A Workshop Built for Coastal Goa

That matters more here than almost anywhere. Most curtain advice is written for temperate climates, and none of it accounts for salt crystals working into a weave, four months of saturated monsoon air, or a house that sits shut from June to September with nobody to open a window. Those three things decide what survives in a Goan home, and they are not aesthetic considerations.

So we work the other way round from most suppliers. The fabric conversation comes after the exposure conversation, not before it.

We work on single rooms and on whole properties — villas and second homes across the coastal belt, and guesthouses and small resorts where the specification has to be repeatable across many rooms. We also run an annual monsoon programme, taking curtains down before the rains, storing them properly and rehanging them in October, because a closed house through the monsoon is the most destructive thing that happens to soft furnishings anywhere in Goa.

Being inside the beach belt rather than travelling into it changes what we can offer: samples dropped in person, a measure within days rather than weeks, and coming back to adjust something without it becoming an appointment. We work across Goa and travel further for whole-property and contract projects.

What we have learned about the buildings here is written up rather than kept to ourselves. The guides cover home types, problems we solve, the Goan year and fabrics & materials.