Our interior design process
Six stages, each with a clear end point and something you can hold at the end of it.
Stage by stage
Scroll through the six stages. Each one ends with something you sign off, and nothing after it begins until you have.
We walk the space with you, or through your drawings if it is not built yet. We ask how you cook, where you put your keys, and who visits. No mood boards.
You get: A written scope and an honest budget range
The layout is solved first and signed off before any surface is chosen. Then one presentation, with real samples, showing the whole scheme at once.
You get: Approved plan, material palette, cost plan
Every joinery run, every socket, every reveal drawn at the scale it will be built. This is where a project stops being a picture and starts being buildable.
You get: Working drawing set and schedules
The signed-off drawings are modelled and lit, so you see the room at eye height before anyone cuts anything. What changes here costs nothing to change.
You get: Room-by-room views and a walkthrough
Our site team runs the trades. You get a weekly note with photographs, what moved, what is next, and anything that needs a decision from you.
You get: Weekly reporting and a live snag list
Styling, art placement, and a walkthrough where we hand over care notes for every finish. We come back at three months to fix whatever has settled.
You get: Care manual and a three-month revisit
Your side of it
A project runs late for one of two reasons: a material did not arrive, or a decision did not. We can only fix the first one.
First conversation
Access to the space, or the architect drawings if it is not built yet, and a budget you are willing to say out loud.
Before the first meeting
Plan and palette
One decision-maker in the room, or two who already agree. The layout is signed off once, and everything after it is priced against that signature.
At the presentation
Detailed drawings
Your approval on the drawing set, plus any appliance, sanitaryware or building-management constraint you know about.
Within two weeks of issue
On site
An answer on the decisions in the weekly note. Site stops for an unanswered question far more often than it stops for a material.
Weekly, through the build
In writing
Every project changes. These four rules decide whether that costs you money you did not expect.
It is the whole method. A drawing set built on an unapproved layout is a drawing set you pay to redraw.
You will get the cost and the time it adds in writing, and nothing moves on site until you accept it. Changing your mind is allowed. Being surprised by the bill is not.
You see what each element costs before it is ordered. There is no percentage added to the furniture you buy.
Photographs, what moved, what did not, and what we are doing about it. Silence from a site team is almost always bad news arriving late.
Why one studio
Most of what goes wrong on an interior job happens in the gap between the person who drew it and the person who built it. We removed the gap.
The people who draw your space are the people who build it. Nothing is handed to a contractor with a set of pictures and a hope.
Every joinery run, socket and reveal is drawn before it is ordered. That is why the room matches what you approved.
Photographs, what moved, what is next, and anything that needs a decision from you. You never have to ask how it is going.
Further reading
Before you write
If yours is not here, ask it in the form. We answer properly, not with a brochure.
Send the plan if you have one, or just the address and what is bothering you about it. We reply within two working days.