KEEPING UP WITH THE GHOUSES

HELLO! GETS A WARM WELCOME AT THE FABULOUS MUMBAI HOME OF INTERIOR DESIGNER SARAH SHAM AND HER HUSBAND, SPORTS SUPREMO MUSTAFA GHOUSE

- VISHWAVEER SINGH

Sarah Sham and Mustafa Ghouse make for beautiful pictures. What with their lovely South Mumbai home, cherubic child Sophia and their pet cat and dog, nearly resembling a perfect IKEA catalogue, showing all us mere mortals what a model life in suburbia is meant to look like. The two, however, are not your run-off-the-mill SoBo couple, juggling domestic life with extremely successful careers in their own chosen spheres. Sarah, an accomplished interior designer and Instagram sensation, is the scion of the Essajee family, which has been into the production and manufacture of furniture for generations. Mustafa hails from the Ghouse family, which has succeeded both at professional tennis and in the field of corporate governance in India.

HELLO! spent some quality time with the Ghouses, trying to decode how they manage to do it all.

SARAH SHAM

Tell us how you founded Essajees Atelier. Starting Essajees Atelier was definitely not planned; it happened by accident. Interior design was the furthest thing from my mind. Honestly, I always thought of doing something in economics, finance or psychology.