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168 articles from the studio on room guides.
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Designing a Kolkata Home Your Parents Can Still Use at Eighty
How to design a Kolkata home your parents can still use at eighty: ground-floor bedroom planning, safe bathrooms, door widths, night lighting and what to build in now.
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Child Safety by Design: Railings, Edges and Windows in a Multi-Storey Home
Child safety by design in a multi-storey Kolkata home: railing heights and gaps, stair details, edges, window restrictors, balconies and terrace risks explained.
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Wheelchair-Accessible Bathroom Layouts for Indian Homes
Wheelchair-accessible bathroom layouts for Indian homes: turning circles, flush thresholds, drainage and grab bar backing, from a New Town Kolkata architecture studio.
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Grab Bars, Thresholds and Lighting: Ageing-in-Place Retrofits That Are Not Ugly
Ageing-in-place retrofits in Kolkata homes done properly: grab bar anchoring, flush thresholds, layered lighting and door widths, without the hospital look.
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25 Two-Tone Modular Kitchen Colour Combinations That Always Work
25 two-tone modular kitchen colour combinations that hold up in real Kolkata homes, with materials, finishes, price bands, and layout-specific advice from Studio Contour.
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Sage Green Kitchen Cabinets: 18 Design Ideas for Indian Homes
A Kolkata studio's real-world guide to sage green kitchen cabinets: shades, finishes, materials, countertop pairing, layouts, and pricing for Indian homes.
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Blush Pink Kitchen Ideas: How to Make the Colour Look Grown-Up
Blush pink kitchens can look sophisticated, not saccharine. A Kolkata design studio breaks down undertones, materials, lighting and budgets that make blush pink read grown-up.
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Olive Green Modular Kitchen Ideas and the Colours to Pair Them With
Olive green modular kitchen colour pairings, finishes, countertops and costs for Kolkata homes, with real project guidance from Studio Contour, New Town.
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Renovating a Bathroom in an Old Salt Lake Bungalow: Plumbing Realities
Renovating a bathroom in an old Salt Lake bungalow means dealing with GI pipes, single-stack drainage, and slab waterproofing most contractors skip. Here's what we actually find.
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Bathroom Renovation in Older Salt Lake Houses: What to Expect
What bathroom renovation in older Salt Lake houses actually involves: waterproofing failures, plumbing stack issues, layout limits, timelines and costs, from Studio Contour.
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Bedroom Design for New Town High-Rises with Full-Height Windows
A practical guide to designing bedrooms behind full-height windows in New Town, Kolkata high-rises, covering glare, heat, layout, Vastu, and storage.
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Common Bathroom Complaints in New Town Flats and How to Fix Them
Why New Town flat bathrooms keep failing (damp, weak exhaust, slippery tiles) and how Studio Contour actually fixes each one, from waterproofing to layout.
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Grey Modular Kitchen Ideas: 20 Shades From Dove to Charcoal
A Kolkata studio's real guide to grey modular kitchens: 20 shades from dove to charcoal, the materials, pairings, price bands, and lighting that make grey work.
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Master Bathroom Design Ideas for New Town 3BHK Flats
Master bathroom design ideas for New Town 3BHK flats: layouts, anti-skid materials, waterproofing, lighting, and costs from a New Town design studio.
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Navy Blue Kitchen Cabinets: 15 Ideas That Look Anything but Dark
A practical, non-thin guide to navy blue kitchen cabinets, covering undertones, finishes, hardware, countertop pairings and lighting so navy reads rich, not dark, from Studio Contour, Kolkata.
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Wood-Finish Kitchen Cabinets: 16 Warm Colour Combinations
16 warm wood-finish kitchen cabinet colour combinations for Kolkata homes, plus materials, counters, lighting, and real cost/timeline guidance from Studio Contour.
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All-White Kitchens: 10 Ways to Keep Them Looking Clean in an Indian Home
A Kolkata-based studio's practical guide to designing all-white modular kitchens that resist turmeric, oil, and monsoon humidity, with finish, countertop, and maintenance specifics.
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Bedroom Balcony Design Ideas for New Town Apartments
Bedroom balcony design ideas for New Town apartments, layouts by balcony size, monsoon-proof materials, shading and NKDA rules, from Studio Contour.
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False Ceiling Ideas for Older Salt Lake and Lake Town Flats
Practical false ceiling ideas for older Salt Lake and Lake Town flats, covering low ceiling heights, damp-prone slabs, lighting fixes, and materials that actually hold up in Kolkata's monsoon.
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Salt Lake Bedroom Renovation: What Older Sector Homes Need
A Salt Lake bedroom renovation guide for older sector homes: wiring, dampness, timelines, budgets and Bidhannagar approvals, from Studio Contour.
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Small Bathroom Design Ideas for New Town Apartments
Small bathroom design ideas for New Town apartments, from layout fixes and humidity-proof materials to ventilation and Vastu, by the studio that has delivered 330+ buildings in New Town since 2014.
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Utility Balcony Design for New Town Apartments: Making 20 Sq Ft Work
A practical guide to designing New Town's 20 sq ft utility balconies: zoning, materials, drainage and monsoon-proofing from Studio Contour, New Town's interior and architecture studio.
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Bathroom Design Ideas for New Town Highrise Flats: 20 Real Layouts
20 real bathroom layouts for New Town highrise flats, from Studio Contour: what actually works in builder-standard footprints, humidity-proof materials, and honest timelines.
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Bathroom Storage Ideas for Compact New Town 2BHK Flats
Practical bathroom storage ideas for compact New Town 2BHK flats, covering vertical storage, humidity-safe materials, layout tricks, and how Studio Contour plans it right the first time.