Interior Design Services in Newcastle
I start by listening, to how the home behaves and how you live in it, and I won't suggest changing anything until I understand both.
Most people who get in touch are either building a new home, reworking the one they're in, or have one particular room that needs updating. Below you will find my list of services, have a look through and find the one that sounds like you. If you're not sure, book in an introduction call and we can discuss your project.
Introduction Call
A twenty minute free call where you tell me about your project, and we discuss the next steps.
Initial Design Consultation – $320
Ninety minutes in your home or looking over your plans. We walk through together, talk about your vision, what’s not working, and discuss the scope of the project.
After this I’ll send you a written fee proposal outlining what design work needs to be done, and my fee for doing this work. There is no obligation to proceed past this point.
Everything below starts here. It’s how I learn enough about your home to quote the work properly.
New Homes
If you're building, or buying off the plan, I work alongside your building designer or builder so the inside of the house is planned around the way you live, rather than around the standard drawings.
I go over the floor plan before anything is built – how you'll move through it, whether your furniture fits, what's been left out
Joinery and interior detailing
Materials, colours, fixtures and lighting
Documentation for your builder
A lot of what goes wrong in a new build isn't drawn wrong, it just isn't drawn at all. The tap on the deck, the power point for the bedside lamp, enough storage to keep your home feeling organised.
If your plans are with a builder somewhere else in the country, the consultation can happen over a video call.
Renovating the Home You're In
Love your home, but it's no longer working the way it once did? Often it's that life has changed and the house hasn't. You want it to suit this stage and the ones after it.
A layout for the whole house, which you can build in stages or all at once
Changes that make sense with what's already there
Materials and finishes recommendations
Documentation for your builder and trades
Kitchen Design
A kitchen built around how you cook – what you use, where it is stored, how far you reach for it. I work out the layout first, then the joinery, then the finishes.
Concept design and material palettes
Working drawings and elevations your cabinetmaker and builder can quote from
A schedule of fixtures, finishes and hardware
Help comparing cabinetry quotes, if required
Worth knowing: most kitchen designers are paid when they sell you the cabinetry. I'm paid to design the kitchen. The drawings are yours, and you can take them to whoever you like, and get various quotes
Bathroom Design & Laundry Design
These are the rooms you use every day without thinking about them, and the ones people most often wish they'd planned better. Where the towel goes. Whether there's somewhere to fold washing. Whether the fan actually clears the steam.
Layout and zoning
Tiles, tapware, vanity, lighting and ventilation
Exact positions and heights for every fitting
A full set of drawings for your builder
If you're thinking ahead about mobility, this is the room where the early decisions matter most.
Materials & Finishes
You've got a builder and a plan, and now there's a long list of decisions. Tiles, tapware, timber, stone, paint, flooring, lighting. I can put a palette together that holds up as a whole.
Sample boards and paint colours
Supplier recommendations, with any trade discount passed on to you in full
A written schedule your trades can order from
How it works
A free call – twenty minutes.
The consultation – ninety minutes at your home.
A fee proposal – written scope and a fixed fee for each stage.
Concept design – layouts and palettes, and why.
Documentation – drawings and schedules for your builder.
During the build – I'm on call for questions and site visits as you need them.
Still not sure?
That's fine – most people aren't. It's exactly what the introduction call is for.