idiIndian Design & Interiors
This hour tends to find three kinds of people
The house was "done" years ago. Expensive things everywhere, and it still doesn't feel like you. You've rearranged, added, replaced — the feeling hasn't moved. You'd recognise the answer the moment you heard it.
You're about to begin. A new apartment, a full redo, or a move back to India. Saved ideas, showroom visits, quotes that don't agree, a hundred decisions in line. What you want is the order to make them in — from someone with no stake in selling you a product.
You know exactly what you want. You always have. What you've never found is someone who hears you first and builds second — who carries your own vision through to the finished room, rather than arriving with theirs.
If one of those is you — this hour was made for you.
In her words
"The big names had too many stakeholders and the message just got lost. The local contractors lacked the quality I was after and couldn't understand me. The ready-made showrooms were way too expensive."
"Himani not only redesigned and upgraded my closet and dresser, matching it to my current lifestyle — she delivered before time, without me having to follow up on anything."
Mamta Wasan · Gurgaon · closet & dresser
Walk in with any of these
The hour exists to answer your top three questions.
In the hour I can help you with furniture, storage, proportion, materials, design direction and what to do first. (Civil work — walls, plumbing, electricals, tiling — isn't part of it.)
These are composites of real questions from real sittings. Yours will be more specific — that's exactly the point. The session commits to answering your top two or three, conclusively.
Before the hour · The brief
Your homework arrives first — so the hour starts at question one.
Once your session is reserved, a detailed brief lands in your inbox — your rooms, your family, how you live, what you own, what you've tried, your top three questions. It's thorough without being heavy; most people start it over an evening chai and finish it the next morning.
By the time we sit down, the getting-to-know-the-project stage is already done. No warm-up laps, no "tell me about yourself" — the hour goes straight at the questions you came with.
People routinely say the brief alone reorganised their thinking about the home. That's by design.
The hour, on the table
Sixty minutes, three movements — your home open on the table.
First 15 minutes · Your home, read aloud
We open your plan and photographs together — empty, lived-in, half-done or brand new, whatever state it's in — and I tell you what the rooms are doing: the way a doctor reads an X-ray you've been living inside. What's working for you, what's quietly working against you, and what the space is actually capable of.
The next 30 minutes · Your top three questions
The heart of the hour. The questions you named in the brief get taken head-on, one by one, conclusively — with judgement built since 1998 and zero incentive to tell you anything but the truth. Bring any quote you're sitting on; it gets read line by line.
The last 15 minutes · The decisions that protect the investment
A realistic budget band for what you actually want — how to plan it so there are no surprises, where money quietly disappears, what can be phased and what can't. Then a straight answer on whether we're the right fit for each other.
By the end, one of three things is true:
- There's a SpaceTalk project here — the next step is the Design Brief Session, where the design work begins.
- It's right, but not ready — settle one thing first, and the next step becomes clear.
- It isn't your project — here's the kind of help you actually need, and how I'd approach it.
To be clear: this is not a design session. No cost estimates are sent your way — design begins only after a project is committed. This hour is where you get clarity, answers and numbers you can trust — and where we both find out if there's a project here at all.
A picture on a laptop is not a design for your home.It's an example. Until someone knows what must fit inside, how the room needs to work, the size of the piece, the material and finish, the hardware and internal fittings, and whether there's hand-detailing, metal or inlay — there's nothing real to price. The same-sized wardrobe costs very differently in laminate, veneer, PU lacquer or glass. Sliding shutters and openable shutters don't cost the same. So the first number isn't an estimate for your home — it's a number designed to get you to say yes.
The three costliest leaks
Every project leaks in the same three places: time, space, money.
TimeThe follow-ups. The promised Monday that becomes next week. The calls nobody returns. The piece you waited for, arriving wrong. The energy it takes to keep a project moving when a life and a job are already waiting. A home run in one continuous line — design to factory to installation — gives you that time back.
SpaceRooms that expand without a wall moving. Storage that swallows everything and reads as architecture. A home so fitted to your lifestyle it feels settled the day you move in — like it always knew you. Most homes waste 30% of what they already own; the hour shows you where yours is hiding.
MoneyThe inflated budget. The mid-project squeeze where you either give in or live with less than you were promised. Planned properly — design first, price second, build third — the leaks close: pilferage, breakage, wasted labour hours, panic purchases. Clients have effectively recovered the entire design fee through the savings a planned project produces.
And the fee itself stays fixed — never a percentage of your project, never per square foot. Your upgrades are your choices, not your designer's raise.
My sofa is so beautiful — and ten years on, I'm bored of looking at it. I want a change, but the damn sofa just won't give way. The springs, the foam, the fabric: all intact.
The strongest review
The same family, twice.
The Kalsis came back four years later for a third 4,000 sq ft apartment in Central Park Resorts — designed for the next generation, nothing like the first two. They tell it better than I can.
Five stars, in their words
Himani designed and installed all the closets and cupboards in my home. The closets were designed with dedicated drawers and storage for shoes, bags, socks, makeup and other personal items — both beautiful and extremely functional. She stuck to the committed timelines.
Once she has taken on the responsibility, you don't have to do any follow-up, and you know you will get what you are supposed to get on the date she's promised.
What stood out most was that they never tried to push their own design preferences — they took time to understand our style, needs and vision.
The furniture they made for us has excellent materials and beautiful finishing. It's lasted perfectly for over a decade. I'll definitely get more work done.
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The session, and the number
₹10,000Sixty minutes · Video or in person, Gurgaon · With the brief before, and the answers during
Why is it paid at all? Because you've already lived the free version. The free visit, the free design, the free estimate — where the real cost arrived later, folded quietly into the project where nobody could question it. When both sides put something in, both sides show up differently: you bring a real project and real questions, and you get an hour with no sales agenda hiding inside it.
One or two homes at a time is the whole practice — the calendar is small on purpose. The fee does one quiet job: it keeps that calendar for the serious, so the hour you get is actually worth showing up for.
And weigh it against the project itself: on a home where the furniture alone runs into tens of lakhs, ₹10,000 for the hour that sets the budget, the order and the direction isn't a cost. It's the cheapest thing you'll buy for this house.
How it runs, start to finish
Reserve
Pay ₹10,000 on the secure payment page — done in a minute
The brief
Your detailed brief link arrives by email & WhatsApp — take an evening over it
The slot
Your booking link opens once the brief is in — pick a time that suits
The hour
Sixty minutes, three movements, your questions answered
The decision
Fit, both ways — and if we proceed, the fee folds into your project
Asked by people exactly where you are
Will I see designs or sketches in the session?
What if we don't work together afterwards?
My budget isn't decided yet. Should I wait?
I already have an architect, or my own drawings. Still worth it?
"As an architect, I watch designers hand over drawings and hope. Himani doesn't hope — she follows every material, colour and detail through to the finished space, and it shows."Kunal Savarkar · Architect
Can my spouse or parents join?
What do I need to prepare?
Video or in person — is one better?
I'm 6–12 months away from starting. Should I book now?
Is the fee refundable?
I've never paid for a consultation in my life. Why start now?
One hour. Your home.
Bring the house that's been on your mind
Reserve the hour, take an evening over the brief, and come with your top three questions. The rest is my job.
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