Interior design
Interior design and execution for homes, offices and hospitality
Most of our work is interiors, and most interiors are won or lost at the planning stage — before a single finish is chosen.
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Planning first, finishes last
The questions that decide whether a space works are unglamorous: where does the morning crowd stand, which door swings into which path, where does everything live when it is not being used, and what happens in this room at its busiest half hour. Finishes are chosen after those are answered. Reverse the order and you get a room that photographs well and frustrates the people in it.
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Storage is a design problem
In compact homes — and most homes in Bhubaneswar are compact by the standards the furniture industry designs for — storage bought after handover is what makes a house feel small. Designed in from the start, taken to full height and built into the depth of walls, the same volume disappears into the architecture.
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Lighting does more than any other single decision
One fixture in the middle of a ceiling flattens a room and puts shadows on faces. A warm general layer, task light where people actually read, cook and work, and a little light on the vertical surfaces will make a modest room feel considerably better than an expensive palette will. It is also one of the cheapest things to get right and one of the most disruptive to fix later.
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Design only, or design and execution
We work both ways. A design-only commission gives you a drawing set detailed enough for your own contractor to build from — that is how the Mahalaxmi Promoters office at Phulnakhara was delivered. Where we also execute, the detailing survives contact with the site, because the people holding the tolerances are the people who drew them.
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Commercial interiors have a second client
A café, clinic, hotel or office is judged by customers as well as by the owner. Flow, acoustics, durability under daily cleaning and the way the space reads in a photograph are all commercial decisions, not decorative ones, and we treat them that way.
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Requirement study
How the space will be used, by whom, and at what times of day.
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Space planning
Layout options tested against circulation, storage and the busiest hour.
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Design and visualisation
The agreed plan developed into a scheme you can see before it is built.
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Detailing and specification
Joinery drawings, schedules and services coordination.
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Execution
Site work, with the design team supervising the tolerances that matter.
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Handover
Snagging, closure and a walkthrough of how everything works.
What you receive
The set of things this service hands over. Each one is a document or a decision you keep, whoever builds.
- Space planning and furniture layouts
- 3D visualisation of the key spaces
- Custom furniture and joinery drawings
- Modular kitchen and wardrobe design
- Lighting layout and fixture specification
- Material, finish and hardware schedules
- Electrical, plumbing and false-ceiling coordination drawings
- Execution, site supervision and handover where in scope
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Nagajhara: Eco Resort
An eco resort at Nagajhara, Nayagarh, planned so that the landscape — not the built form — is what guests remember. Architecture …
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Nayak residency
Interior design and execution for the Nayak family in Bhubaneswar: an existing core house reworked with space-saving joinery, warm lighting and storage …
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The Amsterdam Cafe
Interior design and concept development for The Amsterdam Café, Bhubaneswar — a 1,580 sq ft European-inspired café planned for laptop mornings, evening …
Talk to us about your project
Tell us the plot or the space and what you have in mind. The first conversation is free and there is no obligation after it.
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