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Bar Inscape Designers Eclectic style living room
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Bar Inscape Designers Eclectic style living room

This 3200sf apartment at Colaba, Mumbai was designed for a couple and

their daughter. The project involved using the client’s ancestral carved furniture. 


The small foyer area walls were painted in red to complement the hand painted chair and pedestal table. The client’s considerable collection of artwork catches the eye from here throughout the house. 


Wooden French windows separate the veranda from the

living and dining area creating a casual breakfast and lounging area. To

emphasize the open balcony with stunning sea views, the flooring had to be

different from the rest of the house. Bharat flooring cement printed tiles fit

the bill perfectly: we could customise the traditional patterns and give it a

contemporary twist. Likewise, the breakfast table was an antique wooden piece

which we dramatized with a colourful Gaudi mosaic pattern

hand-painted by our design team.


The living area has large seating areas in the form

of l shaped sofas, wing chairs, an ottoman and armchairs as the clients

entertain frequently. This area also incorporates a custom designed bar and tv

unit as per the clients requirements. The main decorative light is sourced from

an Italian company, very modern, as a foil to the dining area chandelier. 


The focal point of the dining area is their

existing chandelier which is complemented with a layered panel showcasing an

antique bronze statue of Parvati.


The master bedroom was designed in a sober colour

scheme and to complement the carved furniture, raw bamboo wallcover was used to

clad the full length wardrobe shutters.


The large ensuite bathroom was designed in muted

tones of grey and white Spanish ceramic tiles of different sizes. 


The daughter’s bedroom was more animated with the

focal point being her customised bookshelf, again hand painted by our team.

Contrasting colours in the wallcover were used for her shutters.


The theme of bright colours and patchwork prints is

carried forward into her bathroom design on the tiles. This area also

incorporates a large dressing table with exposed filament light bulbs.  


The guest bedroom is a blend of the existing recut

carved furniture and bright shades of pinks and oranges to lift up the dark

wooden tones. 


The guest bathroom was finished in budgeted printed

ceramic tiles alternated with plain tiles as a backdrop for the handmade copper

basin. 


The kitchen palette is a mix of printed ceramic tiles balanced

with printed and solid laminates on the shutters. Since the kitchen layout was

long and narrow, the flooring was designed in horizontal bands to visually

increase the width of the kitchen.


As we wanted to maintain the original

overall old school design for the interior architectural elements, we decided

to retain the wooden window frames and doors but reworked on the polish of the

same. A lot of the existing antique furniture was finished in cream paint which

we completely scraped off to get the natural wooden colours. We later played

around with the different finishes possible… from an antique distressed wooden

finished to a matt dark polish or colourful paints! 


For the main flooring throughout the house we opted for ceramic tiles due to the budget constraint. The daughter’s bedroom was finished in wooden laminate as that was her personal choice.

To emphasize the open balcony with stunning sea views, the flooring here had to be different from the rest of the house. Bharat flooring tiles fit the bill perfectly: we could customise the traditional patterns and give it a contemporary twist.

We chose a monochromatic grey from the Heritage Pattern 3 colours series because of its versatility. Both the muted colours and the assorted patterns, provided the perfect foil for the vibrant painted table and snuggle bed fabrics.


Similar patterns were stencilled and hand-painted by us on the antique

breakfast unit in greys and whites to complement the floor tiles and

give the space a signature look.  


The client already had an artwork collection which she had built up over the years

which included paintings by Atul Dodiya, Anjana Mehra, Krishen Khanna and many

more. As per the wall sizes and the colour palatte of each area, we selected

which art pieces worked and hung them up on the walls accordingly. In addition

to this, we also had our in house artist, Madhavi Mehta, transform some of the

antique furniture pieces by painting on them.


For example, the breakfast table was an antique wooden piece which we dramatized

with a colourful hand-painted Gaudi mosaic pattern. The foyer area

had an ornately carved chair which we spray painted electric blue. To match the

chair, we chose the client’s antique pedestal table and painted it in bright

colours and patterns to add a funky look for the entrance area.

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