Rule 01
We refuse particle board.
Not as a marketing line — as a sourcing rule. Even when a customer asks for the cheapest possible piece, we'll explain the trade-off and decline rather than stock something we know will fail.
Our story · Eight years · One stricter shortlist
Built bythe shop floor.
bare nest exists because Gaurav Bahrispent eight years on the other side of the counter — watching customers buy furniture they didn't fully understand, and watching it fall apart eighteen months later.
This page is the version of the brand we wish someone had handed us when we first walked into a furniture showroom. Eight years of notes, one strict shortlist, and a showroom opening in Patna on 18 June 2026.
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- Years on the shop floor
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- Pieces in the launch catalogue
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- Workshop partners vetted
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- Particle-board SKUs, ever
Founder
Gaurav Bahri · Lohiya Path, Patna
The founder
Gaurav Bahri
Eight years on the floor · Now running the studio
“The furniture business doesn't need more catalogues. It needs fewer compromises. bare nest is my answer to the one compromise everyone else makes — particle board — and the two materials I'll stand behind without flinching.”
Gaurav started selling furniture in 2018, learning the catalogue from a senior who'd been at it for thirty years. The thing nobody put in print: most of what was on the floor was particle board with a laminate on top, sold as if it were anything else.
He spent the next seven years keeping a quiet notebook of failures, customer complaints, joint-types, finishes, and workshop partners. bare nest is that notebook, opened up and built into a studio.
The slow path
From shop floor to studio.
Nine moments between 2018 and the showroom inauguration on 18 June 2026 — the lessons, the calls, and the quiet decisions that shaped bare nest's shortlist.
2018
Shop floor
Shop floorWalks onto a shop floor in Patna
Gaurav joins a local furniture showroom as a junior. First week, he watches a customer get sold an MDF bed but receive a particle-board frame. Nobody on the floor flags it.
2019
Lesson learned
Lesson learnedThe 18-month tells start showing up
Customers from his early sales begin returning. Same complaint, different families: drawers won't close, screws have stripped, a wardrobe back has bowed. He starts a notebook of every failure.
2020
Shop floor
Shop floorBecomes the 'problem orders' person
Word gets around the shop that Gaurav actually knows what goes inside the boards. He's quietly assigned the tricky enquiries — architects, repeat buyers, anyone who asks a second question.
2021
Decision
DecisionManages a small showroom
Promoted to manage a 1,200 sq ft showroom. He pushes to remove particle-board lines from the floor. Management says the margin is too good. He starts mentally sketching what he'd stock instead.
2022
Build
BuildFirst commission, off the books
A friend's family asks if he can 'just get a real wood bed made'. He works with a craftsman in Boring Road over weekends. The bed lands well. Three more orders follow in six weeks.
2023
Build
BuildQuiet workshop visits
Most evenings, a tour of carpentry units in and around Patna. He builds a shortlist of seven craftspeople whose joints don't open up after a season — the ones bare nest will start with.
2024
Decision
DecisionNames the studio. Draws the brand.
bare nest goes from notebook entries to a real plan. The materials shortlist gets ruthless: solid wood, dense MDF, and an explicit refusal of particle board. Even at the cheapest tier.
2025
Build
BuildFirst catalogue takes shape
Eleven launch pieces in sheesham, teak, mango, ash, and dense MDF. Hardwax oil finishes for the solid-wood line. Matte veneer for MDF. A showroom space secured in Patna for inauguration.
2026
Launch
LaunchBare Nest Furni Studio opens — 18 June
The catalogue you can browse here will be on the floor. Walk in, knock on the boards, slide a drawer, ask anything. Honest materials, eight years in the making.
From log to your living room
How a piece is made.
Five steps, in order. The whole thing takes 4–7 weeks for solid wood, 2–3 weeks for MDF. We don't skip any of them.
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Source
Indian-grown sheesham, teak, mango, and ash from suppliers we've vetted in person. Dense, kiln-dried boards only — anything that fails the moisture meter goes back.
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Season
Stock is acclimatised in our partner workshops for weeks before any joinery starts. Wood that's rushed splits later; we don't rush.
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Build
Mortise-and-tenon, dovetails, dowels where they belong. Screws into solid blocks, never into board edges. The joints decide how a piece ages.
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Finish
Hardwax oil rubbed in, dried, and buffed by hand on the solid-wood line. Matte veneer pressed and edge-banded on MDF. Sample swatches sent on request.
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Deliver
Insured carriers across India. Two-person install for anything over 60 kg. We don't disappear after the invoice — re-oil visits and small fixes are on us in year one.
Quiet word-of-mouth
Before the showroom, the conversation.
Gaurav explained why our dining table kept splitting. Nobody else had bothered. Replaced it with a teak one from his shortlist three years later — still flat, still solid.
Anjali R.
early commission, 2022
He turned down a custom particle-board wardrobe order from us. Cheaper would have been an easy yes; he insisted on MDF instead and explained why.
Rohit B.
architect, Patna
Came in for one nightstand, walked out with a phone full of board cross-sections and the kind of pep-talk you don't get at most stores.
Meera K.
first-home buyer
What's next
After 18 June.
The showroom in Patna is the first physical home for the catalogue you can browse here. From day one, every piece on the floor is one we'll defend by material, joint, and finish.
In year one, we'll widen the solid-wood line slowly, add a dedicated dining-room corner, and start sample-led consultations for architects and small hospitality clients.
What we will notdo is expand the catalogue at the cost of the shortlist. No particle-board tier — not even “just for the budget customers”. The whole point of bare nest is the line we won't cross.
Walk in on 18 June
Solid wood. Honest MDF. Nothing else.
Bare Nest Furni Studio opens its physical doors on 18 June 2026 in Patna. Walk in, knock on the boards, slide a drawer, ask anything.