Rental Revamp: An Architect and an Engineer’s Netherlands Home Was Designed to Soothe

Some people ascribe their personalities to enneagrams or Myers-Briggs acronyms, but Netherlands-based architect and interior designer Malak Mehta thinks you can learn a lot about someone based on their home. Her practice, The Mindful Scapes, is based on the idea that your environment should mirror your innermost self.

"I feel that we reflect ourselves in our surroundings, whether it’s your home or your backyard," Malak explains. She thinks that even an office space, in its chaos or fastidiousness, sheds light on how you express yourself and self-soothe. 

Malak’s own home in Eindhoven has been an experiment in how to merge two very separate lifestyles: those of herself and her partner, a mechanical engineer named Aditya Balasubramanian. He’s a gamer who’s happiest in the front of the TV, while Malak enjoys observing the outdoors from her vantage point at the dining room table.