Calm, crafted homes and workplaces, drawn to the millimetre, built by our own carpenters and handed over on the date we promised.
4.9 from 180 clients · 10-year joinery warranty
Selected work
Four of the 280 spaces we've finished across Bengaluru. Drag the divider to see a Whitefield living room on the day we got the keys, and the day we gave them back.
Residence · Whitefield
A builder-grade shell turned into a calm, book-lined home: a fluted oak media wall with a lit niche, a sofa long enough for four, and an arc lamp that does the work of three ceiling lights.
Café fit-out · Koramangala
Forty covers in a 1,100 sq ft shell: olive zellige, an oak bar, cane stools and three brass pendants over the pass.
Office · HSR Layout
Felt baffles, a glass meeting room and a long oak table for a product team that wanted a library more than a startup.
Villa · Sarjapur
Limewash arches, a teak oonjal on brass chains and a frangipani that was there before the house was.
Services
Four ways to work with us. Every rate includes design, drawings and a named site lead. GST extra; materials as specified.
Every room of an apartment or villa, from the first measure to the last cushion. Design, joinery from our own workshop, civil, electrical and lighting.
Marine-ply carcasses, quartz or travertine tops and soft-close hardware, drawn around how you actually cook, dosa tawa included.
Cafés, clinics, studios and offices, built to open on a date. Licences-ready drawings, MEP coordination and weekend working where the lease demands it.
Ninety minutes at your site with a senior designer, and a written plan of what to change, what to keep and what it should cost.
Process
The same five steps for a kitchen or a villa. You always know which one we're on, and what you'll have in your hands at the end of it.
The promise
The handover date goes into the contract. If we’re late, we pay a week’s rent for every week we run over.
Week 1
We visit, listen, and laser-measure every wall, beam and switch. A measured drawing reaches you within 48 hours.
You get Measured drawing
Weeks 2–3
Two layouts, one palette you can hold in your hand, and a budget broken down room by room.
You get Concept deck · budget
Weeks 3–6
Working drawings, electrical and lighting plans, joinery details and walk-through renders. Nothing is built until you sign.
You get Fixed price
Weeks 6–14
Our own carpenters and one site lead, who sends a photo update every evening. Joinery is made in our Bommasandra workshop.
You get Daily updates
Week 15
Deep clean, snag list closed, the room styled down to the books. Keys, a care manual and a ten-year joinery warranty.
You get Keys · warranty
Material library
We would rather use six materials beautifully than sixty badly. Every one of them is in our library in Cooke Town, to hold, scratch and take home overnight.
Rift-sawn and hard-wax oiled, for joinery, floors and fluted panels.
Matt · FSC · ages to honey
Honed and unfilled, for console tops, basins and thresholds.
Honed · sealed · cool underfoot
Handles, pendants and inlays that darken where hands touch them.
Brushed · lives with you
Woven in Panipat, for sheers, headboards and loose covers.
Washable · softens with age
Hand-trowelled lime, tinted olive, for one wall that holds the room.
Breathable · no VOC
Hand-woven in Kolkata, for wardrobe shutters, headboards and chairs.
Natural · repairable
The studio
Arc & Oak is eighteen people: designers, a site team and eleven carpenters in our own workshop in Bommasandra.
We started in 2014 with one rule: if it isn’t drawn, it isn’t built. Every switch, every shadow gap and every hinge is on paper before a saw comes out, which is why our sites are quiet and our handovers are on time.
We take on about twenty-four homes and six commercial projects a year, so a principal designer is on every one.
Principal designer
Trained as an architect; still draws every plan by hand first.
Head of build
Twenty years on Bengaluru sites. Has opinions about grout.
Senior designer
Kitchens and wardrobes; measures twice, then once more.
Joinery lead
Runs the Bommasandra workshop and its eleven carpenters.
Reviews
4.9
Average of 180 reviews from clients who’ve lived with our work for a year or more.
They redrew our kitchen four times without a single sigh, and the fourth one is the room we live in now. The site lead sent a photo every evening, so I never once had to chase anyone.
Our café opened on the day they promised. Customers still ask about the counter every week.
Sixty people on one floor and it is genuinely quiet. The felt baffles were the best money we spent.
I was in Singapore for most of the build and never felt out of the loop. The swing is everyone's favourite seat.
Questions
And the honest answers. Anything else, ask us on the site visit.
Most of our 3 BHK homes land between ₹24 and ₹38 lakh, including furniture we make and lighting, and excluding loose furniture you buy. You get a room-by-room budget at the concept stage, and a fixed price before anything is built.
Yes. Tell us the possession date and we'll plan backwards from it. We can measure and design while the building is still being finished, so the build starts the week you get your keys.
No. Kitchens, wardrobes, a single room or a ninety-minute consultation are all fine. Commercial projects start at about 800 sq ft.
The handover date goes into the contract. If we miss it for a reason that is ours, we pay a week's rent for every week we run over. It has happened twice in eleven years.
All of Bengaluru, including Whitefield, Sarjapur, Hebbal and Electronic City, and weekend homes up to 150 km out. Site visits within the city are free once you've booked a consultation.
Enquire
Two minutes now saves a week later. We read every enquiry ourselves.
Prefer to talk? +91 80 0000 0000Mon–Sat, 10 to 7. Or WhatsApp the same number.
Visit
A converted 1960s bungalow on a quiet, tree-lined street. Come and hold the oak, sit on the cane, see the lime plaster in morning light.
| Monday – Friday | 10:00 – 19:00 |
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| Saturday | 10:30 – 17:00 |
| Sunday | By appointment |