Mumbai Houzz: This Compact City Flat is an Idyllic Oasis
Tasteful furniture, greens and ingenious space-boosting tricks make the most of limited space
Houzz at a Glance
Who lives here: A couple and their teenage daughter
Location: Rivali Park, Kandivali East, Mumbai
Year built: 2017
Size: 84 square metres (900 square feet); 2 bedrooms; 2 bathrooms
Architectural designer: Zero9
Embellished with carefully chosen colours, earthy textures and lots of plants, this home is a verdant sanctuary of privacy and peace in Mumbai. Its style, realised by Zero9, is in equal parts modern and modest. The brief was simple: to design a home that was an extension of their down-to-earth personalities. Although the designers were given a creative free hand, the only conscious design element requested by the client was the absence of TVs, to ensure more family time.
Photos courtesy Sebastian Zachariah
Who lives here: A couple and their teenage daughter
Location: Rivali Park, Kandivali East, Mumbai
Year built: 2017
Size: 84 square metres (900 square feet); 2 bedrooms; 2 bathrooms
Architectural designer: Zero9
Embellished with carefully chosen colours, earthy textures and lots of plants, this home is a verdant sanctuary of privacy and peace in Mumbai. Its style, realised by Zero9, is in equal parts modern and modest. The brief was simple: to design a home that was an extension of their down-to-earth personalities. Although the designers were given a creative free hand, the only conscious design element requested by the client was the absence of TVs, to ensure more family time.
Photos courtesy Sebastian Zachariah
The apartment welcomes us with an open-layout living and dining area. A clean colour palette and minimalist design is enhanced by modern furniture and woody textures. The clean-lined minimalism and restrained colour palette are the key to making a relatively small space look spacious and serene. A grey sofa takes centrestage in the airy room. The yellow painting adds a zing of colour to the otherwise neutral wall. Other details in teal and yellow, such as the cushions, vases and the painting, accentuate the clean layout with a subtle bright interest. The wooden coffee table counterpoises the console near the entrance.
The living room opens onto a quaint balcony with faux grass and statement planters. The access to an outdoor element gives the sitting area a sense of airy spaciousness. The artisanal planters and the rugged sculpted stone bust suggest the spare aesthetic of Scandinavian design. The decorator also installed a park bench in the balcony, completing the feel of a picturesque urban garden in the city.
The other side of the living room separates into a petite dining area showcasing a custom-made dining table for three that responds to the space’s overall woody appeal. To jazz up things, the table is paired with industrial-style chairs. The asymmetric lighting fixture and the metallic wall mural on the wall behind the table immediately catch the eye, without adding bulk or crowding the room, being light and wiry. The tall doors leading to the bedrooms beyond are concealed in the panelling; the smooth undisturbed wall creates a sense of expansiveness.
Simple yet modern, the kitchen features brown back-painted glass shutters in aluminium profiles and backsplashes of customised back-painted glass with a geometric pattern.
The concept of the master bedroom flows from that of the apartment’s living room, integrating simple furniture and woody elements in a clean, uncluttered space. Its walls are clad in a light shade of brown that ties together the surrounding design and materials, which display different forms and textures but are from the same soothing palette.
The entrance to the second bedroom continues the quiet colours and linear design of the apartment. The partition on the right doubles as an open shelf unit on which are propped a black-and-white framed picture and sundry accessories in a largely teal colour-scheme, an introduction to the colours of the room beyond the door.
This bedroom looks very different from the rest of the home – its colours and atmosphere scaled up to suit its resident – an 18-year-old teenage girl. The attractive room, drenched in a delicious lagoon-green tint, dials up an effect that is serene and exotic, accentuated with wooden accents. The highlight is a customised wallpaper of a city map, complemented with the 3D word ‘Wanderlust’ for an intriguing impact.
The room is a splash of vibrant lagoon-green, but it reflects a minimalist aesthetic at the same time. The teal-and-white-painted pinewood used across the space, which includes the closets, dresser and the bed, provides a clean, fresh backdrop. The signature design element in the room is a quirky selfie mirror that reflects an inverted 3D text on the opposite wall, making for a playful photo point. The neat dresser is married with a beanbag-style seater that matches the design of the overall space. Inundated with natural light, the room offers an ideal retreat for the owners’ teenage daughter.
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