Karachi · Est. 2022
The journal
A door is the only piece of joinery in a house that everybody touches. Most are specified as an afterthought.
Everything else
16 pieces
A media wall is the most looked-at surface in the house. It is also the one most often built as an afterthought.
The most common regret in a Pakistani kitchen is not a finish. It is extraction that was chosen last and sized for somebody else's cooking.
Wardrobes are quoted by the foot and lived with by the drawer. Here is where the money goes.
A small kitchen is not a compromised kitchen. It is a kitchen where every decision has to be correct.
Layout decides whether a kitchen is pleasant to cook in. Finish only decides whether it is pleasant to look at.
Islamabad builds to a higher standard than most of Pakistan and pays for it. Here is how to be sure you are getting what you paid for.
Lahore has more interior designers than any city in Pakistan and no register of any of them. Here is how to tell them apart.
Nobody publishes the unglamorous version of a renovation. Here it is — the sequence, the disruption, and the costs that catch people out.
The board behind the door decides whether a kitchen is still square in year five. Here is what each one is actually good for.
A practical walk through the four rooms that decide how a home feels — and the decisions in each that are expensive to reverse.
Two quotes for what looks like the same kitchen can differ by a factor of two. Here is where that difference actually lives.
The market is crowded, the quotes are not comparable, and nobody tells you what to ask. This is the version we would want a friend to read.
A wardrobe is judged on the inside. Here is how to plan one that still works in five years — and how to get a walk-in out of a room that looks too small for it.
Hardware is the smallest line on the quote and the part you touch a thousand times a week. Here is how to choose it properly.
Choosing an interior designer is mostly a question of process, not portfolio. Here is what to look at before you sign anything.
