Hyderabad builds big. A villa in a gated community off the Outer Ring Road, a house in Jubilee Hills or Banjara Hills, a tower apartment in Gachibowli or Kokapet — each tends to arrive with generous floor area, and the risk is filling that generosity rather than composing it. The city also has a stone culture few others can match, with granite from Karimnagar and limestone from Tandur quarried in Telangana itself.
Our studio is in Jaipur, about two hours from Hyderabad by direct flight, and everything we have completed is in Jaipur or Udaipur. We take projects here on clear terms: designed, sourced and crafted in Jaipur, built by a Hyderabad contractor and trades brought together for the job, and checked by our site lead at each stage that decides the result.
Three projects from our built work show how we handle volume, entertaining and stone — the three things a large Hyderabad house asks most of a designer.
Stone here is local, which makes it both economical and honest to use. Karimnagar district’s quarries produce granites such as Tan Brown and Maple Red. Tandur, in Vikarabad district, gives a dense limestone in grey, yellow and blue that stays cool underfoot and is naturally anti-skid when left unpolished. It is also porous, so it is sealed on installation and left unpolished where floors get wet.
What Telangana quarries in slabs, Jaipur’s artisans carve. We pair local floors with hand-carved stone jaali and friezes, hand-forged brass and araish walls commissioned in Jaipur, so the house has one stone vocabulary underfoot and another at eye level. Where clients want the Deccan’s own craft in the house — Warangal durries or Pembarthi metal craft, both registered Telangana crafts, or a piece of bidri — we design the room to carry it.
Average highs reach about 39°C in April and 40°C in May, with the hottest days reaching 42–43°C; winters are short and mild. The monsoon, June to October, brings around 855 mm a year, most of it in July and August, and cyclonic rain can flood the city, as it did in October 2020. The design answers the heat first and the volume second.
Hyderabad’s civic bodies were reorganised in 2026, and HMDA remains the planning authority for the wider metropolitan region. Building and layout applications in GHMC, HMDA and DTCP areas go through BuildNow, the state platform that replaced TG-bPASS (formerly TS-bPASS) at the end of 2025.
For most interior projects, the rules that matter day to day belong to the gated community or apartment association: approved drawings, working hours, deposits, material movement and controls on facades. We collect them at the first visit. Where a project includes architecture — an extension, a pool pavilion, a changed facade — it is tested against the sanctioned plan first, and the application is prepared and signed by the Council of Architecture-registered architect on our team, as the authority requires.
The studio is led by its two founders, one on design and one on delivery; the about page introduces them. For a Hyderabad house the order of work is:
No longer. The system, renamed TG-bPASS, has been replaced by BuildNow, which now processes building and layout applications for GHMC, HMDA and DTCP areas. For an interior project the association’s rules usually matter more, but any extension or structural change starts on BuildNow.
Usually both, for different jobs. Karimnagar granite makes hard-wearing counters and floors, Tandur limestone cool, anti-skid floors, and buying locally saves freight. Jaipur’s contribution is carved: jaali screens and friezes cut by hand. A house that uses local stone underfoot and carved stone at eye level reads as considered rather than imported.
By giving each space a reason to be the size it is. We divide volume with furniture groups, rugs and changes of ceiling rather than walls, keep the material palette short, and plan acoustics so rooms sound as calm as they look. Big houses tempt bigger everything; the discipline is fewer materials, used well.
Yes. Warangal durries and Pembarthi metal craft are registered Telangana crafts, and bidri, from Bidar just across the border in Karnataka, belongs to the Deccan’s shared history. We design rooms to carry pieces like these alongside the craft we commission in Jaipur — block print, durries, brass, jaali — so the house belongs to both places rather than to a catalogue.
The Hyderabad contractor works to our drawings and reports progress to the studio as each stage closes. Anything that needs a decision waits for the site lead or is settled on a call with the drawings open, never improvised. With a direct flight of about two hours, an extra visit when a stage needs one is practical.