The Elegance of Birds
Birds in India—visiting or endemic are elegant, majestic and come in poised hues of a plentiful variety. I have, on occasion, accompanied birders on their trips and become enthralled by the sheer beauty of birds...
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Flower Pressed Shortbread Cookies
We've written about our love for the home garden before. Naturally then, when a friend shared these pictures of garden-flower pressed, short bread cookies, the idea resonated and had to be passed on. These flower pressed,...
Half Painted Walls
Amidst the refreshing new ideas of beautiful interior design in the modern world today, an old Indian custom stands out—half-painted walls. Traditional homes, across the Indian landscape, would have dual colour walls—a different shade on...
Depth
A word mostly used in paradoxical rarity or abundance—depth is the hallmark of elegant simplicity. Although, linguistically defined as a quality of intensity or extremity, depth can be found in the elaborate glass stained windows...
Home Gardens in the City
Home gardens are wonderful things. Modest or grand, they're places of calm retreat- patches of land that connect us to the earth and a natural way of living. Featured here is a back garden in...
Interior Design in Delhi: Mohanjeet
Ever so often we're approached by older clients in Delhi that need our services with interior design. These are clients who leave carefully tended old houses to move into convenient, contemporary apartments. A visit to...
Design Inspiration from Mehrauli
Delhi inspires- even at the peak of an inhospitable summer. In the heat induced quietude, Delhi still offers bounties of beauty. The Amaltas, Jarul and Gulmohar are in blazing bloom, wayside Bougainvillea and hedging now...
Decorating a Guesthouse in Nizamuddin East
This project was part of a guest house that I did in New Delhi’s Nizamuddin East for Paris-based Mohanjeet Grewal. It was one of the first projects I was commissioned. The brief was simple: design...
Lost Mountain Arts
In the peak of summer, one is always drawn to the cooling, calm embrace of the mountains. Tall pines, grand oak trees lopped by sturdy hill-women and the awe of snow peaks on the horizon....
5 Ways to Create a Calm Home
Staying calm when all about you is rushed is a well practiced art. The very nature of construction, design & decoration is anything but calm, particulraly if you have a tough client. And while there’s...
Self-Contentment
I find myself constantly removed from the fast banter of city living and placed in remote towns, where a natural lifestyle has been practised, with few alterations, for centuries. Cities usually instill desire and the mountains for...
The Handmade- Narrator of Silent Tales
Creating pieces by hand evokes joy and wonder—we exclaim at the extraordinary simplicity and complexity interwoven in crafts that are “handmade”. In our living spaces, be they homes or offices, anything handmade tends to become...