AS GRAND AS IT GETS

There is no right or wrong when decorating a home. It can be as minimal as popularised by Marie Kondo or as ostentatious as any Victorian castle. What’s of vases and artefacts, silver and glass accents in the library-cum-family den, and lots and lots of paintings and canvases spread across the home. The long corridor meanders along in an S-shape; there is a living room and family room on one side, dining room on the other with an outdoor patio, and moving along is the master bedroom and two other bedrooms. “The house was never really done up in a conscious manner but I wanted all Indian floors and the story to be the colour of muted mud, and wanted it to be a home rather than a showpiece,” he says. With collectibles bought from different artists and some inherited from his grandparents, one comes across Viya Home brass pots, old Chinese antiques, and a neglected mix of things picked up from Chinese flea markets, especially a giant one from Chiang Mai.