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Architect Shalini Chandrashekar’s four-acre farmhouse is built to bring in the outdoors. Take a tour now. The houses that architects often build for themselves, without the interference of picky clients or even budgetary constraints and creative restraints, typically carry the burden of displaying their talent and taste in full splendour. 

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By turning his gaze backward, Bijoy Jain is creating a new architectural language that acknowledges his country’s precolonial past. It was a bright April day of prodigious heat in Mumbai, India, with the monsoon still weeks away, and I wondered if the 54-year-old architect enjoyed witnessing that first beguiling effect his building had upon me.

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Anyone familiar with the concept of black and white row bungalows in Singapore will know what a catch these homes are, from a real estate point of view. Anyone that is, except your average Singaporean. Historically, black and white houses were built for Singapore’s colonial rulers back in the day and remain a draw for expats who can afford their high rentals.

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Thanks to the subtle palettes, linear forms and sleek furniture pieces, this home by Anjali Rawat Architects is a Scandinavian design haven. Pastel hues, clean design and minimalist decor breathe a Nordic air in this home situated in Worli, Mumbai, transporting one to a rare side of Scandinavia where colours and patterns have equal footing.

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At first glance, you could easily mistake this apartment for a voguish Parisian pad. The owners, a couple and their 23-year-old daughter, wanted the home to channel contemporary charm and be optimally functional. “The design is hugely inspired by my travels in Europe and the Americas.

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Simplicity is the soul of modern elegance! This modern elegant apartment is home to the designer herself and her family of four adults. It is spacious, vivid, and tranquilizing to the core. The apartment is a renovation project combining a 1 BHK and a 2 BHK flat to attain an easy-to-maintain abode.

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They say that all good things take their own time to come through. And such was the case with Mumbai based interior designer Sandesh Prabhu’s recently completed residential project. An outcome of a conversation that started six years ago, the gorgeous two storeyed farmhouse, on the outskirts of the City of Pearls, is a sight to behold.

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“The Corner House”, A 750 sqft, compact Mumbai Home, by Vcreate Designs

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The Corner House by Vcreate Designs etches to life a nuclear family’s residence in the heart of Mumbai while welding together neoteric sensibilities, colour, and stated opulence. A sequestered two-bedroom Mumbai apartment lends its canvas to a nuclear family in the plush residential neighbourhood of Lokhandwala.

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The Ahmedabad-based multispecialty architecture firm tHE gRID Architects led by Snehal Suthar and Bhadri Suthar has recently completed ”Rock House”, a unique project which is sustainable and made from all local labour and local tradition craft of stone masonry, situated near Ahmedabad, #India.

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“A Passion for Modern Indian Art” : Jane & Kito de Boer Collection

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Find greatness that you can afford,’ suggest the collectors Jane and Kito de Boer. It would be wise to take their advice — the couple own one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of modern Indian Art. In this video Jane and Kito de Boer share their passion for modern Indian art and how they felt compelled to begin collecting after moving to Delhi in the early 1990s.

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This is a North facing Vastu compliant home for a single family dwelling, which is designed on a linear plot with neighbors homes on east & west sides and an open plot in the south. The clients are a well travelled, well awarded, simple, grounded close to the nature, understated elegant couple.

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Blending Traditional Style Interiors with Modern Apartment Spaces is often a Big challenge. But this is exactly what the VentureBee interiors team was asked to do in the 3 BHK apartment in Chennai. Owner Latha had a penchant for Tanjore homes from traditional southern India.

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Kusum Villa : “A Gorgeous 3,250 sqft, Single Family Home in Aurangabad” by Portico Design Concepts

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Kusum was a project that began with a family seeing PDC’s previous work and, finding it resonating with them so well, that they desired for an exact replica as  their own house. But with contexts of the two plots being different, the architects realised that their response also needed to be suitably changed.