This is one of most eye-catching buildings in Shilpgram, due to the deep reddish-orange, iron-rich stone, known as. Laterite, of which it is constructed endowing the building a look of prosperity. This Hindu Brahmin hut from Vasco in Goa is a well-built and substantial dwelling, designed with a front-facing verandah. The front door takes one straight into a reasonably large, rectangular living room, and beyond this, a further door leads into a rather unusual courtyard, which is, in fact, has a lower square-shaped portion in its center and what amounts to a wide verandah all around. The lower square section is open to the sky and has a decorative container in the middle that is for the sole purpose of holding a sacred tulsi bush, much revered for its medical properties. This feature is known as a math. The surrounding courtyard is protected by a wide carved projection and it is here, in this section where much of the day-to-day domestic life is conducted. Outside, facing the front door, another tulsi bush is planted. This time however, its container takes the form of a short piller, hollowed out of the bush at the top, and is termed a stamb.

Bhujodi, located in Bhuj district in western Gujarat is the homeland of the Kutchhi Rebaries. The Bhujodi huts are built on a raised mud platform and are built of stone, plastered with mud render. The wooden roof is covered with tiles. The aesthetics of the interior are heightened by mud relief work in the form of plants and animals, executed on the inner walls. The large terra cotta containers, the Kothi, are used for thesafekeeping of jewelry, food grains and for other domestic articles of everyday use.

The Meghwal Banni Hut belongs to the Meghwal Community of Kutch, in Western Gujarat.   Constructed on a raised platform, this circular house with its conical roof is known as a “Bhungo”.  Banni huts are shaped in such a way that they can withstand the whirlwinds and stiff breezes that affect the unsheltered plains of this area.

The hut is merely one circular room constructed of sun-dried mud bricks. The roof is supported by a central wooden pillar, together with crossbeams.   Split bamboo provides an inner lining for the roof, whilst the outer surface is thatched with thick local grasses. Apart from the Meghwals, the Rebari tribe and the Maldharis, a Muslim community indigenous to that area, have almost identical housing.