This morning while preparing churamaa for the breakfast I felt the heat for the first time (as summer begins with May1st first in Haryana) in our Island kitchen, and wondered how women would cook in a traditional kitchen.

Summer now feels tantalizingly close. And with her will come the scorching heat, the tour to our family farm (orchid farm ) and the ‘bilauni’ (Earthen pot used to churn butter and make seet/lassi)  of red lassi /seet /Mattha(The sour pinkish liquid left out after churning the baked milk and extracting fats from it - a tasty and favorite beverage for villagers in Haryana). with missi roti and laal chatani.

churma with kheer

Our house in Haryana isn’t grand and isn’t showy---it’s a quiet little NON-Conventional house with a papri tree across the road from our house. Inside it’s higgledy piggledy floors and concrete beams. It’s the house where we have lived for as long as I can remember—and to me it will always be home; it will always, perhaps for the very reason, hold a magical charm. Its very cool in summer and gives warmth in winter  If you proceed towards kitchen –you can see a skylight above your head. If you open the sliding doors—you will find that they lead you for the upstairs…at night (you can have the  lashes to the stars). This is my favorite room in the house. 

‘Room’ because while it feels barren and bare in winter, come summer it’s all breezy and cool. That is where I sit out and leaf lazily through magazines, where my little granddaughter plays with her doll house and kitchen set. That is where we eat and drink, all cozy looking at cool moon occasionally, that is the nighttime sky. That is where the scene of our family life plays out.

computer room 

my grand daughter posing for photo

This is another corner of our Living room updates to freshen our nest, our true respite where we live and entertain. Conversation and the sound of laughter resonate in our home providing happiness and solace. There's no grand gestures with my décor style and if pressed to describe my style I'd say it's a collected eclectic global feel with a Haryanvi vibe. But since our home is always evolving time will tell. Once late Dr K.M.(former President of our NGO)said ,”o Vimmi how did you plan the architect of this non-conventional house.”

Ant how it's in the consistency of colors and pieces that flow room to room that to me logically blend everything together in my tactile design.