Tejal Mathur Design

Thank you for this feature — An interior remodel, as any seasoned designer will tell you, can take one of two routes—“off-script or very off-script,” laughs interior designer Tejal Mathur, founder and principal of her eponymous Mumbai studio (). Her latest project—a 2,000-square-foot apartment in Bandra—leans firmly into the latter.

“After the first cut of the plan, the owners came back with a surprise,” she shares. “They needed a full-fledged nursery…because, well, she was pregnant.” For Mathur and her team—designers Meha Jadeja, Gayatri Shinde, and Rizzanne Idnani—it meant returning to the drawing board, this time with a crib in mind.

What followed wasn’t a redesign so much as a recalibration—one shaped by a life moment still unfolding. The brief was simple, yet deeply layered: to create a home that feels safe, effortless to maintain, and ready to grow alongside a child.

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A round trip when I come back to where we were back on the drawing board for a new member of the family to freely navigate a smooth open space in just about 2/3 finishes to create a unified flow across areas..

No room for extras ..fair enough.. allowing the minimal intervention of architecture hold its own and complete the story

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(Tejal Mathur Design, Interior Design, Residential Design, Living Room Design)

For Tejal Mathur (), design is an act of rediscovery—where vintage objects, raw concrete, and personal memory come together to shape spaces layered with story. Much like life itself, it’s a continuous cycle of losing and finding.

At her eponymous studio, Tejal approaches design through this lens. Meanings hidden within a complex client brief slowly reveal themselves through the making of a project, while aesthetics once on the verge of fading quietly return to the present.

Discover more about Tejal Mathur’s world and the narrative perspective that defines her work in our latest issue.

Words by Tanvee Abhyankar ()
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Image 1: Tejal Mathur Design ()
Image 2: Yadnyesh Joshi ()


[Tejal Mathur, Narrative Interiors, Vintage Objects, Raw Concrete, Interior Storytelling]

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When the way forward is not always linear .. a segue through interceptions not calculated earlier ..

Every space we touch , I leave room for spontaneity as that’s really the part of the process that upholds the fundamental value of the whole ..

By now innate , people kinda realize that of me in a few interactions.. and for me .. there’s never a dull moment cos I can never have it all chalked out as the months that go into a project allow natural instincts to emerge

One could call it evolution or well , for me .. , it’s just how I am wired cos I revel in talking to myself

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