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The biggest trend today is intentionality. It’s not just about decorating a house, but about creating a home that reflects your lifestyle, values, and identity. Clients are prioritising sustainable materials, multi-functional furniture, mood lighting, and subtle tech integration. Think smart homes with soul — where wellness, beauty, and practicality blend seamlessly to create spaces that are not only stylish, but also deeply liveable.

With two to three monthly inquiries for overseas projects, Bangalore’s global appeal is growing, says Nandita Manwani, Founder of The Studio by Nandita Manwani

Nandita Manwani recognized as Business Icon for the year 2023 – 24 by Radio City as Bangalore’s Leading Interior Designer.
Team Studio received the award from Shruthi Hariharan, Vinay Rajkumar & Simple Suni

Get ready to explore the most captivating brands set to make a significant impact in 2024. These brands are not only leading in their respective industries but are also admired for their innovation, customer focus, and commitment to excellence. Keep an eye on these trendsetters as they shape the future and set new standards for success.

Being a gracious host demands a skill set that can be refined over time. The latest trend in the hosting game is to opt for luxurious kitchen designs that turn this functional space into a prime social zone. With the kitchen taking a centre stage and the advent of automation technology, there has been a shift in consumer behaviour. Therefore, we got in touch with a Bangalore-based Interior Designer, Nandita Manwani, Founder of The Studio, to discuss these shifts in consumer preference and her approach to designing modular kitchens for Indian homeowners.

Homemakers tend to associate dark themes with black-coloured walls and ceilings. Remember that you are not designing a cave. In dark-themed interiors, start with a central object in black hues and work around the concept.

MinimAtion – Minimalism + Automation in Interior Design – The Latest Trend that is making Interior Designers go back to their drawing boards, reskill and return.
Minimalism in Interior Design was always known to be a fad. People who called themselves minimalists were seen more on Instagram and Facebook feeds than on the earth. Minimalistic Spaces – the very few that got made – were more spaces for exhibit and show than real places to live or do business in. But then came the Pandemic.

A couple of incidents in these past few months set me thinking deeper on the subject of lifestyle based interior design and what it “really” means on the ground.
The idea of Lifestyle based design, I believe, is still not well understood and appreciated by most home makers.

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], November 17 (ANI/BusinessWire India): If you are getting married this December then be prepared to hire an Interior Designer. Getting a professional designer to optimize living spaces to cater to major milestones in life is soon going to be a reality.

This blog is now over 7 years old and over these years a lot of what I have written about in the initial years has evolved – things like interior design practices, new materials available in the market for home interiors, cost of materials, places to shop for interior work etc. Also, while on this 7 year journey even I have learnt through customers, your own feedback through this blog and my practice in Bangalore.

Here is something that I had written sometime back that saw the light in Deccan Herald today for the benefit of the many who are yet to be readers of this blog :).
As always the unedited, uncensored and the full version of the article is below for the special ones who follow this

The regular readers of this blog would have come across, in one of the earlier posts, this list of things to check on before taking full and final possession of one’s home from the builder .
I was updating this checklist sometime back for my own use and felt that this is something that all of Bangalore’s home buyers can make use of. With that thought I bunced this off with folks at Deccan Herald and lo and behold I see it published on the front page of DH Homes & Interiors today :).

I remember my elder sister, long number of years back, never coming back empty handed from any of the home improvement fairs that used to be a regular affair in our neighborhood. Be it tribal art, handicrafts, monkey faces made from coconuts, wall hangings, stone carvings from Orissa, we saw it all.

While you may not be able to do much about your nosy landlord, there are lots that can be done to make your rented house reflect your lifestyle and make it feel like “home” without cashing out your credit card.
Each of us has lived in a rented accommodation at some point in our life whether it be due to moving cities, the need for a bigger place or just that it was not yet time to afford a place of one’s own.

If you have a house getting ready for possession in the next one year or are looking to do major remodeling in your current home you are sure to have spent ample hours already Googling for an Interior Designer.

It’s that place in your home where you are likely to spend over 10 percent of your working life and the one that gets the most footfalls. It houses more gadgetry than you have in your car and is one of the most complex spaces to design. The smart among you may have guessed it already, for the laity – I am talking about your Kitchen.

Full leather, Half leather, Fabric, Cane, Wooden, Reclining, Sectional, Tuxedo, Chesterfield, Camelback ….whoa, the choice is almost limitless & often one is lost selecting which sofa will be “right” for one’s home. Since buying a sofa is a fair amount of investment & stays with you for almost a lifetime it’s important to do a bit of homework before choosing this companion for your home. The next few paragraphs will attempt to provide simple tips on things to consider when deciding the “right” sofa for you.

My article on whether to build furniture or to buy it from the market and how organised furniture retail will change the role of the Interior Designer published in the Bangalore edition of Deccan Herald today.

This subject has been close to my heart and I had written this article a long time ago. Glad to announce that the article was featured in Deccan Herald last Friday.
I have been of a firm opinion that Interior design is not just about the woodwork nor the decor but really about defining the life and lifestyle of the residing family. Making one’s home elder friendly through intelligent, insightful and practical design is one such area where the real value of residential Interior Design stands out.

The kitchen is my favourite place in a home because I love to eat and cook. For me, it is a place to create, experiment and have a good time. A kitchen of today should let us do all these things and more without hampering the ease of working. A modern kitchen should be clean, smart and well-integrated, with a convenient layout, lighting, fixtures, appliances and so on that offer a pleasant cooking experience.

High-gloss finishes are a trend nowadays: a kitchen or a wardrobe done in a high-gloss material gives a vibrant look and lifts the energy quotient of the space. While a high-gloss finish can be obtained through different materials and paints, acrylic finish has somehow become the generic term that customers and vendors have started using to describe a high-gloss finish.

A modular kitchen is a pre-constructed kitchen that has to be assembled and installed in the assigned space. Most people associate modular kitchens with a sleek and stylish look. But there is more to it than just looks. Installing a modular kitchen in your home requires planning. Worry not, we’ll tell you all you need to know about these kitchens. From the preparation to the advantages and disadvantages, we’ve got it covered.

The residential interiors market in India is highly unorganized with young home buyers struggling to find the right partner for their end to end interior needs. There is also a general lack of trust between clients and vendors with cases of spurious raw material and horror stories of vendors abandoning projects mid-way being common. Nandita noticed this when she started getting questions and help requests from harrowed home makers on her blog on Home Interiors. “People, mostly young couples, had bought their first home and were asking me stuff like Where to buy material from? What material to use? How to identify fakes? etc.

Best of Houzz for Design : 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019
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Your home is a place that reflects your personal style, where you spend a lot of time, and where you should feel comfortable. Like anything that matters, finding the right interior design service requires some research. To help solve these problems and a host of others, many turn to interior designers for advice. “It makes a lot of sense to have a competent interior designer on board. As with any other subject matter, the knowledge, awareness and expertise of the client’s needs have to be supported by the professional expertise of a designer who deals with the subject matter on a daily basis,” says Adetee Sawhaney, principal designer, Altus Luxury Living.

Homeowners have often wondered what makes a well-designed home different from one that is not. The answer is simple, all it takes is five crucial design elements and you’re good to go. When these elements are blended together seamlessly, the results are remarkable. While making their home, most homeowners usually consider just three or four of these elements and more often than not, find it difficult to bring these together in unison.

Last week we were notified by the Houzz team that we have been awarded the Best of Houzz in both the Design and Service categories. The awardees are chosen by the Houzz community of which I understand a lot of the readers of this blog are members – so a big thank you to you for choosing us.

The boxes have taken over, where we live – BOX, our entertainment – BOX (think TV), our breakfast – BOX (think breakfast cereals, tetrapack milk), our lunch – BOX (think Swiggy), our travel – BOX (think Car), Our work space – BOX (think Cubicle), our gateway to the world – BOX (think cellphone). The other day I was asking a client her requirements for interior design and not surprisingly she said Kitchen (BOX),

The idea for this post came when, during a design discussion, the lady of the house said “I AM a Home Baker”, so I asked her to send me pictures of her present Kitchen just to get some pointers on how the new kitchen should be. To my surprise I saw very little baking equipment in there.