Aditi Rao Hydari and Siddharth have given fans a look inside their first home together, a nearly 4,000-square-foot apartment on the 18th floor of a Chennai high-rise, wrapped in balconies and oversized windows that frame the city skyline and, in the distance, the sea.

The apartment was originally designed by architect Sruthi C Reddy, whose structure the couple loved from the start.

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To make it feel more personally theirs, they brought in designer Pavitra Rajaram, who reworked everything from wallpapers and furniture to textiles and the final styling of objects around the space.

Rajaram noted that her own instincts usually run toward blues and aquas, but working with Aditi pulled the palette toward warmer, earthier tones, a change she says she ‘leaned into it rather happily.’

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The result is a home where each room carries its own mood, one bedroom in blue, another in green, the dining room in pink, the TV room in yellow, and a dusty-rose lounge.

A long central corridor acts as the spine of the apartment, connecting the living and dining areas, kitchen, den and a bedroom on one side, with a foyer leading to the TV room, lounge and two more bedrooms on the other.

Siddharth is especially fond of this sense of flow, what he calls the home's ‘long throw.’

The couple's personalities show up everywhere in the decor, a glass chandelier and custom coffee table in the living room, a vintage Turkish runner and Japanese woodblock prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi along the passage, and in the den which doubles as an office, a bookshelf holding vinyl records, Filmfare Awards, and a handmade film projector gifted by Siddharth's mentor Kamal Haasan.

Pattern runs through nearly every room, much of it custom-made for the project. In the primary bedroom, Aditi had a clear vision from the start, a four-poster bed layered with pattern upon pattern. She admits she might not have committed to something so bold without her designer's encouragement.

To keep the boldness from overwhelming the space, Rajaram grounded the room in ivory, drawing inspiration from the Mughal-era Shalimar Bagh gardens in Srinagar.

Siddharth, for his part, says he's completely at ease with the florals covering every surface, helped along, no doubt, by the television in the room.

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Beyond the design flourishes, the home carries traces of both their histories, Aditi's Hyderabadi roots surface in modernised ikat weaves, while Siddharth's attachment to Chennai comes through in old maps, historical artwork, and motifs referencing the city's past.

As Rajaram put it, the real question guiding the design was ‘what is home?’ and Aditi's answer was simple, a home needs time to gestate.