We kept the shell quiet and let the character arrive through deliberate insertions. Walls, ceilings and flooring stay in a single ivory register. Against that stillness, every heritage gesture reads as an object: a teak column lifted on a stone plinth, a brass-chained swing anchoring the living room, an arch cut into a wall and filled with texture.

Three devices hold the language together across the home.

The arch, repeated. It appears at five scales in five materials — a full-height lime-plastered arch behind the living console, a foyer niche framing the Ganesha, a pewter-tiled arch over the kitchen counter, arched display niches in the guest wing, and a painted arch on the folding bed. Same shape, different substance each time.

Craft as artwork. Nothing decorative was bought off a shelf. A hand-painted Pichwai-style mural of deer, trees and birds spreads across the guest room's foldaway bed front. Gond and Pattachitra triptychs, Mughal-motif wall plates, a Cubist-style face platter and an antique carved teak window reused as a dressing mirror carry colour into an otherwise neutral home.

Colour held back. Bone, ecru and mushroom throughout — with sage green, deep teak and antique brass as the only structural accents. Everything brighter arrives through art, textile, and the terracotta stained-glass inset floating above the dining table.

Modern plan, traditional grammar. Behind the swing and the columns is a completely contemporary layout: open living-dining, concealed storage behind scalloped and fluted shutters, and a wall-folding bed that lets the guest room work as a study by day.

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