Parrikh House

A minimal modern home available on rent in the Maximum City

Design principles

The house was designed keeping 4 ideas in mind.

1. Calming: Bombay is claustrophobic and just too in your face with extensive sound and visual pollution (billboards). We wanted home to be it’s opposite – low on visual impact, high on natural light and silent.

2. Functional: Each space in the house is purpose designed for activities that we spend most of our time doing – long conversations with friends and family, reading books, working on laptops, relaxing, cooking and sharing meals.

3. Efficient: As a working couple with a 2-year-old, when at home, we want to spend most of our time with our child instead of cleaning and organizing the house. The house is designed for efficiency in day to day housekeeping ops.

4. Indic: The furniture, art and wall hangings are intricately designed, earthy pieces.

Also tried maintaining the Wabi Sabi of the place by leaving behind few cracks in the flooring.

Testimonials

Location

Juhu is one of Mumbai’s upmarket, family friendly neighbourhood. The location is 5 minutes walking distance from the beach.

Hear a 11 min sound clip of the ambient sound on Sound Cloud

Walkthrough

Living Room

The living room is primarily designed as a space to host friends and family for long conversations. There are two sofas that face each other while conversing.

With Netflix, Youtube and Amazon Prime, TV is no more a need in modern households. Hence, we completely did away with the TV.

We created a small, near sound proof balcony within the hall. This is the space where one spend time with oneself reading and staring outside the window.

Passage

Bedrooms (2)

The bedrooms are designed to be spacious and full of natural light. The storage space is ideal for a professional, nuclear family of 2 and 1-2 kids.

Washrooms (2)

The washrooms have Moroccan tiles with clear, well-defined dry and wet areas.

Kitchen

Know your hosts

Hosts

Ritvvij Parrikh and Dhara Shah are co-founders of web development and visualisation agency humane.club (previously pykih). Pykih has served 90+ brands across 8 countries. Our clients include Microsoft, Oxfam India, UNDP, CEEW, ICICI Lombard, 500 Startups, 23AndMe, NarendraModi.in, etc.

Ritvvij’s family has owned and lived in this current house for over 30 years. They currently live in New Delhi.

Support Staff

Rohini has worked with the Parrikh family for over 20 years. Her phone number is 9594699507. Rohini will help you keep the house clean (mop and sweep the house and bathrooms daily).

Prem is the building’s caretaker. He has been with the building for over a decade. He will act as your local fixer – answering queries.

Local vendors we’ve relied on

Utilities

• For High Speed Internet, call Juhu Satellite at 8879975997
• To book new LPG cylinder, call Juhu Gas Service at 022-26604463
• For electricity issues, call Reliance Energy at 18002003030

Food

• For quick delivery of day to day groceries: Call SV Stores (outside lane) at 022-26245409
• For scheduled delivery of better quality groceries: Call Anant Stores (near Juhu Church) at 022-26201755
• For home delivery of vegetables and fruits: Call __ at 9820884094
• For home delivery of fresh coconut: Call Nizamuddin at 8789883029
• For home delivery of eggs: Call Kaushik at 9920403882
• For home delivery of medicines: Call Noble Chemist (open 24 hours) at 022-26249999
• If you want fresh, wholesome milk delivered everyday from a family farm in Nashik (200 km away), visit Sarda Farms
• There’s an organic farmers market setup every Sunday at Pushpa Narsee Park, Juhu (less than 2 kms away) from 9.15am to 1pm. For more details visit Sharan India’s website
• For international groceries, visit Godrej Nature’s Basket in Juhu (less than 1 km away). Think of it as a local Whole Foods.

Home Ops

• For home delivery of laundry service: Call Virendra at 9833241652
• For deep cleaning of home: Call Mahalaxmi Cleaning Services at 9930133591
• For pest control: Call Balaji Pest Control at 9920355334

Doctors

• Diagnostics Labs and Tests, visit Sunflower Labs
• Dentist, visit Signature Smiles
• Child Care hospital, visit Surya Hospital

Terms we include in the agreement

The agreement will be offline registered with the Government. The registration fee will be split between the parties.

Period

• Contract length: 24-36 month contract
• Lock-in period: 12 month
• Notice period: 2 month

Rent

• Rent Amount: Rs. 90k (Reduced from 1L)
• Rent to be paid every 2nd of each month
• Annual increment of 7%
• Last few months rent cannot be deducted from deposit

Security Deposit

• Deposit Amount: Rs. 3.5L (Reduced from 5L)
• Security deposit is cut in following cases:
• There are no damages and breakages but there is wear and tear that is visible on the walls and furniture. In such a case, typically Rs. 30,000 (Rupees Thirty Thousand Only), will be deducted from deposit.
• If the lessee shall vacate the said premises before 12 months lock-in-period then the security deposit will be forfeited by the Lessor.
• If the Lessee leaves without giving notice period, then that many month’s rent is deducted from the security deposit.

What’s included

• The living room consists of one AC, one circular dining table with six chairs, two sofas, coffee table, side table next to sofa, two fans, one shoe rack, one small cupboard.
• The balcony in the living room has two sofas and a small coffee table.
• The passage area has a marble Krishna idol, a iron bell, two copper pots, one large water vessel and one small cupboard on which is placed a 200 kilo panch dhatu (5 metal) Ganesh idol (can be removed at any point of time).
• The common washroom has a geyser, shower, basin, pot. The washroom has clear dry and wet area.
• The guest room has a bed, three wardrobes, one study table and one chair, one AC, a dressing mirror, dressing table, dressing chair and curtains.
• The master bedroom has one wardrobe, one bed, one AC, one TV table, two side tables, one dressing table, one dressing mirror and one dressing chair and curtains.
• The master washroom has a geyser, shower, basin, pot. The washroom has clear dry and wet area.
• The kitchen has a fridge, water purifier, stove, washing machine, microwave and exhaust fan.
• Our maid Rohini will come to maintain the furniture, washroom fixtures, and antiques twice a week. You agree not to give any personal cleaning work to her. You agree to give her entry into the house twice a week for cleaning. We can cancel this at any time.