Our Story

how homeway living began

It all began with understanding spaces

I was just 18 when I decided to study architecture — that was back in 2013.

For over a decade now, architecture has been part of my life, teaching me structure, proportion, and how spaces make people feel.

The pull toward color and fabric followed

But somewhere along the way, I kept coming back to fabric.

Why? The answer was simple: the place I grew up. Surat, India — the city that gives the world diamonds and textiles.

If you've never been, imagine markets overflowing with color, prints, and fabric. That's just... normal life there. India, in general, has always believed in maximalism —  More color, more story, more soul in every thread. Growing up in Surat, I fell in love with fabric itself — the textures, the weight of good cotton, the way a print could change the entire feel of a room.

Meeting Jay, and moving forward together

I met Jay in 2019. His story started differently, but it was always heading the same way.

From childhood, art, décor, and history fascinated him — it showed up every where, from how he decorated his teenage bedroom to how he set up his hostel room years later. But when it came time to choose a path, he chose civil engineering, and spent ten years in construction estimating.

Jaydeep had always dreamed of moving abroad. I joined that dream. In our twenties, we moved to Toronto together.

Joining what we knew with what we loved

When we moved to Toronto, we had a real chance to explore our own dream — instead of chasing 9-to-5. So we asked ourselves the only question that mattered: what should we actually build?


The answer found us quickly. We knew how to build — that's what our careers had taught us. All that was missing was fabric, color, the richness we'd grown up with. So we decided to bring the two together — home, and fabric. We started by learning how to make printed lampshades to replace plain white ones, and that's how a home décor brand "homeway living" was born.

And falling for the beauty of imperfection

I was always drawn to art/ painting and spent a few years working in that world alongside exploring architecture.

Growing up, I always loved visiting heritage places — and one of our go-to quick getaways was Jaipur, Rajasthan, just a few miles from my hometown.

It's home to some of India's oldest and most celebrated block-printing traditions. I remember watching the artisans there work — carving each wooden block by hand, stamping pattern after pattern with a quiet precision passed down through generations. There was something about it that stopped me. No two prints ever landed exactly the same.

That imperfection within the perfection — that rustic, human hand behind every stamp — felt like magic to me. It wasn't manufactured. It was made.

And I knew I'd found the missing half of what I wanted to build.

One Thread

What we love falls into one thread. That's how homeway living began — space and fabric, structure and story, coming together the way a block meets fabric: with intention, with pressure, with care.

Every piece we make carries a love for art, the experience of designing spaces and building homes, a love for fabric, and the artistic hand of Jaipur's artisans.

— Meera