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Inside A Gurgaon Apartment That Grows With Its People | Meronym

In one of Gurgaon’s towering high-rises, a young couple made a conscious decision to reject the uniformity of trends. They didn’t want their home to be manicured; they just wanted to channel themselves into it. The brief for this Gurgaon Apartment was simple and direct – “A home,” they told us. “We don’t want something that feels like a hotel.”

Inside A Gurgaon Apartment That Grows With Its People | Meronym

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Design Evolution

Unlike our usual process, this one began with no mood boards, no Pinterest pins, no grand visions drawn from reference images. Instead, the design evolved slowly, through a series of conversations, understated preferences, and the objects that had already lived with the couple for years. Among many such conversations was a phone call one afternoon, when the wife called to say, “You have to see these teapots I’ve been collecting. They’ve been rotting inside the crockery unit for years.”

That moment became the catalyst for the first final decision. Initially, a full-height storage wall was planned. But the teapots – personal, quirky, and full of attachment— deserved their own place. So, an arch was created. Not styled, not embellished, but shaped around something already part of their lives.

Design Elements

And so, the project found its rhythm. A lot of the elements in the home weren’t designed, they were uncovered. The furniture wasn’t handpicked for its vintage charm, it simply was worn-in and familiar. This wasn’t about erasing the past but about working with it.

Entrance Wall

Naturally, compromises were necessary. One partner was drawn to the raw, tactile beauty of exposed white brick, while the other favored a more polished finish. The solution: a brick wall at the entry, softened by a sleek crockery unit just behind it in view. It was a subtle harmony of both personalities, coexisting delicately.

Bar

An easy common point was the bar, functional enough to hold their liquid investments and just the right pop for the living room to be mirrored in!

Decor Elements

Another defining factor in our process was the couple’s great love for travel. They had picked up artifacts from places over the years. Distinct pieces, each with its own rich history, deserving its own space, places to honor the things they loved and idolized, no matter how different they were in essence.

Every corner was designed to hold these objects with their own memory of why, from where and how it had made it there. From a Balinese family made of wood bringing home their trips, to the Srinath Ji wallpaper, subtly painting spirituality into the walls.

Temple Design

Complementing from across the corner was the mandir. Delicate bells adorn its entry, and the team decorates the bright orange walls with the beautiful cows of Pichwai art, visually expressing the couple’s spiritual and artistic journey. Colors and materials have appeared in small, deliberate bursts with a golden vintage mirror between green colored consoles of distressed wood, the rust-toned bar backed by reflective glass, floral upholstery, Wallpaper & traditional art, fluted glass shutters; but made clear by this little list, there was no overarching theme. As Saumyaa, the principal architect, reflected, “We didn’t chase perfection. We followed the people”

And perhaps that’s why the home feels the way it does: not designed for show, but for life—built on conversations, mutual understanding, and yes, teapots.

Fact File

Designed by: Meronym

Project Type: Apartment Interior Design

Project Name: Apartment 601

Location: Gurgaon

Year Built: 2024

Duration of the project: 4 Months

Project Size: 1000 Sq.ft

Principal Architect: Ar. Saumyaa Taneja

Photograph Courtesy: Studio By-K

Products / Materials / Vendors: Wallpaper–  Life n Colors, House of Ikari Lighting – Habere / Sanitaryware – Kohler / Furniture – Craftsmill / Tiles – FTC / Kitchen – LIV space / Paint – Asian Paints / Art – Anshu Ahuja

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