Room sheet · Living room · Mumbai region

₹3–10L

Living room · TV wall + ceiling · ex. loose seating

The one room every guest sees — which is exactly why it tempts overspending.

Carpet area

140–260 sqft

TV wall

9–12 rft

Lead time

5–7 wks post-design

Share of 2 BHK BOQ

~18%

01 · THE HONEST ANSWER

Place the sofa first. The rest is geometry.

The most expensive mistake in a living room is sequence — designing the TV unit before the seating is placed. The sofa position decides the electrical, the cove, the AC throw and the focal wall.

A living room is the one space the whole house and every guest sees. The honest budget sits in three places: the TV wall and its joinery, the ceiling and its lighting layers, and one feature wall.

Loose seating — sofa, accent chair, rug — is yours to choose and sits outside this number. What we price is the fixed layer: the wall-mounted unit, the back panel, the concealed storage, and the three lighting layers a living room needs to hold more than one mood. Get the sofa placed and the wall follows it; reverse the order and you lock into a wall the room never wanted.

50+

Homes delivered

7

CLARITY gates

100%

BOQ itemized

47

Handover checks

02 · WHERE THE BUDGETS GOES

Four pieces. Seating is yours.

The split for a living room fit-out. The TV wall carries the joinery; the ceiling carries the lighting; one feature wall carries the character. Loose furniture stays out of the number.

Focal

₹1.4–3.2L

TV wall & unit

Wall-mounted unit + fluted veneer back panel with LED backlight + concealed storage.

Yours

By client

Seating

Sofa, accent chair, rug — loose furniture you choose. Sits outside the fit-out number.

Layer

₹50k–1.4L

Ceiling & lighting

Peripheral gypsum + cove, three light layers: ambient, task, accent.

Character

₹40k–1.2L

Feature wall

One wall — texture, veneer or wallpaper. The room’s single deliberate contrast.

Ranges assume base–mid spec across a 180 sqft living-dining. Loose seating, dining table and drapery are listed separately on a furniture schedule.

A REAL BOQ

The number on the paper. Line by line.

A real BOQ from a delivered living room — sections, items, units, rates. A few rates are redacted where studios prefer not to share; the structure is exactly what you’d receive at Gate 05 before signing.

Loose seating — sofa, accent chairs, rugs, curtains — is excluded by design. It is yours to choose and belongs on a separate furniture schedule, not the fit-out BOQ, so the joinery cost stays honest and comparable.

04 · FIELD EXPERIENCE

Six things we’d avoid in a living room.

Patterns we see again and again — on our own early projects and on the quotes clients bring us to audit. Each one is cheap to avoid on paper and expensive to fix on site.

01

A TV unit designed before the seating layout.

The sofa position decides everything — electrical, cove lighting, AC placement. Designing the TV unit first locks you into a wall that may not be the right one.

Rework

wrong wal

02

Recessed ceiling lights as the only lighting layer.

Downlights flatten a room. A living room needs at least three layers — ambient (cove), task (reading lamp), and accent (track or wall washer). One layer is one mood forever.

One mood

forever

03

An L-shaped sofa in a room under 150 sqft.

An L-shape dominates a small living room and kills circulation. A 2+1 arrangement with a separate accent chair gives flexibility and breathing room.

Kills

circulation

04

Electrical points planned without knowing the furniture layout.

A 5-pin socket behind where the sofa ends up is useless. Every electrical point — charging, lamp, router, speaker — should be marked on the layout drawing against the confirmed furniture position. Moving a point after plastering costs ₹950 + patching.

₹950

per point moved

05

Open shelving without a dust strategy.

Open shelves look great in renders. In Mumbai they collect dust in three days. Use glass-fronted units, or limit open shelves to two or three curated spots.

Dust

in 3 days

06

AC placement decided by the electrician, not the designer.

The split-AC position affects the false ceiling design, the cove lighting layout, and the sofa placement below it. If the AC point is fixed before the layout is finalised, the room ends up designed around the AC instead of the other way round.

Layout

not the wiring

06 · FROM THE JOURNAL

Living room entries.

Field notes and methods from the studio — the thinking behind the numbers above.