What is the Process?

Our first exciting meeting is held on the site of the project property. We will have an in-depth chat about your vision, needs and hopes. We will also discuss your budget and your priorities. I will then ask to do a walk-through of the interior while measuring up and, with permission, will photograph all elevations of the rooms/spaces. If you have old plans of the property these are very helpful in revealing important details.

After a week I will be able to present a high-level estimation, having consulted with all the contractors that would be needed for your project.

With the estimation approved, I will submit my design fee invoice deposit invoice, notify contractors that we’re moving to the next phase and I will start the serious design phase of the project. This can take 2 or 3 weeks. Throughout this time I will be consulting with the contractors on ideas, concepts and thrashing out details. Many, many iterations of the design are created at this stage

I then present the final proposed design to you and we start the tweaking of the design. This may require me to redraw whole sections and represent to you.

When a final design is reached, it is submitted to my draughtsman for construction drawings to be drawn up. Each contractor is then supplied with a working pack and asked to submit a fixed project quotation.

When all these quotations have been received, the total project cost is calculated and presented to you with the construction drawings. At this stage, you can add or subtract items. If you have requested the addition of 3D drawings, these will be supplied at this time as well.

When the total project cost has been signed off, including the drawings, we can then start the project physically or by submitting to council, whichever is relevant.

When the physical project starts, things can be noisy and messy and there is no way around that. It might be a good time to go on holiday.

What we can promise you is that the noise and dust will be replaced by a jaw-droppingly beautiful interior that is worth the slight, short-lived inconvenience.



My greatest joy is pouring those ideas out into a project and then resolving them through many iterations of design.