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Fitted joinery takes the largest share of an interiors budget — usually between a third and a half — followed by flooring, then bathrooms and kitchen, then ceilings, electrical and lighting. Loose furniture, curtains and appliances sit outside that entirely and are routinely forgotten until the end. Here is how an interiors budget actually divides, […]

The traditional guidance is consistent: a pooja room belongs in the north-east, with the person praying facing east or north. Where a plan cannot accommodate that, north and east are the next preferences, and the south-west corner is the one position the tradition consistently advises against. Here is what Vastu actually says about pooja room

For anything beyond a cosmetic refresh, move out. That is the honest answer, and it is the one most clients do not want. Dust from demolition and stone cutting reaches every room regardless of sheeting, water and power go off unpredictably, and work slows by a third or more when trades have to pack up

Most of what goes wrong in a finished luxury home is maintenance, not construction. Stone that was never resealed, shower glass that was never protected from hard water, a terrace drain nobody cleared before the monsoon. The work was done correctly; nobody was told what it needed afterwards. Here is what a luxury home actually

In a Delhi home, sustainable design is mostly about not needing the air conditioning as much. Orientation, shading, glazing and insulation do more for both running cost and comfort than any solar panel bolted on afterwards — and unlike panels, they are decided once and cannot be retrofitted. Here is what sustainable and energy-efficient home

A small bathroom works when you give up one thing deliberately rather than squeezing in everything badly. In most Indian flats that means losing the bathtub, accepting a single basin, and spending the saved space on a genuinely good shower, proper storage and light. Here is how to plan a small bathroom — the minimum

The first meeting with an interior designer decides more than most people realise. It is where the brief is set, where expectations are either aligned or quietly diverge, and where you learn whether this is a practice you want in your house for the next year. Here is what a good first meeting with an

Anand Niketan, Shanti Niketan and Westend hold a particular kind of Delhi house: compact plots in quiet, well-planned colonies, built for professional families, and now mostly redeveloped as builder floors at a level of finish that does not match the address. If you are looking for an interior designer in Anand Niketan or the neighbouring

The Golf Course Road corridor — and the developments along it and on the Extension — holds most of Gurgaon’s premium apartment stock. Large flats, high floors, long glazing, and a set of constraints that are entirely different from a South Delhi builder floor. If you are looking for an interior designer on Golf Course

New Friends Colony, Maharani Bagh and Sunder Nagar hold some of the largest private houses in Delhi — plots that would be unthinkable today, built when space was available and ambition was expressed through floor area rather than finish. If you are looking for an interior designer in New Friends Colony or the surrounding colonies,