Interior Designer

For years, luxury in Indian homes was easy to spot. High-gloss finishes, statement chandeliers, gold accents, and rooms designed to be photographed the moment guests walked in. That definition is quietly losing ground. A different sensibility has taken hold among homeowners who can afford anything and are choosing, deliberately, to want less noise. Revathi Rao…

Most homeowners don't wake up one day and decide to hire a designer. It happens gradually — a series of small frustrations that build until the idea stops feeling optional. By the time many homeowners make that first call, they've usually already tried everything else: new furniture, a fresh coat of paint, rearranging what they…

There's a particular moment many homeowners describe when asked why they finally called a designer. It's rarely about the home looking outdated. More often, it's a quieter realisation — that the space they live in no longer works the way they need it to, and Pinterest boards and weekend furniture shopping haven't closed the gap.…

Bangalore homeowners increasingly find themselves choosing between two very different starting points — a well-planned apartment or a spacious villa — and assuming the design process will simply scale up or down to match. It rarely does. The two typologies demand genuinely different thinking, not just a different budget. Revathi Rao Gurram, founder of Stories…

kitchen has quietly become the most negotiated room in Bangalore's interior design conversations. It's the space homeowners spend the longest deciding on, the one that eats the largest share of the budget, and — increasingly — the room that gets used the most, not just for cooking but for the daily life that happens around…

Bangalore's interior design market has grown crowded enough that choosing a designer has become almost as complicated as designing the home itself. Every studio has a polished portfolio. Every consultation sounds confident. The difficulty isn't finding options — it's knowing which questions actually reveal whether a designer is right for your project. Revathi Rao Gurram,…