Srimoyi Bhattacharya’s Goan home is testament to a new perspective

The last time we featured Sri’s home, the year was 2019 and the location was Panchsheel Park, New Delhi. At that time we spoke about her passion for interiors, the beautiful pieces collected over the years, her love for print and colour, her busy days filled with client meetings and team discussions (and how her home often becomes the venue for them), product launches and the lavish parties she threw. 

Six years and in a new home in Goa, much of the conversation about her love for design and décor, and her eye for layering print and colour remains the same; in its combination of showcasing her French and Bengali roots the essence of the home remains “very Sri” too. But the conversation is a lot more about the community culture of Goa, the slow hums and rhythms of village life—the bicycle bell of the poiewala’s, who gets their day started every morning, the fish-seller who arrives right after, the beautiful view of the backwaters she wakes up to every day, and the outhouse in the garden that also shape shifts as her home office.

What finally and firmly put their roots down in Goa is this home they purchased this year. Srimoyi had started remodelling the space even while she rented it out, but now it was time to do the complete makeover. “While Delhi felt big and flamboyant, bringing a lot of our various roots and cultures together, a Goan home was going to be about Goa. About the tropics, about respecting the outdoors. And when I first saw the home, I frankly was unsure about the interiors of the house, but I just fell in love with the view. It’s what really made us make the shift,” she adds.

For the first time, Sri also spent a few months thinking about what kind of life they would have in Goa. The two main concerns were schooling and medical infrastructure. “And a dear friend of mine said that you actually rarely fall sick in Goa,” she adds. All her questions were eventually answered, they found a great school for their daughter and a family doctor. “And it's lovely because they all feel very personal, they have all become friends.” Their family also grew here with two rescue dogs, besides their older furry baby Momo, now taking space on her Brigitte Singh textile covered living room couches.