Each space was very minutely thought through especially all the storage areas be it the kitchen , wardrobes or the study room. Each shelf, each drawer, each cupboard was made with a specific purpose in mind and to store very specific items. The client’s in-depth analysis on space usage was really very impressive . A young couple with a great love for cooking gave us an opportunity to make a very different kitchen with different materials. They also didn’t want to play of too many textures or colors and were clear on wanting to work with pastels and monochrome finishes.
Their home has a very Scandinavian design sensibility to it, elegant and yet simple and honestly there is always something nice about working with pastels and white. Gives a feeling of space and makes everything seem much larger, some may argue that it’s too cold and I was fearful of that but honestly when it all came together it was really very lovely .
ABOUT THE FOUNDER & INTERIOR DESIGNER:
Passion for interior designing led her to taking it up as a successful career
Homework, the brand was conceptualised by Shagun Singh who is the lead Interior Designer for the firm. She is a designer by passion and a hotelier by education. She comes from a fairly large and influential hoteliering family and perhaps some of the sensibility for design got instilled in her watching her mother and grandfather. On graduating from the Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration where started her career with ITC Hotels in the Sales and Marketing Division where she worked actively from 2001 to 2008. In 2008 she joined her father’s firm AM Services 24×7 Pvt. Ltd where she continues to work today and introduced the brand of Homework to the firm. The parent firm was a small manpower solutions firm providing skilled manpower to a handful of corporate houses but once Shagun joined the firm she added big names to the firms’ portfolio like Cushman & Wakefield, GMR, JLL, ITC Hotels, Ballarpur Industries to name a few.
Whilst the parent firm continued to grow the challenge was neither exciting nor fulfilling for her and she needed to do something more, something she knew more about and could be more hands on but more importantly meet more people like herself. Homework came about to satiate that need of her’s and learn something new that finally led her to take on the role of an Interior Designer. She always loved keeping a beautiful space and from a young age was house proud,so doing up others spaces was a fun and exciting prospect that came naturally to her.
She considers her design sensibility to be contemporary classic – which means she always tries to keep some of the traditional aspects to merge in with the modern. She believes strongly that a home should be warm and inviting and should be able to tell a story that is unique.Having run cleaning services for so many years she knows how difficult it is to maintain and keep things looking as good as new. So while suggesting material and product finishes to clients she is always mindful to suggest easy to maintain and yet aesthetically beautiful things to her clients. The play of colors is something you will notice not so much through wall textures but through fabrics . India is a haven she believes in for some of the finest textures and designs in fabrics and making use of these in her projects in something you will always see.
Some of the projects done by Shagun Singh are are DLF Crest, DLF Belaire ,DLF ICON ,DLF Westend Heights,DLF Hamilton court ,Rail Vihar ,Palam vihar ,Windchants , Suncity and many more.
