People in cities prefer to stay in apartments as a convenient way to live, but to own an independent house is a dream that everyone cherishes. Many cities do offer the typology of independent houses like Villas and Row Houses, but these too are compact like the apartments. Peri-urban areas and rural areas on the fringes of cities have options for Bungalows and Farm Houses with easy availability of know-how and resources for constructing this type of houses. These generally end up serving as weekend houses and second homes. Continue reading “Making your Independent Home”
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House Interior Design 101
Everyone wants a beautiful house. It is thus critical to understand the meaning of beauty! As the cliche goes – Beauty is in the eye of the beholder – What is in the eye?? As we understand it today that the eye is an organ that takes in light and casts an inverted projection of the world within itself. It seems to be more like a media rather than an analytical system. One needs knowledge to validate value of things. I guess it is ok to say that we measure things by the information we have. Is ignorance – bliss when it comes to creating our homes? How do we accept the idea of beauty despite the array of visuals that we have accumulated as aspirations?? The hypothesis of this is that the things we call beautiful are from within, which has certain association with us. The places which we have visited or the experiences that we have had. Essentially all that we take in through our senses become the basis of our preferences. Continue reading “House Interior Design 101”