Chuna & TeakInterior Architecture

The studio

Twelve people, and
a hard ceiling

A twelve-person studio in Mumbai. We take on around fourteen projects a year — small enough that the person who draws your plan is the person who walks your site.

In practice
12 years
People
12
Projects a year
Capped at 14
Work shown here
10,550 sq ft
Open-plan office with pendant lights over mixed seating
Double-height living space opening onto a courtyard
Compact kitchen and living space in warm neutrals

How we are set up

Four decisions that
shape everything else

  1. 01

    A fixed fee, not a percentage

    A percentage fee pays us more when your project costs more. That is the wrong incentive to hand somebody who is choosing your worktop.

  2. 02

    Fourteen projects a year, capped

    It is a deliberate ceiling. Past it, the person who drew your plan stops being the person who walks your site, and everything we are good at comes from that not happening.

  3. 03

    The constraint is the design

    A society that will not let you touch a wall, a lift too small for a worktop, a budget that has to stop somewhere. The interesting work is what you do inside those.

  4. 04

    Photographed a year later

    Anyone can style a room for one afternoon. We go back after the family has been living in it, and publish that set too.

Who is on it

Twelve people,
by what they do

Named biographies go here once the studio supplies them. Until then, the shape of the team is the honest version: this is who touches your project and at which stage.

  • 0PrincipalTakes the first meeting on every project, and signs off every drawing set before it leaves.
  • 0Project designersOne stays with your project from the brief to the day the snag list closes. They do not rotate.
  • 0Site supervisorsOn site daily. Weekly photographs go out on Friday whether or not anyone asked for them.
  • 0Draughting and specificationThe eleven-page material spec that stops a contractor substituting anything quietly.
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How we work

Nothing starts
until the number
is agreed

  1. 01

    First conversation

    A week, usually

    We come to the flat, measure nothing, and mostly listen. By the end of it we can tell you a realistic number and whether we are the right studio for the job. No charge, no drawings.

  2. 02

    Survey and layouts

    2 to 3 weeks

    A proper measured survey, then two or three layout options. One gets taken forward. This is the only stage where changing your mind is free, so we push you to use it.

  3. 03

    Drawings and specification

    3 to 5 weeks

    Elevations, sections, electrical, lighting, and a written specification naming every material by brand and code. If it is not on this set, it is not in the price.

  4. 04

    On site

    10 to 18 weeks

    Our team, our supervision, weekly photographs whether you ask for them or not. One designer stays with the project from here to the end.

  5. 05

    Snagging and handover

    2 weeks

    We write the snag list ourselves before you see it, close it, and only then invoice the final stage. It is deliberately large enough to be worth coming back for.

  • Fixed fee, agreed before drawings start
  • One designer stays with you to handover
  • Weekly site photos, whether you ask or not
  • Snag list closed before final payment

What owners say

Six months in,
not on handover day

4.9 average across 68 Google reviews

  • They told us on the first call which two things would cost more than we expected. Both did. Nothing else did.
    Placeholder Name3 BHK, Worli · 2025
  • I cook twice a day. Six months in, I have not once had to move something to reach something else.
    Placeholder NameGalley kitchen, Bandra · 2025
  • They phased it across four weekends so we never lost a working day. That mattered more to us than the design did.
    Placeholder NameStudio floor, Lower Parel · 2024
  • My grandmother's dining table is still the first thing you see. Everything else was built to leave it alone.
    Placeholder Name2 BHK, Matunga · 2024

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Where we work

Mumbai, mostly

We take work across the city and a short drive beyond it. Further than that and the weekly site visit stops being weekly, which is the one thing we will not compromise on.

  • Mumbai
  • Navi Mumbai
  • Thane
  • Pune
  • Alibaug
  • Lonavala
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