Home Works: A collection of the best home offices

Atelier Ashiesh Shah
Location: Lalbaug, Mumbai
“This space in a residence, once considered a dead corner, was redefined as a study with its free-floating suspended table serving as a niche for deep reflection. The slit in the corner opens up to the infinite sky flooding the space with natural light, reminiscent of the light at the end of a tunnel evoking a sense of meditative calmness.”

Taliesyn Design
Location: Nelamangala, Bangalore Rural
“There is a need to humanise all built spaces and curate healthy living environments as we are spending most of our time indoors. This weekend abode is a sanctum of rejuvenation from the urban hustle. The architectural interventions are deeply rooted in the landscape, with calming elements of greenery and inspired by the local vernacular.”

Untitled Design Consultants
Location: Nelson Square, Nagpur
“The careful planning of the home workstation is helmed on the notion that ergonomics should be given top priority. Behind all the visual design aesthetics, functionality drives this well-designed library-cum-study table, like the tan leather material that makes the table and the natural maple veneer panelling. The thought-provoking sculpture uplifts the tone-on-tone interior palette.”

Architecture Discipline
Location: Friends Colony, Delhi
“This playful study with pops of colour is designed to engage the children in the activity of learning. The daughter’s room has a blackboard that slides through celebrating the joy of writing and drawing. The room is youthful with a triangular paper-folded false ceiling and hidden lights.”

Ritu Nanda Design
Location: Assagao, Goa
“The large study table area with a comfortable aqua chaise lounge has plenty of light streaming in from both sides of the table. In essence, it is important for a home office to be more comfortable, less formal with an option to curl up or lie down on a sofa and relax between meetings. It gives you the facility to create an environment devoid of redundant strictures that are irrelevant to the new way of running one’s professional life.”

Ravi Vazirani Design Studio
Location: Tardeo, Mumbai
“At this apartment, we crafted a desk using a single live edge wooden plank. The intent was to keep the space multifunctional, and minimal. The focus is on the play of materials and, of course, the beautiful view helps. Little did we know how handy would this corner be in the past two years of our lives with the pandemic.”

Iram Sultan Design Studio
Location: Goregaon, Mumbai
“The home was completed during the pandemic and the study was a welcome addition with enough shelving and storage space for files, computers, papers and printers, as well as forming a great backdrop for a Zoom call.”

Samira Rathod Design Atelier
Location: Satellite Road, Ahmedabad
“This study is conceptualised as a part of the living room. An informal setting with a day bed to unwind and read a book, a little break from work with constant views of the landscape outside. The space is made warm and playful with a wooden screen conceptualised like the movements of a finger.”

Quirk Studio
Location: Santacruz West, Mumbai
“This residence is designed for a very popular comedian and writer, with a succinct brief: A space that is contemporary, open, inviting and, crucially, a space that resonates with his personality. The study den is a personal haven, a recreational space housing an L-shaped ‘wall of books’. The artiste’s drum kit takes one corner, and a floating white desk takes another.”

Andagere Architects
Location: Kumta, Karnataka
“With the pandemic changing tides, the skilled, affluent people in cities are returning to their roots to find a work-life balance. They are opting to build their homes close to nature with a vernacular/Indian essence. We help them achieve this using sustainable building techniques and local natural materials, creating a space which is luxurious in quality yet informal and built around nature.”

Studio Lotus
Location: Coonoor, Tamil Nadu
“Inserted between private and public areas of the house at intermediate level, this double-height study is flooded with natural light from a skylight in the roof. The living room overlooks into this space, which opens out into the outer green at the second level and to views of the valley. Stone, steel and timber are applied in contemporary tonalities to resonate with the vernacular syntax. The neutral character of the architectural materials allows for varied pieces of furniture and art to sit effectively over it.”

Studio Nishita Kamdar
Location: Goregaon, Mumbai
“Being locked down surely has changed our perception of the home. The home is no more a space—it is a feeling. It is your sanctuary, your solace, your escape from the world but also a micro world in itself, almost like an iPhone, and a lot more. People have finally begun to understand the importance of natural light, ventilation, personal touches to a space, practical furniture and not just hoarding things that look pretty.”