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 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.
C
Consult
L
Layout
A
Aesthetics
R
Render
I
Itemize
T
Track
Y
Yours
C
Consult
L
Layout
A
Aesthetics
R
Render
I
Itemize
T
Track
Y
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.