Solace & Steam

The house

Two hours that belong to you.

A hair studio in a converted brick building off a Woolloongabba laneway, with three treatment rooms behind it. Started as one room in 2014; the rest grew around it.

The converted brick building entrance off a Woolloongabba laneway, with plants either side of a dark timber door

The door, off the laneway.

The rooms came first. The salon grew around them.

Nobody here is paid on commission, hair or treatments, and nobody is moved along.

A walk through

Four spaces, behind the chairs.

Door to treatment room, in the order you would meet them. No keys, no booking sheet, no minimum spend. Sit where you like.

The laneway entrance: a plain dark timber door with plants either side

1 · The door

No sign at street level.

A converted brick building off a laneway near Stanley Street, easier to find than it sounds. Ring the bell if you are outside and cannot see the door.

The corridor between the hair studio and the treatment rooms, exposed brick and a timber door

2 · The corridor

From the chairs to the rooms.

The treatment rooms sit behind the hair studio. The corridor is the only thing between the two, and the quietest part of the building.

The quiet room: an armchair, a folded robe and a pot of tea by the window

3 · The Quiet Room

Robes, tea, and nowhere you need to be.

Free before and after any treatment over an hour, for as long as it is free.

A client lying under a folded white sheet on the treatment table in the bodywork room

4 · The Bodywork Room

Deep tissue, aromatherapy or a simple back and shoulder.

The phone stays at the door. Sixty or ninety minutes, from $115.

A client reclined under a folded sheet during a facial in the skin room

5 · The Skin Room

A proper consultation first.

Then a facial built around what your skin is doing that week. Sixty or ninety minutes, from $115.

A styling chair in the hair studio under warm window light

6 · The Salon

Cut, colour and finish.

With the same generous slot timing as the rooms. From $90, and $30 off when you pair it with a treatment.

House rules

Four things we keep to.

Not rules for you. Rules for us.

  1. 01

    Quiet is the default

    Conversation if you want it, silence if you do not.

  2. 02

    No upselling, ever

    Nobody here works on commission. If a treatment is not right, we will say so.

  3. 03

    Time is generous

    Fifteen minutes of slack in every appointment, so you are never hurried out.

  4. 04

    A note, if you want it

    What we did and what to do at home, written down.

The studio in numbers

Small on purpose.

These facts have not changed since we opened and we intend to keep it that way.

  • 2014The year it started
  • 3Treatment rooms behind the chairs
  • 0Staff on commission
  • 15Minutes of slack, every booking

Who looks after you

The people in the rooms and at the chairs.

Demo slots The pack names no therapists or stylists, so none are invented. Names, roles and portraits go here.

Therapist name

Bodywork and skin. Demo slot.

Therapist name

Bodywork and skin. Demo slot.

Stylist name

Hair studio. Demo slot.

There is usually a chair or a room free this week.

The rooms take one booking at a time, so ask and we will tell you honestly what is open.

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