Apartment, Banaswadi

On a budget like this you cannot do everything, so the first job is deciding what not to do. We put the money into the two things people use every day and see from everywhere — the kitchen and the living room — and kept the bedrooms simple and well built rather than elaborate.

No feature wall for the sake of it, and no ceiling detail that costs more than it gives back. It reads as a considered flat rather than a cheap one, which is the whole point.