Ruled by essential design, life breaths into this builder’s apartment shell with echoes of nostalgia, belongingness, and travel tales. The house hums with the sacred energy of minimalism and essential design. It reflects a slow life where activities of a regular nature are cherished and intentionally enjoyed. Every element reflects a belief, personality, or history. The brief was simple: a home with a lived-in feeling, a home that has room to evolve with the inhabitants keeping utility and budget in mind.
Enriched by classic handlooms, earthy textures, and hand-me-downs that echo history and memories, with a backbone of utility and contemporary sensibilities, this fusion represents rooted homeowners in a cosmopolitan world. The house design acknowledges the additions to one’s life over time while celebrating the bareness of the shell. It was to allow the space to grow with the residents. It is still life that paints a picture of the conversation of eras.
The House Hums With The Sacred Energy Of Essential Design | The Prop House
The protagonist of the house is the fabrics in each room. The white living room curtains have subtle screen-printed golden palms that filter in the golden sunlight. Moreover, they have a playful dialogue with the block-printed, viridian-proud peacocks of Konark on the armchair.
They spruced up the sofa, a remnant of their first home as a couple, with embroidered black and white stripes paired with textured taupe linen. The terracotta coffee table and the modern contemporary TV unit play a ‘jugalbandi’. While the bold blue shapes announce they are from today, the terracotta slips us back into its yesteryear rawness.
The modest off white cotton walls play the melody of quietude while we engage with the other half of the open plan. The blue tiled kitchen with fluted glass shutters and the rustic brown cabinets is crowned with a carved wooden piece steeped in history. The dining area is a space that witnesses the passion and excellence of the homeowner for the culture that food brings to the table. Modern blue ikkat fabric enhances mid-century modern dining chairs. They are paired with a round dining table featuring a micro-topped surface. The table’s cream-and-terracotta design forms tile-like checks.
A chunky cylindrical leg supports the top, evoking nostalgia with dainty-carved antique legs that adorned the dining table the homeowner grew up eating on. The bar of the connoisseur couple is enclosed in the terrazzo-top credenza. The designers use materials like terrazzo, terracotta, ikkat, and carved wood, paying homage to days gone by while strikingly incorporating contemporary sensibilities. To finish the frame, a folded brass pendant lamp illuminates the dining table.
The study of lawyers. This room breaks the connotation typically associated with the phrase, soaking in filtered sunlight, cane, wood, warmth, and ease. A wall full of literature is embellished with a hand-me-down ancestral planter chair, denoting a space for two and a space for peaceful, relaxed tete-a-tete or spending time together in solitude.
The master bedroom has primarily modern details, with capsule-shaped wooden boards housing a filament light and switches on either side of the bed.
The bed has a sleek silhouette with a tantalising madras check headboard reminiscing about their childhood, paired with smaller charcoal and beige checks on silk. The room has an expansive, light-hued L-shaped cupboard blending in the shell with the subtle texture of grooves.
The guest is a compact, simple space with a bold black open-grain contemporary armoire on either side of the bed and a custom slide-out tray compensating for bedside tables. Softening the room is a spice-coloured Chandan Tanchoi silk curtain by Asian Paints Pure Concept.
Fact File
Designed by: The Prop House
Project Type: Apartment Interior Design
Project Name: The Echoes of Reminiscence
Location: Bangalore
Year Built: 2023
Duration of the project: 5 Months
Project Size: 1100 Sq.ft
Project Cost: 22 Lakhs
Principal Designer: Rishika Sutwala
Team Design Credits: Siddharth Sharma
Photograph Courtesy: Studio BluOra
Contractors: SM Interiors
Products / Materials / Vendors: Finishes – Greenlam Laminate, Freedom Tree, Kalinga Stone, Pure Concept / Lighting – Fleck / Kitchen – Elica / Paint – Asian Paints / Furniture – Wooden Street, Essentially Metal
The Firm’s Website Link: The Prop House
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