Got a call from my client in Pune to say that we’d probably build just a single level bungalow after all. Right from the start, I’d been advising them that 4 bedrooms – for a family of 3 – was a complete waste of space and money.

Better late than never.

Now the only problem is I have to re-work the layout and, more importantly, the built form. Permissions from the municipal corporation have already been obtained, so I have to stick to the same footprint for the structure.

Updated on 19th March 2005

The revised plan was frozen yesterday. The puja will be on 6th April when, as architect, I must dig a token hole in the ground.