Indian Modern Theme Home: lifting up the nostalgia
Indian ornament placed on a contemporary plan reads as costume unless the plan asks for it. Where the two actually meet, and where they only appear to.
6 minNotes on drawing and building.
Written by the people doing the work, mostly about decisions that are cheap to make early and expensive to make late.
Five black bedrooms, and what makes them work
Black absorbs everything, including the detail you spent the budget on. What has to be true about the lighting before a dark room is a good idea.
5 minPlanning a pooja room that the house is built around
Orientation, threshold, storage and light. A prayer room is one of the few spaces in an Indian home with real rules, and they are worth designing to.
7 minSharma’s Residence: where the plan did the work
A walk through one project from first section to handover, and the three decisions that set everything after them.
8 minWardrobe layout, measured properly
Hanging heights, drawer depths, shoe runs and the circulation you need in front of an open door. Dimensions, not mood.
6 minWhen bespoke furniture is worth it, and when it is not
A curved wall will not take a standard sofa. Beyond that, custom joinery is a cost decision like any other — here is how we make it.
5 minThe powder room: small, and the most looked-at room in the house
Guests use exactly one room unaccompanied. It is the cheapest square metre to be ambitious in and the easiest to get wrong.
4 minBedrooms: start with the bed wall, then the light
The headboard wall decides the room. Once it is set, everything else — storage, circulation, switching — resolves almost on its own.
6 minAir conditioning, planned at drawing stage
Ducts, drops and grilles decided after the ceiling is designed is how a good ceiling gets ruined. Coordinate it on the section instead.
7 minFive questions to ask before you appoint anyone
Including the two that most firms would rather you did not ask: who supervises the site, and who carries the risk if the number moves.
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