Curio cottage

1. The actor, who loves scouring flea markets, chanced upon this colourful hammock in Goa and snapped it up for her veranda. 2. White lends an illusion of space to the tiny pad. Multi-hued cushions and freshly-cut heliconias, courtesy a friendly neighbour, add colour. 3. Mukerji especially likes this old photograph of her mom. 4. The vajra, used in Buddhist meditation, was bought for its aesthetic value, with no idea of its actual use. 5. The veranda looks right into the living room and serves as an alternative seating arrangement. Mukerji has restored the furniture and given it a fresh lease of life with lilac cushions. The tabletop was created by fixing leftover bathroom tiles on to an old, spare wooden frame.

Mukerji has personalized the antiques around the house. An old frame, for example, was fashioned into a coffee table for the veranda while leftover bathroom tiles were used to furnish the top. “I love taking something that’s old and dying and not so pretty and reworking it," says Mukerji.

True to her personality, Mukerji loves bursts of colour at home. While the living room has bright yellow light fittings and a smattering of fuchsia, blue and metallic cushions, the turquoise-tiled tabletop—she chanced upon it in a shop in Ooty during the shoot of Tango Charlie and coaxed her mom, actor Tanuja, into buying it for her—adds to the old-world charm. The solitary bedroom houses period furniture from her mom’s Kolkata house and every nook is filled with flea market finds such as lamps from Chor Bazaar and brass figures from street shops.

Photographs by Dabboo Ratnani; Styled by Ragini Singh and Manisha D Ratnani; Make-up: Pravin Banker; Hair: Roshan Banker

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