“SAVE THE BEST FOR LAST” … THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE SONG, IT HAS EVERYTHING TO DO W

Posted by jimmypearson on July 11th, 2019

Well, from the headline you thought I will talk about the famous song from Vanessa Williams but no…this is all about your home interiors. While I have written earlier on how to set up a budget for home interiors and thumb rules for costing your interiors, the thought around this post hit me when I saw that ugly blue box fixed next to the main door of that 3.5 Crore Luxury Apartment.

It was during one of the visits to an ongoing project site that led to the episode of the blue box … allow me to elaborate. This is a luxury multi-crore apartment, limited edition with just 2 apartments per floor, a lift directly entering the apartment and the works, an apartment that most aspire to buy once the war chests and bank balances have copiously overflown. The neighboring homeowners on the same floor where our work was going on had just completed their interiors but were yet to shift in. Standing wide and tall, next to their main door and casting its shadow on the entire corridor stood this ugly blue box, apparently to store and hide the footwear of all humanity. Though it was meant to be a simple shoe rack, the dimension and design of it were so unplanned and un-done that it un-did the entire 3.5 Crores worth of luxury that the entire apartment exuded. Though I did not get a chance (nor did I really want one) to speak to the designer who did the place, what was immediately evident was that by the time the home came to the “interior ready” stage the owner had well run over her budgets. The blue box type interiors were mostly a result of the deep negotiation for full home interiors (all 3000 square feet of it) that the owner had squeezed out from the vendor. Well, the squeezing did have its own set of unplanned outcomes and the birth of the blue box was one such.

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