Pashan is quieter and older than the areas that surround it. Between Pashan Lake, the research institutions and the Sus Road side, it has held a settled, largely academic and professional population for decades, and the housing reflects a neighbourhood that grew steadily rather than in a boom. This page covers what that means for a fit-out.
What Pashan homes are like
The stock is genuinely mixed. Older low-rise societies from the 1990s and 2000s around Pashan-Sus Road and toward the lake. A layer of independent houses and bungalows, some of them institutional or long-held family property. Mid-period apartment buildings along the main roads. And newer towers on the Baner and Sus edges, which behave like Baner rather than like Pashan.
Residents include a high concentration of scientists, academics and research staff linked to the institutions nearby, along with defence households and long-settled Pune families. It is one of the few areas where we regularly design around a serious home library.
Briefs that are quieter than most
Pashan briefs tend to be restrained, and the requests that come up here are different from the ones in Baner or Kharadi.
Books, first. A genuine library wall — not a decorative shelf with three ornaments on it — needs depth of at least 250mm, adjustable shelving, and structural support that a plasterboard partition will not give. It also needs light that does not fade spines, which means keeping it off the direct-sun wall or accepting UV filtering on the glazing.
Second, a study that is a real room rather than a corner. Pashan has a higher proportion of people who work at home in a sustained, concentrated way than anywhere else we build, and the specification follows: a door that closes, a solid-core one at that, a desk sized for paper as well as a screen, and lighting that is even rather than dramatic.
Third, restraint in the finish. We are asked for feature walls less often here than anywhere in Pune, and asked for good joinery and good light more often. That is a pleasant brief to work to and it changes where the budget goes.
Older societies and independent houses
In the 1990s and 2000s societies the questions are the ordinary ageing-flat ones: electrical loads, plumbing runs, bathroom waterproofing, and ceiling height already reduced once. Several buildings are four to six floors with a single passenger lift and no service lift, so sheet material is carried up the stairwell or cut down and assembled in the flat.
Where the property is an independent house, the scope widens: terrace and roof waterproofing, external joinery, and sometimes structural repair. We take the interior scope and coordinate with a structural consultant where the building needs one, rather than pretending an interior contractor carries that judgement.
Access on the interior lanes is the other recurring constraint. Several are narrow and heavily parked, and a full-size vehicle often cannot reach the building. We check it on the first visit and price it.
What a Pashan interior costs
A full 2 BHK runs ₹12–16 lakh and a full 3 BHK ₹16–21 lakh. Renovation in the older societies adds a demolition and debris line, typically ₹70,000 to ₹1.3 lakh on a full 3 BHK strip-out, plus rewiring where the existing load is inadequate. Independent houses are quoted entirely on scope.
A library wall built properly — full-height, adjustable, with real load capacity — typically runs ₹90,000 to ₹2.2 lakh depending on length and material. It is the line we are most often asked about here and the one people most often underestimate.
Working with us in Pashan
Pashan is about fifteen minutes from our Mahalunge studio. On renovation work that proximity matters most in the first fortnight, when walls are open and the decisions that move a budget get made. Both founders stay on the project throughout.
We also work in Baner, Sus, Aundh, Bavdhan and across Pune and PCMC. See also wardrobes and storage and renovating an older flat.
To talk through a home in Pashan, call Pooja Dhoot on +91 82080 93011 or Dimple Marathe on +91 88881 77217.
