We charge a fixed fee and pass the trade discount to you.
Whole-house design and renovation management. The design fee is agreed before we start, and every trade discount we get on furniture and materials goes to you rather than to us.
Most designers are paid twice and only tell you about it once.
There is a fee, and then there is the margin taken on everything specified — often a sizeable percentage, quietly built into the price of the sofa, the tiles, the joinery. We charge one fixed design fee, agreed before we start, and every trade discount is passed through to you at cost and shown on the invoice.
Three ways to work with us
From one difficult room to a house stripped back to brick.
Design only
Full scheme, drawings, specification and a shopping list you can execute yourself or hand to your own builder.
Design and management
We design it and then run it: trades, deliveries, snagging and the hundred decisions that come up on site.
One room, one day
A day in your house solving a single room, with a written scheme afterwards. The most useful thing we sell.
Six rooms from the last two years
Photographed after handover with the owners’ furniture in place, not styled for a magazine.
Kitchen
Victorian terrace.
Sitting room
Alcoves rebuilt.
Bedroom
Storage hidden.
Bathroom
Small, made larger.
Study
Fitted joinery.
Hallway
The bit everyone skips.
Written after handover
The itemised list showed us the trade price and the retail price side by side. We saved more on the furniture than the design fee cost, which I still find slightly astonishing.
Rachel F., Paddington
We had been arguing about the same room for two years. One day, one scheme, argument over. I wish we had done it at the start.
James O., Rosalie
Louise H., Ashgrove