3 BHK · Hitech City, Hyderabad · 1650 sq ft · 50 days · Budget 18L
Fluted panelling, a mint modular kitchen, an arched dressing niche and a loft bed with a slide. A contemporary Hyderabad apartment built around family ritual, honest storage and a soft, pastel-led palette that never raises its voice.
The family wanted a home that stayed calm through the day and still had room for personality. We held the base palette to three things, ivory fluted panelling, light wood-grain laminate and a soft mint, and repeated them from the lift lobby right through to the kitchen. Storage was planned to disappear: full-height wardrobes, shoe units built into the lobby wall, and drawers hidden inside the steps of the children's loft bed. Faith sits at the centre of the plan rather than in a corner, with the shloka wall and lotus-carved mandir placed where the family passes them every day.
The apartment came with a generous but plain shell, long straight walls, standard door openings and a lobby that looked identical to every other floor. The family also needed the home to carry their faith visibly without turning any room into a shrine, and to give three children real play space inside a bedroom footprint that could not grow. The brief was to add character and function without shrinking the plan.
We treated flat surfaces as opportunities and kept the colour discipline tight.
The building doesn't stop at the door. The lift lobby was clad in wood-grain laminate that runs onto the main door, so the entry reads as one plane. A wave-edged false ceiling with concealed cove lighting curves overhead, and the family nameplate sits on a fluted panel beside a shoe unit with open floor-level shelving. The apartment starts announcing itself before you cross the threshold.
Faith placed on the daily route. The foyer carries a printed magnolia-and-garden mural with the shloka panel and gold lotus set into it, framed by a dark fluted column on one side and a rose-gold diamond-cut mirror on the other. The mandir itself is an arched wood unit with a CNC-cut lotus in the shutter, sitting over mint drawers and dark glass storage, devotional in form, practical in construction.
Texture instead of colour. Almost every large wall in the living and dining zone is either fluted, panelled or plastered rather than painted flat. A curved walnut shelf sweeps across the fluted living wall, three walnut-beaded panels in textured lime plaster hold brass wall lights, and a slim black metal display frame carries glass shelves floor to ceiling. The palette stays ivory and bone; the interest comes from relief and shadow.
The arch, repeated. It shows up as the backlit dressing niche in leaf wallpaper behind the dining table, as the mandir shutter, as the mirror recess in the kids' room, and as the perforated openings in the loft guard. Same shape, different material each time.
Mint as the working colour. The kitchen runs in a soft mint acrylic finish against black granite and a textured white picket-tile backsplash, with a roller shutter unit for appliance storage and a tall window over the sink. That same mint returns in the pooja drawers and the kids' wardrobe, tying the service areas to the living areas.
A bedroom that plays. The children's room stacks a loft platform over a lower bed, reached by a staircase where every tread is a drawer, with a moulded slide coming back down. The space mural, scalloped teal headboard and pastel pink-and-mint wardrobe shutters keep it playful without crowding the floor.
We approached D’leaps Interior Design Studio with a home that felt disconnected. We had plenty of ideas, but no clear direction on how to make the space feel warm, practical, and truly ours. From the first discussion, the team understood what we were trying to achieve. They patiently listened to our preferences, suggested ideas we had not considered, and helped us make decisions without making the process overwhelming. Every corner was planned thoughtfully, from storage and lighting to colours, materials, and small finishing details. The final result feels far more personal than we imagined. Our home is now beautiful, comfortable, and easy to live in every day. D’leaps did not simply design our interiors; they helped turn our house into a home.
Mr. & Mrs Chandrashekhar Reddy