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Garden balcony
Vertical planting, a drip line and one deep bench — green you can sit in, alive when you get back from a trip.
Balconies
The best square footage
you're not using.
In Bangalore it's pleasant outside roughly nine months a year, and most balconies hold a washing line and a dead plant. We turn that strip of outdoor into two chairs, a table and somewhere you actually sit — weatherproofed for the monsoon, not just for the brochure.
The differenceOutside is a
Outside is a
different brief.
Everything on a balcony gets rained on, baked, and rained on again. The question for every material isn't how it looks in the showroom — it's how many monsoons it survives. So we start with drainage and weatherproofing, then build the nice part on top.
40 sq ft
Enough for two chairs and a table
9 months
Pleasant evenings a year in Bangalore
1 day
Most balconies take a single day on site
Green you can sit in,
monsoon and all.
What goes on a balconySix things that turn a
Six things that turn a
ledge into a room.
A balcony is a small strip taking the full monsoon, so nothing here is decoration for its own sake. These six moves are what turn a wet ledge into a corner you actually sit on.
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Drainage first
The site surveyWhat we check before
What we check before
the first board.
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Tanking
Membrane turned up the walls
Before any deck, the waterproofing is checked and carried up behind the skirting line. A slab that leaks into the flat below undoes everything laid on top of it.
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Railing height
1100mm, gaps under 100mm
Where we raise the floor with decking, the effective railing height drops. We keep it to a safe standing height with no gap a child could slip through.
03
Wind exposure
Fixed for the higher floors
The gusts on the eighth floor aren't the gusts at the gate. Screens, planters and any cover are anchored for what that specific floor actually catches.
04
Threshold level
Deck kept below the door line
Raise the floor above the sill and the first hard rain runs straight indoors. The finished deck stays a clear step down from the room inside.
05
The washing line
Kept, just hidden
The drying line and the utility point still have to live somewhere. We keep them working behind a slatted screen rather than pretending the flat doesn't need them.
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Dead load
Weighed before it goes down
Wet planters, pavers and stone add up quickly on a cantilevered slab. We total the load and keep the heavy things over the supported edge, not the tip.
Pick your balcony
Three ways to use the strip.
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Lounge balcony
Two chairs, a small table and warm light — the corner the flat drifts to after 6pm with a coffee or a drink.
03
Utility balcony
Washer, drying and storage handled properly, hidden behind a slatted screen so it stops being an eyesore.
In motion
A balcony earns its keep
after the sun drops.
The lighting is half of it. Wired warm and low, the balcony stops being a ledge you glance at and becomes the seat everyone wants once the city cools down in the evening.
WeatherproofingDrainage first,
Drainage first,
then everything else.
Get the fall wrong and the nicest deck in Bangalore sits in a puddle by August. We set the drainage and the pedestals before a single board goes down, so three monsoons in it still drains and still looks new.
- Deck on drained pedestals — the slab keeps shedding water
- Nothing glued flat against the waterproofing membrane
- Powder-coat, teak and rope — built for the wet season
- Cushions and lighting rated to stay out year-round
Small space, fully usedForty square feet
Forty square feet
is plenty.
You don't need a terrace to sit outside. Forty square feet takes two chairs, a table and a wall of planting — and if the association won't let you glass it in, we design something reversible that still works.
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Two chairs and a table in as little as 40 sq ft
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Vertical and raised planting to gain green without floor
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Reversible build where the association owns the façade
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Usable in the monsoon under a slim pergola or awning
Got a balcony holding a washing line?
Send us the balcony's dimensions and a photo — we'll come back with what that strip could hold, and roughly what it costs.
Gallery
Built, photographed, handed over
Balcony · Indiranagar
Green outlook · Whitefield
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It was a washing line and a dead plant. It's now where we eat most evenings.
Swati & Gaurav — 4 BHK, Hebbal
Questions
Asked often
Partly — with a pergola or a retractable awning, and furniture that doesn't mind. What you can't do is treat it as an indoor room. Anything that can't take three months of rain shouldn't be out there.
Not if it's laid on pedestals with drainage underneath, which is how we do it. Glued-down decking traps water against the slab and is how balcony leaks start.
Often it's not permitted — most apartment associations in Bangalore treat the façade as common property. Check before you plan, and we'll design something reversible if the answer is no.
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