Offers & Discounts
What do you want to pay for?
Genuine work — every rupee where you can see it? Or a sales performance with a discount costume on? One of these is an offer. Choose honestly.
*Both doors lead somewhere real. One of them just doesn't lead where its sign says.
Quick answer
AesthetiX does not run discounts, freebies or festival sales — a discount requires a markup added first, and a freebie is priced into the rate before you see it. We promote quality and features instead: published rates, an anonymous instant estimate, a fixed 13-point material standard, 95% quote accuracy and a ₹2,000/day delay penalty — in writing, all year.
How a 40% discount is manufactured.
Four steps, common market practice — documented across Indian consumer forums. Individual firms vary; the machinery doesn't.
First, the price is raised
A rate card that should read ₹2,100/sqft is printed at ₹3,500/sqft. Nothing else changes — not the plywood, not the hardware, not the work. The discount now has room to exist.
₹2,100₹3,500the same laminate finish, re-priced
Then, the discount is performed
"FLAT 40% OFF" lands you right back near the honest number — and you feel like you won. The discount wasn't given to you; it was returned to you.
₹3,50040% OFF₹2,10040% OFF! — back where it started
If the maths still doesn't work, the material pays
When a discount is real money, it is funded from inside the furniture: 16mm carcass where you assumed 18mm, 0.8mm edge banding instead of 2mm, unbranded hinges sold as "imported hardware". The headline price survives. The specification doesn't.
The countdown stops you from checking any of this
"Today-only" is not a price — it is a timer on your thinking. A documented pattern: a bigger discount for booking in the meeting itself, a smaller one if you come back tomorrow. Any price that cannot survive a week of comparison was never a price.
Check any discount yourself
The discount reverse-calculator
For a 30% discount to be real, the quote had to be marked up 43% before you saw it — on a ₹10,00,000 project, that is ₹4,30,000 added so it could be subtracted. The only other way to fund it is out of the materials. Ask which one it was.
Formula: markup required = discount ÷ (100 − discount). A 50% discount needs a 100% markup.
You never wanted a discount. You wanted to not be overcharged.
That is a different thing — and it can't be given in a sale. It has to be built into how a company prices from the start.
We don't promote prices. We promote the work.
Quality has plenty to advertise — materials, factory, warranty, transparency. These six are published, permanent and in writing, which is why none of them needs a countdown timer.
A published rate card
Per sqft, per finish, dated, public. Nothing is inflated in advance because nothing needs to be discounted later.
See the ratesAn estimate with no strings
Price your whole home anonymously in two minutes — no name, no phone, no follow-up calls. Talk to us only if the number works.
Try it nowA 13-point material standard
Fixed at every budget, written into every BOQ — with the on-site checks that let you verify each point yourself.
Read the standardA factory you can walk into
Fully factory-finished modular, a documented 72-point quality gate, and three scheduled client visits to see your own units on the line.
How we buildA project you can watch
Live site cameras and a client portal with every design, payment and approval on record — plus a ₹2,000/day delay penalty if we miss the signed date.
The delay clausePhoto-real 3D, included
You see your home before we build it — included in every project, not a paid add-on or a booking bait.
The design processRunning right now — itemised into your BOQ, never bundled into a markup
Early-bird design fee
Design fee held at last year's rate for projects briefed before quarter-end.
Valid till 31/12/2026
Move-in styling, on us
Complimentary handover styling — lighting calibration, soft furnishings, books on the shelf — on full-home turnkey projects.
Valid till 31/12/2026
Architect partner fee-share
A clean, written fee-share for architects who bring us a turnkey brief. No undercutting your scope.
Valid till 31/12/2026
Referral by a homeowner
Studio credits towards an upgrade in your home when a friend signs with us.
Valid till 31/12/2026
Multi-home families
Group rate when two or more homes in one family are designed together — joint families and rental portfolios.
Valid till 31/12/2026
Heritage shell programme
A senior-led, fee-only engagement for restoring old Bengaluru bungalows. Curated, not commercial.
Valid till 31/12/2026
What we choose to back.
The money other firms spend performing discounts, we spend here — design education, craft and student work. We don't sponsor things we won't show up to in person.
Design-school juries
Annual jury seats at NID, CEPT, RV School of Architecture and Srishti — supporting student thesis reviews.
Craft & material fairs
We sponsor stalls and travel for two independent craftspeople each year at the Bengaluru Crafts Forum.
Student awards
The annual AesthetiX 'Quiet Detail' award — for the best resolved joinery detail across partner schools.
Propose a sponsorship
If you run a craft, education or material-led programme aligned to ours, we'd like to hear about it.
Discounts, freebies and festival sales — answered straight.
Does AesthetiX give discounts on interiors?
No — because our rates are published and honest from the first screen, there is no inflated margin to hand back as a discount. What we promote instead is structural: published per-sqft rates, an anonymous instant estimate, a fixed 13-point material standard, 95% quote accuracy in writing and a ₹2,000/day delay penalty. None of it expires.
Why do interior companies offer such big discounts?
Because the discount was built into the price before you saw it. A 40% discount requires a 67% markup on the original rate card — or an equivalent cut in material specification. Discounts in this industry are a negotiation script, not generosity; the same firms' quotes are documented rising 20–67% after booking.
Are the free accessories in interior offers really free?
No. Chimneys, hobs, baskets and 'free' wardrobes are priced into the woodwork rate before the quote reaches you. An itemised BOQ makes this visible, which is why freebie-led offers almost always come with lump-sum quotes that cannot be audited line by line.
Is a 'today-only' interior discount real?
A documented pressure tactic works like this: a larger discount for booking in the meeting itself, a smaller one if you return later. The price did not change — your time to compare quotes did. Any price that cannot survive a week of thinking was not a price; it was a trap with a countdown.
What should I do when an interior firm offers me a big discount?
Ask two questions: discount on what published rate card, and shown against which itemised specification? Then compare the specs line by line — plywood grade, laminate thickness, hardware brand — against the same scope elsewhere. A discount you had to negotiate is a price you were overquoted at first.