Interior Designers in Malleshwaram, Bangalore

Interior Design in Malleshwaram, done properly

Malleshwaram has housing stock you cannot replace: Madras terrace roofs, solid teak doors and windows, generous verandahs, red oxide and mosaic floors, and ceiling heights no modern apartment offers. A lot of what passes for renovation in these homes destroys exactly the things that make them valuable.

Our approach here is conservative in the literal sense. Upgrade the services, fix the genuine problems, and restore rather than replace the elements that are still doing their job — which, in well-built houses of this age, is most of them.

Renovating old Bangalore houses without stripping them

Three things need care in a Malleshwaram period home. Madras terrace roofing is a traditional system of timber joists, brick and lime, and it behaves quite differently from an RCC slab — it can be repaired well, but a modern waterproofing coating applied over it without understanding the construction tends to trap moisture and accelerate the decay it was meant to prevent. Original teak joinery is almost always worth restoring: the timber quality is far beyond what is commercially available now, and a door that has been in service for seventy years will outlast its replacement. Red oxide and mosaic flooring can usually be polished back to a finish that no new tile matches. Against that, the services genuinely do need modernising, and the narrow lanes across the older crosses mean material has to arrive in small loads with debris removed the same day.