Dr Simon’s father in law who retired from services as the Deputy Chairman of Cochin Port Trust settled down in his ancestoral plantation which is 10kms before you reach Munnar town. On family trips up the moutains; Simon had the chance to explorethese area around and fell in love with the landscape. It was by chance that when he parted with his rubber plantations that this property in Munnar was up for sale, although discouraged by family and friends for the poor condition of plantation, he took it up for love of the location.Travelling up and down from Kochi to Munnar, every weekend, Dr Simon invested thought and imagination in every little corner and object that today occupies the estate—down to every hook, lampshade, tile and curtain. Using ironwood, red cedar, teak, jackfruit wood and a local variety of wood, known as korungatti , he and his team of masons and carpenters to erect a space that was unlike any other in the values that it upheld. The rooms didn’t happen all at the same time but came up in slow batches spread over a decade.