Every welcome kit ships with a small brass kettle. It costs us about ₹400 a unit. The resident keeps it.
Why a kettle? Because the first thing most new-city residents want to do at 11pm on hop-in day is make tea. The kitchen isn’t fully stocked yet, the building manager has gone home, and they don’t know which switch is which. A kettle on the desk, water from the bathroom tap, the milk packet in the fridge that we leave there — done.
Small ritual. Big signal. The resident wakes up the next morning and the building feels like theirs.
