At Home With Luxury

From classic art on the walls and environmentally sustainable living spaces to personalised interiors, the affluent Indian is leaving no stone unturned to make a home that can uplift more than his social status

- BY E JAYASHREE KURUP

ASHNA KHURANA is lounging in her living room when we arrive to see the K Villa, designed by architectural firm PSA Interiors and furnished by Design Consultant Heena Handa of EDC Space.

A little later, we step out to go to the finely manicured lawn. Aashna walks barefoot from a plush drawing room through a large French door that brings in the verdant views of the lush green outside. We pass by the Buddha sculptures on the way to an animal pen where her five-year-old can play with goats, cows, chickens and ducks. The property has over 5,000 trees and plants and a two-acre food ‘forest’ where they grow fruits and vegetables such as guava, custard apple, oranges and kinu. The Miyawaki-inspired free-flowing forest surrounds the house, branches bowing gracefully into the lake.

For Aashna and her husband Bhisham Chawla, who moved into this eight-acre farmhouse near Vasant Kunj, not too far from the heart of the city, a couple of years ago, this grounding in nature is vital for their daughter’s well-being. The other properties in this quiet neighbourhood are similarly laid out. Before shifting to this property, the couple and their child lived in an equally well-appointed villa at the 270-acre Karma Lakelands, a golf resort developed by Aashna’s father, an avid proponent of sustainable life- styles. Aashna, Bhisham and their daughter spend weekends there. They are planning to launch the next phase of the project. Aashna, a trained interior designer, is in her element when doing up homes while her husband worries about how to sell them to like-minded, nature-loving, select buyers looking for green fairways, sparkling waterbodies and fresh, clean air; in fact, monitors measure air quality 24/7. Real luxury, one would say.