It gives me an immense pleasure to introduce her to all of you. Pinky's blog is a visual treat to the eyes, filled with creativity, home decor ideas, party decor and entertaining ideas, travel and much more. Pinkz Passion is now one of my favorite blog. I find her writing very easy to read and from the heart , beautiful photography, inspirational decor ideas, pretty vignettes and can feel that she pours her heart in to everything she does.
I am going to let her take over as she takes us on the tour of her pride and joy :)
We, the Shah’s (Pinky - a graduate of Business Administration/ Ajay – an engineer /Pushti – A tough and fastidious daughter/Prayag – a pre-teen boy and a baby of the house) revel in our fairly new (2 years old) built backing into ravine home here in Toronto.
A bit of team work, bunch of our own gut
feelings and a happy mix of new contemporary and few old classic pieces tot up our
dream world. My design mantra is not strict or stuck on any fixed fundas, thus
still struggling to compose an exact style of decoration. We both are house
proud and, “our home is our pride!” Our home is filled with the layers of our
own personalities! Many treasured collectibles are waiting to lease on life for
a perfect corner, room or wall in new home. Some specially handpicked and bulky
brass collectibles from my husband’s travel are still on mission to fit in the
home.
Just a year before the stroke of a
millennium year, our migration took place to Canada, spending few years in
Africa. Switching home from a rented apartment after 3 years to a brand new
home for 12 years, we felt a desire to displace. It undoubtedly turned out to
be a pleasurable, startling and thrilling endeavour for us to relocate this
being our third home in Canada. With tons of ideas packed in our mind for this
big move, we gleefully grabbed the freedom of few structural modifications as
per our taste.
Spending 12 big years in a home where
bright cinnamon red and tulip pink were bathed excessively, we decided to go
with neutral walls for new home where we can play around adding other colourful
accents.
The striking foyer, open to above ceiling and curved stair cases in the builder’s plan enthralled both of us to endorse this home.
The elephant is prepared out of an intricate inlaid marble work; two ledges on stairs were perfect to place both of them.
Entrance
ways welcomes an open foyer festooned by our daughter’s bold colored Ganesha paintings.
It adds a mystical drama and a spurt of
color to the space. The wall is an absolute stunner, where every visitor
pauses for a minute before entering the home.
Fully functional and custom made laundry room happens to be an alternative entrance from our garage, and often doubles up as a mud room. Oodles of laundry gets taken care with that granite top with ease.
Living Room: Rich, sumptuous and lightly indulgent peacock colour is grounded with some other coffee and black colour to get an exotic flavour in our living room. Taking inspirations from the plumage of the peacock fire screen itself, some golden touches completes the palette in the room. As an alternative of regular couches and giant store fittings, the room is infused with Pier 1, and Home Goods uniqueness. Hence I pompously endorse this room as a fusion of traditional and modern flair.
I always favour incorporating a little breathing in a room rather than overwhelming a place. It lets you better appreciate the merits of each piece.
Our Ganesha collections over the period of
16+ years are the best candidates for putting our personal stamp in our living
room. My husband’s exceptionally astute eye for traditional and exclusive finds
through his travel to distance part of the world has led to an exquisite
collection of Ganesha. Our proud crew of Ganesha strongly gain swaying imprint
on our guests. Occasionally, with a glint of change in my
mind, I take pleasure of transiting them in different corners of our home.
Our family room is our chill out zone. Lots
of family activities take place in this room so, no surprise; it ends up
jumbled and topsy-turvy at times. Functional and laid-back style is maintained
for our everyday living recapitulated as our Family room. Generous size of couch (can also be reformed
as sectional) is often turned into a day bed when I slink away with a book
after a busy day. Ottomans are detachable and can be quickly called into
service to double the capacity in the room or as a coffee table to set ones
drink.
Banks of windows bring the outdoors in by showcasing great view of our backyard. The doze of brick was not adequate for me in only powder room and I went wild with the bricks creating an accent wall in a family room as well. Now that upshot has turned this room into one of the signature room of our home.
Family portraits being the center of attraction in this room, doubles the drama. Picturesque family fall portraits are captured within our backyard.
Structural home plan offered 2 sided fire
place in 2 main rooms: Living & Family, bearing in mind the need for us
Torontonians to snuggle to it as close as possible on those frigid winter
evenings. I took the liberty of dressing
both the fireplaces with handsome fire screens.
We are truly blessed living in the laps of mother-nature
at the first trace of dawn and last mark of dusk. Impressed enough by the beauty of backyard,
my daunting thought about residing by the ravine lot was easily solved.
Wow...Pinky I can not believe how far you have come with the house in just 2 years. I am sure our readers will enjoy and get tons of inspirations from this amazing home tour. Do not forget to check out Pinky's blog Pinkz Passion and Like her Facebook page to keep getting beautiful inspirations.
Thanks you so much Pinky!!
Images: all images are provided by Pinkz Passion.
