to work together
One designer,
start to finish.
Larger studios pass you to whoever has capacity. Here, the person who answers your first email is the one who draws the plans, picks the finishes and stands in the room on the day it all arrives. Three services, each priced per room, so you know the commitment before you make it.
Online Design
A room designed in full, worked out remotely. The same drawings, schemes and sourcing as an in-person project — without travel time sitting inside the fee.
Anywhere in the UK & Europeprocess
A first conversation
You send an enquiry and we talk for twenty minutes, at no charge. You're speaking to me — the same person who will later draw your plans and choose your finishes. We cover the room, what isn't working in it, the budget you have in mind, and whether working remotely genuinely suits this particular project. Where it doesn't, I'll say so rather than sell you a package.
What I need from you
A short set of questions: how the room is actually lived in, what's staying, what you'd be glad to lose, where the budget sits. With it comes a one-page sheet on taking dimensions — corners, ceiling heights, window reveals, socket positions — plus photographs from each wall. If a tape measure isn't your idea of a good afternoon, I'll come and take the dimensions myself.
The plan comes first
Your dimensions go into CAD and come back as a drawing at true scale, with two arrangements to compare and every piece sized as it really is. This settles the questions that cost money later: whether that sofa clears the doorway, whether the radiator ruins the only wall worth using, whether the honest answer is to move something rather than repaint it. Decoration waits until the drawing is agreed.
Character and materials
With the plan settled, the room gets its personality: a concept board, a schedule of paints, materials and finishes, the thinking behind any joinery, and the pieces that carry the whole thing. Two rounds of changes are built into the fee. This is the moment to tell me I've misread you — saying it here costs nothing, and saying it at the end costs a great deal.
Seeing it before you spend The Full Picture
Two photoreal views of the finished room and a 3D walkthrough you can move around in, with one round of adjustments — all before a single order is placed. For most people this is the point where a scheme stops being a proposal on a screen and becomes a decision they're comfortable making.
The pack, and what happens after
One document holds everything: drawings, scheme, visuals, and a sourcing list with live links showing my trade price beside retail. There's a note on sequence too, so nothing gets fitted before the thing that has to go behind it. I stay reachable by email through your support window, for the questions that only surface once the work actually starts.
per room
| The Plan£395About 2 weeks | The Scheme£895About 4 weeks | The Full Picture£1,595About 6 weeks | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opening conversation | ● | ● | ● |
| Questions and dimension sheet | ● | ● | ● |
| Drawing at true scale | ● | ● | ● |
| Arrangements to compare | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Concept board and palette | — | ● | ● |
| Paint, materials and finishes schedule | — | ● | ● |
| Sourcing list, furniture and lighting | — | ● | ● |
| Trade price passed to you | — | ● | ● |
| Joinery thinking | — | — | ● |
| Photoreal views | — | — | 2 |
| 3D walkthrough | — | — | ● |
| Rounds of changes | 1 | 2 | 2 + 1 |
| Email support after handover | 2 wks | 6 wks | 8 wks |
any package
Onsite Design
For rooms that have to be stood in — difficult proportions, period quirks, anything structural, or simply a client who would rather decide with the samples in their hands.
London & home countiesprocess
I come and look properly
I visit, take the dimensions myself, note the services and the levels and the awkwardnesses no photograph ever shows, and we talk it through standing in the room. You find out how I work before committing to anything larger.
What the room will and won't allow
Drawings at true scale, with the unvarnished version alongside them: what can move, what needs a structural engineer before it moves, what the budget simply won't reach this year. Two arrangements, and a clear recommendation between them rather than a shrug.
Samples, in the room, in its own light
Boards and physical samples brought to you. Fabric you can handle, stone held against the floor that's already down. Screens flatter finishes and north light is unforgiving — this is the whole reason to have someone in the house rather than on email.
The set a builder can price
Photoreal views, joinery elevations, a lighting and electrical layout, and a specification set out so that every trade quotes for the same thing as every other. This is what turns a design into a number you can actually rely on.
Ordering, and the day it lands
Trade orders placed and chased. I'm there for delivery and styling, to see things go where they were drawn — including sorting out the piece that arrives in the wrong finish, as one occasionally does.
to book
Design Day
A day in your home getting through as much as a day allows — arrangement, colour, furniture, the decision you've been circling for a year. Written notes and a sourcing list follow within five working days. No drawings, no visuals. Book a full package within three months and the fee comes off it.
Onsite Design
All five stages, start to finish. Priced per room once I've seen it, because a bedroom and a kitchen are not the same piece of work. Kitchens, bathrooms and anything structural are quoted on their own.
Project Management
Someone holding the programme, the budget and the contractor to account — so that what was drawn is what gets built.
Added to any onsite projectphases
Getting it priceable
Drawings and specification finished to the point where a contractor can quote without filling the gaps with assumptions. Overruns are mostly written into a loose specification long before anyone sets foot on site.
Tender and appointment
Two or three builders quote against identical documents, so you're comparing prices rather than three different interpretations of your kitchen. We read the returns together, I point out what's been left out of each, and the programme is agreed before the first day of work.
While the work runs
Site meetings at a set rhythm, questions answered quickly enough that nobody downs tools waiting, changes priced before they're authorised rather than discovered afterwards, and a running budget you can look at whenever you want. Deliveries timed to arrive when there's somewhere to put them.
Snagging and handing over
A written snagging list, chased line by line until every one is closed. Then the final styling, and a folder holding paint codes, guarantees, care notes and supplier contacts — so whoever next touches the house knows what they're looking at.
to price it
On Call
You or your builder run the job; I stay available. Drawings and queries answered, a site check every fortnight, decisions made before they hold anybody up.
Procurement
Every order placed and tracked, with deliveries, storage, damages and replacements handled. The part clients most reliably underestimate, and most gladly hand over.
Full Management
All four phases, tender through handover. UK studios charge between 10% and 25% for this, so there is room to sit wherever the work justifies.
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Questions worth asking
Do I have to buy everything on the sourcing list?
Not at all. The list is a specification, not an obligation. Substitute whatever you like — and if you tell me what you've substituted, I'll tell you honestly whether it still sits well with the rest.
What if the design isn't going the way I hoped?
You'll see it early and I'll ask you directly. The drawing is agreed before the scheme begins and the scheme is agreed before anything is visualised, so there's no single unveiling at the end that either works or doesn't.
What if my measuring isn't accurate?
The sheet is more forgiving than you'd expect, and I check anything that looks wrong before I start drawing. If you'd rather skip it altogether, I'll come and take the dimensions myself.
Where do you work?
Remote packages, anywhere in the UK and Europe. Onsite design and project management, London and the home counties as standard, further afield by arrangement with travel quoted separately.
What does the fee not cover?
Furniture, fittings, materials, delivery, trades, and any structural, planning or building control work. The fee buys the design and the drawings, not the contents of the room.
How does the trade pricing work?
Where I hold an account with a supplier, you pay what I pay. It goes to you in full, and it's shown beside the retail figure on your list so the difference is visible rather than implied.
Is there VAT on top?
No. The studio isn't VAT registered, so the figure quoted is the figure you pay.
How does payment work?
Half secures your place in the diary, half falls due before the final pack is released. Onsite and project management work is staged against the programme instead.
Can I move up a package partway through?
Yes, at any stage, for the difference between the two fees.
Start with a conversation. Twenty minutes, no charge.
Tell me about the room and I'll tell you which of the three fits — including the times when the answer is the least expensive thing on this page.