CHAI @ RAJIV MAJUMDAR’S 450 Sqft HOME
*An Indian By Design Exclusive*
Rajiv Majumdar’s 450 sq ft apartment had just enough space for his 6 foot 4 frame, his guitars, books and speakers. Though it did have its plus points. Enough light from a long balcony and enough freedom to break down all the walls as the flat belonged to his mother.
The first thing he did was break a few walls – the kitchen, the balcony, the bathroom and the bedroom. Then set up a fully equipped kitchenette with a sliding mirror door that shut when not in use, which is almost always (I did suggest he dismantle it and set up a phone, for takeaway).
The Living (he designed everything including that big comfortable bench and the delightful rug, except for, of course, the ‘insert drumroll here’ Eames Chair)
The Dining (Love the Orange school chairs)
The Kitchenette
The industrial metal pipe four poster
The sliding door bathroom with a Vespa seperator.
The steel bucket sink
The Wardrobe against the window
The plan
Rajiv Majumdar
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Hi Sir,
I love that design
I have house of 15 by 30 feet(450 sq ft).
I want to construct it.I want to make it duplex with 2 floor.
It is facing towards west . as my house is having two sided common wall with the neighbors. Please suggest me with the best plan.
Hi Sir, I have house of 30 by 15 feet(450 sq ft).
I want to construct it.I want to make it duplex.
It is facing towards west . as my house is having three sided common wall with the neighbors. Only front side is used for the windows. Please suggest me with the best plan.
Dear Sir
we have old house we are demolish and want to make niew house
our plote area is 14.9 ft. and 31 ft. its a L shape plot means, we want ground floor one room and whole holl and Ist and 2nd floor two room, kitchen and bath room,
pls help us and suggest and sent a design on my male ID: waseem25jan@gamil.com
Thanks and regard
waseem khan
delhi
Hii Rajiv
Am very impress on your design in 450 sq ft .Can you help me ?
I am planing to demolish our old house and going to Build a new House , can You advice me few Plans ? I need Ground floor, 1st Floor & a Open terrace house with 3 bedrooms. size of land 19′x27′. please contact me in taren.sill@gmail.com
Rgds
Dharma
Hi Suresh here,
I impressed so much rajiv. I have also similar dream. I am owning a 15 ft width and 30 ft deep open land. Can you please tell me the plan to construct a duplex while leaving ground floor for parking. Pls. help me suresh9441@gmail.com
hi all,
My old home is exactly 30×13 with 10 ft verandah in the front. I am planning to squash it completely and build a nice home. My eternal desire to have first floor terrace in the front above original verandah and then 1bhk house.
Now only problem, this house is 30×13 so width wise it is not too big, within which I want to make it really appealing. I saw lots of websites on net but could not come up with anything enchanting.
Can you guys suggest something ? Please use your creativity to post some nice home plans for my pretty much linear home. I think I can combine living with kitchen and living sort of opens to front terrace where I intend to create a nice garden.
thanks for your input in advance.
Subham
Can you please pass Rajiv’s contact address
Wow! This is really stunning.
Do you know where the Eames chair was bought from, by any chance?
I have a 1000 sf ft apartment, that i am dissatisfied with and now, have a purchased a bungalow 2900 sq ft b.u and 5400 l.a and am stumped as what to do about it. Having seen your masterpiece, I am truly floored! Thank you for sharing.
Came across this via Twitter and I must say this was brilliant! Love the minimalism and fantastic use of components as well as space. Great job!
Cheers,
A
Wow, Rajiv
This is a terrific piece of planning and design! I was trying to redo our largish 1BHK in Bandra to now fit our 2 yr old and Suzanna Kurian pointed me your ways. Any chance you might be in Bandra for a possibility to meet?
Love your house!
Thanush
Super Cool! The only thing I’m not sure about though is the Eames chair without the ottoman. Sacrilege IMO.
Dear,
sir/madam,
sub:to get a work experience for five months starting from june.
I am Jyotsna mishra a 6th sem B.Arch student from Manipal Institute Of Technology, Manipal,Karnataka. Kindly, let me know if you take interns , it will be pleasure to work with your team and it will be a lifetime opportunity to work under you. Kindly let me know so that i can mail you my portfolio, CV and any required documents. Looking forward for your reply.
thanking you,
your’s sincerly,
jyotsna mishra
(student M.I.T Manipal)
Hi Rajiv,
I’m Ryan, I’m a writer with a magazine and would like to feature your apartment in an interiors piece I’m doing this feb. could you please mail me at iluvcranberries@gmail.com if you’re interested and we could take it from there.
Thanks.
Landed on this blog through IndiBlogger links, and cherish the content here. This very post depicting one Rajiv’s 450sft remodeled flat is simply awesome… not to forget the blog author’s/ owner’s photography skills.
It simply doesn’t look like a 450 sft flat. Nice planning and execution of the idea.
One request, (please believe, its not for the sake of a posting only), can we mention about this post on our blog with a brief excerpt and note about it so as to share the good work and nice idea and planning with our readers too.
Thanks.
(for Team B-n-M)
Shelly
simply…super…cheers
loved the wardrobe.. great detailing especially the back of the wardrobe….
the Eams Chair commands respect in the house…
a gr8 loking bachlors pad..
cheers
Love the clever use of space…
hi there , really enjoyed the spunk in the apartment … guess i missed the spunk in you when we first met … .. appearences are always deceptive! … smile …
good show man !
Hey
Thanks for sending in my apartment to apartmenttherapy.com!
Big hugs!
WOW..
Loved the steel bucket sink….
And quite unbelievable that it’s a 450 sq ft apartment.. it looks so spacious, uncluttered and beautiful !!
Why do I get the feeling that I know Rajiv?
Do I?
A-knee-way What an interesting and superbly done 450 sq ft home!
Terrific use of light.
Kudo’s to the designer and Rajiv – if your the same guy I used to know in B’lore – i’m not surprised at the Soooper way you’ve done your home ;o])!!!
All the Very Best.
Cheers!
Chippy Gangjee
Pat on the back to the designer….coz just going by these pics no one can imagine that its only 450 sq ft…..
Kavita…love the work you are doing…love the paintings on this site….will have to buy some …..
next time I am in bombay we have to meet up…unless ofcourse your memory completely fades out…as to my existence…ha ha just kidding!!
keep up the great work!!
Love the use of light and space, makes it look fab anothe one to check out is model turned interior designer Fleur Xavier’s design for a house in Bandra….simply fab
Damnit Shabnam, you were meant to come visit with the babies! Amrish shouldn’t have sent you this link.
Subu, you have a lovely home. Any house that serves monster portions of pork chops gets two thumbs up!
really quite amazing rajiv! am most impressed!!
Blow me away! Just for having seen this, you (Rajiv) will not be allowed to enter my house, until I’ve done something outlandishly stunning with it! And Kavi – always been a fan of your blogs. This one takes the cake. Take a bow.