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Making
It Work
Making
It Work
Working from home sounds like a single idea. In reality, it’s a set of negotiations—with space, sound, light, time, other people, and sometimes, yourself.
Cover Image:
Sumedha Sah
WHAT’S IN
WHAT’S IN THIS NOOK?
Being the master of your time
Different homes, different systems
Setting your own rules
THIS NOOK?
Five people. Five houses. Five ways of making work work.
These are five people who don’t follow a template. Instead, they’ve built small systems that fit their homes, their bodies, their families, and their temperaments. Imperfect solutions, that hold.
1. Sumedha Sah, Bengaluru
Artist, illustrator, architect
In a duplex home, the smallest room upstairs is a studio for Sumedha, shared with Kartikeya who works hybrid. It opens into a terrace brimming with plants. It also opens into family life.
What she does
What she avoids
What makes it work
2. Gowri N Kishore, Bengaluru
Writer and content strategist
Gowri works from the living–dining area of a rented 2BHK she’s lived in for over a decade. The separation isn’t spatial. It’s mental.
What she does
What she avoids
What makes it work
3. Pooja Saxena, Noida
Typeface and graphic designer
Pooja has been working from home long before it became normal. Today, she and her partner Amber live in a 3BHK house where work is taken seriously—and has its own place.
What she does
What she avoids
What makes it work
4. Devangana Dash, New Delhi
Book designer, visual designer, writer
Devangana’s smallest bedroom is her studio. Inside it are two tables, two moods, and a conscious separation between digital and analogue.
What she does
What she avoids
What makes it work
5. Manav Dhiman, New Delhi
Type and graphic designer
Manav and his flatmate chose this rental apartment after seeing 30–35 others. Light was non-negotiable. Everything else followed.
What he does
What he avoids
What makes it work
In constant adjustment between control and flexibility, separation and overlap, is where it begins to work.
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What these homes have in common
What they share is intent:
- Knowing what kind of work you do
- Knowing what distracts you
- Designing just enough around it
Modern Indian homes don’t make work easy by default. But these people didn’t wait for the perfect house. They adjusted, negotiated, and built small rules that held.
Maybe...you can too.
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