Sashya Thind Fernandes at Home

“This room does not have one central focal point, so the vintage Bernhardt sofa ties it together really well,” says designer Sashya Thind Fernandes of her living room’s showstopping piece. “It fits so perfectly under the window that it feels like it was designed for it.”

Designer Sashya Thind Fernandes at home in Weston, Massachusetts.

Before her family moved in, the house was a light blue/gray; “Somehow, the architectural lines of the house were getting a bit lost in the light color,” she says.

In the living room, lush plantings reflect the landscape outside the panoramic windows.

The vintage dining table typically seats six but can accommodate up to ten for a dinner party, which Thind Fernandes loves.

ainting the kitchen’s original brick a dark black gives the room a more modern feel and accentuates a painting by Thind Fernandes’s grandmother.

The bedrooms are all located on the home’s fourth floor and exit to a walkway that Thind Fernandes dressed up with a sculptural arrangement of branches that pops against the wood-clad walls.

Updating a Mid-Century Home in Weston

For designer Sashya Thind Fernandes, design isn’t just a profession—it’s an inheritance. Her grandmother is an artist and interior designer, and her mother is a practicing architect. Thind Fernandes herself has carried that lineage forward in her own family’s Weston, Massachusetts, home, where a piece by her grandmother hangs proudly on the kitchen’s brick wall. “She loves to create paintings while she’s here,” the designer says. The canvas stands sentry, as if proof that artistic vision runs in the family.

Built in 1968, the four-story prefab house belongs to a period that Thind Fernandes has long admired. “I was always drawn to the era of prefab homes, back in the sixties and seventies,” she says. “The key aspects are the large spans of glass and the way they are built very efficiently and sited beautifully.” Set on two lush acres that abut conservation land, her own home maximizes nature’s rhythms.

“There’s a lot of tree foliage and coverage that eliminates heat gain in the summer while providing ample heat gain in the winter through the large glass windows when the leaves fall,” says Thind Fernandes, who shares the house with her husband, two kids, and their dog, Saffron. “So it’s a really thoughtful, well-designed home.”

Resolving the Home’s Layout

Still, it didn’t always feel right. When Thind Fernandes and her family moved in, the bones were solid but the layout decidedly awkward: the previous owner, a doctor, had turned the first floor into a warren of offices and hallways. Thind Fernandes reimagined it as a guest bedroom, bath, and family room, and, crucially, gave it access to the yard.

Upstairs, interiors reflect her instinct for both restraint and boldness. In the living room, a snaking vintage Bernhardt sofa anchors the soaring space. Other decisions were even braver, including painting the home’s exterior dark purple to highlight its geometry and coating the kitchen’s brick wall in an inky shade. In that same space, she also honed the island’s forest green emperador marble top to a matte finish, “so it made the green hue feel more like soapstone.”

And everywhere, she has embraced the salve that nature provides. Take the fourth-floor walkway, where a flurry of branches stands in an oversized ceramic urn. “I wanted to punctuate that hallway because that’s what you see when you wake up in the morning,” she says. “It’s nice to have an inspirational moment there.”

Project Team
Interior design: Sashya Thind
Builder: Brite Builders