The people who will design your home

Ananya Rao

Principal designer · Bangalore

I design for the hour a home is quietest. Pale surfaces, light that lowers through the evening, and storage placed so nothing is ever left standing on a counter.

11 years · 180+ homes · Calm / minimal

Vikram Menon

Senior designer · Hyderabad

I work in wood and stone, and I plan a home around the way a family already eats, works and gathers rather than the way a catalogue suggests they should.

16 years · 240+ homes · Warm / classic

Meera Krishnan

Designer · Bangalore

A room is allowed a point of view. I use colour deliberately and sparingly, and I let one considered gesture do the work of five decorative ones.

7 years · 95+ homes · Bold / editorial

Rohan Iyer

Senior designer · Bangalore

Most homes fail at the doorway and the passage. I start there, keep the walking width intact, and let the rest of the plan settle behind that decision.

13 years · 205+ homes · Calm / minimal

Divya Nair

Designer · Bangalore

I design for families who keep the windows open. Materials have to behave through a long summer, not just photograph well on day one.

8 years · 110+ homes · Warm / classic

Aditya Sharma

Principal designer · Hyderabad

I like homes with weight — walnut, ochre, deep shadow — held in check by a plan that is completely rational underneath.

18 years · 310+ homes · Bold / editorial

Sneha Kulkarni

Designer · Bangalore

Small homes are the harder brief. I plan every millimetre of wardrobe internals so the room itself can stay empty.

6 years · 70+ homes · Calm / minimal

Karthik Reddy

Senior designer · Hyderabad

A home should look the same in year eight as in week one. I specify for wear first and appearance second, and the two usually agree.

14 years · 230+ homes · Warm / classic

Priya Balakrishnan

Designer · Bangalore

I use one colour per home and commit to it. Restraint everywhere else is what lets that single decision read as luxury rather than noise.

9 years · 120+ homes · Bold / editorial

Nikhil Deshpande

Senior designer · Bangalore

I plan around the way light moves across the unit through the day, then place the joinery so no room is dark at the hour it is actually used.

12 years · 175+ homes · Calm / minimal

Ritu Agarwal

Designer · Hyderabad

Families tell me what they own before they tell me what they like. The inventory is the brief; the palette follows it.

10 years · 140+ homes · Warm / classic

Arjun Pillai

Designer · Bangalore

I am interested in the room you walk into last at night. Everything else in the plan is arranged so that room earns the attention.

7 years · 85+ homes · Bold / editorial

Shalini Verma

Senior designer · Bangalore

I have handed over enough homes to know where a plan goes wrong on site. I resolve those points on paper, months before anyone lifts a panel.

15 years · 260+ homes · Calm / minimal

Harish Gowda

Designer · Bangalore

Wood, in my work, is not a finish — it is the structure of the room. Everything else is chosen to leave it alone.

8 years · 100+ homes · Warm / classic

Tanvi Bhatia

Designer · Hyderabad

I design children's and study rooms as seriously as the living room, because they are the rooms a family actually lives inside for a decade.

6 years · 65+ homes · Bold / editorial