Home interiors covers the software used to design, price, make and fit the inside of a home: the kitchen, the wardrobes, the false ceiling, the lights and the furniture. In India, a new flat is usually handed over as bare rooms, and the owner has to add almost everything inside it. This work is called doing up the interiors.
Traditionally, a family hired a local contractor and a carpenter, who built the cabinets by hand inside the flat. The price was hard to know in advance, and the work often ran late. Software has changed this in three ways.
First, a designer draws the rooms in 3D, so the family sees the result before any work starts. Second, the same design lists every item in it, with its size and material, and works out the price. Counting every item and quantity from a design in this way is called quantity takeoff. Third, kitchens and wardrobes are made as modular furniture. Modular furniture is built from standard units. The panels are cut by CNC machines in a factory from the design's measurements, and then fitted together in the flat.
The zone holds two kinds of software business. An interior design platform sells the finished interior to the home owner, and runs its own design software and factories. Its newest part is AI interior design, in which an owner photographs a room and an AI model redesigns it. The other kind of business sells kitchen design software to the furniture trade. Kitchen makers and showrooms use it to design a kitchen with the customer, price it, and send the order to the factory.
The materials, such as tiles and laminates, are often bought from an online marketplace for building materials. Many families pay for their interiors in instalments, through cardless EMI or a personal loan.