A small practice, on purpose.
House of Anaya was founded by Anaya Sood in New Delhi to work the way the studio believed interiors should be worked: a handful of projects at once, seen through from the first conversation to the last adjusted dimmer.
Anaya Sood, founder — Golf Links, New Delhi
Anaya trained as an architect and spent the first decade of a career on large hospitality projects — hotels where a guest room is signed off once and repeated three hundred times. The work taught rigour and taught its opposite: that the rooms people remember are the ones made for exactly one set of lives.
House of Anaya began with a single apartment for a friend in Nizamuddin, done evenings and weekends, drawn entirely by hand. It set the terms the studio still works to — few projects, long timelines, and a refusal to hand a room over until it is genuinely done.
“I am not interested in a house that photographs well on the first day. I want the one that is still right on a wet Tuesday in the third year.”
Anaya Sood
01
Subtraction first
Every plan is edited down before it is built up. If an element cannot justify itself in proportion, use or light, it leaves the drawing.
02
One finish per surface
Rooms are calmed by consistency. We would rather specify a single plaster taken everywhere than three shades of white that argue with each other.
03
Made, not bought
Cabinetry, beds, tables and lighting are drawn by the studio and made by workshops we know by name — in teak, stone, cane and brass.
04
On site to the end
We stay through installation and styling. The last ten per cent — the shadow gaps, the dimming levels, the height of a picture — is where a room is won or lost.
Five phases, roughly a year and a half.
Conversation
A long first meeting in the space, or in the site if it is still a shell. We listen for how you actually live before anything is drawn.
Concept
A single directive idea, a material board you can hold, and plans at 1:50. We would rather resolve the whole home on paper than discover it on site.
Development
Joinery drawn to the millimetre, lighting circuited room by room, every finish sampled and signed off. Costs are fixed here, not hoped at.
Making
Workshops begin while site works run in parallel. The studio visits both weekly and holds the details.
Installation
We move in before you do — placing furniture, hanging art, setting every dimmer — and hand over a home that is already finished, not nearly.
Every project starts with a conversation.
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