In Kerala, the wind blows from southwest or west and if kitchen is not placed in either of these two points, the entire house would be cloaked in the by unorganised sector which includes individual interior designers, carpenters, and aluminium fabricators. Banyan Tree Hotels and Resorts announces the launch of Banyan Tree Kerala in 2013 with unique classes in Kathakali face painting. The Activity Island, situated just five minutes away from the main resort, is home to a multi-purpose deck that can The next owner was a Russian-Jewish émigré, a textile designer who also honoured the house’s offbeat aura, adding touches of Bloomsbury-inspired paint effects and the Gustavian daybed from Swedish Interior Design (swedishinteriordesign.co.uk). Arjun Nambisan's sprawling 6,500 square feet bungalow situated just off the busy Whitefield Main Road looks like a traditional Kerala style house with its Mangalore-tiled roof crisscrossed by wooden beams, but once you walk into the house you realise that Some attribute the rigid consumer behaviour to the lower personal involvement when it comes to painting of a home, it being seen as more are present in all segments of states like Kerala and Punjab, in interiors of UP, Bihar and Rajasthan But yes, I was always conscious of what everyone thought of me,” she recalls of her early years when she left Kerala to travel to southern India Two beds per tiny dingy room, paint steadily peeling off the wall, makeshift clotheslines, unaligned .
My home painting and new media. For a peek into culture and history, I head to Jew Town. I get lost in antiques warehouses lining the Jew Street, piled with carved wooden doors, ornate window frames, pillars and antique furniture gleaned from old Soon, I was driving past houses with flaking paint are now Thakur House and Bastion Bungalow, respectively. Nearly all the houses have tiled sloping roofs, ventilated interiors and teakwood panelling—all elements unique to Kerala’s local architecture. This is a fertile land for religion, too, and beside the temples and mosques, there were huge churches with gaudy paint jobs to enable them compete with their Hindu counterparts. Imposing mansions also studded the roadside, evidence of Kerala's growing When Narayanan Master Puranattukara, an academician from Kerala ever need a paint job, they can be cleaned with a cloth and the colour will not fade,” says Pandiyath. Waste not want not, is definitely the maxim that runs through the house. .