How One Founder Is Rethinking Turnkey Interiors for Modern Workplaces

• By IndiaStartupBuzz     |    October 8, 2025

For most companies, signing the lease on a new office is supposed to be the hard part. But in Delhi, Gurgaon, and Noida, many founders discover that the real challenge begins afterwards. Designs are drawn up by talented architects, but once execution starts, everything unravels. Contractors arrive late, vendors miss deadlines, costs shoot up, and what should have been a smooth handover turns into months of stress and spiraling budgets.

This painful gap between design and delivery is what led entrepreneur Srishti Dhir to start Hub &Oak Interiors, a turnkey interior and fit out firm dedicated to commercial spaces.

From real estate to interiors

Srishti was already familiar with the workspace market. Through her company Hub &Oak, she had been helping clients find offices across Delhi NCR. Time and again, however, she saw clients return to her after signing a lease, frustrated that they could not get their office built on time.

The designs were great, but execution was completely fragmented,” she recalls. “Flooring, ceiling, furniture, IT, electricals, every piece was handled by a different contractor. Nobody took full accountability, and the client was left firefighting.

Recognising the scale of the problem, Srishti decided to build a service that would integrate everything under one roof. Hub &Oak Interiors would manage design, project approvals, vendor coordination, civil work, electricals, IT, and furniture, and hand over a ready to use office within agreed timelines and budgets.

One year in, lessons learned

In just over a year of operations, Hub &Oak Interiors has worked with clients ranging from startups to established firms. The biggest realisation, Srishti says, is that clients value predictability as much as creativity.

Of course they want a modern, inspiring office. But what they really want is certainty, that the project will not drag on endlessly and that costs will not spiral. Once they feel secure, they become more open to design innovation.

To deliver that, her team focuses on transparent costings, weekly progress reports, and realistic schedules. Coming from real estate also gives them an edge, since they understand building codes, compliance issues, and space efficiency better than most contractors.

A case that proved the model

One client in Noida had already gone through two contractors over four months. Costs had doubled, and the office was still unusable. When Hub &Oak Interiors took over, they streamlined the plan, deployed their own vendor network, and finished the office in six weeks, under a revised budget.

That project proved our model works,” says Srishti. “We are not competing with designers, we are partnering with them and ensuring their ideas actually get built, without chaos.

What sets them apart

Delhi NCR is crowded with architects and contractors, but few offer integrated accountability. Hub &Oak Interiors positions itself as a single point of contact for clients, combining creative design with disciplined execution. The firm’s in house project management team oversees every stage, ensuring vendors deliver on time and budgets remain in check.

Another differentiator is scale. Whether it is a 5,000 sq ft office for a startup or a 50,000 sq ft headquarters for a multinational, the process remains streamlined. Clients do not have to chase multiple service providers, they get one team accountable from start to finish.

The road ahead

The demand for well designed and efficiently delivered offices in Delhi NCR is only growing. Hybrid work has pushed companies to rethink layouts, sustainability is becoming mainstream, and speed of delivery is now a top priority.

Srishti believes Hub &Oak Interiors is well positioned to serve this demand. Businesses today cannot afford six months of delays. They need partners who can deliver quickly, reliably, and with zero surprises,” she says.

Looking ahead, she sees potential to expand the model to other metros, but for now the focus remains on consolidating the Delhi NCR market and deepening the firm’s reputation for reliability.

Building more than offices

For Srishti, the satisfaction comes when she hands over the keys to a completed office and sees employees walk into their new space for the first time. It is not just about interiors,” she reflects. “We are taking away the stress and inefficiency that people thought was unavoidable. In the process, we are giving companies workplaces they can be proud of.

In an industry long plagued by fragmentation and unpredictability, Hub &Oak Interiors is proving that offices can be delivered on time, within budget, and without chaos. And for Delhi NCR’s businesses, that reliability may be the design element that matters most.