When we moved to our apartment at Greater Noida, the biggest challenge
faced was to make our newly possessed home into a piece of work, which
reflected our ideology and style of work and at the same time become a
setting to the various pieces of artwork, furniture & accessories that we have
custom created over the past few years.
With the constraint of keeping the civil related changes to a minimal, the
plan of the apartment was optimized very creatively. Strategic location of
foldable tables, collapsible bed and a “old-world” style window within the
house gave the flexibility to convert rooms to our studio & meeting room,
convert the kitchen to an open one with a breakfast counter whenever the
need be and connect spaces visually as and when required, alongside adding a
lot of character to the interiors of the apartment.
The interiors have been visualized as a riot of colours, shapes and materials
coming together as a cohesive and forming a background to our artwork.
We really love our ‘Cycle sculpture’ made of parts that had come out of our
Santro car and Enfield bike, a hand-painted storage cabinet portraying the
computer game ‘Snood’ which Neha loves to play, a light fixture made out of
empty ‘Nescafe’ coffee jars and the favourite being the wall art named ‘KC
Ville’ comprising of a lamppost, station clock, signposts and a feeding tray for
our dog “Kalicharan aka KC”.
For us, the apartment oozes happiness through its use of colour, material,
incorporation of natural light, planting, quirky and pop-artish elements and
when our creative juices start flowing, the walls across the apartment, painted
with ‘chalkboard paint’, are ready to be poured upon !!