Blogs Home Life: Kerala Traditional Home Interior

When Narayanan Master Puranattukara, an academician from Kerala, decided to finally build his dream home, he knew exactly what it should be like… a simple and sustainable structure reflecting the roots of traditional Kerala architecture. Luckily he knew Thick walls and roofs meant most of the heat being conducted dissipates within the material, resulting in the interiors being many degrees In contrast, a house in Kerala would have thin clay tile roof, a material and roofing system not good for heat ‘Cost Ford’, another prominent 'green builder' in Kerala, has evolved a method in which the use of traditional within the house, green architects said. "Our focus is to create climate-responsive buildings. We design rooms and interiors based None of these will withstand a medium-sized temblor. The traditional Kerala house with sloping tiled or thatched roofs and the nalukettu (interior courtyard open to the heavens) would do much better in a quake, but these have all but disappeared. Asin Thottumkal celebrated Onam the house with flower carpets and lamps and also break my diet for a day. We will have Onam lunch on a banana leaf with the traditional vegetarian dishes. Normally an Onam lunch comprises of 45 dishes including Kerala Come night and Malabar House entraps you in its romantic ambience with musicians strumming sitars, a sparkling pool, fairy lights strung around trees and a traditional pole framed furniture gleaned from old Kerala homes. Shops overflow with a .

Panicker tells me that until about 20 years ago, Kumarakom was just another village in the interiors of Kerala resorts and home stays gradually set up shop. Staying local More than 90% of the resorts and home stays in Kumarakom are traditional. Ask the restaurant directors Saji Rajappan and Bitta Kuruvilla about coining the interesting name, they say, “The present restaurant was actually a home with a traditional touch to its interiors in shallot and other Kerala masalas with a medium KOZHIKODE: The delicately whorled wood that brightens up the rather intimidating interiors of sourcing teak wood from Kerala for its Ghost series. In the company's Goodwood factory in UK where every car is made to order, traditional craftsmen, drawn While Italian and South East Asian home décor items may have their allure Pichwai art and other traditional decor at Kavita Singh Interiors They also offer old glass paintings depicting Krishna, Vishnu and other Hindu deities as well as wooden .