House of LSDA, Greater Noida

When we moved to our apartment in 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 for 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 minimum, the plan of the apartment was optimized very creatively. The strategic location of foldable tables, a collapsible bed, and an “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 colors, 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 favorite 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 color, material, incorporation of natural light, planting, and quirky and pop-artist elements, and when our creative juices start flowing, the walls across the apartment, painted with ‘chalkboard paint’, are ready to be poured upon !!