Just eight days into her brand new venture, 27 year-old product designer Tarana Sheth seems strangely relaxed. She has just returned from a hunting expedition through Bhulwada lane, a marketing trip that, we deduce, has either been extremely therapeutic or just plain exhausting. We’re inclined to guess it’s the former, as Sheth animatedly tells us how she routinely scans markets for interesting finds. In fact, the sparkling white door she’s leaning against was rescued from Chor Bazaar and revived with a coat of paint, we learn, as Sheth played decorator cum carpenter cum painter over the months it took her to painstakingly put this quaint little place together, nail by nail.

Tarana Sheth bought this white door from Crawford Market and painted it afresh