Interior consultancy · Bengaluru
Interiors built for Bengaluru. Priced honestly. Open to every budget.
Dust from the road, damp through the monsoon, hard water on every fitting: a Bengaluru home wears differently. We plan yours around those conditions and your real budget, then connect you to the makers who build it. We sell nothing, so the advice stays yours.
₹8L → ₹14L
The usual gap between the quote and the final bill on an unscoped 2BHK here.
Made for Bengaluru
A generic spec does not survive this city
Four conditions decide how a Bengaluru home ages. Every material we specify is chosen against them, and we say which one it is answering.
Dust
Metro work, road cutting, four dry months
Matt and suede finishes hold fingerprints and grit far worse than a fine gloss or a textured laminate. We keep open shelving low and handleless profiles out of the kitchen.
Moisture
Two monsoons and a damp north wall
710-grade BWP ply for anything near water or an external wall: ₹95-130 per sq ft against ₹65 for MR. That difference is the whole argument, and it is worth it in exactly three rooms.
Water
Borewell hardness on every fitting
Hard water scars chrome and etches dark granite within two years. Brushed finishes, quartz counters and a softener point costed into the plan rather than added later.
Daily life
Compact flats, long commutes, help twice a week
Storage sized to what you own, surfaces that wipe down in one pass, and no detail that needs monthly attention from someone who is not home.
The problem
Why ₹8 lakh becomes ₹14 lakh
Three things go wrong, and they go wrong in the same order almost every time.
The quote is a number, not a scope
One line reading "Modular kitchen, ₹3,50,000" hides forty decisions: carcass grade, shutter finish, hardware brand, counter thickness. Every one of them is a place the price can move, and it only moves up.
Costs arrive late, one at a time
False ceiling, electrical rework, loose furniture, curtains, GST. Each one sounds small on a Tuesday phone call. Together they land 40 to 70% above the number you signed.
Your designer is also your vendor
When the person specifying the plywood also sells the plywood, there is no version of the quote you can check. The design looks free because it is buried in the material rate.
How Aalayah works
We plan it. We match you to the people who build it.
01
Consult
Thirty free minutes on your home, your brief and the number you cannot go past.
02
Scope & measure
Site visit, measured drawings, and a room-by-room scope written in plain language.
03
Costed design plan
Drawings plus a line-item budget at current Bengaluru rates, with no lump sums.
04
Matched to the right makers
Three quotes from partners who fit your budget, then site checks while they build. We take nothing from them.
What you get
Four documents you can hand to anyone
Itemised budget breakdown
Room by room, line by line. Every item carries a spec, a quantity, a rate and a total. Typically 55 to 90 lines for a 2BHK.
Material specs with real price ranges
710 BWP ply at ₹95-130 per sq ft. Quartz counters at ₹380-650 per sq ft. Named brands, current market rates, the cheaper equivalent listed beside each one.
Partner shortlist
Three quotes per trade from carpenters, modular firms and painters we have watched finish a job in your area. You contract them directly.
Timeline
A week-by-week schedule marking the four dates where a delay actually costs money, and what to pay on each.
Budget sheet extract
2BHK · Sarjapur
Kitchen: base units
18mm 710 BWP ply, 1mm laminate · 26 sq ft @ ₹1,750
₹45,500
Kitchen: counter
20mm quartz, mitred edge · 24 sq ft @ ₹520
₹12,480
Wardrobe: master bedroom
8×7 ft, ply carcass, laminate shutter · 56 sq ft @ ₹1,620
₹90,720
Damp course: north wall
Waterproof primer + 6mm batten gap · 84 sq ft @ ₹110
₹9,240
Electrical: added points
6A/16A modular, incl. conduiting · 22 nos @ ₹850
₹18,700
+ 56 further lines across 5 rooms
Total incl. GST
₹11,61,474
Services
What we take on
2BHK & 3BHK homes
Full-home design and costing, whether you move in next month or next year.
Apartment handover fit-outs
Snag the builder's finish, then plan the fit-out before your possession window closes.
Modular kitchens
Layout, material and hardware decisions costed against three suppliers.
Small offices
Up to 4,000 sq ft. Workstation counts, services coordination, landlord conditions.
Renovations
Older flats and independent houses, including what is worth keeping.
One room, or the whole house?
Both are fine. Ask on the callBudget bands
What a 2BHK actually costs in Bengaluru
Ranges are for a 1,050 to 1,250 sq ft 2BHK at 2026 rates, including GST and our fee. Every band gets the same drawings, the same costing and the same site checks. The money changes what goes in the home, not how carefully it is planned.
Essential
₹4.5L to ₹8L
A finished, liveable home. Nothing decorative, nothing wasted.
Covers
- L-shaped modular kitchen, laminate finish, BWP ply below the sink
- Two wardrobes, ply carcass
- Painting throughout, 20-25 added electrical points
- TV unit, basic lighting
Not included: false ceiling beyond the kitchen, loose furniture, appliances, curtains.
Mid
₹10L to ₹15L
The whole home designed, with furniture you can actually sit on.
Covers
- Everything in Essential, with acrylic or PU kitchen shutters
- Three wardrobes with lofts, foyer and crockery units
- False ceiling and a designed lighting layer in living and bedrooms
- Texture or wallpaper in two rooms
- Loose furniture allowance of roughly ₹1.5L
Not included: appliances, bathroom rework, imported finishes.
Premium
₹16L to ₹25L
Detailed joinery, better materials, and bathrooms touched.
Covers
- Veneer and PU joinery, soft-close German hardware
- Quartz or natural stone counters and dado
- Layered lighting with dimming and profile detail
- One or both bathrooms reworked
- Curated loose furniture, ₹4L and up
Above ₹25L the variable is furniture and art, not construction.
Under ₹4.5L we still work with you: a single-room plan or a kitchen-only costing starts at ₹12,000. Nobody gets told to come back when they have more money.
Coverage
Where we visit sites
Site visits are included at no extra cost in these areas, and our partner lists are built locality by locality. Anywhere else in Bengaluru, ask. We usually still come.
Whitefield
Sarjapur Road
HSR Layout
Indiranagar
Hebbal
Electronic City
JP Nagar
Yelahanka
Clients
What people say afterwards
“Three quotes for the same flat ranged from ₹9L to ₹16L. The scope sheet showed us exactly why. We finished at ₹11.2L with no surprises.”
HSR Layout · 3BHK handover fit-out
“They told us to keep our existing wardrobes and put the money into the kitchen instead. A contractor would never have said that.”
Whitefield · 2BHK renovation
“Our budget was ₹6L and nobody laughed. Two years on, the kitchen still wipes clean and the north wall has not bubbled.”
Sarjapur Road · 2BHK
Journal
Writing on how Bengaluru homes actually work
Materials · 6 min
Which rooms actually need BWP plywood, and which do not
Waterproof ply everywhere adds ₹80,000 to a 2BHK. Here are the three places it earns that money in Bengaluru.
Small homes · 5 min
Nine storage moves for a 950 sq ft flat
Lofts, bed boxes, a utility that holds a washer and a mop. What each one costs and what it gives back.
Vastu · 7 min
Vastu in an apartment you cannot move walls in
What can be honoured through layout and light, what costs a lot to chase, and how to decide with your family.
Mistakes · 4 min
Six decisions homeowners regret by year two
Glossy white shutters, open shelves near a main road, and four more we see on every second site visit.
Our partners
The people who build what we draw
Carpenters, modular firms, painters and stone suppliers we have worked alongside on real sites. You contract them directly, at their price. We are paid by you, never by them.
Partner 01
Carpentry
Partner 02
Modular kitchens
Partner 03
Painting
Partner 04
Stone & counters
Partner 05
Electrical
Partner 06
Furnishing
Placeholder slots: drop each partner's logo in and replace the name as agreements are signed.
FAQ
The questions people ask first
Do you charge a consultation fee?
The first 30 minutes are free, on call or at your site. If you go ahead, a full 2BHK plan is a flat ₹45,000, a single room or kitchen-only costing starts at ₹12,000, and larger projects are 4 to 6% of value. You see the number before we start, and it does not change later.
Do you take vendor commissions?
No. Not from carpenters, not from modular brands, not from material suppliers. It is written into our engagement letter as a term you can hold us to. Partners are on our list because their work stood up on site, and if one of them offers a cut we tell you who and how much.
What if my budget is under ₹5L?
Then we plan for under ₹5L. A kitchen, two wardrobes, paint and lighting is a real project and it deserves a real drawing set. We scope it, cost it at ₹12,000 to ₹20,000, and match you to partners who work at that size without cutting the ply grade behind your back.
Do you execute the work yourselves?
No. You contract partners directly, so you hold the money and the leverage. We review their quotes against our costing, sit in on the negotiation, and inspect the site at four stages: after demolition, after carpentry framing, before painting, and at handover.
Why does a Bengaluru-specific plan matter?
Because the same catalogue kitchen behaves differently on Sarjapur Road than it does in a dry city. Road dust settles into matt shutters, monsoon damp travels through an un-battened north wall, and borewell water pits a chrome tap within two years. Specifying against those three things costs nothing extra at the drawing stage and saves rework later.
Book a consultation
Book the free 30 minutes
Write to us with the five things listed here. We reply within one working day with a time, and you leave that call knowing your realistic number, whatever the budget, whether or not you hire us.
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Locality
Whitefield, Sarjapur, HSR, Indiranagar, Hebbal, E-City, JP Nagar, Yelahanka, or anywhere else in Bengaluru
Property type
2BHK, 3BHK, handover fit-out, independent house, renovation or small office
Budget range, even a rough one
"Not sure yet" is a fine answer
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