Interior styling & e-design London, Ontario

Heritage is not beige. It is saffron, turquoise and crabapple pink.

Aniket, founder of AURCO Interiors

I'm Aniket. Self-taught, one person. I put the things you inherited into the room you actually live in — whatever you inherited, whatever it cost.

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A living room with a navy velvet armchair, cream sofa and a navy and copper geometric panel between two windows.
Everything outside the frame is the room before.
Inside it is the room now.

The things people actually inherit are loud. The transitional part is not draining the colour out of them — it is deciding which one gets the room, and letting everything else stay small.

Saffron Turquoise Crabapple Pothos Papyrus Brass
An overhead flat lay: hot-pink crabapple blossom, a saffron art book, a cobalt bowl, a turquoise enamel plate, a small brass figure and a carved wooden incense tower on dark walnut.
A navy and copper geometric wood panel above a cream sofa, under a black iron chandelier.
A green block-printed bird in a grey frame beside a trailing pothos.
A corner holding framed papyrus, a carved wooden panel, a green lantern and a patterned cushion on a brown leather chair.

Who you would be working with

Years of doing this for friends, before anyone paid me.

“I'm a self-taught interior decorator and stylist. After many years of helping friends and family style and design their spaces in India and Canada, and receiving positive and encouraging reviews, it was time to expand the horizons and turn this passion into a profession!”

Aniket, founder of AURCO Interiors

He also believes the thing the pricing on this site is built on: that interior design “should not always be a luxury service, but also be available at an affordable price to homeowners, renters and DIY enthusiasts.”

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The AURCO mark printed on paper: an A and a C drawn over one another sharing a single stroke, with AURCO INTERIORS and Design your Heritage set beneath, and the shadow of a dried branch across the corner.
The mark, on paper. An A and a C sharing one stroke.

The wall of things people kept

Almost everything you inherit arrives in black and white.

A framed photograph is the one heirloom every family on earth has, and it comes out of the box with no colour on it at all. Putting it back into colour — onto a wall in a room you use on a Tuesday — is the entire job. Keep scrolling and watch it happen. Touch any one of them to bring it back on its own.

A stair corner holding framed papyrus, a carved wooden panel, a green lantern and a patterned cushion on a leather chair.
A corner that holds four things
A carved arched panel from India above a navy sectional, beside three black-and-white family photographs.
The carved panel, and the photographs
A navy and copper geometric wood panel on the wall above a cream sofa.
Navy, and copper
An overhead flat lay: crabapple blossom, a saffron book, a cobalt bowl, a turquoise plate and a small brass figure on dark walnut.
The flat lay
A green block-printed bird in a grey frame, beside a trailing pothos.
One print, one plant
A drawing of a receding arched colonnade, in sepia, beside a bed, with monstera leaves in front of it.
Arches, drawn
A styled living room corner in an Ontario house.
An Ontario living room
A round black mirror above a shelf, a black lamp with a brass band, and two boucle stools.
Black, and one brass band

Whatever you brought here

Not one of these came from the same place.

These are objects sitting in rooms I have worked on. My own half of this is Indian — the carved panel came from that client's family there, and it is the one I keep pointing at. Yours will not be Indian. The method does not change; only the object does.

  • Three black-and-white family photographs The oldest things in that room and the cheapest to hang, and the one heirloom every family on earth has. They go next to the carved panel rather than in another room, because they are the same story. Left of the panel
  • A carved arched panel It came from the client's family in India. It is a window, so it got hung where a window would go: high, centred, and lit from the side. Above the sectional
  • Framed papyrus, two pieces Small, and badly lit for years. Stacked vertically at eye height so you read them on the way past instead of walking by them. The stair corner
  • A patterned cushion Black and off-white geometry against tan leather. It is the only pattern in that corner, which is exactly why it works. The reading chair
  • A block-printed bird Green on cream, in a grey frame pitched to the same tone as the wall, so the print talks and the frame disappears. Beside the pothos
  • Yours A tray, a textile, a tea set, a tool, a pot, a photograph — a thing nobody else in the world would have kept. Bring one photo of it to the free fifteen minutes. Slot open

The same room, both ways

Drag it. Nothing structural changed.

Same footprint, same fireplace, same window. What changed is what is on the walls, what the sofa is, and where the light lands. This is what the work actually is.

All the rooms

Before: a busy living room with damask wallpaper, a dark leather sofa, a low wooden coffee table and a wall of small frames. After: the same room with a navy sectional, a carved arched panel and black-and-white photographs on the wall, and two tan leather chairs. Before After

Empty on purpose

Four slots, waiting.

There are no client films and no testimonials on this site, because there are none yet. A dashed gold frame means nothing has been uploaded there. A solid gold frame means it is real. You will always be able to tell which is which.

Film slot 01 A client, talking Nothing uploaded yet. Drop testimonial-01.mp4 into media/testimonials/ and this becomes a real video with no code change. See that folder's README.
Film slot 02 A room, walked through Nothing uploaded yet. testimonial-02.mp4.
Project slot 17 The next room Placeholder. The photograph behind this is a real room; the write-up is not done, so it is not claiming to be a project yet.
Project slot 18 Yours, possibly Placeholder. One room, one before, one after.

Tip of the week

This week

Free advice, no call required

Hang art at 145 cm to its centre

Gallery height is 145 cm from the floor to the middle of the piece, not to the top of the frame. Almost everything hung in a house is hung too high, and dropping it is free.

Where the name came from

Two skies, one house.

AURCO is two words, one from each side of the family. Both halves are in the mark: an A and a C drawn over one another so they share a single stroke.

AUR

from Aurora Borealis

The northern lights — seen in parts of Canada, which is the country the studio works in. The cold half.

CO

from “Orko” — Sun, in Sanskrit

The warm half, and the heritage the founder brought with him. A light source, which is why gold is the only metal on this site.

“AURCO aptly defines the amalgamation of embracing one's heritage, merging it with modern times.”

Aniket, founder

What actually lands in your inbox

It arrives as paper. That is why this part is.

Not a mood board and good luck. Four things, each of which you can open, read, take shopping, or get on a call about — and a date attached to every one.

  1. Two mood boards Built from your questionnaire answers after our first call, with inspiration photos. Settling the direction first is what stops a project drifting later.
  2. A space plan and a design plan Within two weeks of the first call: layout, paint colours, furnishing selections, lighting. Emailed before we talk, so you have read it rather than reacting to it live. One round of revisions is included.
  3. A shopping list you can actually use Manufacturer, quantity, price, dimensions and a description for every item, with direct links. Things you can buy online or from a shop near you — so a piece that is out of stock is a piece you can replace, not a dead end.
  4. A call while you are placing it all Once the furniture has landed, a post-design call for the part everybody finds hardest: where the decor actually goes. This is the part that gets skipped when a plan arrives as a PDF and nothing else.
A real e-design mood board: a slate sectional, rattan pendants, a round oak table, textured cushions and a four-chip colour palette down one side.
A real board from a real project. Every piece on it ends up on the shopping list.

And what it costs

Four ways in. One of them is free, and every number is on this page.

Prices are per room, in Canadian dollars. No “starting from”, and no form to fill in before you are allowed to see a number.

Start with
Free15-minute call
E-design
CAD 250a room · not kitchens or baths
In person
CAD 300a room · London ON only
You get
A planboards, and a shopping list

00 · Start here

The 15-minute call

Free15 minutes · online

Fifteen minutes to work out which of these actually fits. If none of them do, I will tell you that.

Bring one photo of the room, and the thing about it that has been bothering you.

Book the free call

01

E-Design, one room

CAD 250per room · online

Your space designed entirely online and handed back as a plan you carry out at your own pace.

  • 2 inspirational mood boards
  • Furniture and decor, chosen
  • Shopping list with vendor links
  • 1 selections board
  • Design notes
  • 1 round of revision

Not kitchens or bathrooms.

What is in it

02

Interior consult, virtual

CAD 1501 hour · online

An hour on a call about one room, and then the same advice again in writing.

  • One-hour call
  • Your style, budget and the room's problems
  • Space planning and styling advice
  • A written summary afterwards

The summary takes 5–10 business days. That wait is real.

What is in it

03

Designer for a day

CAD 300per room · in person

Two hours with me standing in the actual room, for people doing the work themselves.

  • Two-hour visit
  • We walk the space together
  • For doing your own sourcing and reno
  • Summary and extra recommendations after

London, Ontario only. Summary in 5–10 business days.

What is in it

More than one room, or a kitchen, or a bathroom, means a personalised quote instead of a listed price. Tell me which rooms and I will price it.

No charge, no pitch

Start with fifteen free minutes.

Bring one photo of the room and the one thing about it that has been bothering you. If none of this is the right thing for your room, I will say so on the call.

Book the free 15 minutes Ask a question first

One letter a month

A room worth looking at, and what it cost.

One room, the decisions behind it, and the actual numbers. No offers.