Services — What we take on
Plan first,
surface last.
Six ways of working, from a single room re-planned to a full turnkey contract. Most projects start in one and grow into another; we are happy to be engaged for the difficult part only.
We work at the level of the plan before the level of the surface: walls moved, openings resized, ceilings opened, services rerouted. This is the part of the work that determines whether a space will ever feel right, and it is where we spend the most time.
- Spatial planning
- Structural coordination
- Daylight and openings
- Services strategy
Family homes, city apartments and weekend houses, taken from first plan to final styling. We design storage before we design furniture, and we test every layout against an ordinary weekday rather than a photograph.
- Full interior design
- Bespoke joinery
- Furniture and lighting
- Art and styling
Studios, offices and workshops where the brief is measured in noise levels, air, light and adjacency. We plan for the quiet work as carefully as for the collaborative work, which is usually the part that gets forgotten.
- Workplace strategy
- Acoustic design
- Fit-out documentation
- Furniture procurement
Guest experience designed as a sequence — arrival, threshold, seat, service, exit. We work closely with operators on covers, service lines and back-of-house, because a hospitality interior that fights its operation never survives its first year.
- Guest journey
- FF&E design
- Operational planning
- Lighting and mood
Older buildings carry decisions worth inheriting. We survey carefully, repair rather than replace where we can, and make new work legible as new — set slightly apart from the old rather than blended into it.
- Condition survey
- Adaptive reuse
- Heritage-sensitive repair
- Phased construction
For clients who would rather not manage twelve trades, we take the project end to end: design, procurement, execution, styling and handover under a single agreement with a single schedule and a single accountable team.
- Design and documentation
- Procurement
- Execution management
- Handover and care
Process
From idea to space
Five stages. The first has no drawings in it at all — and it is the one that decides whether the rest goes well.
01
Listen
Understanding lifestyle, needs and context.
We spend the first weeks in the existing space and in conversation — how the day actually runs, what is kept, what is endured. No drawings are produced in this stage.
- Brief document
- Site and light survey
- Budget framework
02
Explore
Concepts, references, materials and spatial possibilities.
Two or three genuinely different spatial strategies are developed far enough to be compared, each with its own material direction and cost implication.
- Concept options
- Material direction
- Indicative plans
03
Shape
Plans, elevations, details and design development.
The chosen direction is resolved to construction level — every joint, junction, reveal and service run drawn rather than left to site.
- Working drawings
- Joinery details
- Lighting and services layout
04
Build
Coordination, execution and craftsmanship.
We tender, appoint and then stay on site. Fortnightly reviews, mock-ups for anything unusual, and a single point of coordination between every trade.
- Tender and appointment
- Site reviews
- Mock-ups and samples
05
Reveal
Final space and finishing details.
Styling, snagging and a maintenance handover written for the specific materials used, so the space ages the way it was designed to.
- Styling and install
- Snag close-out
- Care and maintenance guide
Working together
How engagements are structured
Appointment
A fixed design fee for stages 01–03, quoted after a first site visit. Nothing is charged for the initial conversation.
Execution
Either a percentage of construction cost for supervised delivery, or a single turnkey contract with a fixed schedule of works.
Documentation
Every project leaves with drawings, a material schedule and a care document written for the specific finishes used.
Aftercare
One year of snag support, and a revisit at twelve months to see how the materials have settled.
Have a spacein mind?
Let’s create it.