A 125-year-old house, built in the traditional typology of sloping roofs with timber construction and clay tiles, and brick masonry in lime mortar, is situated within a vadi (orchard), approximately 800 metres from the seashore at Tithal, near Valsad in South Gujarat.

Mrs. Vithlani, being a tree lover, did not believe in cutting a single branch of a plant or tree.

To conserve, stabilize, renovate, and demolish incongruent haphazard additions and recycle all materials. Extensions to meet new needs in a contextual manner in the densely grown farm preserving every branch, plant and tree; and incorporating them in buildings if unavoidable.

The old haphazard additions were fortunately built in bricks, lime and wood hense we could salvage and re-use in all ancillary structures. Settled floors, were opened up, re-done using the old materials, adding minimum new materials as required, woodwork was replaced where required, removed layers of paint and polished to show the beautiful Valsadi Teak.

Restoration, renovation and extension was carried out preserving about 950 fully grown trees, of which 274 were in close proximity to the house. Approximately, 10 large plants and 5 trees had to be cut and the rest were saved and incorporated within the house creating courtyards, and sometimes even taking their branches through the roofs. The furniture and fixtures were mostly custom designed and some sourced and executed, in congruence with the colonial style of the Bunga