Farmhouse living room opening onto greenery under exposed rafters

Sarjapur, Bengaluru · Farmhouse

Sarjapur Farmhouse

A farmhouse living space built around the threshold between inside and outside, where the material palette is chosen to weather rather than to stay pristine.

Design study — a resolved scheme presented as a visualisation. Not a photograph of delivered work.

Project

Location: Sarjapur, Bengaluru
Property: Farmhouse
Category: Residential
Status: Design Study
Design style: Warm rustic contemporary

Scope of work

Spatial planning
Living and dining
Custom joinery
Lighting design
Material specification

Materials & finishes

Natural stone
Solid and engineered oak
Leather
Exposed timber

The brief

A weekend house where the living space had to open completely to the land without the interior becoming a covered verandah.

The challenge

A farmhouse gets used differently from a city home — wet feet, dust, doors left open, furniture moved outside. Specify it like an apartment and it looks tired within two seasons.

The ATLUS response

Materials are selected for how they age rather than how they arrive. Stone underfoot that improves with wear, solid timber that can be sanded back, upholstery in covers that come off. Exposed rafters are left as the ceiling rather than boxed in, and the lighting is planned around them instead of fighting them.

Design concept

A farmhouse is used differently from a city home, and specifying it like an apartment is the fastest way to make it look tired. Doors get left open. Floors get wet. Furniture gets carried outside and left there. Dust arrives regardless of what anyone intends.

So the palette is chosen for how it ages rather than how it arrives. Stone underfoot that looks better worn than new. Solid timber that can be sanded back in five years instead of replaced. Upholstery in covers that come off and go in a machine. This is not a rustic aesthetic applied on top — it is a maintenance strategy that happens to look warm.

The rafters are the ceiling. Boxing them in would have bought a flat plane and lost the only piece of structure worth looking at, so the lighting is planned around them — surface-mounted between the members, wiring run in the shadow line — rather than the structure being flattened to suit the lighting.

Plate 22Living room in walnut and bouclé under warm ambient light

Stacked engineered oak flooring planks showing tongue-and-groove edges — Plate 14Engineered oak flooring, tongue-and-groove

Stacked leather swatches in tan, cream, grey and espresso — Plate 12Leather swatches in tan, cream, grey and espresso

Room by room

Living

Opening directly onto planting, under exposed rafters left as the finished ceiling.

Dining

Solid timber, sized to be moved outside when the weather allows.

Lighting

Warm, low and layered — surface-mounted between the rafters rather than recessed into them, with the wiring run in the shadow line so the structure stays legible.