Home Services About Projects Contact
Greater Kailash · New Delhi
Journal

Notes on designing a home.

The same questions come up in almost every first conversation. What a home really costs to design. Whether you need an architect, a designer, or both. And what actually happens between the first drawing and the day you move in.

Written plainly, from homes we have designed and built across Delhi NCR.

Luxury Interior Designers in Delhi: What Actually Sets Them Apart
Featured · 23 October 2026

Luxury Interior Designers in Delhi: What Actually Sets Them Apart

“Luxury” is the most devalued word in Indian interiors. Almost every firm uses it, and in most cases it means imported marble and…

Read the piece →

More from the journal

  1. 02 How to Choose the Right Interior Design Firm in Delhi NCR 16 September 2026 How to Choose the Right Interior Design Firm in Delhi NCR Hiring an interior design firm is one of the biggest decisions you'll make for your home, right up there with buying the property itself. In… →
  2. 03 10 Best Interior Design Firms in Delhi NCR (2026): An Honest List 22 September 2026 10 Best Interior Design Firms in Delhi NCR (2026): An Honest List If you are looking for an interior design firm in Delhi NCR, the first problem is that a great many of the top results are directory pages a… →
  3. 04 How We Work: A Pochē Aesthetics Commission, Stage by Stage 9 October 2026 How We Work: A Pochē Aesthetics Commission, Stage by Stage Most people commissioning a home have never commissioned one before, and almost nobody explains the process before asking for a signature. T… →
  4. 05 Luxury Villa Interior Design in India: What Actually Matters 2 October 2026 Luxury Villa Interior Design in India: What Actually Matters A villa is not a large apartment. Once a home has its own structure, its own roof, its own land and its own services, the questions change —… →
  5. 06 Farmhouse Design in India: Start With the Site, Not the Floor Plan 6 October 2026 Farmhouse Design in India: Start With the Site, Not the Floor Plan 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… →
  6. 07 Interior Design in Greater Kailash: What These Homes Need 1 October 2026 Interior Design in Greater Kailash: What These Homes Need Our studio is in Greater Kailash, and a good share of the homes we work on are within a few kilometres of it. That is partly convenience and… →
  7. 08 Interior Design in South Delhi: Working With What the Building Allows 22 September 2026 Interior Design in South Delhi: Working With What the Building Allows South Delhi homes are rarely blank canvases. Most are builder floors in colonies laid out fifty or sixty years ago — Greater Kailash, Defenc… →
  8. 09 Architect vs Interior Designer: Who Do You Actually Need? 16 September 2026 Architect vs Interior Designer: Who Do You Actually Need? "Do I need an architect or an interior designer?" is one of the most common questions homeowners ask before starting a project, and the hone… →
  9. 10 Residential Architects in Delhi: What They Do and When You Need One 23 October 2026 Residential Architects in Delhi: What They Do and When You Need One Most people engage an architect for a house once in their lives, which means they are buying something they have never bought before, from s… →
  10. 11 10 Questions to Ask an Interior Designer Before You Hire Them 22 September 2026 10 Questions to Ask an Interior Designer Before You Hire Them Most people hire an interior designer on the strength of a portfolio and a good conversation. Both matter. Neither tells you what the next n… →
  11. 12 What Is Turnkey Interior Design — And Is It Right for You? 9 October 2026 What Is Turnkey Interior Design — And Is It Right for You? “Turnkey” is the most used and least defined word in Indian interiors. Every firm offers it, almost none of them mean the same thing by it,… →
  12. 13 How to Read an Interior Design Quotation, Line by Line 1 October 2026 How to Read an Interior Design Quotation, Line by Line You have three quotes on the table. One is far cheaper than the others. Everyone you ask says “go with your gut.” That is not advice, it is… →
  13. 14 13 Interior Design Mistakes We See Most Often in Indian Homes 7 October 2026 13 Interior Design Mistakes We See Most Often in Indian Homes Most of what goes wrong in a home is not a disaster. It is a series of small decisions, each defensible on its own, that add up to a house n… →
  14. 15 Pooja Room Direction as per Vastu: What It Says and How to Apply It 26 October 2026 Pooja Room Direction as per Vastu: What It Says and How to Apply It The traditional guidance is consistent: a pooja room belongs in the north-east, with the person praying facing east or north. Where a plan c… →
  15. 16 Maintaining a Luxury Home: What It Actually Needs 26 October 2026 Maintaining a Luxury Home: What It Actually Needs Most of what goes wrong in a finished luxury home is maintenance, not construction. Stone that was never resealed, shower glass that was nev… →
  16. 17 Renovating While Living in the House: How to Manage It 26 October 2026 Renovating While Living in the House: How to Manage It 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 demolitio… →
  17. 18 Sustainable and Energy-Efficient Home Design in India 26 October 2026 Sustainable and Energy-Efficient Home Design in India In a Delhi home, sustainable design is mostly about not needing the air conditioning as much. Orientation, shading, glazing and insulation d… →
  18. 19 Small Bathroom Design: Making a Compact Room Work 26 October 2026 Small Bathroom Design: Making a Compact Room Work A small bathroom works when you give up one thing deliberately rather than squeezing in everything badly. In most Indian flats that means lo… →
  19. 20 Interior Design in Anand Niketan, Shanti Niketan and Westend 23 October 2026 Interior Design in Anand Niketan, Shanti Niketan and Westend Anand Niketan, Shanti Niketan and Westend hold a particular kind of Delhi house: compact plots in quiet, well-planned colonies, built for pr… →
  20. 21 The First Meeting With an Interior Designer: What to Cover 23 October 2026 The First Meeting With an Interior Designer: What to Cover The first meeting with an interior designer decides more than most people realise. It is where the brief is set, where expectations are eith… →
  21. 22 Interior Design on Golf Course Road, Gurgaon 23 October 2026 Interior Design on Golf Course Road, Gurgaon The Golf Course Road corridor — and the developments along it and on the Extension — holds most of Gurgaon's premium apartment stock. Large… →
  22. 23 Interior Design in New Friends Colony and Maharani Bagh 23 October 2026 Interior Design in New Friends Colony and Maharani Bagh New Friends Colony, Maharani Bagh and Sunder Nagar hold some of the largest private houses in Delhi — plots that would be unthinkable today,… →
  23. 24 Interior Design in Panchsheel Park and Hauz Khas Enclave 23 October 2026 Interior Design in Panchsheel Park and Hauz Khas Enclave Panchsheel Park and the colonies around it — Panchsheel Enclave, Sarvodaya Enclave, Hauz Khas Enclave — hold some of the better-proportioned… →
  24. 25 How to Find an Interior Designer in Delhi 23 October 2026 How to Find an Interior Designer in Delhi Searching for an interior designer in Delhi produces a wall of paid directory listings, sponsored results and firms you have never heard of,… →
  25. 26 What Does an Interior Designer Actually Do? 23 October 2026 What Does an Interior Designer Actually Do? Most people hire an interior designer having never seen what one produces. The expectation is usually “they make it look nice,” and the real… →
  26. 27 Interior Decorator vs Interior Designer: Which Do You Need? 23 October 2026 Interior Decorator vs Interior Designer: Which Do You Need? People use “interior decorator” and “interior designer” as though they mean the same thing, and firms rarely correct them because the fee is… →
  27. 28 What to Check Before Buying a Flat in Delhi NCR 19 October 2026 What to Check Before Buying a Flat in Delhi NCR Most people view a property for twenty minutes, twice, and then commit to living in it for a decade. Estate agents show you the view and the… →
  28. 29 Designing a Home for Three Generations 19 October 2026 Designing a Home for Three Generations A great many Indian homes house three generations, and almost none of them are designed for it. The plan is drawn for a couple with children… →
  29. 30 Rugs and Carpets for Indian Homes: Sizing and Materials 19 October 2026 Rugs and Carpets for Indian Homes: Sizing and Materials A rug is the single most effective thing you can add to a finished Indian home. It defines a seating zone, absorbs the echo that hard surfac… →
  30. 31 Buying Furniture: Custom, Branded or Imported? 19 October 2026 Buying Furniture: Custom, Branded or Imported? Furniture is usually the last big decision in a project and the one made with the least guidance. By then the budget is tired, the handover… →
  31. 32 How to Choose Bathroom Tiles (and Set Them Out Properly) 19 October 2026 How to Choose Bathroom Tiles (and Set Them Out Properly) Bathroom tiles are chosen from a showroom wall of samples, under lighting nothing like your bathroom, with no idea how the pattern will land… →
  32. 33 Soundproofing a Home: What Works and What Does Not 19 October 2026 Soundproofing a Home: What Works and What Does Not Noise is the complaint that arrives six months after moving in, when the house looks finished and someone realises they can hear the lift, t… →
  33. 34 Designing a Delhi Home for Indoor Air Quality 19 October 2026 Designing a Delhi Home for Indoor Air Quality 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 fini… →
  34. 35 Electrical Planning for a Home: Switches, Sockets and Circuits 19 October 2026 Electrical Planning for a Home: Switches, Sockets and Circuits Almost everything that irritates people about a finished home is electrical. The switch on the wrong side of the door. No socket where the l… →
  35. 36 Waterproofing a Home: Where It Fails and How to Get It Right 19 October 2026 Waterproofing a Home: Where It Fails and How to Get It Right Waterproofing is the least glamorous line in a building budget and the one that causes the most expensive failures. It is invisible, it is b… →
  36. 37 Kitchen Countertop Materials: Granite, Quartz, Marble Compared 19 October 2026 Kitchen Countertop Materials: Granite, Quartz, Marble Compared The countertop is the hardest-working surface in the house. It takes heat, knives, turmeric, lemon, oil and water every day, and unlike a sh… →
  37. 38 Kitchen Layout Types: Which One Suits Your Home? 19 October 2026 Kitchen Layout Types: Which One Suits Your Home? The layout decides whether a kitchen is pleasant to cook in. Everything else — the shutters, the counter, the hardware — is finish applied t… →
  38. 39 12 Space-Saving Ideas That Actually Work in Indian Homes 9 October 2026 12 Space-Saving Ideas That Actually Work in Indian Homes Most advice about small homes is about hiding things. The useful advice is about deciding what genuinely needs to be there — because the thi… →
  39. 40 Utility and Service Area Planning in Indian Homes 9 October 2026 Utility and Service Area Planning in Indian Homes Every large Indian home runs on spaces nobody photographs: the utility, the staff room, the store, the pump room. They are planned last, giv… →
  40. 41 Home Gym Design: Building One You Will Actually Use 9 October 2026 Home Gym Design: Building One You Will Actually Use A home gym is one of the few rooms whose success is entirely measurable: either you use it, or you have built an expensive storage room with… →
  41. 42 Swimming Pool Design for Indian Homes: What to Plan First 9 October 2026 Swimming Pool Design for Indian Homes: What to Plan First A swimming pool is the most expensive thing you can put in a garden and the easiest to get wrong, because most of what determines whether it… →
  42. 43 Main Door Design: Size, Material, Hardware and Vastu 9 October 2026 Main Door Design: Size, Material, Hardware and Vastu The main door is the only element of a house that every single visitor touches. It is also, in most Indian homes, chosen late from a catalog… →
  43. 44 Duplex and Triplex Home Design: Planning Across Levels 9 October 2026 Duplex and Triplex Home Design: Planning Across Levels A duplex or triplex is the only residential type where circulation is the whole design problem. In a flat the plan is a diagram; across two… →
  44. 45 Choosing a Colour Palette for an Indian Home 9 October 2026 Choosing a Colour Palette for an Indian Home Colour is the decision clients agonise over longest and the one that is cheapest to change. It is also the decision most often made in the w… →
  45. 46 Interior Design Styles Explained, for Indian Homes 9 October 2026 Interior Design Styles Explained, for Indian Homes Most clients arrive with a folder of saved images and no vocabulary for what connects them. That is entirely normal — and naming the style i… →
  46. 47 How to Choose a Contractor for Interior Work 9 October 2026 How to Choose a Contractor for Interior Work The contractor decides whether your design gets built or approximated. You can have a flawless drawing set and a poor contractor, and the ho… →
  47. 48 Home Automation for Indian Homes: What Earns Its Place 7 October 2026 Home Automation for Indian Homes: What Earns Its Place Home automation is the easiest thing to oversell and the easiest to regret. Most of what gets installed in Indian homes is used enthusiastic… →
  48. 49 Landscape and Garden Design for Delhi Homes 7 October 2026 Landscape and Garden Design for Delhi Homes On a plot, the garden is half of what you bought. It is also the line most often left until the house is finished, by which point the levels… →
  49. 50 Builder Floor Interior Design in Delhi: What to Know 7 October 2026 Builder Floor Interior Design in Delhi: What to Know The builder floor is Delhi's defining housing type. A plot is redeveloped, each floor sold separately, and a family ends up owning one level… →
  50. 51 2 BHK Interior Design in Delhi: Making a Small Flat Work 7 October 2026 2 BHK Interior Design in Delhi: Making a Small Flat Work A 2 BHK is the hardest brief to design well. There is no spare area to absorb a mistake, every room has to do more than one job, and the dif… →
  51. 52 Children’s Bedroom Design: Building a Room That Grows 7 October 2026 Children’s Bedroom Design: Building a Room That Grows A children's room is the one space in a house that has to be redesigned by its occupant every few years, whether you planned for it or not.… →
  52. 53 Curtains and Window Treatments for Indian Homes 7 October 2026 Curtains and Window Treatments for Indian Homes Curtains are the last thing ordered on most projects and the first thing people notice is wrong. They are also the layer that does the most… →
  53. 54 Wall Panelling Design: Proportions That Do Not Date 7 October 2026 Wall Panelling Design: Proportions That Do Not Date Wall panelling has gone from a classical detail to the most requested feature in Indian homes, largely because it photographs so well. Done… →
  54. 55 Wooden Flooring for Indian Homes: What Actually Survives 7 October 2026 Wooden Flooring for Indian Homes: What Actually Survives Wooden flooring is the finish clients ask for most and hesitate over longest, usually because someone has told them it will not survive an I… →
  55. 56 POP vs Gypsum False Ceiling: Which Should You Use? 7 October 2026 POP vs Gypsum False Ceiling: Which Should You Use? Almost every Indian home gets a false ceiling, and almost every client is offered the same choice without much explanation: POP or gypsum bo… →
  56. 57 Jaali Design in Contemporary Indian Homes 6 October 2026 Jaali Design in Contemporary Indian Homes The jaali is one of the few elements in Indian architecture that solves several problems at once. It shades, it ventilates, it gives privacy… →
  57. 58 Study Room Design at Home: Light, Sound and Storage 6 October 2026 Study Room Design at Home: Light, Sound and Storage 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,… →
  58. 59 Guest Bedroom Design: Planning a Room People Actually Want to Stay In 6 October 2026 Guest Bedroom Design: Planning a Room People Actually Want to Stay In 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.… →
  59. 60 Powder Room Design: The Best Small Room in the House 6 October 2026 Powder Room Design: The Best Small Room in the House 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… →
  60. 61 Home Theatre Room Design: Proportion, Blackout and Acoustics 6 October 2026 Home Theatre Room Design: Proportion, Blackout and Acoustics 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 di… →
  61. 62 Dining Room Design: Clearances, Tables and the Pendant 6 October 2026 Dining Room Design: Clearances, Tables and the Pendant 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… →
  62. 63 Entrance and Foyer Design: The Smallest Room You Use Most 6 October 2026 Entrance and Foyer Design: The Smallest Room You Use Most 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 t… →
  63. 64 Home Bar Design: Planning One That Actually Works 6 October 2026 Home Bar Design: Planning One That Actually Works 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… →
  64. 65 Interior Design in Defence Colony: Working Within the Shell 6 October 2026 Interior Design in Defence Colony: Working Within the Shell 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 bui… →
  65. 66 Terrace and Balcony Design in Delhi: Making It Usable 4 October 2026 Terrace and Balcony Design in Delhi: Making It Usable 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 si… →
  66. 67 Walk-in Wardrobe Design: The Dimensions That Decide It 4 October 2026 Walk-in Wardrobe Design: The Dimensions That Decide It 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… →
  67. 68 Lighting Design for Luxury Homes: The Layers and the Numbers 4 October 2026 Lighting Design for Luxury Homes: The Layers and the Numbers Lighting is the single largest difference between a home that looks expensive and one that looks like a showroom, and it costs a fraction of… →
  68. 69 Vastu Tips for Home, Handled Sensibly 4 October 2026 Vastu Tips for Home, Handled Sensibly Almost every client we work with in Delhi NCR raises vastu at some point. Some have a consultant already engaged. Some mention it cautiously… →
  69. 70 Veneer vs Laminate: Which to Use Where in an Indian Home 4 October 2026 Veneer vs Laminate: Which to Use Where in an Indian Home Every joinery quote in India asks you to choose between them, usually with a price difference large enough to matter across a whole house. T… →
  70. 71 Marble vs Granite Flooring: Choosing the Best Floor for an Indian Home 4 October 2026 Marble vs Granite Flooring: Choosing the Best Floor for an Indian Home Flooring is the largest single surface in a house and one of the few decisions that is genuinely permanent. Everything else can be changed i… →
  71. 72 False Ceiling Design for the Living Room: Beyond the Cove Light 4 October 2026 False Ceiling Design for the Living Room: Beyond the Cove Light Almost every Indian home built in the last twenty years has a false ceiling, and most of them do the same thing: a rectangular drop around t… →
  72. 73 TV Unit and Media Wall Design: Heights, Services, Storage 4 October 2026 TV Unit and Media Wall Design: Heights, Services, Storage The television wall is the most-looked-at surface in most homes and one of the least designed. It usually ends up as a console with a screen… →
  73. 74 Living Room Design: Planning a Room You Actually Use 4 October 2026 Living Room Design: Planning a Room You Actually Use The living room absorbs more budget and more argument than any other room, and it is the one most often planned around a photograph rather t… →
  74. 75 Master Bedroom Design: Dimensions, Light and Storage 4 October 2026 Master Bedroom Design: Dimensions, Light and Storage The master bedroom is the room clients describe least and use most. It gets the leftover attention after the living room and kitchen have be… →
  75. 76 The Best Materials for a Delhi Home (And What Fails Here) 2 October 2026 The Best Materials for a Delhi Home (And What Fails Here) Delhi asks more of a material than almost any Indian city. Forty-eight degrees in June, high humidity through the monsoon, four degrees in J… →
  76. 77 Modular Kitchen Design in India: Workflow, Ventilation and Storage 2 October 2026 Modular Kitchen Design in India: Workflow, Ventilation and Storage The modular kitchen industry in India sells cabinets. A kitchen is not cabinets — it is a workflow, a ventilation problem and a storage puzz… →
  77. 78 Modular, Carpenter-Made or Bespoke: Choosing Joinery for Your Home 2 October 2026 Modular, Carpenter-Made or Bespoke: Choosing Joinery for Your Home Fitted joinery — wardrobes, kitchen, vanities, TV units, storage — is usually the largest single share of an interior budget, commonly somew… →
  78. 79 How Long Does a Home Interior Project Actually Take? 2 October 2026 How Long Does a Home Interior Project Actually Take? “How long will it take?” is usually answered optimistically, because the honest answer loses projects. We would rather give you the real one… →
  79. 80 What Should Be in an Interior Design Drawing Set 2 October 2026 What Should Be in an Interior Design Drawing Set When you hire a designer, what you are actually buying is a drawing set. The 3D views are the sales material; the drawings are the product.… →
  80. 81 Farmhouse Construction Cost in Delhi NCR: A Real Breakdown 2 October 2026 Farmhouse Construction Cost in Delhi NCR: A Real Breakdown Farmhouses in Delhi NCR are not simply larger houses. They sit on land rather than in buildings, they usually have no municipal services to… →
  81. 82 Apartment Interior Design in Delhi: Where the Real Gains Are 2 October 2026 Apartment Interior Design in Delhi: Where the Real Gains Are Most Delhi apartments arrive with the same set of givens: a builder layout that nobody designed for a specific family, a kitchen slightly to… →
  82. 83 Interior Design in Noida: Designing for Space, Not Around It 2 October 2026 Interior Design in Noida: Designing for Space, Not Around It Noida gives you something most of Delhi and Gurgaon cannot: space. Plot sizes are generous, sector layouts are wide, and apartments in the n… →
  83. 84 Interior Design in Gurgaon: What These Homes Actually Need 2 October 2026 Interior Design in Gurgaon: What These Homes Actually Need Gurgaon homes share a particular set of problems. Tall towers with fixed glazing and no cross-ventilation. Builder layouts that give you a l… →
  84. 85 Luxury Bathroom Design in India: Planning, Stone and Water 1 October 2026 Luxury Bathroom Design in India: Planning, Stone and Water A luxury bathroom is not a bathroom with expensive taps in it. It is a small room where light, stone, water and air have all been thought ab… →
  85. 86 Architects in Delhi: Do You Actually Need One for Your House? 1 October 2026 Architects in Delhi: Do You Actually Need One for Your House? Most people looking for an architect in Delhi are actually trying to answer a prior question: do I need one at all, or will a good contracto… →
  86. 87 Interior Design in Vasant Vihar: Replanning a Generous House 1 October 2026 Interior Design in Vasant Vihar: Replanning a Generous House Vasant Vihar is one of the few parts of Delhi where the plots are genuinely generous, the streets are wide, and the houses were built with s… →
  87. 88 Farmhouse Architects in Chhatarpur and Dera Mandi 1 October 2026 Farmhouse Architects in Chhatarpur and Dera Mandi The farmhouse belt south of Delhi — Chhatarpur, Dera Mandi, Satbari, Mandi, Sainik Farms, Westend Greens — is where most of the city's groun… →
  88. 89 Bathroom Renovation Cost in India: Where the Money Goes 1 October 2026 Bathroom Renovation Cost in India: Where the Money Goes Bathrooms carry the highest cost per square foot of any room in a house, and the highest risk. Everything in them is wet, everything is hidd… →
  89. 90 Villa Construction Cost in India: What Building a House Really Takes 1 October 2026 Villa Construction Cost in India: What Building a House Really Takes Building a house from the ground up is the only project where you control everything — the plan, the light, the structure, the way rooms mee… →
  90. 91 Modular Kitchen Cost in Delhi NCR: How to Read a Kitchen Quote 1 October 2026 Modular Kitchen Cost in Delhi NCR: How to Read a Kitchen Quote The kitchen is the most expensive room per square foot in most Indian homes, and the one where quotations are hardest to compare. Two quotes… →
  91. 92 3 BHK Interior Design Cost in Delhi NCR: A Real Breakdown 1 October 2026 3 BHK Interior Design Cost in Delhi NCR: A Real Breakdown A 3 BHK is the most commonly designed home in Delhi NCR, and the one where budget expectations and quoted prices diverge most sharply. Two f… →
  92. 93 How to Make a Home Feel Finished, Not Just Complete 22 September 2026 How to Make a Home Feel Finished, Not Just Complete There is a gap between a home being complete and a home feeling finished. Everything is built, the snagging is done, the furniture has arriv… →
  93. 94 Home Renovation in Delhi NCR: What Really Happens 22 September 2026 Home Renovation in Delhi NCR: What Really Happens Renovating an existing home is harder than fitting out a new one, and it is priced as though it were easier. The difference is that a new fl… →
  94. 95 Interior Designer vs Contractor vs Turnkey: Which Do You Need? 22 September 2026 Interior Designer vs Contractor vs Turnkey: Which Do You Need? Early in a home project almost everyone faces the same fork: hire an architect or interior designer, hire a contractor directly, or hand the… →
  95. 96 Interior Design Cost Per Square Foot in Delhi NCR (2026) 22 September 2026 Interior Design Cost Per Square Foot in Delhi NCR (2026) “What will it cost per square foot?” is the question every homeowner asks first, and the one the industry is most evasive about. The honest… →
  96. 97 Double Height Living Rooms: When They Work and When They Don’t 17 September 2026 Double Height Living Rooms: When They Work and When They Don’t A double height living room is the one move that changes how a house feels the moment you walk in. It is also the move most often regretted.… →
  97. 98 Wardrobe Design for Bedroom: Dimensions, Internals and Materials 17 September 2026 Wardrobe Design for Bedroom: Dimensions, Internals and Materials A wardrobe is the piece of joinery you use more than any other in the house — twice a day, every day, for twenty years. It is also the one m… →
  98. 99 Pooja Room Design: Placing a Mandir in a Modern Home 17 September 2026 Pooja Room Design: Placing a Mandir in a Modern Home The mandir is usually the first thing a client mentions and the last thing that gets properly designed. It is squeezed into a corner of the… →
  99. 100 Staircase Design for Home: Dimensions, Materials and Detail 17 September 2026 Staircase Design for Home: Dimensions, Materials and Detail The staircase is the only piece of furniture in a house that you cannot move. Everything else — sofas, beds, even kitchens — can be reworked… →
  100. 101 Why Your Home Still Feels Incomplete: The Case for Styling & Curation 16 September 2026 Why Your Home Still Feels Incomplete: The Case for Styling & Curation You've finished the renovation. The furniture's in place, the paint is dry, the lighting works. And yet the space still doesn't feel quite f… →
  101. 102 Farmhouse Interior Design Ideas for Your Delhi NCR Retreat 16 September 2026 Farmhouse Interior Design Ideas for Your Delhi NCR Retreat Farmhouses in and around Delhi NCR serve a different purpose than a city home. They're meant for slowing down, entertaining, and living outd… →
  102. 103 Interior Design Cost in Delhi NCR: A 2026 Breakdown for Homeowners 16 September 2026 Interior Design Cost in Delhi NCR: A 2026 Breakdown for Homeowners "How much will this cost?" is usually the first question homeowners ask, and often the hardest one to get a straight answer to. Interior des… →
  103. 104 What If I Don’t Like the Design? 27 October 2026 What If I Don’t Like the Design? You say so, early and specifically, and it gets changed. Revisions are a normal part of the design stage, not a failure of it — and a practi… →
  104. 105 Can I Use My Own Carpenter or Vendors? 27 October 2026 Can I Use My Own Carpenter or Vendors? Usually yes — but every vendor you bring in yourself moves a piece of responsibility from the contractor to you. That trade is often worth m… →
  105. 106 Does a New Builder Flat Need an Interior Designer? 27 October 2026 Does a New Builder Flat Need an Interior Designer? Yes — and arguably more than an older home does, because a builder flat arrives with decisions already made badly and finishes you will repl… →
  106. 107 Who Is Responsible If Something Goes Wrong? 27 October 2026 Who Is Responsible If Something Goes Wrong? Responsibility follows the contract, not the conversation. If the designer drew it and the contractor built it to the drawing, a defect is t… →
  107. 108 Can You Work With My Existing Furniture? 27 October 2026 Can You Work With My Existing Furniture? Yes — and it usually makes the home better, not worse. A room built around something you already own and love reads as personal. A room furn… →
  108. 109 How Involved Do I Need to Be in My Own Project? 27 October 2026 How Involved Do I Need to Be in My Own Project? Expect to give the project real attention at four or five decision points, and roughly a week of turnaround on feedback each time. Between t… →
  109. 110 How Long Before I Can Move In After the Work Finishes? 27 October 2026 How Long Before I Can Move In After the Work Finishes? Allow two to four weeks between “the work is finished” and actually moving in. Snagging takes one to two weeks, deep cleaning takes several… →
  110. 111 Can I Do My Home in Phases? 27 October 2026 Can I Do My Home in Phases? Yes, but not room by room. Phase a home by trade, not by space: do all the civil work, services and ceilings in one go, then phase the joine… →
  111. 112 Can I Manage a Home Project in India From Abroad? 27 October 2026 Can I Manage a Home Project in India From Abroad? Yes, a home project in Delhi can be run from abroad — but only if someone independent of the contractor is supervising on your behalf, and o… →
  112. 113 Should I Renovate or Move? 27 October 2026 Should I Renovate or Move? Renovate if the location, the light and the structure are right. Move if any of those three is wrong, because none of them can be fixed. Eve… →
  113. 114 How Should I Split My Interior Budget? 27 October 2026 How Should I Split My Interior Budget? Fitted joinery takes the largest share of an interiors budget — usually between a third and a half — followed by flooring, then bathrooms an… →
Your home

Let’s talk about yours.

Pochē Aesthetics

An architecture and interior design firm in New Delhi, specialising in luxury residential projects — homes designed as works of art, and made to be lived in.

Studio

© 2026 Pochē Aesthetics Design Services Private Limited Bespoke. Tailored. Redefined.