Thank you Deccan Herald!

Thank you Deccan herald,it came like a new year gift...Thanks a million..If only you could make out what i meant ..

Plants and Flowers from time immemorial..thats my case..I would always wonder.I was really happy to share the knowledge of plants when approached. Whatever i could remember had been written with a full heart.

My love for plants all started coz of Amma and the plants she grew around us. In awe of Amma identifying plants and flowers and naming them,finding their families,having seen amma pressing flowers and leaves and pods for identification and so on..and even identfying algae for her doctoral work.

Image ..screen shot of the article..

Published-The Traditional touch

An article about the Traditional Decor elements and about how the home could be decorated traditionally.Recently got published In Deccan Herald.I thank Savitha Karthik and the entire team for giving me the opportunity to write an article.All images shot at my home..

Published-Classic Courtyards

I really don't know why courtyards fascinated me from childhood and they still..These fascination lead me to a point when I plan my home now,incorporating these spaces at many levels,rooms less and these spaces more..Many thanks to all the great architects who have influenced me like Geoffrey Bawa,Bill Bensley,Laurie Baker,Revathi Kamath .Those amazing spaces have influenced my life in many ways.The dream of starting a decor blog started with the love of courtyards.The Mangalore tiled roofs ,the rain that flowed into the courtyards,the light and shades,the light that fell into the room at various times of the day... I can say so much ,they interest me in various levels and I have seen many a courtyards till now.I have travelled so much in search of courtyards and their spaces 

When Savitha Karthik of Deccan Herald contacted me for an article about the courtyards,I readily agreed.I had researched much about the courtyards and had enough images in hand.As written in the article,courtyards are getting revived these days by architects and they are finding ways to incorporate these spaces and giving different meanings to it at different levels...

Traditonal Kerala houses and courtyards within them

courtyard inside the MG Haveli,Ahmedabad

inside the Nadine Le Prince Havei,Fatehpur

inside the Diggi palace,Jaipur

inside the twin HAveli in MAndawa

haveli in shekhawati

Nadine LE Prince HAveli,Fatehpur

All images shot by Lakshmi Arvind