interior design

The flooring is finished. The wardrobes are installed. The sofa has arrived, and every wall has been painted. On paper, the home is complete. Yet something about it still feels unsettled. This feeling is familiar because construction and completion are not quite the same experience. The fixed elements create the structure of an interior. The…

A home reveals the quality of its design long after the photographs have been taken. It reveals it when someone finds a quiet place to read, when a family can sit together without rearranging the room, and when the things used every day have a natural place to belong. These moments rarely appear on a…

Every design studio eventually has to answer a version of the same question: what actually makes your approach different, beyond taste and execution quality? For Stories Design Studio, the answer has been embedded in the name since the beginning, though it took years of projects to fully articulate what that word — stories — actually…

Somewhere between the excitement of planning a dream home and the reality of executing one, most homeowners hit the same wall: how do you actually choose the right designer, when every studio's portfolio looks polished and every consultation sounds confident? Revathi Rao Gurram, founder of Stories Design Studio, has sat through enough of these decision-making…

There's a particular feeling people describe after a good hotel stay — walking into their own home afterward and noticing, almost involuntarily, everything that suddenly feels less considered. It's rarely about missing amenities. It's about a quality of attention that luxury hospitality spaces are built around, and most homes simply aren't. Revathi Rao Gurram, founder…

Office design in Bangalore has gone through a strange loop over the past few years. Open-plan layouts arrived promising collaboration, then generated so much noise and distraction that companies started building private phone booths just to escape them. The pendulum keeps swinging — but the underlying question has stayed the same: what does a workspace…