Dream Home

As an architect, he was very talented. The houses he designed afforded a level of privacy very rare in homes usually built for display of wealth. I never knew about this aspect of his design, but people who have lived in his houses often speak about it and I decided to check it out, especially after our house was built. In his houses the bedrooms and toilets are havens of privacy. In a very skilled way he ensures that one cannot see into the bedroom or toilet even if the door is open and you are sitting in front of the room. In contrast in our new house designed by a very famous architect, anyone sitting in the drawing room or in my brother-in-law’s house can see everything taking place in the bedroom, dressing room and toilet. So we have had to have curtains installed everywhere for the very bare minimum privacy required. All this would not have come about if my hubby had asked appan to design the house. But he was egoistic and has now paid the price by ending up with a house that is basically uninhabitable. If he had bothered to check out houses designed by appan then he would have realized how talented appan really was.

He never was able to make his own house. If we had made him draw the plan for a dream house then maybe at some time, if we ever have the money, we could have build the house. But these are just desires that cannot come true. I remember when we had just bought the current house 20 years back it had 15 rooms, all tiny inter connecting with windows opening in one another. Appan redesigned the entire house and made it a very modern one. I remember him saying,” Usually when I have to design for someone else, I sit waiting for ideas to come but now when I am doing it for our own house, I have so many ideas that I am finding it hard to incorporate all of them into the plan.”