Before & After: In Mumbai, an Architect Gives His Childhood Home a Renovation Guided by Memory

Architect Vineet Vora and his partner, Prachi, pull up four inches of flooring and knock down walls to connect a cherished home to a patio shaded by a 100-year-old rain tree.

After growing up in this top-floor flat in Mumbai, India, with his parents, grandparents, and brother, Vineet Vora has a lot of fond memories of the home. There were the cricket games he played down the long hallway with his cousins and next-door neighbors. There were the times he helped his mother with Diwali prep by ferrying pickles, peppers, and papadum wafers out to the terrace, where they would sit to ferment or crisp. And then there was the swing on the balcony that Vineet loved to access by jumping through the living room window. 

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Melissa Dalton
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Melissa Dalton is a freelance writer in Portland, Oregon, who has been writing for Dwell since 2017. Read more of her work about design and architecture at melissadalton.net.