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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From the partners' desk
Heights & Depths
Door Height and Width Standards for Every Room
Indian homes work to a small set of door sizes: main door 1000–1200 × 2100 mm, bedrooms and kitchens 900 × 2100 mm, bathrooms 750 × 2000 mm, balcony sliders 1500–2400 mm wide. Add about 100 mm to the shutter for the structural opening, keep 900 mm wherever a bed, an elder or a wheelchair must pass, and use at least 1000 × 2000 mm for fire exits under NBC 2016.
Bharat Patel · 05 Oct 2026 · 29 min read
Commercial & Hospitality
Co-Working Space Design Guide
A workable co-working floor plans about 50–80 sq ft of carpet area per seat, with open desks on daylight, glass-fronted team offices, one phone booth for every 8–12 open seats and one meeting room for every 10–15 people. Good acoustics, 500 lux at desks, enough fresh air and a fit-out of roughly ₹1,400–2,600 per sq ft decide whether members stay.
Bharat Patel · 05 Oct 2026 · 29 min read
Materials & Finishes
Charcoal Panels and Louvres: Pros, Cons and Cost
Charcoal panels and louvres are thin plastic-composite wall linings with a printed decorative film — quick, water-resistant and inexpensive at roughly ₹110–320 per sq ft installed. They suit TV walls, bed backs and dry feature walls, but they scratch, can look plastic up close, move with heat and need fire-rating checks in commercial spaces.
Afrin Mirza · 05 Oct 2026 · 27 min read
Future of Design
The Future of Indian Apartments: Smaller, Smarter, Flexible
Indian apartments are getting more compact, so the gains now come from planning rather than area: no wasted corridors, a stacked wet core, storage built into walls, and one flexible room that is a study by day and a bedroom by night. A well-planned 2BHK of about 600–700 sq ft carpet can live like a much larger flat if services and partitions are designed for change.
Bharat Patel · 05 Oct 2026 · 25 min read
Design Styles
Neoclassical Interior Design: Mouldings, Symmetry and Marble
Neoclassical design is built on proportion: a wall divided like a classical column into base, field and cornice, mouldings sized to the ceiling height, symmetry around a central axis, and a restrained palette of white, stone and marble. In an Indian flat with a 2700–2900 mm ceiling, that means a 75–125 mm cornice, a dado line around 800–900 mm and panel boxes with equal margins.
Afrin Mirza · 05 Oct 2026 · 25 min read
History of Design
Kerala Nalukettu Architecture: Layout, Roofs and Wood Craft
A nalukettu is a Kerala house of four wings built around an open central court, the nadumuttam, under steep tiled roofs on timber frames. Its lessons — a courtyard that pulls air and light into the middle of the house, deep overhangs that keep rain off walls, and joinery made to be repaired — still work in modern homes.
Afrin Mirza · 05 Oct 2026 · 26 min read
Process & Trust
How Long Do Home Interiors Take: Real Timelines
A mid-range 2BHK or 3BHK with factory-made furniture typically takes 10–16 weeks on site after design sign-off, plus 2–4 weeks of design (6–10 weeks when every room is detailed in 3D). A 1BHK can finish in 6–10 weeks; premium homes and resale flats with heavy civil work run 18–24 weeks or more.
Bharat Patel · 05 Oct 2026 · 28 min read
Architecture Icons
Golden Temple Amritsar: Water, Gold and Proportion
The Harmandir Sahib is a modest, square shrine set in the middle of a large sacred tank, reached by a causeway and open on four sides. Its power comes from water that doubles it in reflection, gold that turns sunlight into glow, and a deliberate contrast between the small sanctum and the vast open space around it.
Bharat Patel · 05 Oct 2026 · 24 min read
Vastu
Vastu for Flats: What You Can and Cannot Change
In a flat, the structure, plumbing shafts, wet-area positions, main door and windows are effectively fixed; non-structural walls and internal doors can change only with society and engineer approval. Most Vastu principles can still be honoured for free — through room use, furniture placement, the kitchen's internal layout, light, colour and order.
Bharat Patel · 05 Oct 2026 · 27 min read
Commercial & Hospitality
Office Pantry and Break Room Design
Plan an office pantry from the lunch peak: in Indian offices seat roughly 30–40 per cent of headcount, allow about 1.2–1.5 m² per seat plus the service zone, and keep a 1200 mm aisle behind a 900 mm high counter. A 50-person pantry of about 400–450 sq ft typically costs ₹8–17 lakh to fit out in 2026, before appliances.
Bharat Patel · 05 Oct 2026 · 32 min read
Cost Guides
Interior Design Cost in Pune (2026)
In 2026, full-home interiors in Pune typically cost about ₹900–1,300 per sq ft of carpet area for basic work, ₹1,300–2,200 for mid-range and ₹2,200–3,800+ for premium — roughly 5–15 per cent above tier-2 Gujarat rates and below Mumbai. A mid-range 2BHK of about 850 sq ft carpet usually lands at ₹11–18.7 lakh, with most families spending ₹13–16.5 lakh.
Bharat Patel · 05 Oct 2026 · 30 min read
Lighting
Garden and Landscape Lighting Ideas
Light a garden in layers — low, warm path and step lights for safety, a few aimed uplights on trees and walls for depth, soft light at the sit-out — using 2700–3000 K LED fittings rated IP65 or better (IP67–IP68 in the ground or water) on RCCB-protected circuits. A 2,000–3,000 sq ft bungalow garden typically needs 20–35 fittings and about ₹1–4 lakh of lighting in 2026.
Afrin Mirza · 05 Oct 2026 · 31 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.