HUES CALLING

Want to add colour indoors? This apartment in Mumbai is your guide to getting it right.

- RAKESHH JESWAANI

OUTDOOR DECK SEATING

This is an open terrace adjoining the living room. To enhance the relaxed sea front vibe, we combined bright purple sofas with green tables, highlighting the greens and blues of the sofa cushions and the pink outdoor rug. Another way to use colour effectively is to use a plain colour on the bigger expanses that you wouldn't change very often (the sofas in this case) and add motifs and patterns and play around with the things that can easily be changed (like the cushions).

How do you decide the colour palette for an interior design project? As a designer the first thing we do is find out the sensibility of the client, what kind of colours they like. The colours you use should create a harmonious space. Even if you plan different rooms in different colours, ultimately, they need to have some thread of harmony running through them that binds the whole colour scheme together.