The Storage Check · Takes 2 minutes
Most homes waste 30% of their storage. To check yours: pick a room, answer 6 questions. Lemme show you what I’d fix first.
Made by Himani · interior designer & storage specialist · Gurgaon · since 1998 · 4.8★ on Google
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> her brief: 50 pairs of shoes, every bangle> her brief: 50 pairs of shoes, every bangle
✓ counted before a line was drawn✓ counted before a line was drawn
✓ a lifestyle closet: travel, silver, gifts, stoles✓ a lifestyle closet: travel, silver, gifts, stoles
✓ jewellery drawer at 4½”✓ jewellery drawer at 4½”
> her brief: 50 pairs of shoes, every bangle> her brief: 50 pairs of shoes, every bangle
✓ counted before a line was drawn✓ counted before a line was drawn
✓ a lifestyle closet: travel, silver, gifts, stoles✓ a lifestyle closet: travel, silver, gifts, stoles
✓ jewellery drawer at 4½”✓ jewellery drawer at 4½”
Mamta made me count them. Every pair got its own place, and so did every bangle.
An AC duct ran above a walk-in closet, so the old one stopped short. I took the new one to the ceiling, drew the vents in, and kept a middle bay shallower so they still open.
A bed with boxes, a study with room for a computer later, wiring for a camera, a pin board for art. Every line became a drawer, a shelf or a socket.
An interior designer and storage specialist in Gurgaon. I design and build commissioned furniture in my factory. Since 1998.
Before I draw the first line, I ask a barrage of questions to study your current lifestyle: what you reach for every morning, what frustrates you daily, what deserves the prime real estate of your home, and what should quietly disappear. This check is the first six of them.
Wardrobes, walk-in closets, dressers, kitchens, TV units, bars and study walls. My Design30 method finds the storage a home wastes and designs back 30% more in the same space.
Hand-drawn detail drawings became my language as Head Designer with Christopher Pook of Pook Design Group, on the Taj Group’s southern hotel chain. They still are.
Book a Consult ★★★★★“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 · closet & dresser · Gurgaon
★★★★★“The furniture they made for us has excellent materials and beautiful finishing. It’s lasted perfectly for over a decade.”
Kanika Gupta · Google review
★★★★★“The closets were designed with dedicated drawers and storage for shoes, bags, socks, makeup and other personal items — both beautiful and extremely functional.”
Divya Singh · closets & cupboards · Google review
Six quick questions you answer standing in one room: the bedroom, the kitchen, a young adult’s room, or storage everywhere else. Your answers show what’s working, what needs a small fix and what needs a redesign, and how Himani would fix it.
Space you can’t reach, pull out or see: the loft nobody opens without a ladder, the shelf below the loft, the back of a deep cabinet.
The eye-level, arm’s-reach zone. It should hold what you use every day, not what you use twice a year.
Not automatically. More often, the space was divided without knowing what needs to live inside it. The next one needs to be designed around what it holds.
Himani Jain, an interior designer and storage specialist in Gurgaon. She has designed and built commissioned furniture in her factory since 1998. She created Design30, the method that finds the 30% of storage most finished homes lose and designs it back in the same space.
