Owning and designing an artistic holiday home has long been a dream for Shalini. She lives in a semi-detached house in the Mill Fields area of Sheffield with her husband, Sameer, who is a buy-to-let property developer in Sheffield, their eight-year-old son, Samay, and their two cats.
She found the chapel in July last year. “As soon as I saw it from the outside, the beautiful church windows and the inscriptions on the bricks next to the entrance, I immediately felt this is something special.Dr Shalini Vohra at The Chapel of Art, the converted chapel that she has transformed with art and colour.
“When it was converted to a private home in 1996, they managed to retain a lot of the original features, and that is what really drew me to the property.”She got the keys in March. There was nothing structural to do and the house was in a good condition. “But I wanted to breathe colour and art into the property,” she says. “It was a blank canvas.
The Van Gogh inspired room, the master bedroom with ensuite, with prints of Sunflowers and Irises, and Little Greene’s Deep Space Blue and Yellow Pink for the walls. Picture by Charlotte Hedgecock There is a lower ground floor, which has a sauna and a large space that Shalini has turned into a cinema room. Outside there is a small garden area at the front and a larger paved area to the side with a hot tub, Tiki bar and garden seating. “We are lucky to have sheep for our neighbours,” she says.