Rooms

The living room showcases your house. It speaks of you and for you before visitors and guests. Your outside world assesses your house and indeed your standards, by the appearance of your living room. At the same time, though not used as frequently perhaps as the other rooms, your living room is common ground for all those who live in your house. Therefore, while planning this space, you need to combine good taste with comfort.

General Features

• The living-dining area takes up around 150 to 250 square feet with a minimum width of 10 feet.
• The general height of the living-dining area is nine feet two inches (according to most municipal corporation building rules).

The bedroom is where you end your day and wherefrom you emerge all ready and refreshed to brave the odds of the next day. It is a place where you relax and unwind, where you rest and rejuvenate yourself - both physically and mentally.

General Features

• The bedroom area takes up around 150 to 250 square feet with a minimum width of 10 feet.
• The general height of the bedroom is nine feet two inches (according to most municipal corporation building rules).

A dining room is the space where daily meals are served and eaten. But this space also brings all the family members together at particular times of the day. The dining room therefore needs good planning which means the right balance of functionality, comfort and conveniences. The decor and furniture in this room should be neutral and hygiene-friendly.

General Features

• The dining area takes up around 150 to 250 square feet with a minimum width of 10 feet.
• The general height of the dining-living area is nine feet two inches (according to most municipal corporation building rules).

Do the aromas here whip up your appetite? Does the lady of your house feel like spending an additional hour here to conjure up that extra special meal? Does your kitchen complement your good culinary taste with the benchmarks of hygiene and cleanliness that ensure good health at home? What makes or unmakes a kitchen is planning. Good planning calls for a layout that facilitates smooth, unhindered movement between all points of activity in the kitchen.

General Features

• Good planning would also have the kitchen near the entrance of the house, so that the cook and domestic helping hands can access this area without having to traverse the other rooms or corridors.
• Brickwork is at least 125 mm thick on walls where water distribution lines and the kitchen counter are installed.
• A good kitchen is one that has provision for maximum storage. The spaces below the counter tops are adequately equipped with racks (RC slabs, wooden platforms/shelves or metal cabinets) which are designed to accommodate utensils as well as containers of various shapes and sizes.

Is it merely a utilitarian area that you have planned? Or have you managed to combine functionality with elements that help you and your family members relax here? Space constraints have taken a high toll. Under the circumstances, your attitude can make all the difference. If you economise in areas like cheerful decor, sanitary fittings and accessories, water supply and distribution lines, and flooring and wall finishes, your bathroom-toilet will emerge as a room altogether uninviting, if not repelling.

General Features

• Brickwork is at least 125 mm thick for walls on which sanitary fixtures and water supply distribution lines are installed, more so where these lines and waste outlet lines are concealed or embedded in the wall.
• Where wall-hung water closets are to be installed for greater ease of cleaning and maintenance, the brickwork is at least 200 mm thick.
• To provide floor finish of adequate slope inside, the bathroom-toilet has a sunken slab cast, to a depth of about 100 mm from the rest of the residential floor.
• It ensures that the surface-laid drainage pipes from the sink/basin can have proper gradients.
• The entire finished floor for the bathroom-toilet is depressed from the rest of the house by about 6 mm to 10 mm, thereby avoiding door thresholds