They came to us with a simple ask: a home that feels comfortable, yet a little indulgent. Something that works for their everyday routines but just as easily opens up for evenings spent with friends. They love hosting. Meals, conversations, not-so-slow evenings. The
house needed to support that. So the design begins there, with the idea that the home has to open up before it closes in.
Project Name: Grey Field
Studio Name: DORO
Location: Vadodara
Area: 3,500 sq. ft.
Photography: Ishita Sitwala, The Fishy Project
A 4.5BHK converted into a three-bedroom apartment with a generous lounge, this 3,500
square foot home offers just enough structure to rework meaningfully. We shift a few walls,
soften the edges, and reorient the layout to follow a rhythm that moves between privacy and shared use.
A central corridor acts as the spine of the home, but instead of reading as a long linear
passage, it is subtly broken. Niches interrupt its length, flooring joints shift direction, and
custom inlays guide the eye. Light filters in through a slim continuous window. Fabric lamps mark its ends. The corridor becomes more than circulation. It becomes a connector, one that holds and borrows from the rooms that open off it.
At the front, the home opens into its most social space. The lounge, bar, dining, and living
areas come together as one continuous volume. The swing anchors the space. Placed just
off center, it marks a pause between zones. This is where the couple hosts most often, and
where the home is at its most alive.
The home is designed to shift. Doors are detailed to sit flush within wall panels. When open, spaces flow easily into one another. When closed, they create quiet separation. This ability to move between openness and containment is embedded into the architecture.
Furniture follows this material sensibility. Brick platforms, cast in place, form the base for built elements. Beds, consoles, seating — all emerge from the floor, embedded and intentional. Loose furniture is designed to feel part of the same language. Low, robust, finished in red-brown polish with black-stained accents for depth and gravity.
Material choices are driven more by structure than surface. Terrazzo and Kadappa together
form the foundational palette. Terrazzo is used not only for its finish but for how its joints and inlays can define use. It draws subtle lines across the floor, shapes transitions, and anchors zones. A soft grey terrazzo carries through most of the house, while red and black variants appear at key moments. Kadappa stone, dark and grounded, holds specific spaces, most notably in the lounge, where it extends into the living room when the partition is slid away, creating a larger continuous setting.
The bedrooms and bathrooms continue the material language, each tuned slightly to its use. Red terrazzo anchors one room. Green terrazzo wraps the walls of a bathroom. Built-in
storage, custom vanities, and restrained detailing hold everything together with ease.
Walls remain largely bare, finished in grey lime that responds gently to changing light.
Terrazzo carries onto vertical surfaces in a few key moments. It lines the kitchen backsplash, sits quietly behind the mandir, and catches light behind a hanging lamp at the corridor’s end.
Together, these elements shape the quiet core of the home. What we think of as a Grey
Field. It sits somewhere in between. Not too raw, not too finished. The lime-washed walls
and terrazzo floors carry a soft, tactile feel. Edges are rounded. Joints carefully aligned.
Details kept simple. Nothing shouts. The finish is not glossy or perfect. It is steady,
grounded, and made to last. The palette stays minimal, with changes coming through tone
and proportion rather than new materials. It is this restraint that keeps the spaces distinct yet gently connected.
Even now, the home continues to take shape. The couple lives into it slowly. They bring in
objects, layer memories, shape daily rituals. The frame is there. Steady, open, and ready to
hold whatever comes next.
