Interior Designer

It's one of the most common questions homeowners ask partway through a project, usually after they've already spent weeks browsing furniture stores and showrooms: should this piece be custom-made, or is ready-made good enough? There's rarely a single right answer — but there's almost always a clearer one once the actual space and budget are…

Ask most homeowners what defines a luxury interior, and they'll talk about materials, furniture, or finishes. Few mention lighting — and yet it's often the single factor that determines whether a beautifully designed room actually feels as good as it looks. Get the materials right and the lighting wrong, and the room still falls flat.…

A few years ago, a home office was a rare request — a nice-to-have for the occasional freelancer or business owner working from home. Today, it's one of the first rooms clients ask about, often before the living room. Hybrid work has settled into permanence for large parts of India's professional class, and homes are…

The living room has always carried more weight than its square footage suggests. It's the first space guests see, the room families gather in most, and often the one homeowners obsess over longest — sometimes at the expense of getting it genuinely right. Revathi Rao Gurram, founder of Stories Design Studio, has noticed that the…

Bangalore's apartment sizes have been quietly shrinking for years, even as expectations for how those homes should feel have gone in the opposite direction. Homeowners buying compact 2BHKs and studio-style units in the city's newer developments still want the same sense of considered, premium living once reserved for larger homes — they just have far…

Of every room in a home, the bedroom carries the strangest contradiction. It's usually the space homeowners think about least during a renovation, and the space they spend the most uninterrupted hours in. Living rooms get the attention, the statement pieces, the photographs. Bedrooms, too often, get whatever's left over. Revathi Rao Gurram, founder of…