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The jaali is one of the few elements in Indian architecture that solves several problems at once. It shades, it ventilates, it gives privacy, and it throws a pattern of light across a floor that changes through the day. No imported louvre system does all four. Contemporary jaali design has moved well beyond carved sandstone. […]

The home study stopped being a luxury somewhere around 2020. What was once a room for a desk and some books is now where people take calls, run businesses, and occasionally teach their children algebra. Most study room design advice still treats it as a furniture problem — pick a desk, add shelves. The rooms

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

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

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 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

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

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

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