Pochē Aesthetics

The guest bedroom is the room that gets designed last and used least — which is exactly why it so often ends up as a store with a bed in it. Treated properly, it is one of the most useful rooms in an Indian home. Family stay for weeks rather than nights. Parents visit for […]

The powder room is the smallest space in the house and the one most guests will use. It is also, for that reason, the best return on design spend anywhere in a home — a few square metres where you can be bolder than you would dare anywhere else. Most powder room design in Indian

A home theatre is one of the few rooms where the engineering decides the outcome. You can spend a great deal on equipment and still get a disappointing room, because the sound and the light were never planned. Good home theatre room design is mostly about proportion, blackout and acoustics — decisions made on the

A farmhouse is not a large city house on a bigger plot. The site is the project. Where you place the building, which way it faces, what you keep of the existing trees and where the water goes will matter more to how the house feels than any decision you make about the interiors. Most

In most Indian homes the dining area is a leftover — a widened strip of circulation between the living room and the kitchen, holding a table that is slightly too big for it. Treated properly it becomes one of the most used rooms in the house. Here is how to plan a dining room that

The entrance is the smallest room in the house and the one you use most. Twice a day, every day, for as long as you live there. It is also the space most often left out of the design entirely — a door opening straight into the living room, with shoes by the wall and

A home bar is one of the few pieces of joinery in a house that is purely about hosting. It is also one of the easiest to get wrong — usually by making it a display cabinet that nobody can actually work behind. Here is how to plan a home bar that functions: where to

Defence Colony is one of the oldest planned colonies in South Delhi, and its housing stock shows it. Most of what changes hands now is a builder floor in a building put up decades ago, often rebuilt once already, carrying services and a plan from an earlier era. If you are looking for an interior

Almost every home in Delhi NCR has outdoor space, and most of it goes unused. Too hot, too dusty, too exposed, nowhere to sit, nothing to sit on. The terrace becomes a place where the water tank lives and the balcony becomes a drying area. Here is how to make a terrace or balcony genuinely

A walk-in wardrobe is the upgrade most clients want and the one most often planned badly. Done properly it holds more, is easier to use, and makes the master suite feel like a suite. Done badly it is a corridor with rails in it, and you have given up a bedroom’s worth of floor area