Architecture &
Interior Design
Interior — Residential
Homes, villas, and private spaces
Residential interiors, from a single room to a full private residence — considered space by space, not decorated at the end.
Spaces we shape
Room by room
Selected homes
Fifteen homes, fifteen different problems
A flat that stored the vacuum cleaner in a bedroom. A kitchen that could not take real cooking. A ground floor that turned every monsoon into mould. These are the ones worth writing down.
The Two-Bedroom That Stopped Feeling Small
Seven hundred and eighty square feet, a couple, and a baby arriving in four months. Nothing was wrong with the flat except that every object in it lived in a bedroom. We gave the whole place one continuous wall of storage and got the bedrooms back.
A Home Built Around Nine Hundred Books
The books had been in cartons for two years because there was nowhere to put them that would not destroy them. Chennai humidity and a stack of paper are not friends. The shelving came first and the rest of the flat was planned around it.
A Kitchen for Someone Who Actually Cooks
The previous kitchen had been bought as a package and photographed beautifully. It had nowhere to put a wet grinder, no counter deep enough for a dosa tawa and a vessel at once, and an extractor that gave up during sambar.
The Side of the Flat That Never Got Light
Two north-facing bedrooms that stayed dim from morning to evening, which a previous owner had responded to by painting them a deep charcoal. We could not add a window, so we worked on everything else.
A First Flat, On A First Flat’s Budget
A first home bought with everything the buyer had, and a fit-out budget of what was left over. Spreading it evenly would have made the whole flat look cheap. We spent almost all of it in two places.
A House Two Dogs Also Live In
Two large dogs, a beach five minutes away, and a floor that had been chosen without either of those facts in mind. Sand, water and claws had beaten it inside a year.
Sea Air, Six Hundred Metres In
Close enough to the beach to be worth the rent, close enough that the previous fit-out had failed in three years — hinges seized, veneer lifting off the doors. We rebuilt it in materials that treat salt air as the default condition rather than an unlucky season.
A Rental They Could Undo
Three-year lease, a landlord who had put drilling restrictions in writing, and tenants who still wanted the flat to feel like theirs. Everything we did can come out in a weekend and leave the walls as we found them.
Finishes That Survive Three Children
The last interior was eighteen months old and looked five years old. Everything had been specified for how it looked on handover day rather than for a household with three children under nine.
Downsizing Without Losing the House
Moving from a house they had lived in for thirty-one years into a flat a third the size. The hard part was never the layout. It was working out which forty objects were actually the house.
One Kitchen, Two Families
Two brothers, two families, one flat, and a kitchen designed for a single cook. The friction was never about the cooking. It was two people needing the sink at the same time, every evening.
A Ground Floor and Ten Weeks of Rain
Ground floor, marshland behind, and black mould discovered behind a wardrobe that had been flat against an external wall since the flat was handed over. The interior had to stop trapping what the building lets in.
Keeping What the Old Flat Already Got Right
A 1970s flat with a red oxide floor and teak windows, and a family who had been told the modern thing to do was rip all of it out. We restored the floor and the joinery, and spent the budget on the two rooms that genuinely needed replacing.
A Study That Was Not There Before
Two people on video calls in a two-bedroom flat, with the second bedroom already spoken for. We took five feet by seven out of the main bedroom and made it a room with its own door.
The Staircase That Ate the Living Room
A duplex whose solid masonry staircase sat in the middle of the living area and blocked both the light and the only sensible furniture layout. It could not move. It could stop being a wall.
How we approach a home
A home is not a showroom.It gets lived in on a Tuesday,with the washing outand the shoes by the door.
We design for that version of it. The version that photographs well tends to look after itself.
What's included
Space planning
Working out how a home is actually used before deciding how it looks.
Material selection
Finishes chosen for how they age in this climate, not just how they photograph.
Custom furniture
Pieces designed for the room they sit in, where off-the-shelf falls short.
Lighting design
Layered lighting for how a space is used at different hours, not one ceiling fixture.
Soft furnishings
Textiles, upholstery, and drapery specified alongside the furniture, not after it.
Styling & handover
The last details resolved and the space handed over ready to live in.