...

Look up from ground floor #2

Another interesting corner

Main hall
This is where i had my breakfast. Excellent service.

The left hall at the entrance

The right hall at the entrance

The center hall at the entrance

Antique furnitures

Antique furnitures #2

Decoration at the entrance hall

The "working" table

The windows
The windows are the most expensive restoration work in this mansion. Experts...

Flower design of the table

The door
The street light created interesting blue-white reflection off the door.

The old time "Limo"

The main entrance

The mansion at night

Contrast

Double Bed Room

The "luxury" room

The standard king size bed room
Looks like old painting? yeah, the colour and painting of this room is...

Portrait #1
Natural lightings from the buildings are used instead of flash to avoid...

Portrait #2

Portrait #3

Portrait #4

Portrait #5

Portrait #6

article published 7/28/2004

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Great night views of the Mansion
What a comprehensive photos of the Mansion. The night photos of the Mansion are especially nice compared to the day photos. You must be overnight there to take those photos. Unfortunately, nowadyas we paid RM 10/= to visit only a few parts of the mansion, the upstairs, rooms of the mansion are not allowed to visit, and no photos are allowed to take inside the mansion according to the tourist guide.
— Savid Tai, March 25, 2009

lovely!
Wonderful pictures! Just stumbled across them. Keep up the good work!
— Madeline, April 21, 2008

Malaysia Boleh!
In general, I didn't realised Malaysia is so interesting and have so much nice places around. Keep up the good work and post more pics. BTW your self-protrait is nice :-)
— 100Plus, February 15, 2005

Thanks a lot! I love the blue color of the house, the mother-of-pearl inlaid furniture and all the others!
— Eleanor Robb, October 22, 2004

Jon & Erina, Cool!!!!!!!!!!! I llove them very much, I agree with PC, you would b overnite there ;-P
— CH Niun, September 1, 2004

nice photos, thanks for sharing.
— lk tan, August 25, 2004

Gu She Gu Xiang !!!!
What a perfect photo collection of traditional interior design !! Your self-portrait reminds me the film "Hua Yang Nien Hua" played by Maggie Cheong :-) very nice !!
— Rico Yau, August 25, 2004

hmm... I'm sure you stayed overnight there to take all these wonderful pics... the self-portrait is excellent !
— Gwen, August 13, 2004

Beautiful & Moody
Hey, are you staying there one night to take those photos? Really excellent. Yes, I also like the self-portrait. The rest are superb too! The main hall is nice. Too bad laste time I have to pay RM10 for entry and not allow to take photo.
— Ooi Ping Chuin, July 29, 2004

Erina... these are wonderful..... thanks for sharing them.. I esp liked the blue 'corner' & the self portrait one at the end.... I plan to take the tour of the mansion this winter.. too bad we can't take pix ;o(
— Lorraine Brecht, July 28, 2004