Elite Square: Our Second Home in Goa, Designed for Peace

Location: Elite Square, Goa
Project Type: Turnkey Home Interiors
Challenge: Designing a second home for a relaxed lifestyle in Goa.

This home was designed around a very specific kind of time. Not a holiday, even though this is a second home. The decompressing, the focused work, the slow mornings. Goa is where we come to breathe, and the house had to make that easier, not just look good while doing it. The first thing I do every morning here is step out onto the terrace off our bedroom. Trees right next to it, stars at night, completely quiet. That space was as important to get right as any room in the house.

Every room was designed around how we actually live here. Our younger son’s room was designed to his preference and has white brick walls, an urban edge, and a proper desk setup because he studies and games. The master bedroom has a writing desk tucked into a panelled corner with its own pendant light, sage green wardrobes, floral drawer fronts, and a rattan cane headboard. The kitchen has a floral tile backsplash I love completely. The dining chairs are all different colours. Moving through the home you pass a pixel art portrait of the four of us in the corridor that makes me happy every time, which is the only reason it’s there.

What made this home feel like ours from day one is that we didn’t start from scratch. We brought furniture and lights from our other house in Bangalore and built the new home around them. The result is a home that feels accumulated rather than installed, and that quality is hard to get any other way.

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