How to calculate the Net Carpet Aarea of an apartment / residential dwelling at actual building site?

In context to one of our earlier blog posts: " Super built-up area is how many times the total floor area in percentage? "...

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Pepping up the Powerhouse of your Home -- The Kitchen

A kitchen is not just the place for cooking and preparing meals. It is essentially the powerhouse of the entire house, which in tu...

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Wall lights versus Ceiling or Floor lights-- What is your choice?

While the ultra-urban & modern school of architecture abhors the provision of wall lights on the wall surfaces, a lot many households st...

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[Tips-n-Bits]: Remodeling fixing of wash basins (Common dos & don'ts)

We had discussed in an earlier post how people even in very ordinary households in today's world are preferring to...

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Astoundingly Designed & Nicely Crafted Porch at one of the Big Ticket Hotels in India

Time and again, whenever we come across this image of this well conceived and equally well crafted Porch of one of the big ticket ...

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Simple Yet Enchanting Guest House Building in a Remote Village in Central India

Sharing with our readers a simple but well maintained guest house in a remote village in Central part of India, the beauty of wh...

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[New Series]- Architectural journey through the heart of Rural India

An eye-catching home somewhere in the heart of rural Indian hamlet To a commoner, people in villages make good h...

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Trendy Open or Semi-open Kitchens cum Serving/ Dining Platform Spaces

It has almost become a trend to have Open or Semi-open #Kitchens cum Serving/ #Dining Platform Spaces here in Asia, li...

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Roaming and Surfing through the Uber-Cool Celebrity Homes, Virtually though!

Ever since luxury and celebrity homes exist in this world, the common people rave to have a glimpse of them primarily to have a ...

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What are 'Corian' Solid Surfaces? What are their applications in Sanitary, Kitchen & Other Usage?

A young female undergraduate of architecture with a husky but sweet voice on the other side of the phone had a question for Br...

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[Engineering Graffiti]: Amazing Dome Roof's Underlay Design

Amazing Dome Roof's Underlay Design The picture shared here in this web post, was shot in year 2007, and is from Bricksnmor...

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Regarding 'Guess which Building Material/ Product is this!'

[This post is in continuation of yesterday's post-- " Guess which Building Material/ Product is this! "] --- Congratulations...

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Standard Sizes of Doors & Windows for Residential Buildings in Indian Conditions

Sharing the information Team BricksnMortar provided to one of our followers (Abha Dewan) on twitter based on query received from he...

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Can super fancy & super luxury homes prove to be ideal, comfortable, liveable homes?

The age old adage says... "if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under a tree". Similarly, if a h...

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[Web-share]: Dynamic Architecture - Rotating Tower

Sharing an amazing idea of imagineering+architecture+construction dream :-) Though we are not sure whether such an ambitious but eccentri...

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[Snapshots]: (PART-2/2) - Perfect example of an enchanting Temple Architecture

Shri Radha-Shyam Temple near Kacheguda Railway Station, Hyderabad, India About the snapshot : A few days ago, we published the 5th pos...

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