stories design studio

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…

For a while, Indian interiors moved almost entirely in one direction — toward restraint, neutral palettes, and quiet, considered spaces. That instinct hasn't disappeared, but a counter-conversation has started alongside it. Homeowners who've spent years living with beige and grey are beginning to ask a different question: where is it actually appropriate to let colour…

For years, ceilings in Indian homes were treated as an afterthought — flat, white, and forgotten the moment the walls and floor were finished. Walls fared only slightly better, usually painted in a single flat coat and left alone. That's changing quickly, as homeowners start treating these overlooked surfaces as genuine design opportunities rather than…