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D-705 Residence
Nothing surpasses the feeling of using wood for interior purposes. Yet, much as we love the effect it creates, environment concerns have led to the decline of using it as a material where avoidable. A conscious decision taken by us as well, when this project came up, we were excited because it presented us with the opportunity to use wood in a responsible, appealing, and creative way!
Introduction
This quaint 3BHK space with a terrace is located in the heart of Pune city. With bustling traffic around, the owners wanted to have a space that they could go back to at the end of the day and feel at home! Breathing new life into a lot of old wooden furniture, most of the items in this house add to the warmth and comfortable feeling.
Context to Surroundings
Set amidst the sound of traffic and people, this home reflects the cultural sentiments of the family, grounded to their roots in the earthy colour and material palette. Royal, rustic, but yet urban, the space was designed to provide all the comfort of modern day living, within the backdrop of more traditional looking components complete with a small deoli or temple, in the living room of the house, and more.
An intentional contrast to the 21st century landscape, this home inspires its inhabitants to return to their personal systems of belief when the day is over, as they bask in the environment created around themselves.
Designing the Space
The overall traditional look and feel of this house has been largely due to the material and colour palette. Wood has been used extensively from the flooring, to the completely customized furniture units. Traditionally influenced motifs of florals have been used to bring out the natural element further. Connected with each other in visual style and language, peep through windows placed strategically in different parts, allow you to view the space beyond, keeping conversation and energies flowing freely through the house.
Some areas do see the use of more contemporary material. For instance, although the doors have been made of reused wooden panels carved with floral patterns, the windows were all transformed to UPVC windows in order to cut down external noise of traffic and general day to day life. Even in the kitchen, the one space where utility tops everything else, we have let go the use of wooden flooring and chosen tiles instead. Apart from these though, wherever possible, we have maintained the characteristics of carving, floral patterns, and intricacy in as raw a form as possible.
This can even be seen in almost all the elements used throughout the house. We have managed to use a floral jail in the security grills, a carved arch with niches in the small temple, and the same niches extending to the TV unit. The dining table and chairs, both customized for the family, have been used with refurbished furniture where old tiles, sandwiched together form the table top of the dining table, with chairs customized to suit the theme.
This combination of wood and veneer carries forward in the bedrooms are well. Floral prints on the curtains and other upholstery match the rustic feel. The master bedroom has a bed with four coasters of carved wood on each corner customized to create a grand feeling. There is a small study and dressing room also attached to this bed to complete the set.
Apart from this, most of the washrooms were renovated, flooring reworked on, and several other minor and major changes to the aesthetic made to the house. Being a low heighted space already, the use of false ceiling was avoided.
All in all, this has turned out to be a space designed to allow one to disconnect with the outside and reconnect with the inside once again.