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What he wanted
Pankaj came to us with a clear, short list: a modular kitchen, a crockery unit for the dining area, two wardrobes for the bedrooms, and a TV unit for the living room. He had gathered a few photographs of things he liked, and he knew his own mind on one point in particular. The TV unit was not to be a storage piece. He wanted it to hold the television and the remote, nothing more.
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The challenge
It would have been easy to offer more than he asked for, an extra shelf here, a cabinet there, the sort of additions most homes end up with. The real task was to give each piece exactly the job it was meant to do, and stop.
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The idea
The TV unit stayed as simple as he wanted, a wood-paneled wall with a ledge for the remote and a small display niche beside it, and nothing else added on. The crockery unit, in contrast, was allowed to be generous, a tall tower of shelves and glass ledges built for displaying the pieces Pankaj wanted on view. The modular kitchen followed in the same warm dark tones, with a marble backsplash to keep it bright at the counter. In the bedrooms, the two wardrobes each did a little more than store clothes. One kept an open shelf niche for books, the other built a full-length mirror and a pair of drawers into its center, so it also worked as a place to dress. Working from the photographs Pankaj brought us, we matched the finishes and the mood he already had in mind, rather than starting the conversation from nothing.
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