India, Nov. 4 -- If you had asked me in 2010 what my design style was, I would have said minimalistic. White walls, clean lines, one striking focal point and barely any furniture. Back then, I found beauty in restraint. But life has a way of teaching you that homes are not showpieces. They are lived in, filled with memories, books, and the odd misplaced remote. I started to see the value of growing it into a space instead of trying to perfect it.

That shift began when I saw fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee's home in a magazine. It was beautifully chaotic, a masterclass in organised clutter, and it broke every rule I had followed. That was when I began to look at minimalism differently. Today, material drenching feels like the next c...