Design Overview
One core service,
and things you can add
Almost everyone starts in the same place: a room design, priced per room and delivered online. Everything else on this page either adapts that for a particular situation, or adds something specific to it. Nobody needs all of it, and the sensible order is to start with the room and add only what the project actually calls for.
| You want a room designed | Interior design packages. Fixed fee, one room at a time, with a mood board, plans and a shopping list built around your space. |
| You have just moved to a new country | Design for expats. The same service, explained for the situation of designing a home somewhere you have recently arrived. |
| You let property as a business | Short-term rental design. For owners and operators letting by the night. A commercial brief rather than a domestic one, priced by the hour and scaling to portfolios. |
| Nothing off the shelf fits the space | Bespoke furniture design. Technical drawings for a fitted piece, handed to a maker who builds it. |
| You want to see it before you commit | 3D rendering. Your room modelled to your measurements, using products that exist and can be ordered. |
| Everything has arrived and the room is not finished | Interior styling. Placement and arrangement, by the hour, once the pieces are in the house. |
A room at a time,
for a fixed fee
Room design is the service most people come for. You buy one room, you know the price before you commit, and the work is delivered online across Europe in English. Three tiers separate on how much of the finished room you get to see before anything is bought: a layout, then the walls in colour with elevations, then renovation-ready drawings with lighting positions.
Whether you design one room or eight, the pricing is per room, so a whole home is a series of the same decision rather than a different product. What changes on a larger project is that your designer runs the rooms together, with a shared palette and consistent detailing, rather than as separate jobs that happen to share an address.
A home you live in,
and property you let
Two pages sit here for readers whose situations are not alike. One is still a private home, designed for the people living in it. The other is a business asset, bought for return, and the design decisions follow from that rather than from taste.
Design for expats
Your own home, in a country you have recently moved to. The design work is identical to any other residential project. What differs is everything around it: what the trades are called, how their quotes are structured, which suppliers ship where, and what it costs not to speak the language when a builder sends a quote.
Short-term rental design
A property you let rather than live in, run as a business. We work with owners and operators furnishing homes listed by the night, where the room has to survive strangers, reset in a few hours and be chosen from a grid of thumbnails. Sold by the hour rather than as room packages, and priced to scale across a portfolio.
Only if the project
calls for them
Bespoke furniture design
For pieces that cannot be bought: an alcove unit, a fitted wardrobe, a bench built around a bay. We produce the drawings and the specification, and introduce a maker anywhere in Europe. The building is quoted separately by them.
3D rendering
Worth it where the spend is large enough that being wrong hurts, or the room is unusual enough that a plan is hard to picture. Not worth it on a straightforward room you can already see.
Interior styling
The last layer, once everything has been delivered. Placement rather than selection: what sits where, how objects group, what height the art hangs at. Sold by the hour, in person or as a written guide.
Designing one room
at a time, in a house
Most people cannot design a whole home at once, and there is nothing wrong with doing it room by room over a few years. The risk is that each room is designed as though it were the only one, and five years later the house reads as five unrelated schemes with a hallway between them.
The fix costs nothing and takes one conversation: agree the elements that run through the whole house before you design the first room. Which whites, which metal, which wood tone, what the skirtings and architraves do, roughly how warm the lighting is. Fix those, and every room afterwards can be its own thing while still belonging to the same house.
It is worth raising on the discovery call even if you are only doing one room now, because it is free to decide early and expensive to retrofit.
What people ask first
Which of these do I actually need?
For most people, a room design and nothing else. The additions solve specific problems, and if your project does not have that problem you do not need them. We will tell you which apply on the discovery call rather than listing all of them at you.
Do I have to design the whole house?
No. Pricing is per room precisely so you can do one, stop, and come back later. Plenty of clients design a living room, live with it for a year, then do the bedrooms.
Am I an expat client or a regular one?
There is no difference in what you buy or what it costs. The expats page answers questions specific to designing a home in a country you have recently moved to. If those are not your questions, ignore it.
I let a flat on Airbnb. Is that a room design?
No, that is a different service. Property let by the night is a commercial brief, sold by the hour rather than as room packages, and it covers single listings through to portfolios. Short-term rental design is written for it.
What if I need help before the design stage?
Then you want the planning services: hourly consultancy, space planning or a lighting distribution plan. Those come before a room design and can be taken instead of one.
What happens after the design is delivered?
Nothing, unless you want it to. You can execute the design yourself, and many do. If you would rather not, procurement and post-design support pick up from there, quoted separately.
How long does a room take?
Three weeks of design per room from the kick-off call, and those three weeks are continuous collaboration rather than time you can draw down later. The process page sets out every step.