Journal

Bathroom tiles are chosen from a showroom wall of samples, under lighting nothing like your bathroom, with no idea how the pattern will land once it is actually laid. It is the most consequential finish decision in the room and the one made with the least information. Here is how to choose bathroom tiles properly […]

Noise is the complaint that arrives six months after moving in, when the house looks finished and someone realises they can hear the lift, the road, or the television downstairs from bed. Here is how soundproofing actually works in Indian homes — what is worth doing, what is a waste of money, and which decisions

Almost everything that irritates people about a finished home is electrical. The switch on the wrong side of the door. No socket where the lamp needs to go. A bedside light you have to get out of bed to turn off. None of it is expensive to get right, and all of it is expensive

Delhi spends a substantial part of the year with air that nobody wants to breathe. Most responses to that are bought after the house is finished — a purifier in each room, plugged in wherever there happens to be a socket. A good deal of it can be designed in instead. Here is how to

Waterproofing is the least glamorous line in a building budget and the one that causes the most expensive failures. It is invisible, it is buried under finished work, and when it fails you cannot repair it without destroying everything on top of it. Here is what waterproofing actually involves in an Indian home, where it

The countertop is the hardest-working surface in the house. It takes heat, knives, turmeric, lemon, oil and water every day, and unlike a shutter or a tile you cannot avoid touching it. Here is an honest comparison of kitchen countertop materials for Indian homes — what each survives, what stains it, and which we specify

The layout decides whether a kitchen is pleasant to cook in. Everything else — the shutters, the counter, the hardware — is finish applied to that decision, and no amount of finish rescues a layout that makes you walk in circles. Here are the kitchen layout types that work in Indian homes, the dimensions each

Most people commissioning a home have never commissioned one before, and almost nobody explains the process before asking for a signature. This is how a project runs at Pochē Aesthetics — stage by stage, what you receive at each point, and what we need from you. It is written plainly so you can compare it

Most advice about small homes is about hiding things. The useful advice is about deciding what genuinely needs to be there — because the thing that makes a compact home feel generous is not clever furniture, it is editing. Here are the space-saving ideas that actually work in Indian homes, ranked roughly by how much

Every large Indian home runs on spaces nobody photographs: the utility, the staff room, the store, the pump room. They are planned last, given whatever is left over, and then determine how smoothly the house actually functions for the next twenty years. Here is how to plan the service and utility areas of a home