W E L C O M E
How we flow through the design process with you step-by-step!
We exceed our client’s expectations
Welcome……
and thank you for trusting me to help you to create your new home. We do not take this relationship for granted and I am excited to journey with you to create your dream home.
There is no doubt that you have been thinking about this for a while and already have lots of ideas. We have a tailored design process that dives deep into finding out your wishes for your new home. Here you will find all the interior design briefing documents you will need along with survival tips for relaxation when moving.
You are in good hands as Krystal has over 20 years of design and construction management experience and will be here for the whole process right through to construction to include all the questions the builder will have for you along the way.
Here is our unique briefing process stepped out;
STEP 1 We work together
Duration nominally 6 weeks
| Moving house & taking care of your mind, body & mental health
SD | Schematic Design
| Gathering inspiration
| Detailed room-by-room interior briefing
| Meeting to review your mood board imagery
| Return brief
STEP 2 We create the plan
Duration nominally 4 weeks
DD | Design Development
| Floor plans presented
| Furniture & soft furnishings selected
| 3D Renders presented
Duration nominally 6 weeks
TD | Tender Documentation
| Technical documentation
| Managing the design budget
STEP 3 We help you make it real
Duration nominally 4 weeks
CD | Construction Documentation
| Construction documentation issued, building permits received, construction commences, soft furnishings & furniture are ordered and managed by us
If you want to move in without the fuss, check out our Styling Packages
STEP 1 We work together
home is a huge undertaking physically and mentally. Be kind to yourself as you settle into your new rhythm and adjust to your new surroundings.
Here’s a link to our blog on Navigating life’s major changes with restorative interior design.
Moving…
Gathering inspiration……..
Gather imagery to represent what you want your home to look and feel like.
Stick the images to the fridge and make notes as you go.
Leading up to our meeting, you will traverse all of life’s ups and downs to establish what you need in your home to support you and or your family/partner emotionally and physically by responding to these images in your differing emotional highs and lows.
Circle what you like about the images and write keywords
Remove images that no longer resonate for you
SD | Schematic Design
Too busy. No problem.
Create a Pinterest board and invite Interior Flow (link to our Pinterest here)
Pin your favourite imagery
Add notes
We work on this together over a meeting
Room by room briefing
Here we cover the ever-so-important details of everyday living. Like how many people sit at your dinner table every day and how many people sit at your table at big functions.
This tells us the required size of room and furniture to accommodate the most important people in your life all year round.
Download the room briefing HERE
Reviewing your inspiration
The day has come when we meet to delve deep into creating the design language of your home to review your inspiration and get to know your future home.
We begin to form an understanding of your preferences for light, mood, repetition, and asymmetry vs symmetrical to curate your dream home. I am able to visualise your wishes and I start to form a design language with repetitive themes that might not be as clear to you.
Our therapeutic art briefing process
We thoroughly de-brief what memories, places, or people are important in your life using the therapeutic arts. We tap into memories and or emotions to use these as added inspiration for the specific inclusion of materials, textures, and or colours, to create a home that is meaningful for you for years to come.
Read our article HERE for a more in-depth discussion on what the Therapeutic Arts is in Interior Design.
Return brief
We will compile all that we have discussed and create a detailed Return Brief for you to sign off, ensuring that we have heard you correctly to capture the desires for your new home.
DD | Design Development
Floor plans
We will meet with you in two to four weeks to present a floor plan to capture all that we have worked on together.
Over the next few weeks, we will tweak the floor plan with changes until it is just right.
Furniture & soft furnishings
We allow for the consideration of furniture and soft furnishings early on. We do this to ensure that your budget allows for the entire house design to create a picture-perfect finished interior that looks and feels complete.
Gaudi was trained in interior design and Architecture, he thoughtfully considered the ergonomics of all details including door handles to ensure every tactile element of the home was comfortable. I take the same approach for a well-considered individual sensory experience for your new home to create the epitome experience.
This is what a sustainable design approach considers by ensuring every facet is well-considered and thoughtfully put together for your enjoyment, for years to come.
3D renders to envision your unique design
We present you with the design vision that we have curated uniquely for you. Along with a materials and finishes palette that responds to your budget and unique construction time frames with loose samples presented to touch and feel.
We use as many Australian-made and sustainable building materials as possible
TD | Tender Documentation
Technical documentation for build
We take care of everything from arranging building permits, structural engineering, historical reports, town planning, and trade quotes and assisting you with a move-out date and move-in date for your newly renovated or built home. You will only have one point of contact at any one time throughout the build.
We work with trusted builders and trades that have been well-vetted and trusted working relationships that have been established well before your project is put forward to ensure high-level tradesman-ship of the finest quality that will delight and exceed your expectations.
How I manage the design budget
We send the set of plans to the nominated builder to price to ensure that we meet your budgetary expectations and allow you to make any final amendments after discussions with you and the builder on how to best meet your expectations.
By going through this added step in the design process we exclude any financial surprises during construction and ensure that the initial design vision is maintained without compromising on quality or aesthetics should the budget need to be revisited.
STEP 3 We help you make it real
CD | Construction Documentation
An Architectural set of documentation is compiled to capture all the inner workings of the Schematic Design Phase and a final set of Issue For Construction documents is created to obtain building permits and commence the exciting journey of building or renovating your new home!
Placing Orders
We place orders for furniture, rugs, artwork and co-ordinate window coverings to ensure the home is complete when you move in.
We manage lead times of orders to ensure smooth delivery and installation of items.
If you want to move in without the fuss, check out our Styling packages
Did you know that we offer an all-encompassing holistic design approach to complete the look and feel of your home including:
Landscape design
Hybrid or full passive house design, read more HERE about what it is