On having moved back from Chennai to their hometown Belgaum, due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2019 a young couple in their late forties felt the need to have a quirky, green filled and out of the box work space for themselves which also would double up as a unique boutique place for plants and planters. While the couple dusted their old home, they questioned the possibility a load bearing modernist bungalow with teak wood windows and mosaic flooring turn into a studio space for work and leisure clubbed with a start-up business for curated plats and planters, one like the city had never seen before. Midori, an exclusive boutique store for plants and planters derives its name from a Japanese origin meaning the colour of young green leaves. The owners of Midori approached us to renovate the first floor of their existing load bearing bungalow built in the 1960's, the challenge was to carefully eliminate the 12” thick internal walls made up of bricks, open up the service oriented areas and amalgamate all the spaces to flow into each other as one large store space with built up area of 1,100 sqft. We decided to retain and re-polish the existing mosaic floor tiles; plaster the exposed brick walls in parts (originally tiled for bathrooms) with polished green oxide finishes in parts and exposed bricks in parts. Inlay teak flooring and skirting to hide the new conduits, carpentered switch boards with exposed conduting, fabricated shelving units and tropical wallpapers, carefully restored bespoke furniture pieces have been articulated as minimum design interventions for this project. The theme of the space had to have a vibe of entering a carefully nurtured grandmother’s garden itself with seating spots at every corner for visitors to feel at home. We conceptualized contemporary clean spaces balanced with earthen finishes for all the rooms. On entering the stairway, all the walls, soffits and parapets were painted in a deep olive green colour juxtaposing a rich tropical wallpaper that flashes the logo “ Midori “. On entering the first room a central circular shelving unit is fabricated in MS plates and MS mesh finished in grey. A dark shade of blue wall divides this space with a second display room on the rear. Hear, intermediate walls were pulled down to open up tiny space into one large space, letting the exposed brick stay around as a textured wall. Another space having a bottle green lounger is camouflaged with plants and planters and a muted leaf wallpaper on the background. This space looks into the entrance room adding to a variety of vistas. This space also breaks open into another rustic space fished entirely in green oxide with exposed brick walls, adding a different pace to this space and yet neutralizing the entire store with a single concept, dynamic enough to create different moods under the same roof.