Inside Sonam Kapoor’s Stunning Mumbai Home

Hi AD, this is Sonam, and welcome to my Mumbai home.

Come on in.

Actually, welcome back.

This is the second time we're doing this.

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So this is my little meeting room, my desk.

It doesn't usually have these kind of flowers and all on it,

but I obviously did up my room and my house a little bit

'cause you guys are like,

coming and I just want it to look nice.

And you see those glass paintings?

These are all like when China was trading

with the Mogul rulers at that point,

they used to come and do these little

Chinese glass paintings of the Moguls.

Very few queens and princesses were painted

and these are all the Chinese glass paintings

that I have of that time,

which I thought was really beautiful.

This is a pichhwai.

The pichhwais is a craft that is in India,

which I'm sure everybody knows about,

and this is all painted on a fabric.

So everything that I have in this house

is kind of collected over time

and I don't wanna spend too much time in each room

'cause I can go on and on talking about the room.

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So welcome to my living room.

This is where I do the most entertaining

and hanging out and where all my friends come.

This is one of my favorite rooms that I've ever lived in.

It's everything, it's like all my fantasies come to life.

The reason I went so Indian and so maximalist,

I just wanted a lot of layers

was because this was a very new building.

I just got really overwhelmed by coming

to this like, very modern building and I was like,

how do I make it like, nostalgic to who I am?

And I just went mad.

Every wall over here is hand painted.

So it's very rare to find like,

double-height ceilings in flats in Mumbai

and I was like, really lucky to have this.

We bought these Naga pieces which added

the drama and accentuated these ceilings a lot,

and this is a piece of art that makes me really proud.

This is a jamawar shawl.

It's very, very old, this was gifted to me by my mother.

I use it as a throw and sometimes when I'm cold,

I pick it up and I put it around me.

It's like the ultimate luxury.

That's my bar where all the fun stuff happens.

Do you guys want a drink in the middle of the day?

Okay.

This is actually an old Indian balti,

or in translation, it's a bucket.

These baltis are used to like, basically have a bath with.

So I use it as a was in the house and I kind of love it.

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I love hosting and feeding people.

I think it's like, the North Indian in me

who likes to just like, I love feeding people,

I love having people over.

This was something that I've always wanted

in every home where the dining and the kitchen

is always like a big focus of mine,

so it's always amazing.

This is my little safari box.

Every time after a meal we like, pass this around.

The one thing that I love about this room

are the artifacts and the art.

These are old tablets of Ravi Varma

that they use to make the lithographs out of,

like little prints out of.

Oh! My favorite piece actually was gifted to me

by Chiki Doshi, or like everybody knows, Mahendra Doshi.

He made this for my little baby, Vayu, and I love this.

This is something which is a collectible and I love Chiki.

Should we go into the kitchen,

which is my favorite room in the whole house?

I keep saying that every room is my favorite room,

but this is truly my favorite room.

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I love coming in the kitchen a lot.

I use the kitchen a lot.

I love baking, I love cooking,

so this was something that was really important

to me where I have a beautiful space.

This room is inspired by Delft tiles.

I had this artist called Shivani.

I told her to put Indian flora and fauna and birds,

and kind of design my whole kitchen in a blue and white.

I have this little like, space that I love,

these pocket doors.

These are all bespoke and made pottery from Bangalore.

These are like, these cold [indistinct] that I got made.

Again, all hand painted and handmade

and all by Indian artisans.

Let's go upstairs into our private space,

which are our bedrooms.

Come on.

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I'm taking off my shoes because we don't wear shoes

in upstairs in the house, so I'm barefoot from now on, guys.

Like, I didn't want any part of my house

that did not have design.

These lithographs were actually made during

the time of the East India Company where they came in

and they basically drew scenes of India.

And I had Vikas take inspiration from these lithos

and kind of paint the staircase inspired by these lithos.

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So welcome to my guest bedroom.

I did this with my mother-in-law in mind

because she grew up in Ajmer

and I wanted her to remember that.

So I have these pomegranates

and she can think about her home there.

But like this is a guest room where my friends stay

or my in-laws stay when they come to Mumbai.

I wanna talk about this chest.

This is basically for a desk.

It's a writing chest and I keep it open

'cause it's so beautiful inside,

and it has this little key that makes a little bell sound,

which I think is beautiful.

But this is just like a showpiece right now,

which I have in this room and I love it.

Do you wanna go into my son's room?

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So this room was designed by Anusha Nanavati

who specializes in children's rooms.

So I decided to do this whole room as a jungle in color,

and this is painted by Vikas,

and everything is made of teak wood and cane.

I knew when I was making his room,

I wanted to get these like, big animals.

And I picked up like, this lion and this giraffe,

this elephant, this like, little dog,

who he calls Jack who was my mom's dog, is Jack.

And every night when he sleeps he's like,

Goodnight giraffe, goodnight elephant,

goodnight lion, goodnight Jack.

And he sits on that chair,

which is this like, little tiny chair,

which my friend Roshar actually designed for him,

and it says Vayu on it.

So the last space is my bedroom.

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When we were thinking of designing this house,

I remember sending my masi.

It was in an old AD, it was shared bedroom.

In her bedroom, she had this like,

beautiful old jaroka as her headboard.

And we kind of used that as a focal point of this room

and we started with this headboard.

And then the rest of the jaroka

is to cover my TV 'cause I don't like to see TVs.

So we shut them before we go to sleep,

so there's a television behind that.

My gorgeous dressing table is over here.

When my son falls asleep, I quickly have my dinner

and I just go into my bed, after obviously

a hot shower and just relax.

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Whatever I know about art, whatever I know

about artifacts is because of my masi, yeah.

Her only brief was to me, I want layer over layers.

And I kept saying, No, we can't do this.

No, but we can't do this.

And she said, No, we can do this and you will do this.

I'm not going to live here, she's going to live here,

so she should be comfortable in her own space.

This is not my house, it's her house.

I'm only there as a medium.

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So thank you for coming home, AD,

and I'm so glad I could show you around,

and I hope you enjoyed my home.

Do you wanna have a cup of tea now?

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