As an interior designer I love to experiment with various mediums and materials. I always pride in being innovative and creative and my projects bear my signature of being unique. I have been in this business for over a decade, but the number of project I have executed have always been very less, reason being that am very choosy about the projects I take up. I do not do project for the sake of earning money. For me the project location should capture my heart and instantly I start getting ideas of what can be done. This is when I know I have struck the right cord and hence take up business. My clients are not based in my city. I have clientele across the country from Washington to LA. I have clients in Canada too. I specialize in designing homes along with the landscape and other buildings like studio or a restaurant etc. Am not the type who can build a modern multi storied apartments or multiplexes.
My projects are always theme oriented and are designed keeping in mind the natural style and background of the family of the owners. I in fact meet the owner's family and spend time understanding their taste and get to know them better before I design their homes. I strongly believe in creating homes that represent their sensibilities and not good looking houses.
One of my favorite projects was the small little cottage that I built for a famous movie director in Hollywood. Though he lives with his family in Malibu on the beach, work brings him to Hollywood often and he wished to have a very small place which he could use while in town. Out of the two locations in Glendale and Hollywood, we decided to settle down with Hollywood. Though we called it a cottage, it wasn't like a cottage one would see by the beach side. This was more like an Italian house. The entrance of the house from outside led the visitors into an open court yard in the front and surrounding the yard was the house in L Shape. From all rooms including kitchen, the central yard was to have been visible. The outer walls were built with a height of 15 ft to ensure privacy. In this project I had made a major mistake. Being an avid collector of ornate wooden doors, I had the customer go with me down to Mexico to pick up few old antique doors from an old building that was being pulled down. The doors were made of teak wood and were more than two hundred years old. I had them polished and reworked and used at the main entrance as well as the living room, without realizing that the central theme of the house was dependant upon getting unobstructed view into the central courtyard. The doors fitted the décor well but took away the attention from the court yard. With a heavy heart I had to get them removed and replaced with glass panes similar to the glass office partitions and sliding glass doors. The change brought about the desired effect. We went on to create a small water pond in the center of the court yard and planted trees all around. Today the entire life of the house hold revolves around the central courtyard.
Today this location has become a landmark in Hollywood and has been one of my best projects.
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