In South Asian literary criticism, domestic spaces are fixed/unbreakable confinement of patriarchy and abolition of female voice. The present paper explores the spatial organization of modern Indian middle-class. In the writings of South Asian women authors, the domestic space is primarily a site of patriarchal oppression, the paper relies on Gaston Bachelard’s phenomenology of the domestic, Henri lefebvre’s critique of social production of space, and Bell Hooks’ conceptualization of the homeplace to demonstrate how in the fiction of Shashi Deshpande, the main characters negotiate their domestic environment to liberate themselves and actualize their selves. By rereading the key scenes and passages of her novels, “That Long Silence(1989)”, “The Dark Holds No Terrors(1980)”. This paper aims to illustrate how the protagonists utilize thresholds, verandahs, balconies, staircases, doorways to renegotiate their domesticity and turn it into their empowering endeavor.