CULTURAL CONFLUENCE

Two cultures, two aesthetics, and two design sensibilities are crafted into a warm, functional, and beautifully unified home for a family of three

- WORDS BY KASHISH KAUSHAL

Love stories like to promise the immensely overrated concept of ‘happily-ever- after’ but in real life, it is the daily negotiations of language, compromises on food and rituals that truly stitch two worlds together.

In this home, a Punjabi husband and a Telugu wife do exactly that, turning differences into a shared design vocabulary. ‘A Fusion of Aesthetics’ by Pratiksha Prashant and Abishek Raju of Elite Spaces becomes their third space, where two distinct approaches gently settle into one warm, functional, and deeply personal home. Located in Bengaluru, this villa renovation is where cultural diversity meets architectural ingenuity. For the clients, functionality was at the core of their brief, prioritising how they moved, gathered, and relaxed within their old home. What makes this home unique is its empathetic design ethos: listening intently to the family’s patterns, resolving structural legacies of an aging structure, and weaving boldness with sophistication into spaces that nurture daily life.