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Plumbing older than the fittings
Galvanised iron lines are common in houses of this vintage. They corrode from the inside, so pressure drops before anything leaks. Replacing the line is the job; replacing the tap is decoration.
Bengaluru · Sadashivanagar
Interior designers in Sadashivanagar
Sadashivanagar, RMV Extension, RMV 2nd Stage and Dollars Colony, old-money Bengaluru, large plots, and houses that were built well enough to be worth renovating properly.
Sadashivanagar, apartmentThe common housing type here. Shot inside, not the building exterior.
Sadashivanagar, villa or independent floorThe second housing type, so the page speaks to both buyers.
₹600 to ₹1100per sq ft in SadashivanagarFree site measureAnd a written estimate either way₹1,000 a dayIf we miss the handover date
The short answer
What work in Sadashivanagar looks like.
Almost nothing here is a standard 2 BHK fit-out. Sadashivanagar and the streets around it. RMV Extension, RMV 2nd Stage, Dollars Colony, are independent houses on large plots, many of them thirty or forty years old and structurally sound. The work is usually a full renovation rather than a first fit-out: opening up rooms that were partitioned for a different era, replacing plumbing that predates the fittings it now feeds, and building joinery for ceilings that are taller than anything a catalogue is designed for. Budgets start around ₹18 lakh and run well past a crore.
The housing stock
What we find behind the walls.
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Ceilings that catalogues cannot reach
11 and 12 foot ceilings are normal here. Standard 7-foot wardrobe modules leave a metre of dead air, so the joinery is drawn for the room rather than configured from a set of module widths.
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Load-bearing walls, not frames
Older construction here is often load-bearing masonry rather than an RCC frame. Which walls can come down is a structural question, not a design one, and it needs a site visit before any layout is promised.
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Wood worth keeping
Teak windows, doors and staircases in these houses are usually better than anything you could buy now. Restoring them costs less than replacing them and is the reason the house feels like itself afterwards.
Scope and cost
What it costs around here.
At this end of the market the per-square-foot rate stops being the useful number, because the variance is in what the house needs rather than in the finish you choose. Bespoke and villa-grade work runs ₹900 to ₹3000 per square foot, and a whole-house renovation in Sadashivanagar typically lands between ₹18 lakh and ₹85 lakh.
The honest way to scope one of these is a site survey before a number, not after it. We will walk the house, open one section of plumbing, check the ceiling and the wiring, and then quote. Anyone who gives you a firm price for a forty-year-old house over the phone is guessing, and the guess will be revised.
Questions
Asked and answered.
Yes, this page covers Sadashivanagar, RMV Extension, RMV 2nd Stage and Dollars Colony, because they are one market with the same housing stock. We did not build four near-identical pages for them, which is what the search result you probably arrived from is full of.
Usually yes, in phases. With a house this size it is often better. You move between floors rather than out. Dust barriers, a fixed working-hours window, and the wet trades grouped so you lose one bathroom at a time.
We restore what is there, teak joinery, mosaic and stone floors, original doors, and build new work that does not pretend to be older than it is. What we do not do is structural conservation on a listed building, which is a specialist discipline.
There is no minimum for this area in practice, because the smallest job we are usually asked for, a kitchen and two bathrooms in a house like this, is already a substantial scope.
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