3 BHK · Contemporary · Kondapur · 1850 sq ft · 110 days · Budget 18.6L
Carved teak columns, a brass jhoola and hand-painted Pichwai walls set inside a clean, modern shell. Arches, cane, lime plaster and heirloom craft, a home designed to feel inherited, not installed.
The family wanted a home that felt quiet after busy workdays. We kept the palette to three materials - warm oak veneer, matte off-white laminate and soft-sheen brass - and repeated them across every room for continuity. Full-height wardrobes hide the clutter, while the living room wall panelling doubles as concealed storage.
The family wanted a home that felt unmistakably Indian, without becoming a theme. Traditional, but not heavy. Rooted, but not nostalgic. The challenge was to bring the language of the old courtyard house into an apartment plan, and make it feel like it had always been there.
We kept the shell quiet and let the character arrive through deliberate insertions. Walls, ceilings and flooring stay in a single ivory register. Against that stillness, every heritage gesture reads as an object: a teak column lifted on a stone plinth, a brass-chained swing anchoring the living room, an arch cut into a wall and filled with texture. Three devices hold the language together across the home. The arch, repeated. It appears at five scales in five materials, a full-height lime-plastered arch behind the living console, a foyer niche framing the Ganesha, a pewter-tiled arch over the kitchen counter, arched display niches in the guest wing, and a painted arch on the folding bed. Same shape, different substance each time. Craft as artwork. Nothing decorative was bought off a shelf. A hand-painted Pichwai-style mural of deer, trees and birds spreads across the guest room's foldaway bed front. Gond and Pattachitra triptychs, Mughal-motif wall plates, a Cubist-style face platter and an antique carved teak window reused as a dressing mirror carry colour into an otherwise neutral home. Colour held back. Bone, ecru and mushroom throughout — with sage green, deep teak and antique brass as the only structural accents. Everything brighter arrives through art, textile, and the terracotta stained-glass inset floating above the dining table. Modern plan, traditional grammar. Behind the swing and the columns is a completely contemporary layout: open living-dining, concealed storage behind scalloped and fluted shutters, and a wall-folding bed that lets the guest room work as a study by day.
I'm very happy with the D'leaps interior design works. The team was creative, professional, and really understood my style. They transformed the space beautifully, paying attention to every detail. Highly recommended to everyone.
Dinesh