About · Founder & studio
Practising since 2022 · 50+ homes
Index №04 · Spring 2026
Who's behind Behomly.
One architect, one studio,
50+ homes — so far.
Behomly is the studio of Sumant Padhy — architect, registered with the Council of Architecture, working out of Thane and Bhubaneswar. We’re founder-led and intentionally small. There’s a team behind the projects, but the architect on your call, your floor, and your final invoice is the same person.
04 · SERVICES
An architect, not a company.
Sumant trained as an architect at IIT Kharagpur and spent six years working on residential and mixed-use projects in Mumbai before starting Behomly in 2022. He still draws every layout that goes out under the studio name. The CLARITY framework — seven gates from first call to keys — came out of that discipline: nothing leaves the studio without being on paper, and signed.
The team rotates by project — a draughter, a 3D artist, two site supervisors, a vendor manager. But there’s one architect across 50+ homes. That’s the point. If you’re hiring Behomly, you’re hiring Sumant.
B.Arch
2013 — 2018
Council of Architecture
CA / 2019 / 109876
Practice · Mumbai & BBSR
Since 2022
Homes delivered
50 · MMR + Odisha
Why this studio
It started with a bad quote.
Written from the Thane studio.
Spring 2026.
First draft published 2023, revised twice since.
I
was helping my uncle furnish a flat in 2021. A studio he’d shortlisted sent across a single-number quote for ₹14 lakh. “All-inclusive.” When we asked what was inside, the answer came back as a five-line email:kitchen, wardrobes, false ceiling, painting, electrical. No quantities. No brands. No drawings.
He signed it. By month five the number had grown to ₹19.2 lakh. Most of it wasn’t anyone cheating — it was things nobody had defined in the first place. A 2.4m wardrobe became 3.1m because the wall was longer than someone remembered. A kitchen got an island that wasn’t in the first conversation. The original quote was a fiction, and the only way to make it true was to keep adding line items nobody had read.
“A quote before a design is a guess. The number you sign should come after the drawings, not before.“
That’s the entire premise of this studio. We design first — layout, mood, materials, 3D — and only then write the BOQ. Every line has a vendor, a quantity, a price. You read it. You push back on it. You sign it. After that, what changes is what you change, and every change becomes its own line.
50+ homes in, final invoices land within 10–15% of the signed BOQ — almost entirely from scope clients added during execution. We can’t promise the number won’t move. Real homes have moving parts, and a thirty-year-old wall sometimes hides things nobody expected. What we promise is that nothing moves quietly.
That’s what we’re selling. Not certainty — clarity. The map will change. You’ll see the change.
Sumant Padhy ·Architect, Behomly · Thane & Bhubaneswar
The studio, on paper
Studio facts, no-spin.
The boring stuff up front — entity, address, what we will and won’t take on. Same answers we’d give in the first call.
Legal entity
Usquare Design Lab Pvt. Ltd.
Registered in Maharashtra · CIN U74999MH2022PTC394801
Bhubaneswar office
A-202, Vinayadeep Apartment, Ashok Nagar
Odisha · 751009 · By appointment
Founder & lead architect
Sumant Padhy
Council of Architecture · CA / 2019 / 109876
Team
One architect · five rotating roles
Draughter · 3D artist · 2 site supervisors · vendor manager
Studio hub
Lodha Business Centre, Majiwada, Thane (W)
Maharashtra · 400601 · By appointment
Service radius
Mumbai Metropolitan Region · Bhubaneswar
Sites outside MMR & BBSR · by exception, with travel
We take on
Residential interiors. Apartments, villas, renovations.
2 BHK to 4 BHK · possession-fresh, lived-in, or under construction
We do not take on
Offices · retail · F&B · hotels · staging-only briefs.
Architecture (shell) is a separate engagement — we’ll refer if needed.
Vendor model
Specified, not partnered.
Brands chosen per project. No kickbacks, no exclusive supply deals.
Concurrent projects · cap
Twelve at any time
So the architect can be on every site, every week.
How we work
04 · How we work
The method has a name.
Seven gates, between first call and keys. Each one ends with something on paper — not a meeting. Read the whole thing on the home page; here’s just the seven letters.
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Consult
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Layout
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Aesthetics
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Render
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Itemize
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Track
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Yours
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Consult
L
Layout
A
Aesthetics
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Render
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Itemize
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Track
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Yours
BEGIN
Sixty minutes.
No deck. No deposit.
One conversation. No obligation. You leave with a brief, a budget bracket, and a feasibility note — whether or not we end up working together.