Gauri Khan has gotten back to rendering her forefathers’ villa at Dalhousie and launched as a luxury haven named The Chestnut Grove. The six-bedroom Greater Kasauli Estate was raised in almost 8,000 sq ft; and it belonged to her maternal uncle, Tejinder Tiwari.fake_path. Her great grandpa Suraj Bhan Tiwari bought in the said land in 1933, hence, blending family memory with boutique hospitality. This was Gauri Khan’s personal project of respect employed to bring back her childhood memories; she had spent a lot of vacation time at the house with her cousins and other extended family, and that first impression set the tone for restoration work.
Own cousin Rustam Tiwari considers the house a shared familial heirloom informing the eventual spaces created. The emotional attachment to the house influenced all initial material selections and how the spaces were carved out.
“Activity’s more important than speech. You have to experience what you’re designing,” Gauri said.
GUEST ROOMS AND SPECIAL FEATURES
The villa comes with six spacious suite-style bedrooms, including private garden rooms, a king suite, and an attic suite. Each room offers a unique experience yet maintains a unified design language.
Community spaces have been designed and laid out with large gatherings as well as quiet reflections in mind. The living room offers views of the surrounding pines, while the dining space attracts maximum natural light, giving it a radiant effect all year round.
Stone and wood mix with some modern amenities upon giving the retreat a feel reminiscent of hill-stations. A high bench overall give their very lot of clear skies and huge windows constitute wonderful sights that smooth socializing and family-oriented service further.
From Family Hold to Luxury Retreat
Operated today as a boutique all-suite property, The Chestnut Grove captures a more exclusive rental market, especially caters to families and groups looking for privacy, comfort, heritage stay among brethren of the old-world hills as opposed to a standard hotel experience.
The property maintains an emotional thread woven into its fabric while yielding to a few internal innovations for the good life; guests who may choose to have grand occasions, pursue peace away from it all, or travel with their children will always feel more than welcome at the villa.
Booking, Price, and Guest Experience
The room rates are modest variable during the different seasons and within the range of INR 15,000 to INR 25,000. Those who can afford to have some privacy can reserve the complete villa for nearly INR 1.2 lakh a night.
The price plays only a part in what seems to bring in guests-the “home” laid out from real life, so sensible and set in its heritage ambience that it allows you to share and hold with one another in it, putting memories and thoughts before the eyes.
Gauri Khan leads the following of the rearing of an 1880 hunting lodge dating to 1933 onto a bright spot for luxury willing to maintain family inheritance along with opening doors of an accommodating home to others. The house as per this old renovation that Gauri insists on retains marks of exquisiteness in the heritage field, in Dalhousie.
