Can an old Malleshwaram house be renovated rather than gutted?

It usually should be. High ceilings, red oxide floors, teak doors and a courtyard are worth more than anything that would replace them; the design keeps them, repairs what needs repairing, and plans the kitchen, the bathrooms, the wiring and the storage the house never had. The quote names what stays and what goes.

Do you design a pooja room properly, not as an afterthought?

Yes — in teak, brass and marble, lit for the morning, and placed where Vastu and the plan can agree. In an old house it is often the room the family cares about most, and it is designed first, not last.

How do we begin a project in Malleshwaram?

Send a floor plan and a short brief. Within 7 days you receive photorealistic views of three of your rooms, a material board and an indicative range — complimentary, and without obligation. Site visits in Malleshwaram follow once the design agreement begins.

Interior designers in Malleshwaram

Old Bangalore at its most itself: houses with age and proportion, and new towers beside them, each asking for a different restraint.

Transitional living room with a fluted limestone fireplace wall, linen sofas and steel doors onto a garden, designed by Élara & Co.

Homes in Malleshwaram

What we design here

Malleshwaram has the city's oldest streets and some of its best-proportioned houses — high ceilings, deep verandahs, red oxide floors worth keeping — beside new high-rise communities in Rajajinagar and Yeshwanthpur. The two kinds of home ask for opposite things: the old house for restraint and repair, the new tower for a plan that gives a builder shell a point of view.

Old Family Houses
Houses on the numbered crosses and mains with real ceilings and courtyards, rebuilt for the next generation without losing what made them home.
Floor Apartments
A floor of a family house or a small building of a few large flats, with the scale to take a serious kitchen and a pooja room designed rather than fitted.
New Towers in Rajajinagar
3 and 4 BHKs in the large communities toward Rajajinagar and Yeshwanthpur, where storage, a replanned kitchen and layered light turn a shell into a home.

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In and Around

Wherever home is in Malleshwaram

The localities a homeowner in Malleshwaram would call theirs. About 24 km from the studio at Balagere, across the city; site visits are planned for the quieter hours. Studio visits and site meetings are by appointment; design begins from your floor plan, wherever the home stands.

Malleshwaram
Rajajinagar
Yeshwanthpur
Seshadripuram
Vyalikaval
Mathikere
Sadashivanagar
Sanjay Nagar

Communities

The homes of Malleshwaram, by name

The gated communities and towers a homeowner in Malleshwaram is most likely to live in. Each is handed over as a shell or a standard fit-out, and the account above of what those homes need applies to all of them; a plan from any of them is enough to begin.

Brigade Gateway
Phoenix Kessaku

Nearby

Homes from the portfolio near Malleshwaram

In Design6 rooms

Double-height living room with a limestone arch onto a fumed oak library wall, a ribbed oak ceiling, a brass chandelier, curved ivory bouclé sofas and a bronze sculpture

Dining room with fluted fumed oak panelling, a long limestone table with ivory bouclé chairs, a bronze branch chandelier, a stone console with a sculpture and a large abstract canvas

Primary bedroom with a fumed oak headboard panel, brass reading lights, a slim brass pendant, an ivory bouclé bed with a camel throw and a limestone bench

Kitchen with fumed oak cabinetry, a honed limestone island with waterfall ends, three brass globe pendants, lit brass-framed shelves and a fluted oak breakfast nook

Pooja room with a backlit honey onyx wall, a marble altar with a brass idol and diyas, carved oak jaali doors, a brass pendant and marigold garlands

Stair hall with a cantilevered limestone staircase, a slim brass handrail, a cascading brass and glass pendant, fumed oak panelling and an olive tree

The Limestone Arch Villa

5BHK villa · Yelahanka · Contemporary Classic

Walk through every room, priced₹34.9L – ₹64L*

In Design6 rooms

Modern transitional living room with a fluted limestone fireplace wall, two natural linen sofas, a caramel leather armchair, a white oak coffee table and black steel doors onto a garden

Kitchen with warm-white matt PU cabinetry, a plaster range hood with oak trim, a honed limestone island with waterfall end, oak stools, open oak shelves and black iron pendants

Dining room with a long white oak table, linen chairs, a black iron and brass linear chandelier, fluted oak panelling, a fluted stone sideboard and a black steel window

Primary bedroom with a white oak plank headboard wall, a linen bed with a wool throw, brass reading lights, oak bedside tables with stone lamps and a black steel door onto a balcony

Moody home office panelled floor to ceiling in charcoal matt PU with built-in shelves, a white oak and black steel desk, a brass desk lamp, a caramel leather chair and a garden window

Primary bathroom in honed limestone with a floating white oak vanity, twin stone basins, brass taps and wall lights, a black steel-framed glass shower and a window with a fern

The Stone & Linen House

4BHK villa · Yelahanka · Modern Transitional

Walk through every room, priced₹26.1L – ₹48.6L*

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How We Work

The same way, in every neighbourhood

Three Rooms Rendered in 7 Days

Send a floor plan and a brief; photorealistic views of three of your rooms, a material board and an indicative range follow within 7 days, complimentary.

One Studio, One Contract

Design and execution under one roof, with a named project manager from the first meeting to a styled handover — and weekly photographed reports in your app.

111 Checks, Each Recorded

ÉLARA 111 inspects the build at arrival, closing, finish and handover; every one of the 111 checks is photographed or measured.

Considered Questions

Before you begin

Can an old Malleshwaram house be renovated rather than gutted?: It usually should be. High ceilings, red oxide floors, teak doors and a courtyard are worth more than anything that would replace them; the design keeps them, repairs what needs repairing, and plans the kitchen, the bathrooms, the wiring and the storage the house never had. The quote names what stays and what goes.
Do you design a pooja room properly, not as an afterthought?: Yes — in teak, brass and marble, lit for the morning, and placed where Vastu and the plan can agree. In an old house it is often the room the family cares about most, and it is designed first, not last.
How do we begin a project in Malleshwaram?: Send a floor plan and a short brief. Within 7 days you receive photorealistic views of three of your rooms, a material board and an indicative range — complimentary, and without obligation. Site visits in Malleshwaram follow once the design agreement begins.