Over 35 years. An Instagram video tour shared by project delivery company ArchPro on July 5 shows the beautiful 4 BHK in Yelahanka, Bengaluru. Also read | Step inside 6,500 square foot Kodaikanal home with soothing interiors, lawns: The definition of quiet luxury and nature-first design
If your idea of decor is bulk-ordering Ikea furniture or copying a Pinterest board in one weekend, this Bengaluru home will ruin every other house for you. It was collected. Because it wasn’t designed.
The structure was designed and engineered by Mistry Architects, who clearly understood they weren’t building a showroom. They were building a container for time. From the outside, it is deceptively simple: a stone facade with exposed masonry, sloping red-tile roofs straight out of coastal Karnataka, and a lush, slightly wild garden that looks as if it grew around the house itself, untouched.
You enter through a carved wooden entryway frame that feels as if it were rescued from a Chettinad mansion. Just before it, a stone fountain bubbles inside a natural lawn pond — the kind of small detail that makes you exhale deeply before stepping inside. We are talking antique wooden doors, salvaged multi-pane windows, intricate wooden wall niches now serving as display cabinets for curios. In the open living area hangs a classic wooden jhula — a traditional indoor swing — suspended from thick iron chains. It does not hide imperfection. In a world obsessed with the same beige sofa everyone owns, this home celebrates weathering, scratches, mismatched tones as absolute proof of life.
Also read | This couple visited 50 flats in Bengaluru and rejected every ‘Pinterest’ template to build a dream home: Take a tour Styling was led by interior designer Preetha Chandrasekaran, with execution by Dhakshini Antiques, and you feel the curatorial eye everywhere, without it ever feeling too curated. What makes this Yelahanka sanctuary truly radical in 2026 is what it does not do.
