Upholstered Headboards in Kolkata: How to Choose Foam, Fabric and Fixing
A Kolkata guide to padded headboards: foam density, oil-resistant fabric, wall fixing, damp walls and sizing to Indian bed sizes. From Avikar, upholstering since 1971.
Dining Chairs in Kolkata: How to Choose Them, and When to Reupholster Instead
Dining chairs take almost all the wear in a dining room and get the least thought. A Kolkata furnishing house on seat height, the armrest trap, which seat types survive the humidity, fabric that handles turmeric, and how to tell whether your old chairs are worth reupholstering.
Dining Table Size Guide for Kolkata Flats: How to Seat Six Without a Dining Room
How to size a dining table for a Kolkata flat: seat-count dimensions, the 90 cm clearance rule, round vs rectangular, fitting a table where there is no dining room, and the lift and staircase measurement almost everyone forgets.
How to Style an Accent Chair in a Kolkata Home: Placement, Proportion and Pairing
How to style and place an accent chair in a Kolkata home: the four placements that work in a flat, getting seat height and proportion right, pairing with what you own, and which silhouette suits which room.
Why a Sofa-Cum-Bed Belongs in Every Bengali Household
Walk into almost any old Kolkata home and you will find one room quietly doing the work of three. The boithokkhana receives guests in the evening, becomes a study by afternoon, and turns into a bedroom the night a cousin arrives from the districts. Bengali households have never had the luxury of a room that […]
What Do Sofas Cost in Kolkata? The Real Price Drivers Behind the Number
“What does a sofa cost in Kolkata?” is one of the first questions a family asks when they walk into our showroom — and the honest answer is that it depends far more on what goes into the sofa than on the label above it. Two sofas that look almost identical in a photograph can […]
Wooden-Frame Sofas in Kolkata: What to Check Before You Buy
Wooden-Frame Sofas in Kolkata: What to Check Before You Buy Most people shopping for a sofa spend their time on fabric swatches and cushion firmness. Almost nobody asks what’s holding the whole thing together. That’s a mistake, because the frame — not the upholstery — is what decides whether a sofa is still comfortable and […]
L-Shape Sofas in Kolkata: How to Size One for Your Living Room
An L-shape sofa can make a Kolkata living room feel more organised, not more crowded—provided the proportions and chaise direction are decided from the room rather than from a showroom photograph. At Avikar, the first conversation is therefore about layout: wall lengths, doors, windows, the television position and the route people use to move between […]
Sofa-Cum-Beds for Small Kolkata Flats: What Actually Works
If you’ve flat-hunted in Kolkata anytime in the last decade, you already know the math: a spare bedroom for guests is a luxury most 2BHKs and studio conversions simply don’t have. That’s the single biggest reason we get asked about sofa-cum-beds at the showroom — not as a design trend, but as a genuine space […]
Accent Chairs in Kolkata: A Buying Guide to Silhouette, Material, and Fit
Most Kolkata homes don’t have room for a second sofa, and honestly, they don’t need one. An accent chair does the job a spare sofa can’t add a second seating zone to a living room, fill an awkward corner, or give a bedroom a place to sit that isn’t the bed. It also does something […]
