Bharat Patel
Founder, Aaditya Interior
Bharat is the founder of Aaditya Interior and leads client relationships, space planning and site execution across 180+ active projects.
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Thoughts on homes, materials, detailing and craft – written by the people who design your spaces.
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Vastu
Vastu for Children's Bedroom
Vastu tradition places a children's bedroom in the west, north-west or east of the home, with the child sleeping head to the south or east and studying facing east or north. In practice that means a bright, airy room, a bed against a solid wall away from the door, a desk beside the window and calm light colours — all achievable in a builder flat without breaking a wall.
Bharat Patel · 08 Oct 2026 · 27 min read
History of Design
Louis Kahn and IIM Ahmedabad: Brick, Light and Silence
Louis Kahn designed the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad from the early 1960s, with B. V. Doshi as associate; after Kahn's death in 1974, Anant Raje carried the work to completion. Its load-bearing brick walls, arches held by concrete ties and huge deep-set circular openings show how one humble material and controlled, indirect light can create architecture of great calm — lessons that scale down to any Indian home.
Afrin Mirza · 08 Oct 2026 · 25 min read
Process & Trust
Designing a Home While Living in It: Renovation Tips
A home can be renovated while the family lives in it if the work is phased — noisy civil work grouped into one block, rooms done one at a time, one bathroom and a temporary kitchen always working, and every zone sealed against dust. Expect the programme to stretch by roughly a quarter to a half compared with an empty home, and budget about ₹40,000–1,20,000 extra for protection, storage, cleaning and a temporary kitchen.
Bharat Patel · 08 Oct 2026 · 29 min read
Architecture & Planning
Compound Wall and Gate Design Ideas
A good Indian compound wall is a 230 mm brick or block wall about 1.5–1.8 m high on a proper footing and plinth beam, with RCC piers every 3 m, a coping and a 3.6–4.2 m car gate between 450 mm pillars. Plain plastered walls cost about ₹7,000–12,000 per running metre and fabricated MS gates about ₹450–900 per sq ft (indicative October 2026).
Bharat Patel · 08 Oct 2026 · 34 min read
Lighting
AC Types: Split, Cassette, Ductless and VRV
For most Indian flats, inverter wall-mounted split ACs sized at about 1 ton per 100–150 sq ft remain the simplest and cheapest choice; cassettes suit larger rooms with a 300 mm ceiling void, ducted units hide everything behind grilles, and VRV/VRF serves a whole villa or office from one outdoor unit. Indicatively, a 1.5-ton inverter split costs ₹35,000–60,000 and VRF about ₹70,000–1,20,000 per ton installed.
Bharat Patel · 08 Oct 2026 · 32 min read
Commercial & Hospitality
Retail Store Design: Layout, Lighting and Flow
A good store gives the customer a clear entry zone of about 1.5–3 m, a main aisle of 1500–2000 mm that loops past every category, fixtures low enough in the centre to see the back wall, and layered light — about 300–500 lux overall with goods lifted to roughly 750–1000 lux or more. Indicative fit-out in 2026 runs about ₹900–1,400 per sq ft basic, ₹1,400–2,200 mid-range and ₹2,200–3,500+ premium.
Bharat Patel · 08 Oct 2026 · 28 min read
Heights & Depths
Parking Space Dimensions for Cars and Bikes
Most Indian bye-laws work with a car bay of about 2500 × 5000 mm, but a modern SUV parked between walls needs about 3300–3600 × 6000 mm, and a two-way aisle behind 90° bays needs about 6000 mm. Two-wheelers need roughly 1000 × 2000 mm each, ramps usually run at 1:8 to 1:10 with gentler transitions, and the local development control rules always have the final word.
Bharat Patel · 08 Oct 2026 · 28 min read
Room Ideas
Kitchen Backsplash Ideas: Tiles, Glass and Stone
The backsplash is the 600 mm band between an 850–900 mm counter and wall cabinets at about 1450–1500 mm, and in an Indian kitchen it must survive tadka splatter, steam and daily scrubbing. Vitrified or ceramic tiles cost about ₹65–160 per sq ft installed, a matching granite or quartz upstand about ₹150–525, and back-painted toughened glass about ₹500–1,000 (indicative October 2026).
Afrin Mirza · 08 Oct 2026 · 32 min read
Cost Guides
Kids Room Interior Cost
A 10 × 12 ft kids room costs roughly ₹1.1–1.8 lakh at basic specification, ₹1.9–3.3 lakh at mid-range and ₹3.5–6.4 lakh at premium level (indicative October 2026, excluding GST and mattress). The wardrobe takes nearly a third, the bed and study unit about a third together, and a room planned to grow with the child avoids paying twice.
Bharat Patel · 08 Oct 2026 · 27 min read
Materials & Finishes
Granite Types for Kitchens and Floors
Indian granite costs about ₹100–350+ per sq ft as material, with common blacks at ₹110–180 and premium varieties such as Black Galaxy, Absolute Black and good whites at the upper end; imported exotics cost far more. Choose polished dark or mid-tone granite for kitchen counters, honed or flamed finishes where slip resistance matters, and always inspect the actual slabs for dye, resin filling and colour variation.
Afrin Mirza · 08 Oct 2026 · 26 min read
Design Styles
Tropical Modern Interior Design for Hot Climates
Tropical modern design is a climate strategy before it is a look: shade every opening, move air through every room, use materials that breathe and stay cool, and keep the palette light and natural. In an Indian flat or bungalow that means deep overhangs or screens on south and west, openings on two sides of a room, 2750–3000 mm ceilings with a 1200 mm fan, and stone, lime, cane, teak and linen instead of glossy synthetics.
Afrin Mirza · 08 Oct 2026 · 23 min read
Architecture Icons
Statue of Unity: Engineering Facts and Design
The Statue of Unity at Ekta Nagar (Kevadia), Gujarat, is a 182 m statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, designed by sculptor Ram V. Sutar and inaugurated on 31 October 2018. It works like a tall building in disguise: a reinforced concrete and steel structure carries the load, and a skin of bronze cladding gives the figure its form — a principle that also governs good cladding, sculpture and display design at home.
Bharat Patel · 08 Oct 2026 · 23 min read
The People
Meet the partners
Afrin Mirza
Co-founder, Aaditya Interior
Afrin is the co-founder of Aaditya Interior, leading the design studio – materials, colour, detailing and finishing – along with the office and design team at Katargam, Surat.