This plush home in Worli with a famous address has been designed by We Design Studio for a family of four. That it cannot be boxed into a certain style is what best describes this deceptively simple home. The flawlessly designed home will floor you for getting all the aspects that define a warm home: wooden charm, ample storage, flooding the dark corners with natural light, well lit, soothing furnishings, and most importantly comfort.
But, the sheer brilliance of this home is its not over-the-top design. The house is timeless; it doesn’t play second fiddle to trending colors, wallpapers, and lights. It’s one where you can home to and feel at home.
Defined by neutral colors, wooden furniture, and pastel furnishings, this home is like an essential handbook to Hygge. Can’t blame you if the location of the project rang a bell? Yes, it’s the same as where a certain cricketer’s residence is.
About the project:
Who lives here: Anusha Mahalingam & Ajay Candade
Location: Omkar 1973, Worli, Mumbai
Year built: 2019
Size: 2,700 sq.ft
Type: 3 bedroom apartment
Designed by: We Design Studio, Mumbai
Photograph courtesy for the images: Studio Kunal Bhatia
Budget: 10,000 INR/sqft
Saahil says,
This project celebrates the Danish concept of ‘hygge’, the art of creating intimacy. It is not necessarily an aesthetic but at its core is a celebration of simplicity, warmth, contentment and well-being. In its essence, this apartment is a restrained interpretation of luxury.
This project celebrates the Danish concept of ‘hygge’, the art of creating intimacy. It is not necessarily an aesthetic but at its core is a celebration of simplicity, warmth, contentment and well-being. In its essence, this apartment is a restrained interpretation of luxury.
This apartment is home to a young family of four; a couple and their two young girls. The couple are management graduates from Harvard and Wharton and work for large finance MNCs.
We loved the fact that we connected with the clients very easily. Besides, a conceptual discussion on design, there was very little interference from them. We had tremendous creative freedom on the project.
The biggest challenge was to draw natural light into the heart of the apartment; the services and utility areas. The apartment has four apartments placed back to back on each floor. Hence, the utility areas do not receive any natural light. We overcame this with the use of fluted glass doors in every room. This allowed natural light to trickle into the bathrooms, kitchen and passage.
Living + Dining
An open plan encompasses the living and dining.
Bedrooms
Kitchen
The studio believes that there lies an inherent sensuality in designing and building with restraint, order and control. We believe in exploring the underlying value of spatial principles in each of our projects; space is the protagonist. With an abiding interest in austerity and simplicity, the studio focuses its research on the fundamental problems of space, proportion, light and materials.
A set of private elevators lead to a private lift lobby which in turn leads to a large living and dining area. The living-dining space anchors the kitchen and staff areas on one side to the three bedrooms on the other. The guestroom features moveable walls, allowing flexibility in function. The clean, bold planes that form the various spaces in the apartment make it feel contemporary and timeless.
Resources
Lights: Oty, Flos, Foscarini
Paints: Asian Paints
Furnishings: Bharat Furnishings
Sofas: Bonaldo
Flooring tiles: Classic Marble Company
Rugs: Shyam Ahuja, Rug Republic
