Inside the transformation of a 30-year-old family bungalow in Bhubaneswar
When interior designer Aanchal Mittal receives an enquiry, she knows to expect one of two things. “Either a brief that's really particular—or one that’s not,” says the founder and principal of Jaipur studio Aasa Concepts. But rarely, in her experience, do the two collide. In her latest commission, the renovation of a 30-year-old family bungalow in Bhubaneswar, that's exactly what happened. The family, who found her on Instagram, was pernickety about what they wanted—retaining the spirit of the house they'd lived in for the last thirty years—until a creative rendering came along, when they'd throw caution to the wind and abort all previous reservations.
