Modular kitchens
built around you.

It is decided by the shape of the room and the position of the plumbing, not by preference. An L works in most Ahmedabad flats because it keeps one wall free for the dining table. A parallel layout suits long, narrow utility-side kitchens. An island only earns its place when you have at least a metre of clear walkway on every side of it — below that it becomes an obstacle.

Standard height is a compromise that suits nobody exactly. We set the counter against the height of whoever cooks most — roughly the level where the palm rests flat with the elbow slightly bent, so you are not stooping over a rolling pin for twenty years. If two people cook, we split the difference or step the hob run lower than the prep run.

Granite is a natural stone — cheaper per square foot, extremely heat-tolerant, but porous at the seams and needs sealing. Engineered quartz is non-porous, colour-consistent and shrugs off turmeric and lime, though it will scorch if you park a hot kadhai straight on it. We put both slabs in front of you before you decide.

Yes. The entire sink base unit and anything else touching a wet zone is built in BWR (boiling water proof) plywood, edge-sealed on all faces, and we run a removable service panel so the trap and the water inlet can be reached without dismantling the unit.

Suction is sized against the volume of the kitchen and the kind of cooking that happens in it — Indian frying and tadka need far more extraction than a European kitchen of the same size. The duct is then run on the shortest possible path to the nearest external wall or shaft, with the fewest bends, because every elbow steals suction. We fix the duct route at the layout stage, not after the false ceiling is up.

Usually the built-in oven and microwave at chest height, with a pull-out pantry or bottle unit below and bulk storage above. Keeping the oven out of the base run means you are not bending down to a hot door, and it frees the base cabinets for drawers, which hold far more than a shuttered cupboard ever will.