Why present the same apartment in three design languages?

Because clients cannot choose a style from a mood board, but they can choose between three versions of their own lounge. Holding the layout fixed and changing only the materials, lighting, art and furniture makes the comparison honest — you are judging the look, not being shown three different plans and asked to like one.

What actually changes between the three languages?

Wall treatment, lighting, upholstery, art and the timber tone. What does not change is the plan: the same sofa position, the same dining table, the same jhoola, the same window line. In this study the soft modern version uses lime plaster, pale oak and bronze; the contemporary Indian version adds indigo textiles, a painted mural and warmer timber; the light classical version adds cornice, panelling, chandeliers and shaded lamps.

How do you plan two family homes on one floor?

Give each home everything it needs to run independently — its own kitchen, its own lounge, its own bedrooms and bathrooms — and share only what genuinely benefits from being shared, which in this study is the arrival and the common areas. The grandparents' home takes the mandir and a quieter lounge-and-dining; the parents' home takes the children's rooms, a billiards lounge and a second sitting room.

Where does the mandir go in an apartment?

In the plan, not in a leftover corner. Here it is a semi-open niche of about 2.07 by 0.90 m in the grandparents' lounge, with its own lighting and a stone counter, aligned so the seating group faces it naturally. A mandir added after the furniture is placed always reads as an afterthought, because it is one.

What is a jhoola and how is it planned?

A swing seat, and it has to be planned with the structure rather than hung later. In this study it sits inside the seating group instead of against a wall, which means the ceiling fixing, the swing travel and the clearance to the coffee table all have to be agreed before the slab is finished. Manufacturer travel and structural fixing remain to be verified.

Can you design and build a residence like this?

Yes. Send the floor plan and tell us how many households will live on it. We will plan it, present the material direction more than one way, and build it — joinery, services and finishes under one contract.

Apartment Interior Design: Three Languages

The brief

Two homes on one floor for one family: a parents' home and a grandparents' home, each complete in itself, sharing an arrival and a floor plate with a 12 ft finished ceiling.

The parents' home takes three bedrooms — a principal suite with its own dressing room, a shared children's bedroom with an adjoining study and play room, and a guest bedroom — plus a main lounge, a secondary lounge, a billiards lounge, a serving and breakfast area and the main kitchen. The grandparents' home takes two bedrooms, its own lounge and dining, its own kitchen, a mandir and an aligned jhoola seating group.

The study was then presented three times over, in three design languages.

Why three languages, on one layout

Clients cannot choose a style from a mood board. They can choose between three versions of their own lounge.

So the layout is held completely still — same sofa position, same dining table, same jhoola, same window line — and only the materials, lighting, art and timber tone change. That separates two decisions that usually get tangled: how a home works, and how it looks.

	Soft modern	Contemporary Indian	Light classical
Walls	Lime plaster, flat	Plaster with a painted mural wall	Panelling and cornice
Timber	Pale oak	Deeper, warmer timber	Pale, painted or limed
Textiles	Neutral, linen-like	Indigo and pattern	Muted, tailored
Light	Linear bronze pendant	Warm sources, lower level	Chandelier and shaded lamps
Art	One abstract canvas	Landscape and mural	Framed landscapes, hung in pairs

Look at the three lounges below and you can see the room is identical. That is what makes the comparison worth something: nobody is being shown three different plans and asked to pick a feeling.

The rooms that were decided before the style was

The mandir. A semi-open niche of about 2.07 by 0.90 m in the grandparents' lounge, with its own lighting and a stone counter, positioned so the seating group naturally faces it. Planned in, it is part of the room. Added after the furniture is placed, it reads as an afterthought — because it is one.

The jhoola. It sits inside the seating group rather than against a wall, which makes it a structural decision, not a furniture one: the ceiling fixing, the swing travel and the clearance to the coffee table all have to be agreed before the slab is finished. Both the manufacturer's travel and the structural fixing remain to be verified.

Two kitchens. Each home cooks for itself. The grandparents' kitchen is long and narrow at roughly 6.95 by 1.94 m; the parents' main kitchen is about 5.22 by 2.33 m. Sharing one kitchen between two households is the single decision most likely to be regretted.

The service edge. Existing staff and service spaces are retained, and Section B–B is cut through them deliberately — because in a home of this size the service route is what keeps the rest of it calm.

Drawn as plan, axonometric and section

The three languages sit on top of one set of drawings: a furnished plan with every room labelled, an axonometric of the whole floor, and a section through the private suite confirming the 12 ft (3,657.6 mm) finished ceiling.

The section is the useful one. Ceiling height decides whether cornice reads as generous or oppressive, whether a chandelier can hang at all, and how high the joinery can run — so it is drawn before the style is chosen, not after.

About these visuals

The room views on this page are AI design interpretations of the studio's own guide drawings — the plan, the axonometric and the section are native studies. We say so because the deck says so, and because a client should know which images are a rendering of a decision and which are an illustration of a direction. The furniture, stone, lighting and sanitary selections still require specification and coordination.

What to settle before construction drawings

Which language, and whether it applies to both homes or only one.
Site dimensions verified, since the layout is derived from a source plan.
The rear connection between the two homes — open, door-closed, or sealed.
Kitchen utility enclosures for both kitchens.
Jhoola fixing and travel, agreed with the structural engineer.
Detailed MEP, especially in the private suite where the section is tightest.