Residential & Interiors — Private Residence

Anubhuti

A private residence in Punjabi Bagh, built to be felt before it is seen.

Location

Punjabi Bagh East
New Delhi

Typology

Private Residence

Plot Area

275 sq. yd.

Scope

Architecture & Interiors

The Idea

A house named for what it leaves behind

Anubhuti is the Hindi word for a felt experience — the impression a place leaves once you have walked away from it. On a 275-square-yard plot in Punjabi Bagh East, that single idea does the work a much longer brief usually would.

The street face is deliberately soft: curved balconies stacked one above the next, planted so greenery spills over every edge, brick and white render trading places as the eye travels up. Inside, the house is organised less as a set of rooms than as a sequence of moods — a warm, social ground floor gathered around an open staircase, and private floors above where each bedroom is given a material character entirely its own. The palette stays close to the earth throughout — walnut, cane, brass, stone, and a great deal of planting — so the calm of the elevation carries all the way in.

Open-plan dining area at Anubhuti — marble table for ten beneath a linear crystal chandelier, framed botanical art behind

01 — The Lobby

The social heart, kept open

The ground floor is conceived as one continuous space, wrapped around an open staircase of stone, glass and timber. A long dining table sits beneath a linear crystal chandelier at one end; a pair of deep sofas gathers at the other, under a coffered ceiling. Very little is walled off that does not need to be — arrival, dining and conversation flow into one another without ever meeting a closed door.

Living area at Anubhuti — cream sofas and a running-horses canvas beside the open staircase with a stone-clad feature wall

02 — Bedroom One

Walnut, and a wall of garden

The first bedroom is built on contrast — a deep, tufted headboard set against walnut panelling, with a hand-drawn botanical mural climbing the full wall beside it. A low seating corner turns the room into more than a place to sleep. The materials are warm and close; the greenery keeps it from ever feeling heavy.

First bedroom at Anubhuti — tufted teal headboard against walnut panelling, botanical and bird mural climbing the adjacent wall

First bedroom at Anubhuti — media wall with fluted panelling, an arched slat feature with a carved medallion, and a lit display niche

03 — Bedroom Two

The warmest room in the house

Earth tones carry this room — terracotta, cane and honeyed timber, gathered under a softly coved ceiling. A single landscape canvas above the bed sets the palette; a sculptural bubble chair in the corner answers it. A timber jali screens the dressing area beyond without ever shutting it away.

Second bedroom at Anubhuti — earthy palette, upholstered bed under a sunset landscape canvas, scalloped bubble chair in the corner

Second bedroom at Anubhuti — symmetrical media wall with two walnut display niches flanked by matching panelled doors

04 — Bedroom Three

Quieter, and more sculptural

The third bedroom is the most contemporary of the three — its headboard wall carved with slow S-curves in timber and brass, its media wall answering with a single lit arc. Cane, gold and a restrained palette keep the room calm; the geometry is left to do the talking.

Third bedroom at Anubhuti — sculptural headboard wall with S-curve reveals in timber and brass, cane panels and a hexagonal pendant cluster

Third bedroom at Anubhuti — media wall with a terracotta cane half-arch and a circular LED ring framing the television

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