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Matunga, Mumbai · 2024

Grandmother's Teak

Sixty-year-old Burma teak the family would not part with, and were right not to.

A warm bedroom with wooden flooring and a framed gallery wall
Location
Matunga, Mumbai
Type
Apartment
Configuration
2 BHK
Carpet area
900 sq ft
Finish level
Signature
On site
18 weeks
Completed
2024

The brief

Modernise a 2 BHK without turning it into every other 2 BHK, and keep six pieces of inherited teak in daily use.

The hard part

The teak is beautiful and enormous. Two pieces would not have fitted back through the door had we ever removed them.

What we did about it

  1. Matched the new joinery to the old, then stopped

    Two new pieces in the same teak. Everything else in a paler wood, so the inheritance stays the loudest thing in the room.

  2. Restored in place

    Sanded and re-oiled inside the flat under sheeting. Cheaper than moving it, and the only option that fitted the doors.

  3. Lightened everything else

    Pale floor, bone walls, no upper cabinets in the living room. The teak needed air more than it needed company.

Bedroom in warm timber with soft evening light
Evening light was the brief for this room
Softly lit interior with warm neutral surfaces
Nothing cooler than 3000K anywhere in the flat

Before and after

BeforeBefore — The bedroom as we found it — bare walls, original flooring, nothing else left in the room
AfterAfter — The bedroom as we found it — bare walls, original flooring, nothing else left in the room

Sixty-year-old Burma teak the family would not part with, and were right not to.

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