When businessman Suresh Kumar decided to relocate to Hyderabad from Kuwait, his instant choice was the spacious three-bedroom 2,350 sq. ft apartment in a plush locality at Madhapur.
Living with Suresh on the 10th floor is wife Satya, daughter Shruthi, father-in-law Kameshwar Rao and mother-in-law Lakshmi.
They had bought the apartment in 2007 and it had been let out all these years. But they always knew that one day, this would be their home once they decided to move back to the city. “While the apartment was good looking, certain parts of it were still quite old-fashioned. Hence, we needed to upgrade it,” recalls Suresh.
That’s when he got in touch with interior designer Sudha Moola. “Suresh and wife Satya gave me a free hand when it came to designing their apartment. The only thing they asked me was to make the house spacious and minimal,” says Sudha. Every decision they took was done using messaging apps as Suresh was still living in Kuwait back then.
Says Suresh, “When I saw the house for the first time after it was redesigned, I was pleasantly surprised. Everything, to the last detail, was exactly as it was told it would be — be it the colour patterns or the way spaces where managed.”
The living room, or as Suresh likes to call it “the international room”, is filled with souvenirs the couple brought back from each of their foreign trips. “The entire credit for this goes to my wife. It was her idea to start collecting souvenirs and when I look at it today, I know it’s all worth it,” he says.
The one room the couple was quite sure about was what they wanted in their daughter’s room. Satya elaborates, “We were very certain we wanted our daughter’s room to be of a particular shade of purple. Also, one other thing we insisted on was a slab by the window side, so we would sit there and enjoy the breeze.”
Each morning, the family sits in the little sit-out, which even has a hammock chair, to enjoy the morning breeze. Says Suresh, “Every day, we make it a point to hang out here till 10 in the morning. Since we live on the 10th floor, the breeze is pretty strong and also the view of the upcoming metro and the vast expanse of Hitec City are quite stunning.”
