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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.

13 Interior Design Mistakes We See Most Often in Indian Homes
Latest · 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,…

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  1. 02 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 enthusiastically… →
  2. 03 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,… →
  3. 04 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… →
  4. 05 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… →
  5. 06 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… →
  6. 07 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… →
  7. 08 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 properly… →
  8. 09 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… →
  9. 10 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 board.… →
  10. 11 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,… →
  11. 12 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… →
  12. 13 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… →
  13. 14 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… →
  14. 15 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… →
  15. 16 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… →
  16. 17 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… →
  17. 18 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… →
  18. 19 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… →
  19. 20 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… →
  20. 21 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,… →
  21. 22 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… →
  22. 23 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… →
  23. 24 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,… →
  24. 25 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.… →
  25. 26 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… →
  26. 27 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… →
  27. 28 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… →
  28. 29 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… →
  29. 30 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… →
  30. 31 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 January,… →
  31. 32 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… →
  32. 33 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 somewhere between a… →
  33. 34 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, because… →
  34. 35 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… →
  35. 36 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,… →
  36. 37 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… →
  37. 38 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 too… →
  38. 39 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 newer… →
  39. 40 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 large living… →
  40. 41 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… →
  41. 42 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… →
  42. 43 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… →
  43. 44 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 ground-up… →
  44. 45 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… →
  45. 46 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… →
  46. 47 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… →
  47. 48 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… →
  48. 49 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… →
  49. 50 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.… →
  50. 51 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 A note on this list. We are Pochē Aesthetics, a residential practice in New Delhi, and we are on this list. We have said… →
  51. 52 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… →
  52. 53 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… →
  53. 54 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, Defence… →
  54. 55 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… →
  55. 56 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… →
  56. 57 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… →
  57. 58 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… →
  58. 59 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… →
  59. 60 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… →
  60. 61 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… →
  61. 62 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 finished.… →
  62. 63 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… →
  63. 64 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 outdoors as… →
  64. 65 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… →
  65. 66 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.… →
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