{"id":424329,"date":"2026-05-12T19:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/424329\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T19:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:06:08","slug":"traditional-indian-home-features-that-deserve-a-comeback-in-modern-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/424329\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Indian home features that deserve a comeback in modern living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intricate latticed screens \u2014 jalis \u2014 were everywhere in traditional Indian homes, especially in Rajasthan and across the Mughal-influenced north. They looked beautiful, yes. But they also filtered harsh sunlight into dappled patterns, allowed air to pass through freely, and gave the people inside a view out while limiting the view in. They were privacy screens, air filters, and light diffusers all at once, cut from stone or wood without any moving parts.<br \/>Today&#8217;s equivalent is usually a solid wall or a glass window with a heavy curtain. Neither does what jali does. A few contemporary architects are reviving jali screens in concrete, metal, and even 3D-printed versions, which is encouraging. But they&#8217;re still treated as an aesthetic choice rather than the practical climate solution they always were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Intricate latticed screens \u2014 jalis \u2014 were everywhere in traditional Indian homes, especially in Rajasthan and across the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,158894,111,139,69,217650,217652,217651,217653],"class_list":["post-424329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-indian-homes","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-old-indian-homes","tag-traditional-home-features","tag-traditional-homes","tag-traditional-indian-home-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}