Kitchen · Bandra West, Mumbai · 2025
The Long Kitchen
Eleven feet by nine, cooking for six most nights.
- Location
- Bandra West, Mumbai
- Type
- Kitchen
- Configuration
- Galley kitchen
- Carpet area
- 320 sq ft
- Finish
- Bespoke
- On site
- 11 weeks
- Completed
- 2025
Brief
A family that actually cooks — three meals a day, two cooks in the room at once, and a tiffin run every morning.
Constraint
A single window, a beam at 2.1 metres, and a plumbing stack that could not move more than 300mm.
Decisions
- 01
Split the run
Wet work one side, dry and heat the other. It sounds obvious; the previous layout had the sink beside the hob.
- 02
Dropped the ceiling only where the beam is
A full false ceiling would have cost 200mm across the whole room. A local drop kept the rest at full height.
- 03
Drawers, not shutters, below the counter
More expensive per running foot, and the only decision nobody has questioned since.
Before / after
Eleven feet by nine, cooking for six most nights.