Born in Agra coupled with a daily walk to the ever inspirational Taj Mahal compelled her to select a profession diagrammatically opposite to her maternal family of doctors and hence she went on to pursue her Bachelors of Architecture from Lucknow in 1988. Married in a family of architects which brought her to Chandigarh, another architectural inspiration by the late Le Corbusier, a need arose to carve out a niche between the two renowned architects present in her in laws family. Hence, the focus on interior projects ameliorated for which Purnima even went on to do a course in Vaastu and another one in construction management.
Currently handling projects in Agra, Jaipur, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Panchkula and Ludhiana whether it was by force that she went into interior “ Interior designing is something which came to her naturally. It is a flair which either is present or is not present. Whenever she has done any project - even if it is not related to interiors she has always thought from inside to outside. For her designing has been from part to whole”. She does all kind of projects - architectural to interiors, though because of the fact that she belongs to a family of medical fraternity, she holds a special corner for designing hospitals as she believes that she can comprehend their needs much better.
Elaborating on her approach to design she says “she gives a lot of weight age to whatever her clients desires especially in interiors. She first lends an ear totally to whatever the client wants to talk since she feels he/she has put in a lot of dream and money into it. For her, the end users have to be totally satisfied.