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When Shriya Saran greets you at her door with a laugh, you immediately get a sense of who she is. Friendly, spontaneous, and refreshingly honest. Her home feels the same way.
This isn’t a house designed by a team of professionals. It was built slowly, with love, by her parents. “It’s simple and sweet,” she says, looking around the space that holds pieces of her past, present, and the things she holds close. “A lot of my mom, a lot of my dad, maybe a bit of me, and a lot of my daughter now.”
Spirituality has a quiet but strong presence throughout the home. Her mother is a Krishna devotee, and paintings of Krishna and Radha appear in different forms, from Rajasthan to Tanjore. “My mom is a big Krishna bhakt, so of course you start with this beautiful painting…It’s so beautiful that these art forms still exist… It feels so precious.”
One special painting stands out—it’s something Shriya made when her daughter, Radha, was born. “Meri beti ka naam Radha hai. So when she was born, I painted this. It took months to finish… I actually forgot about it. But it’s layered, traditional, and different people worked on different parts—one did the eyes, one the colour, one the sketch. It’s a process.”
Art is a big part of this home. Shriya is proud of how rich India is in its crafts. “I love that India has so much art to offer, so most of the art that we buy and we have in the house is Indian,” she says, showing us works by local artists—Ganesh statues from Panaji, hand-painted pieces, and even a wall done by Radha’s art teacher. “He won’t even tell us how much he charges… because for him, art doesn’t have a price.”
But there are also touches of her husband Andre’s Russian roots—an old samovar tray used for tea, and porcelain that belonged to his grandfather. “This is a mix of new and old… part Germany, part Russia.”
Every corner tells a story. A Kashmiri painting made in memory of her grandmother. A doll her father gifted her when she was 25. A clock from Mexico that tells her “inner calendar.” Prayer wheels from Ladakh. Even toys and books in Radha’s room carry memories from different travels.
“This house is messy, a work in progress,” she laughs. But that’s what makes it feel real.
In a world of minimal, picture-perfect celebrity homes, Shriya’s house is full of life.
