Our Story
Two people. One shared obsession. A lifelong dream of what home could truly feel like.
Chapter One
Gaurav spent over two decades in Dubai building a career, a family and a quiet collection of things he admired: the way sunlight moves across a polished stone floor, the weight of a well-made door handle, the way a room can feel like an exhale.
Living in the Gulf exposed him to a standard of residential design India rarely talked about — and a transparency of process he had come to expect. When he decided to return home, he did not want to compromise. He wanted to build that house. The right one. His way.
What followed was not simple. Finding craftsmen who understood his vision was hard. Finding an interior firm that would be open about costs, timelines and trade-offs was harder. He ended up doing much of it himself — learning, failing, starting over.
Chapter Two
Siddhant's IIT-Delhi engineering years taught him to see problems as systems. His IIM-Ahmedabad MBA sharpened his instinct for what clients really want versus what they say they want. But what neither institution taught him — and what living in one flat after another slowly did — was how much a home can diminish you.
Cramped corridors. No cross-ventilation. Rooms that never caught morning light. A kitchen that faced a wall. He began to realize that most homes in India were designed around maximising square footage sold, not around maximising how alive you felt inside them.
So he started investing in homes. Doing them up. Moving. Doing another one. Each time getting better — more precise about materials, more experimental with layout, more confident about what "openness" actually meant in a built space. By the third home, his friends were asking him to do theirs.
Chapter Three
When Gaurav's villa project started, Siddhant joined him. It was the first time they worked together on something neither fully controlled — and the first time they realized how much their perspectives complemented each other. Gaurav's eye for the luxurious. Siddhant's discipline around process and cost.
The villa turned out beautifully. Fittings imported from Dubai — Gessi taps, Porcelanosa tiles, crystal chandeliers. A team of craftsmen who spent weeks studying Pinterest boards until the execution was pixel-perfect. Civil changes that doubled the light in the living room. A home that felt, for the first time, like it was breathing.
When three families on the same street asked "Who did this?", the answer became the business. Open Homes — Studio & Interiors was born not from ambition, but from a shared answer to a question they had each spent years asking themselves: why should beautiful homes be a secret?
What We Stand For
"Open" is not just our name. It is the lens through which we design every room and run every project.
We design for airflow, natural light and Vaastu alignment. Every layout change we propose starts with a single question: does this make the space breathe? We believe openness in a home is not a luxury — it is a right.
We share quotations line-by-line. We send weekly photo updates from the site. We tell you about delays before they become problems. We have never believed that keeping clients in the dark protects anyone — least of all the project.
We do not have preferred vendor lock-ins. We source the best material for your brief — whether that is a local Rajasthani stone quarry, a Noida hardware market, or a supplier in Dubai who ships to India. Your home deserves the right material, not our margin.
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