Kuro House
2024Private Residence · Alibaug, Maharashtra
Architecture · Interiors · Landscape
Designing Spaces You'll Love for Life.
ArShe Design Studio composes calm, enduring spaces — restrained material palettes, daylight studied season by season, and detailing precise enough to disappear.
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The Studio
Restraint, light and craft — held to an architectural standard.
We work in a narrow register: warm plaster, honest timber, quiet stone, and the generous emptiness between them. Every project begins with how you actually move through a day, and ends with details resolved down to the shadow gap.
Founded in 2014, the studio delivers architecture, interior architecture and landscape under one coordinated team — so nothing between disciplines is left to chance.
120+
Projects
12
Years
4
Disciplines
98%
Referral rate
Selected Work
Projects drawn with the same quiet discipline.
Interior Types
Every space asks a different question.
Seven areas of practice, each with its own philosophy, services and detail language.
Philosophy
Four materials, chosen once, carried through.
We limit every project to a small family of honest materials and let proportion, daylight and craft do the rest. Surfaces are chosen to age — oiled oak, lime plaster, unlacquered copper, quarried stone.
Architecture
Ground-up design, massing, approvals and site supervision.
Interior Design
Interior architecture, joinery, finishes and furniture curation.
Landscape
Courtyards, terraces and gardens designed as outdoor rooms.
Turnkey Execution
Single-accountability delivery from drawing to handover.
Process
Six steps, no ambiguity.
- 01
Listen
A long conversation about how you live, work and host — before any drawing.
- 02
Study
Site, light, climate and constraints documented and measured.
- 03
Design
Plans, three-dimensional studies and a full material palette.
- 04
Document
Working drawings precise enough to remove ambiguity on site.
- 05
Build
Weekly supervision, one coordinator, photographic records.
- 06
Hand over
Care guides, warranties and a return visit after the first season.
Clients
“They designed the silence as carefully as the rooms.”
R. Menon — Kuro House
“Guests stay twice as long as they did in our old space.”
M. Iyer — Lantern Cafe
“Conversion rose 22% in the first quarter.”
N. Kapadia — Arch Boutique
Articles & Stories
Notes from the studio.
Materials
Quiet Luxury: Building a Material Palette That Ages Well
Why four honest materials, chosen carefully, will always outperform a dozen fashionable ones.
12 June 2026 · 6 min read
Lighting
The Four Layers of Light Every Room Needs
Ambient, task, accent and decorative — and why most homes only ever install one of them.
28 May 2026 · 7 min read
Budget Planning
How to Budget an Interior Without Losing the Design
Where to spend, where to save, and the three line items that always run over.
9 May 2026 · 8 min read
Let's design something you'll love for life.
Tell us about your space. We'll tell you honestly what it needs.