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For interior designers Coverage that stays out of the room

The WiFi works.You would never know.

One disc the colour of the ceiling, or nothing visible at all — no white plastic box on the feature wall, no trunking across your panelling, no black router sitting on the console you specified. We work to your finishes schedule and your programme, and we leave the room the way your site team left it.

Nothing on a finished surface Around your finishes, never through them In and out before painting
On show
One disc
Per room, flush with the ceiling — or nothing at all
On site
1 day
For most flats, inside your programme, not extending it
Team
2
Of us — the same two your client meets and your site team knows
Making good
Ours
If we open something, we close it — that is not your contractor's problem
Interior Design

What your client actually sees.

A designer spends months on a slatted feature wall, a cove-lit ceiling and a clean run of carpentry. The network usually goes in last, and by then the only place left for it is the surface of everything you drew.

After the fit-out

What the room ends up with

trunking, and a box on the ceiling plug adapter patched
  • White trunking across the wall and over the door frame
  • Access point boxed onto the ceiling with its LED on show
  • A cable dropping down the wall to a plug adapter
Before the ceiling closes

What the room keeps

cable inside the ceiling void one flush disc
  • One disc set flush into the false ceiling, nothing proud
  • Cable in the ceiling void — the walls stay untouched
  • Nothing for your client to spot, or ask you to hide
Flush ceiling mountsConcealed rack No surface trunkingWorks to your schedule
How we work together

Around your finishes, never through them.

  1. 01Agreed before the ceiling closes

    We walk the site with you and fix the access point positions while the false ceiling is still open, so nothing is cut afterwards.

  2. 02Cabled at first fix

    Cable is pulled with the electrical first fix and the rack goes wherever you want it out of sight — utility, wardrobe or store.

  3. 03Last in, first out

    We come back after your finishing team, mount flush, test, and leave the site as we found it. No trunking, no patching.

Talk about a project
Where it goes

Four ways it disappears.

Every one of these works. Which one a room gets is a design decision, not an engineering one — so it is yours to make, and we will tell you honestly what each costs in coverage.

OPTION 01

Flush in the false ceiling

The disc sits in the plane of the ceiling like a slightly wide downlight, and can be sprayed to your ceiling colour. Best coverage of the four, and in a room with a lighting grid most people never register it.

Best coveragePaintableNeeds 60 mm void
OPTION 02

Above the ceiling entirely

Hidden in the void, firing down through a gypsum tile. Nothing whatsoever in the room. Costs a little range and rules out a metal or heavily foiled ceiling, so it suits smaller rooms and corridors.

InvisibleNot under metalShorter range
OPTION 03

In the carpentry

Inside a wardrobe carcass, behind a fabric grille in a headboard, in the loft above a kitchen unit. We give your carpenter the cut-out, the clearance and where the cable arrives, at shop-drawing stage.

Fully concealedShop drawingNo solid doors
OPTION 04

In the wall, like a socket

A wall plate access point in a standard back box, at socket height, in the same plate finish as the rest of the room. The right answer where there is no false ceiling and a slab you would rather not touch.

Matches platesNo ceiling neededOne room each
Finishes

Around your finishes, never through them.

The things that make a room look expensive are usually the things that stop a signal or refuse to be chased. Tell us the finishes schedule and we design for it, rather than arriving on site and asking whose wall this is.

Mirror and metal

A mirrored wardrobe wall or a metal-mesh screen reflects a signal almost completely — it is a wall as far as WiFi is concerned, even where it looks like it opens the room up. We put the point on the right side of it from the start.

We need →Mirror and metal locations, at design stage

Polished plaster and veneer

Surfaces you cannot chase, cannot patch invisibly, and cannot re-do for one cable. Anything crossing them is routed behind, above or below — decided on a drawing rather than by a contractor with a chisel.

We need →To know before it goes on, not after

The router your client can see

A black box with four aerials, on the console, in the entrance lobby, because that is where the ISP put the socket. It goes into a ventilated enclosure in the utility and the room gets its surface back.

We need →A cupboard, and a socket inside it

Cables arriving late

The single most common way this goes wrong: the network is thought about after the ceiling is closed, so it runs on the surface. One conversation at shop-drawing stage removes the entire problem.

We need →Twenty minutes, before the ceiling closes
Finishes and signal

The finishes schedule is the coverage plan.

The materials that make a room look expensive are, almost without exception, the ones that stop a signal. Mirror, metal mesh, stone and coated glass are chosen long before anyone asks where the WiFi goes — and by then the answer is already fixed.

Mirror and metal reflect, they do not pass

A mirrored wardrobe run, a metal mesh grille or a fluted metal screen is a wall as far as the signal is concerned — and unlike a wall, nobody drew it as one.

So →Tell us the elevation, not just the plan

Stone and RCC end the conversation

Around 54 dB through reinforced concrete. A stone-clad feature wall on a concrete core is the single most effective signal barrier in a normal flat.

So →The point goes on the near side, decided early

What passes freely, and is worth knowing

Timber costs about 3 dB. Plain glass and a plasterboard partition cost almost nothing at all. A stud wall or a clear glass screen is invisible to the signal — so a lot of your palette is completely safe.

So →Only a few materials actually force our hand
What the signal crossesLost at 5 GHz
Reinforced concrete, 200 mm54 dB
Brick-faced concrete40 dB
Concrete, 100 mm26 dB
Brick15 dB
Blockwork15 dB
Timber3 dB
Plain glassalmost none
Plasterboard partitionalmost none

Attenuation figures measured by NIST NISTIR 6055 on real specimens, at the frequencies WiFi uses.

Programme

Two visits, both of them yours to schedule.

We are on your site twice and neither visit blocks another trade. Everything else happens on drawings or on the phone.

01

At layout stage

Send the layout and the finishes schedule. Positions come back marked on your plan, with the cut-outs your carpenter needs and the clearances the ceiling contractor needs.

Free · No visit
02

Before the ceiling closes

Half a day. Cable pulled through the void and left coiled at each position, back boxes fixed. Your ceiling contractor carries on the same afternoon.

Half a day on site
03

After painting

Access points mounted, terminated and tuned once the decoration is finished — so nothing we install gets masked, sprayed or knocked by another trade.

1 day on site
04

At handover

Your client gets a network that works in every room on the day they walk in, and one number to call. It reflects on the handover you have spent months building up to.

Nothing left open
Hardware

Chosen for how little of it you see.

All three of these lines make a flat white ceiling disc without aerials, a status light that can be turned off, and a wall plate version for rooms with no false ceiling. That is most of why we work with them.

Ask what suits the scheme
TP-Link

Omada — the slimmest ceiling profile of the three, and a wall plate unit that sits in a standard back box behind your plate finish.

Ubiquiti

UniFi — the cleanest looking hardware on the market and the one your client is most likely to have already seen in a hotel.

Ruijie

Reyee — sensible where a large plan needs several points and the budget has to stretch across all of them.

Where I work

Across the Mumbai region.

Fit-outs across Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai and Panvel — flats, duplexes, villas and small commercial interiors such as clinics, studios and showrooms. If your project sits just outside these areas, ask anyway.

Mumbai
Thane
Navi Mumbai
Panvel
Getting started

Send the plan. Get it marked up.

Share the floor plan — a DWG, a PDF or a photo of the print is enough — and we come back with access point positions, cable routes and a point count you can drop straight into your set. That part costs you nothing. We can run it as your subcontractor or deal with your client directly, whichever suits the project, and it is the same two of us on site every time.

Talk about a project
Early

Brought in at drawing stage, the cabling is part of the build — no chasing, no surface trunking, no repeat visits.

Once

One survey, one design, one install per unit. We re-test before handover and give you the readings in writing.

Quiet

Your client hears about it from you. We turn up, do the work, and leave the site the way your finishing team left it.

Doing it yourself

What it takes to handle it yourself.

You can run this alongside the fit-out, and on a small flat it is very manageable. The difficulty is that nearly every decision has to be made before something gets closed, painted or polished.

STEP 01

Find where the line comes in — and whether it can move

The incoming point is usually in a meter cupboard, on a utility balcony, or wherever the builder found convenient. Moving it is sometimes trivial and sometimes needs the operator. Worth knowing before you design the console it is going to live behind.

Entry pointCan it moveWho has to do it
STEP 02

Plan routes that do not scar a finish

Above the false ceiling, behind the panelling, inside the skirting, through the joinery — all decided while those things are still open. A cable pulled after the painter has finished means chasing a wall and then matching a paint batch.

Before the ceiling closesBehind joineryNo chases after paint
STEP 03

Fit it into the sequence

Cabling lands after the electrical first fix and before the ceiling is boarded; termination after plaster and before final paint. Two short visits at the right moment — or one long one afterwards, with dust sheets over finished furniture.

After first fixBefore boardingBefore final paint
STEP 04

Choose hardware you will not have to hide

In-ceiling and in-wall points that sit flush and take a paint finish, rather than a white plastic box screwed to a feature wall. Back-box positions have to be agreed with the joiner, because a point behind a wardrobe is a point that does not work.

Flush mountedFinish matchedAgreed with the joiner
STEP 05

Sort out power and containment with the electrician

A point on the ceiling needs either PoE from the switch or a spur and an adapter somewhere out of sight. Deciding which, and getting it into the electrical layout, is far easier before the conduit goes in than after.

PoE or spurIn the electrical layoutAdapter out of sight
STEP 06

Test it once the room is actually furnished

Signal behaves differently once the wardrobes, the mirrors, the stone and the upholstery are in. Whatever passed on an empty slab needs checking again at the end — and somebody has to come back and re-tune it.

After furnitureRe-tunedSomeone comes back

On a two-bedroom flat this is an afternoon of thinking and a couple of well-timed visits. On a villa with a basement, a lift and a lawn, it is a package of its own.

Send the layout instead
FAQ

Straight answers.

Can the access point be painted?

The body, yes — sprayed to your ceiling colour before it goes up, which is how most of ours end up. Not over the front face, because that is the part the signal comes through. In practice the visible result is a disc in your ceiling colour rather than a white one.

Can you hide it completely?

Often, yes — above a gypsum tile or inside carpentry, with nothing at all in the room. It costs some range and it rules out metal ceilings and solid timber doors on the cabinet. We will tell you which rooms can take it and which cannot.

Will you be chasing our walls?

Not if we are brought in before the ceiling closes — everything runs in the void and the conduit that is already there. If we do have to open something, making it good is our scope, not your contractor's, and we agree it with you in advance rather than on the day.

Do you deal with our client or with us?

Whichever you prefer, and we hold to it. Some studios want us entirely behind them so the client only ever hears one voice; others introduce us directly. If we are behind you, we will not hand your client a card.

What do you need from us, and when?

The layout and the finishes schedule at design stage, ceiling shop drawings when they exist, and a call before the ceiling closes. That is genuinely the whole list.

The client already has a mesh system they bought.

We will happily work with it if it is decent, and say so if it is not. Most consumer mesh fails in a finished flat for one reason — the units talk to each other over the air through your walls instead of over a cable. Give the same hardware a wired path and it often behaves.

The client has vastu constraints on where things can go.

Tell us early and we design around them. An access point has more latitude than most services — moving one a metre along a ceiling usually costs little in coverage, and where it does cost something we will say so and show you what the room gives up. Far easier to resolve on a drawing than after the cut-out has been made.

Get started

Send the layout. We will work around it.

The layout and the finishes schedule are enough to start. We will come back with positions, the cut-outs your carpenter needs and what the room will actually show. No cost, and nothing attached to it.

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