The brief was the griha pravesh moment without literalism: a home reduced to a domed shrine with a lamp on a kalash, a single modern house key laid on the chowki as the one contemporary cue, and a receding path of footprints walking up to the door. We held the fill near half so the geru ground reads as the open floor of a just-cleaned house, the path drawing the eye inward the way Aipan footprints always do. In Kumaon the threshold welcome is the heart of the practice, and moving in is exactly when a family draws it — so the footprints, the kalash lamp, and the flanking plants are the tradition's housewarming vocabulary, with the key the only new word. The paisley and vine margins keep the scene composed. White biswar on geru, no second colour.