We design and build the insides of homes, offices, cafés and shops the way we draw buildings: every room detailed to the millimetre, built by craftspeople from nearby, in materials from within two hundred kilometres.
Every cupboard, shelf and counter is drawn at 1:5 before a sheet is cut: the timber, the hinge, the runner, and the 3 mm gap between two drawer fronts. A detail that has to be worked out on site with a tape has already gone wrong.
We draw where the noon sun falls in May and in December before placing a single light point. Then each fitting is drawn to its task — 2700 K over the table, 3000 K at the counter — on a switch you can find in the dark.
The teak, stone, brass and cloth come from within a day's drive of the studio, and so do the people who work them. The one exception is cane, and the drawing says so.
Furniture plans at 1:50 for every room, measured from the room as it was built, not from the brochure.
Kitchens, wardrobes, beds and shelving, drawn at 1:5 and made by carpenters we have worked with since 2016.
A ceiling plan with every light point, switch and socket, checked against where the furniture will actually stand.
Stone, timber, plaster and cloth chosen from samples you take home, each with its source and its price.
Pieces made to order in teak, cane and Sankheda lacquer, or found, restored and placed.
Walls moved, bathrooms rebuilt and wiring replaced, including in homes where people are still living.
The drawings are the same either way. What changes is who builds from them, and who answers for it.
Drawings, specifications and site visits. Your contractor builds.
Turnkey: our crews and vendors, one contract, one schedule.
Flats and bungalows, new or lived in, across Lucknow.
Offices and studios for ten to sixty people, planned around how the work moves through the room.
Rooms to eat and wait in, with the kitchen drawn alongside the cook who will work in it.
Small shops where the goods are handled before they are bought: cloth, books, brass, food.
Every room measured and drawn at 1:50, the existing wiring and plumbing surveyed, and your brief written down in your words.
10%billed
Furniture layouts, every wall drawn as an elevation, and 3D views of each room from where you will stand in it. Two rounds of changes.
15%billed
A sample box to take home: each stone, veneer, handle and cloth, with its source and its price.
5%billed
Walls moved, waterproofing ponded for 48 hours before tiling, floors laid, and the ceiling framed with every light point marked before it is boarded.
15%billed
One drawer built full size for you to open, then the kitchen, wardrobes and shelving, made in the workshop and fitted on site.
25%billed
Wiring on its own circuits, every switch where the furniture plan puts it, and each fitting hung and aimed.
10%billed
Plaster or paint in three coats, stone polished, and every hinge, runner and handle adjusted.
12%billed
Furniture placed, curtains hung, a deep clean, the as-built drawings, and the warranty in writing.
8%billed
Weeks are typical for a three-bedroom flat of about 1,500 sq ft built by our crews. Each stage is invoiced when it is finished, at its share of the contract, so you never pay ahead of the work.
Drawn as a legend: each swatch carries the hatch our drawings use for it. Distances are from the studio, on the same 0–350 km scale as every project sheet; past our 200 km line, a material is redlined.
Pol houses being rebuilt in the walled city
4 km
Cast and turned in Kansara Pol
5 km
Kilns at Sanand
32 km
Handspun and woven in Dholka
48 km
Lime burnt at Khambhat, slaked on site
92 km
Quarries at Dhrangadhra
108 km
Cast on site, with marble chip from Ambaji
180 km
Woven in the walled city; the cane comes from Assam
2,100 km
Drawn to one scale, 0–350 km. The red tick is our 200 km line; anything past it is redlined, and its bar runs off the end.
Satellite, Ahmedabad
A three-bedroom flat in a 1994 block, rebuilt around one wall of reclaimed teak that holds the books, the television and the puja. The family stayed in two rooms for the first nine weeks.
Navrangpura, Ahmedabad
An office for a block-printing company, with a sample library in shallow drawers and a table long enough to unroll six metres of cloth. Built by the client's own contractor from our drawings.
Law Garden, Ahmedabad
A tea room with a terrazzo counter cast in place. The cane chairs are re-woven every second monsoon rather than replaced, by the weaver who made them.
Alkapuri, Vadodara
The Bhujodi weavers' first shop outside Kachchh. Shawls are kept flat in shallow teak drawers, so that customers open them, not the staff.
Plans are drawn from each interior's type and carpet area, all at one scale: they show the programme and the size, not the layout as built.
Two figures are agreed in writing before any work starts, and neither moves unless the brief does.
About eighteen weeks for a three-bedroom flat, from the first measurement to handover; eight to ten for a small shop. The schedule above is the one we draw for a typical flat, and yours is drawn by the end of week 3.
Yes, and we usually suggest it. Pieces you want to keep are measured in the first week and drawn into the plans; those worth restoring go to our carpenters and come back with the rest of the work.
Often, when the work can go room by room. We close off the rooms being worked on, keep a bathroom running, and agree the noisy hours with you. A new kitchen or full rewiring usually means two to four weeks away.
Five years on the carpentry and hardware we make and fit, in writing from handover: hinges, runners, shutters and joints. We come back after the first monsoon to adjust anything that has moved.
Every week, on the same day, with a written note afterwards, whichever way you work with us. On design and build, our supervisor is also on site every working day.
Yes; that is the Design commission. We draw the full set, answer your contractor's questions and check the work every week. We do not price or manage their bills.
A change is redlined on the drawings, priced and dated, and you sign it off before anyone starts on it. Nothing is changed on site on the strength of a phone call.
A floor plan or a sketch, a few photographs, the date you need to be in by, and the budget you can actually spend. We reply within five working days, and quickly if the work is not for us.