I’m D’sign has transformed a Faridabad residence into a contemporary home, featuring a striking glass, stone, and white façade and interiors rich in textures and soft tones.
Deepak Kalra and Shifaa Kalra of I’m D’sign have reimagined this 10,000 sq. ft. residence in the serene neighbourhood of Faridabad, replacing its original structure with a contemporary home that harmonizes architecture and interiors. The renovation embodies quiet luxury, featuring rich textures, soft tones, and a refined, gentle design language. The project was designed with the support of their design team Preeti Negi and Abhinav Saxena.
Right from its exterior, the design team has opted for a contemporary design lauguage, with a palette of glass, stone and solid white shaping up an eccentric facade that makes the residence stand out with an identity of its own. The experimental form and the understated aesthetic come together to create something that feels familiar, while holding on to the personality of its own.
The language of greys and whites on the outside are humbled down by the native greens on the inside, letting them lead the way across the free flow of the landscape. The entirety of the house embraces the nature around it and makes deliberate connections with it, across different spaces, to play with the way they interact with the outdoors.
“The warm-lit scenes of these outdoors are contradicted by the white overtones of the indoor ambience, making the space weave an experience unique to itself. It unfolds a giant white canvas where the colourful, quirky pieces speak for the sculptural value on one side and the neutral furnishings speak for a formal character on the other. The versatile character echoes all across, taking the route of the free flowing layout that ties every space into a larger experience, where every room–and its every corner–has a story to tell.” explains Deepak Kalra.
Upon entry, a striped metal screen takes the space of a partition wall to create a seating space for the guests in an eclectic fashion—the melange of solid and hexagonal patterns in the seater takes a neat, clean-lined backdrop of greys to leave a hint for everything that was there in the interior to behold.
Welcoming the guest in a much private setting, comes a living cum dining space that speaks for the flexible character of the space in the way it visually connects with the garden on one side and the family lounge on the other. The garden provides the perfect backdrop for a formaltêteà-tête and the complementing furnishings only add to its inbound sophistication with a visual language of their own. While the upholstered seaters take up muted greys and blush pinks to blend into this bright, extroverted ambience, the statement sofa and the table take up radiant blues and tan to give a bejewelled pop. A touch of bespoke artistry is made evident with the amoeboid centre table, clustered chandelier and curled up chairs that give the right balance of art and character to the otherwise subtle interior language.
“Having set the invitation with lounge spaces, the residence creates a number of nooks that are intended to be multipurpose spaces–the mom can read on a lounger with a view, the kids can play chess on a table for two, the dad can invite people over for a rendezvous and so much more can happen in these pockets of spaces that move into each other” explains Deepak Kalra.
What was intended to be a party lounge becomes a recreational space where the vibe gets warmer and cosier with champagne gold shelves, setting the tone for the space where rust, mustard and aubergine make way into the colour palette. The herringbone details of the wood further draws us in, only to create an escape route through the French window that overlooks the pruned greens of the garden. A custom-crafted chaise sits here, in style, to soak in all of the daylight while offering a space to unwind.
This touch of artistry is heightened in the standalone spaces–the pooja room exudes an exclusive vibe with dark stone clad walls over which personalized metal plates run along, creating a pattern that is unique and picturesque. The personal spaces get the same touch of exclusivity–the powder room is bathed in pewter green, over which gold accents peek through as fixtures, wallpaper details and other minutiae. The luxe signature thus runs into every space–in and out–to create a space that is quiet yet indulgent.
The meticulously crafted details are a reminder that the residence has more to it–the foliage in the wallpaper tells one story and the abstract cityscape in the panels of the console tell another, making the home the very space where the heart resides.
Photographers: Sushil Choudhary
