How do you imagine a home housing 2 artists with complementary tastes will look? Well, the pic above is giving it away somewhat, but if you answered arty, colorful and well-designed, you got it right!
I am taking you through a tour of a tiny Mumbai apartment, home to Arif and his partner Inderjit.
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| Inderjit (left) and Arif |
Both artists, they are always on the lookout for “finds” when they are out travelling, and they travel a lot! They love going to little dots on the map that not many people know of and while there, they always look for unique artifacts to bring back home.
Their home houses items from the old furniture market in Udaipur, the Jew Street of Kochi, the narrow old lanes of Hyderabad and even from the heritage Galle Fort of Srilanka. Also, the creative souls they are, they keep re-arranging every three months or so!
Says Arif, “Considering the lack of space in Mumbai we both managed to keep minimum furniture along with frames with my art works or something we bought from our travel.”
When I asked them who has contributed more to the house, Arif said,
“I specially love lots of white and space and Inderjit likes slash of colours, hence you will find beautiful togetherness of off-white walls and curtains to complete the sombre look and the added colour palette via our cushion covers and assorted art works. We prefer natural looking furniture in dark brown.”
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| Everything you see in this bedroom is from Fabindia |
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| Vintage frame with Arif’s art work, a calligraphy piece from Istanbul and the ceiling lamp from Fab India. |
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| This is a wall of the living room – two huge blue drawers bought by the duo from Chorbazaar and the Arabic letters spell FUNN (something Arif commissioned a carpenter to create). |
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All wooden utensils were bought in Kerala
Do they feel limited by the fact that it is a rented place? ” Yes”, admits Arif. “Since it is a rented apartment nothing much can be done in terms of windows but we are fortunate that the house has enough natural light coming in from the windows thus making it look bright and cheerful for most of the day. But yes there is lot of scope to remould this place.”
And finally, this ‘cover pic’ of my feature is an 80 year old divan from Mumbai’s chorbazaar. It has assorted Hyderabad kitsch range of cushion covers designed by Inderjit and Arif!
Did you like their home? They would love to know what you think of their decorating skills. And if you show them enough comment love, they are open to sharing pics of their gorgeous studio space as well, in another post! So go on, you know what you have to do now!
Lovely home Sharon. I loved masks, wooden ladles & spoons, metal pendant lamp a lot and I liked warm and earthy tones too.
Yes Disha, that metal lamp is the first pic I saw of Arif's home, and I have been crushing on them forever….so the home tour just flowed from there!
Colorful home, Beautiful artifacts.I liked everything about there home.Kudos to Arif and Inderjit.
I agree Degchi, thanks for leaving a comment, and I hope you will come back to see their studio…which is just as gorgeous!
Thank you DEGCHI
Its my kinda place!!! So homely, earthy and warm.kudos to the duo for making it reflect their personality with aplomb!!!
I love their collection !!!
Thanks MADHURA. Been collecting since 2005!
Loved everything here. The last Diwan is something to die for.
Trust me when i say all our friends are kind of jealous with that diwan.
i love the blue drawers, spoon holder and the cushions!!
The blue drawer is something we bought out of necessity but later realise how its just complimenting everything in our house.
Burning with envy 😉 I love browsing through your blog gawking at all these artistic homes. Simple yet rustic, I especially love the wooden spoons and pans
First of all a big THANK YOU to Sharon for featuring our house on her blog. And secondly I am really touched by so many comments and appreciation shown towards our little abode. Happy 🙂
Awesome. Loved each and everything. Wooden vessels from kerala stole my heart.
Its a beautiful and colorful home
Its a beautiful and colorful home
Hi Arif and Inder,
It was a great pleasure to get in to your heaven. Loved your brass lamp shade and the mix match cushions the most. Sharon thanks a lot for this wonderful post.
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Great arclite, thank you again for writing.
Very nice done up house. I specially love the way they have put the kitchen together. Functional and artistic. Sharon, I really get a lot of inspiration from your blog to decorate my home better?. Thankyou for sharing such wonderful realistic homes.
Lovely home. Really love the aesthetics. More happiness to your home. Love