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No. The first site visit is free and carries no obligation, and on a house of this type it is a longer visit than most. We measure every room, take levels across the junctions between the original structure and the later additions, check ceiling and slab heights on each side of those joins, open a switchboard to see what the existing wiring actually is, look for damp along the plinth and any shared boundary wall, and check the condition of the terrace waterproofing. We also ask how many households the house currently holds and how many it needs to hold, because that governs the plan more than the square footage does. Indicative ranges follow the visit, an itemised quote follows the layout, and nothing is chargeable before you decide to proceed.

Our published indicative ranges here put a full 3 BHK interior at ₹12–20 lakh, a 4 BHK or large home at ₹20–35 lakh, and a luxury turnkey project at ₹35 lakh+. Model Town houses sit higher in those bands more often than their floor area alone would suggest, and the reason is almost always the preparatory work rather than the furniture — levelling floors across staged additions, rewiring for a load nobody anticipated in the original build, treating damp, and re-plastering where the render has stopped bonding to the brick. A comparable new house needs none of that. Every quote separates the remedial civil work from the interiors line by line, so you can see precisely what the house's history is costing you and decide on each item.

In most cases yes, and there are three routes. The floors can be brought to a common level, which means a screed or a levelling layer over the lower portion and usually means losing a little ceiling height there — the cleanest result and the most expensive. They can be joined with a properly designed transition, a shallow ramped threshold rather than a trip step, which is far cheaper and entirely acceptable where the difference is modest. Or the level change can be kept deliberately and articulated as a step with its own material and lighting, which works well where the two portions genuinely serve different purposes. We take levels across the whole house at the survey stage and show you the cost and the height consequence of each option before you choose.

Yes, and this is the most common brief in Model Town. The principle is that each household needs a complete zone rather than a floor: bedrooms, its own bathroom, and ideally a prep pantry with a sink, a point for a refrigerator and a small hob off the main kitchen, so that everyday cooking does not require negotiating a single shared space. Shared rooms are then designed to be genuinely shared rather than becoming the informal property of whoever lives closest to them. The acoustic treatment of the slab between floors matters more than people expect, since footfall carries straight through a bare RCC slab. Separate electricity metering is worth discussing early if the arrangement is likely to become permanent.

Not as a rule, and frequently you should not. Houses of this period often contain solid teak doors, window frames, staircase balustrades and stone flooring that would be extremely expensive to reproduce at the same quality today. Where the material is sound, restoration is usually both cheaper and better than replacement — teak can be stripped back and refinished in a lighter tone, which addresses the real complaint, since what dates these houses is the dark polish rather than the wood itself. What we do recommend replacing is anything that has failed rather than merely aged: borer-damaged frames, cracked or hollow-sounding flooring, and hardware that no longer closes properly. We identify which is which at the survey and put both options in the quote.

Into the plan, at the survey stage, rather than into whichever room is free at the end. In practice that means a home office with a lockable door and an approach that lets a visitor reach it without walking through the family's part of the house; fireproof, lockable document storage sized for the actual volume of ledgers and records rather than a token cupboard; a safe recessed into masonry rather than standing inside a wardrobe, which is where they are most often found and most easily removed; and bulk storage for samples or stock routed so that deliveries do not cross the living areas. Given a defined space this is straightforward. Left undefined it expands into a bedroom, which is usually what has already happened.

Yes, and in Model Town it is the norm because these houses are large enough to phase properly. We sequence wing by wing or floor by floor, seal the active zone with temporary dust partitions, and keep a functioning kitchen and at least one bathroom available throughout. The stages you cannot work around are rewiring a floor, chipping walls for concealed plumbing, and floor levelling, all of which make a zone genuinely unusable for a period — so those are scheduled in a single block per zone rather than spread across the programme. Phasing adds time, typically two to four weeks on a full-house scope, and that appears on the dated schedule before you commit rather than emerging halfway through.

Design and drawings run three to four weeks on a house of this size, because the level survey and the reconciliation of the staged additions have to be resolved on paper first. Site work is typically twelve to twenty weeks for a full bungalow, and the variable is almost entirely the preparatory work rather than the joinery. A house needing complete rewiring, damp treatment, re-plastering and floor levelling before any carpentry can begin will sit at the upper end; one where the services are sound and the scope is largely finishes and furniture will sit well below it. Phasing around an occupied house adds two to four weeks. You get a dated schedule before work starts, a named site supervisor and a weekly update against it.