Online interior designPortland & remoteEst. 2019

Taking rooms for October hello@alcovea.studio

Room by room, wherever you live

Send us the room.We send back the plan.

A full design for one room — measured, drawn, sourced and priced — delivered as a pack you can build from. No site visits, no hourly fees.

Living room scheme in a Portland loft
Living room Alberta Street loft · 11 days
Hall and stair scheme in a Sellwood house
Hall & stair Sellwood house · 9 days

One room, one price

$795per room

  1. 01Scaled floor plan
  2. 02Mood board & palette
  3. 03Shopping list, links live 90 days
  4. 04Install guide

14 days · 2 revisions · No site visit needed

142 rooms deliveredAverage pack in 11 days$4,800 median furnishing budget38 US suppliers sourced

How it works

Watch one room turninto a plan.

Plan state one: the empty room shell with its door and window

Day 12 days

You send the room

Photographs from four corners and rough measurements. We draw the shell.

Plan state two: the same room with dimensions marked

Day 35 days

It goes to scale

Eighteen four by twelve six, checked against your photographs before anything is placed.

Plan state three: furniture placed on the drawing

Day 85 days

Everything is placed

Sofa, table, chair, shelving, rug. Two rounds of revisions move whatever you want moved.

Plan state four: each piece keyed to a number on the shopping list

Day 14the pack

Every piece numbered

The keys match the shopping list line for line, so you buy in the order the room needs.

The drawing above is the Alberta Street loft at each of its four states. You receive all four, plus elevations, in one PDF.

Rooms we design

Four rooms, four prices,and no hourly billing.

Living room corner designed for a Portland loft
Living roomFrom $795 · 14 days · 23 pieces typical
Kitchen and dining scheme
Kitchen & diningFrom $1,095 · 18 days · cabinetry scheduled
Bedroom scheme in a Sellwood house
BedroomFrom $645 · 12 days · 14 pieces typical
Home office scheme
Home officeFrom $545 · 10 days · desk height checked

Alberta Street loft

An empty rental, eleven daysand $4,180.

The loft before the scheme, unfurnished
Before
The same loft after the scheme was installed
After
Furnishing budget
$4,180
Pack delivered in
11 days
Pieces sourced
23 from 9 suppliers
Kept from the client
4 pieces

Packages

The price follows the room,not the hours.

Small room

Up to 120 sq ft

$54510 days

  • Scaled plan and elevation
  • Palette with paint codes
  • Shopping list, 18 pieces or fewer
  • One revision round

Home office, nursery or entry.

What is included

Full room

Up to 300 sq ft

$79514 days

  • Everything in Small room
  • Lighting layout and elevations
  • Links live for 90 days
  • Install guide and order of work
  • Two revision rounds

Living room, bedroom, dining room. Two thirds of the rooms we take.

What is included

Kitchen & dining

Open plan, any size

$1,09518 days

  • Everything in Full room
  • Cabinetry and appliance schedule
  • Two trade quotes coordinated
  • Three revision rounds

Anything with cabinetry to specify.

What is included

Measure the longest wall and the one at right angles to it — that decides the price, and nothing else does. Second room in the same order takes 15% off. Nothing is billed hourly, and no package includes the furniture: you buy direct from the list, at the price we found it.

Shop the look

The list is the deliverable.Here is a real one.

Alberta Street loft · living room · sourced March 2026
PieceSupplierPrice
Three-seat sofa, olive linenBurrard & Co.$1,480
Oval coffee table, white oakHollis Woodshop$620
Wool rug, 8 × 10Marlow Textiles$740
Floor lamp, brushed brassRidgeline Lighting$310
Pair of side chairs, cane backSellwood Salvage$540
Shelving, blackened steelHalsey Metalwork$490
Six of twenty-three lines, with the room total$4,180

Marked up by the people who live there

Three notes on one plan,a year after install.

The living room plan with three numbered points marked on it
Alberta Street loft · living room · as built
  1. 01

    At the sofa

    “I had measured this wall four times and still could not decide where it went. The plan arrived on day nine and I ordered everything on my lunch break.”

    Marguerite · $4,180 · 11 days

  2. 02

    At the table

    “We used the schedule to get three quotes. The cabinetmaker said it was the clearest brief he had been handed all year.”

    Devon & Ruth · $9,600 · 18 days

  3. 03

    At the shelving

    “Two revisions was exactly right. I swapped the rug, kept my grandmother’s chair, and the list rebalanced itself around it.”

    Priya · $2,310 · 12 days

From the intake questionnaire

The five boxes everyonefills in first.

Form A · Before you send a roomRev. 04 · 2026

Q.01 — Measurements

What if I measure something wrong?

Send a photograph of the tape against the wall. The plan is redrawn at no cost until the day the pack ships.

Q.02 — The list

Do I have to buy everything on it?

No. Every line carries an alternate at a lower price, and the plan names the four pieces that hold the room together if you buy nothing else.

Q.03 — Stock

What happens if a piece sells out?

Links stay live for 90 days and we watch them. Email us and a replacement at the same price comes back within two working days.

Q.04 — What you own

Will it work with my own furniture?

That is what this form is for. The Alberta Street loft kept four pieces, including the sofa the plan was built around.

Q.05 — Visits

Do you ever come to the house?

Not for a room package — that is what keeps it at $795, and it is why we work the same way in Portland as in Tucson. Portland clients can book a two-hour walkthrough separately, billed on its own.

Answered in full on the FAQ page · Read all seventeen

From the journal

Writing about rooms,not about design.

  1. Oak and linen against a terracotta rug

    Mar 122026

    Sourcing · 6 minute read

    What a $740 rug buys that a $240 rug does not

    Pile weight, backing and edge finish, measured across the nine rugs we have specified this year, with what each one cost and how it wore after a winter.

  2. A curved timber stair in warm light

    Feb 282026

    Method · 4 minute read

    Photograph the room from four corners, not from the door

    Why the shot everyone sends is the one we can use least, the four we actually need, and how to take them on a phone without a wide lens.

  3. A kitchen shelf with a kettle and jars

    Feb 62026

    Budgets · 8 minute read

    Where a kitchen budget actually goes

    A line-by-line breakdown of a $9,600 kitchen, from cabinetry down to the handles, and the three places the money is usually wasted.

Read the journal