Residential space
A kitchen is the one room you cannot decorate your way out of. Get the layout, the storage volumes and the services right and a small kitchen works beautifully. Get them wrong and no amount of finish will fix it.
Before anything is drawn
Sink, hob and fridge are the three points you move between constantly. When they are strung along a single wall, or separated by a doorway people walk through, you feel it at every meal. This is fixed on paper, before a single module is ordered.
Most Mumbai kitchens have enough storage and almost no counter. You need landing space beside the hob, beside the sink and beside the fridge, plus somewhere for the mixer, the toaster and the induction plate to live that is not permanently on the counter.
Deep shelves lose the back third. Tall cabinets need a stool above the second shelf. Bottle pull-outs, drawer stacks instead of shutters under the counter, and corner units that actually open change how much of your storage you can reach without thinking about it.
Almost every kitchen enquiry starts with a finish. Someone has seen an acrylic shutter or a handleless profile and wants that. It is the wrong end to start from: the finish is perhaps a tenth of what makes a kitchen good to use, and it is the only part you can change later without breaking anything.
We start with the plan. Where the water and the gas already are, which wall the window is on, how many people are in the room at once, and how much has to be stored. From that come two or three real layout options, usually an L, a parallel, or an L with a short peninsula, and each is presented with what it costs you as well as what it gives you.
Space is the obvious constraint but not the only one. Humidity makes the carcass material matter more here than it would inland. Most flats have the kitchen sharing a wall with a utility or dry balcony, and that is where the washing machine, the bulk storage and the bins belong. Planning them into the kitchen instead is how a kitchen ends up permanently cluttered. Society rules on shaft access and chimney ducting are worth checking before the chimney is bought rather than after.
Moving a gas line or a drain point is possible, but it is rarely the cheapest way to solve a layout problem and in many buildings it needs permission. Where the existing services are awkward we will say so early and design around them. Where moving one genuinely unlocks a much better kitchen, we will show you the difference with the cost attached and let you decide.
The room itself
Specification
Come prepared
These are the questions that decide the design. Having answers ready makes the first meeting worth twice as much.
ResidentialDiningUsually not a room at all, but a zone that has to feel deliberate rather than left over.
ResidentialBalcony & UtilityUsually the most wasted square footage in a Mumbai flat, and the cheapest to turn into something.
ResidentialLiving RoomThe room guests see and the room you actually sit in. Usually two different briefs in one space.Draft wording.This page was written by us from your brief rather than by you. Read it, change anything that is not how you work, and we will set it exactly as you want it.
Let's begin
Tell us about the property and what you want from it. We will come back with a plan and a detailed estimate.
