From a single kitchen to a multi-floor corporate fit-out
Homeowners
The largest share of our work, and the most varied. Within it there are four distinct situations, and they are genuinely different projects even when the flat plans look alike.
New possession
A developer handover with basic flooring and a token kitchen platform. Scope is a full fit-out inside the developer's fit-out window, usually with a hard end date and a deposit at stake.
Redevelopment return
A family moving back onto their own plot into a new tower. Usually a smaller carpet area, a taller ceiling and thirty years of possessions. Storage-led, not finish-led.
Renovation of an occupied home
The hardest residential brief. Phased room by room, with the family living through it, and a survey of the existing services before anything is promised.
Single-room and single-element work
A kitchen, a wardrobe run, a home theatre or a home office. Smaller, faster, and often the way a client tests a studio before a full-home project.
Published residential work includes the Palghar Residence 3BHK, a master bedroom suite with a built-in study, a home office on the twenty-eighth floor, a marble and lacquer modular kitchen and a private home theatre. Most residential clients ask not to be named, which we respect — the projects are published, the families are not.
Offices
Commercial work runs from a 1,200 sq ft startup suite to a multi-floor corporate headquarters, and the constraint that shapes every one of them is the building, not the brief. Landlord fit-out manuals, nominated base-build vendors, service-lift slots and night-shift permissions decide the programme.
Our reference commercial project is Sleepmax, a corporate office delivered in four phases inside an occupied building with no lost trading days. It is published in three parts: the overall fit-out, the boardroom and the open workspace.
Retail, hospitality and healthcare
Three categories that share one characteristic: the space earns money, so every extra day of programme has a number attached to it. Retail work is lighting-led and fixture-led, and is usually delivered against a fixed opening date. Hospitality is finish-heavy and MEP-heavy. Clinics and healthcare premises add infection-control surfaces, dedicated services and regulatory constraints that have to be designed in from the first sketch rather than added at the end.
What each engagement looks like
| Client type | Typical scope | Typical budget band (ex-GST) | Typical programme | Contract shape |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homeowner — single room | Kitchen, wardrobe run, study or theatre | ₹3 L – 12 L | 6 – 10 weeks | Fixed-price, one milestone schedule |
| Homeowner — full home | 1–4BHK turnkey | ₹7 L – 60 L+ | 10 – 18 weeks | Fixed-price, five-milestone schedule |
| Office — small suite | 1,200 – 4,000 sq ft warm-shell completion | ₹25 L – 1.5 Cr | 6 – 10 weeks | Fixed-price plus named provisional sums |
| Office — corporate floor | 6,000 – 25,000 sq ft full fit-out | ₹1.7 Cr – 16 Cr | 13 – 18 weeks | Phased handover, milestone-linked |
| Retail / showroom | Fixtures, lighting, shopfront, branding | ₹18 L – 1.2 Cr | 5 – 9 weeks | Fixed opening date, penalty-aware |
| Hospitality / clinic | Front of house, services, compliance finishes | ₹35 L – 3 Cr | 10 – 16 weeks | Phased, compliance-gated |
All figures exclude 18% GST. Commercial bands assume chargeable area and exclude landlord-nominated vendor packages, which are carried as named provisional sums.
What we ask of clients
A good project is a two-sided arrangement, and it is fairer to say what we need than to discover it in week six.
- A decision-maker. One person who can approve a variation. Projects with two clients who disagree in writing cost more than projects with a tight budget.
- Honest numbers at the start. Tell us the real budget. We will tell you what it buys and what it does not, and if it does not stretch we will suggest phasing rather than thinning the specification everywhere.
- Decisions at the design stage. A change on paper is free. The same change on site is priced. After handover it is expensive.
- Access as agreed. Site access, society paperwork signed on time, and a working service lift booking. Most delays we see are access delays, not trade delays.
- Variations in writing. We price every change and its programme impact before executing it. Verbal changes agreed on site are the single largest source of end-of-project disputes in this industry.
Confidentiality
We publish a project only with the client's consent. Commercial clients frequently have branding, security or lease reasons for restricting photographs of a floor plate, and residential clients generally do not want their home identified. Where a client prefers not to be named, we publish the work by project type and describe the constraints without identifying the premises. If you would rather your project never appear anywhere, say so at contract stage and it will not.
Commercial work by Greenbox Design Studio. Tap any image to enlarge.
Frequently asked questions
Which clients can you name?+
Sleepmax, whose corporate office fit-out is published in three case studies. Most other commercial clients restrict publication for branding, security or lease reasons, and most residential clients prefer not to be identified. We publish the work; we name the client only with written consent.
Do you work on single rooms or only full homes?+
Both. A modular kitchen, a wardrobe run, a home office or a home theatre are all projects we take on their own, typically ₹3–12 lakh and six to ten weeks. A number of our full-home clients started with a single room as a way of testing how the studio actually works.
What is the smallest commercial project you take?+
Around 1,200 sq ft — a small suite or a startup office at warm-shell completion. Below that the landlord approvals, deposits and mandated vendor packages tend to cost more in coordination than the fit-out itself, and a serviced office is usually the better commercial answer.
Can I speak to a client who had a similar project?+
Yes. Before you commit we will connect you with a past client whose project matched yours in scope, budget and building type. We suggest asking them about variations, how delays were communicated and how the snag list was closed — those answers are more revealing than a testimonial.
Will my project be published?+
Only if you agree. Consent is asked for at contract stage and can be declined without any effect on the work. Where consent is given we normally publish the project type, the constraints and the specification, and we exclude anything that identifies the premises unless you are happy for it to appear.