Apartment Powai, Mumbai · 2025
Studio for One
Four hundred and eighty square feet, one occupant, a budget that was not negotiable.
- Location
- Powai, Mumbai
- Type
- Apartment
- Configuration
- Studio
- Carpet area
- 480 sq ft
- Finish
- Essential
- On site
- 9 weeks
- Completed
- 2025
The brief
A first flat. Sleep, cook, work and occasionally seat four, without any of those ruining the others.
The hard part
A fixed budget with no contingency, which meant every decision had to be made once and made correctly.
What we did about it
One wall does everything
Wardrobe, desk, bed recess and shelving in a single 4.2-metre run. One carpenter, one visit, one price.
Spent it on the floor and the light
The two things you cannot upgrade later without redoing the room. Everything else is honestly cheap.
No upper cabinets in the kitchen
Open shelves at 500mm. It costs less and stops a small room feeling like a corridor.
Four hundred and eighty square feet, one occupant, a budget that was not negotiable.