We hear housewarming!

Textures of curiosity: Find a piece of your home at Housewarming in Mumbai

25 Aug 2025

Remember the last time a retail store felt like home? Layered visuals, enrapturing lights, familiar textures and the thrill of finding something new — the way we experience our homes is changing. And so is the experience of making it. Entering the new home furnishings boutique, Housewarming, in Mumbai echoed a similar thought packed with a sumptuous, tactile edge. “We want to revive the romance of the fast-fading, offline retail experience,” co-founder Nirav Meswani declares as we stand inside the retail studio, a curated and equally mesmeric-looking space designed by Sanjyt Syngh.

Tucked on the gleaming main street of Santa Cruz, the brand’s celebratory name bridges one’s living space with the vast moodboard of fabrics; a gentle nudge to bring the rested feeling of housewarming home through textures and colours.

Bouquet of textures

Oscillating confidently between part showroom, part gallery and part atelier, the 2,500 sq ft space rises as a delectable fragment of interior designer Sanjyt Syngh’s imagination. Housewarming, though etched into retail and experience, he says is also a study in spatial storytelling. This thought resounds around as I navigate the showroom through its jewel oxblood-toned entry passage, unaware of what comes next.

The stride soon leads into an almost all-white luminous setting reminiscent of classical European details like sculptural mouldings and decorative wallpapers informed with the depth of diverse expressions — all underpinned with an encyclopaedia of fabrics, wall coverings, upholstery, customised bedding and textile solutions laid out on the fore.

But for a space that dedicates its multifold layers to the beauty and utility of textiles, how does the showroom assemble its offerings? Is it driven by trends, demand or a source of inspiration? Nirav answers, “In terms of product curation, we really like to believe that we are design agnostic. We would like the client, whose space it is, and the designer whose vision the space is, to be the judge of the look they want.”

Standing amidst Housewarming feels like a slow gush of ideas that start taking an intentional, material shape; furnishings being at the heart of it. Textures, colours and motifs become a routine part of it all. As Sanjyt reflects about the showroom, too, “Deep, dramatic hues juxtaposed with stark whites and bold accents evoke the confidence of couture fashion.” And that may as well be the home of today. Bespoke like couture and novel like each stitch that wears it together.