Online interior designPortland & remoteEst. 2019

Taking rooms for October hello@alcovea.studio

Online interior design · Portland & remote

Four photographs in. A whole room back.

Send the corners of the room. A scaled plan, a palette fixed against your own light and a priced list come back inside a fortnight.

Living room drawn for an Alberta Street loft
Living roomAlberta Street loft
Bedroom drawn for a Sellwood house
BedroomSellwood house
Home office drawn into a small room
Home officeUnder 120 sq ft

The fortnight, day by day

Two weeks, as they sitin the studio diary.

  1. 01

    Read

    Photographs, measurements and questionnaire, read the same day.

  2. 02

    Draw

  3. 03

    Place

  4. 04

    Place

  5. 05

    Palette

    Tile, timber and fabric samples on the studio table

    Fixed against photographs of your own light.

  6. 06

    Source

  7. 07

    Price

  8. 08

    Send

    The first draft reaches you. Revision rounds start here.

  9. 09

    Revise

  10. 10

    Revise

  11. 11

    Reprice

  12. 12

    Confirm

  13. 13

    Check

  14. 14

    Ship

    Every line checked in stock that morning, then sent.

  15. Out

    Six documents, one PDF

    Links stay live for ninety days from the day it lands.

Average pack lands on day 11 against a promised 14. If we miss the promised date, the balance drops 10%.

Packages

Three prices, and the roomdecides which.

A pale room refreshed around what the client owned

Refresh

$3957 days

A room that mostly works · up to 300 sq ft

  • Scaled plan and palette
  • Shopping list, 8 to 12 lines
  • One revision round

Keeps what you own and fixes the layout on paper.

Start a refresh
A living room drawn in full, warm plaster and timber

Two thirds of the rooms we take

Full room

$79514 days

Empty or nearly empty · up to 300 sq ft

  • Plan, elevations and lighting
  • Shopping list, 20 to 30 lines
  • Install guide, two revisions

The room the fourteen-day promise is measured on.

Start a full room

Kitchen and open plan, $1,095. Second room in the same order takes 15% off. All three, line by line

A bedroom before the scheme, bare and unlit
Before
The same bedroom furnished from the plan
After

Before and after · Sellwood house

A bedroom, twelve days and $2,310.

Priya sent four photographs and a tape measurement of the window wall. The bed moved to face it, the palette came from the morning light, and the room was ordered in one sitting.

Budget
$2,310
Pack delivered
Day 12
Pieces sourced
14 from 6 suppliers
Kept
A chair and both lamps

Rooms we draw

Four rooms, four prices,and no hourly billing.

  1. A living room corner drawn for a Portland loft

    01

    Living room

    The room with the most decisions in it: seating that faces the right way, a rug that reaches, and light you can read by after dark.

    What arrives
    From
    $795
    Delivered
    14 days
    Typical
    23 pieces
  2. A timber and white kitchen with cabinetry specified

    02

    Kitchen & dining

    The only room a trade quotes from our drawing, so it carries a cabinetry and appliance schedule and runs four days longer.

    What arrives
    From
    $1,095
    Delivered
    18 days
    Includes
    Two quotes
  3. A bedroom drawn for a Sellwood house

    03

    Bedroom

    Fewest pieces, most sensitive to light. The bed wall is fixed first and everything else follows from where the window is.

    What arrives
    From
    $645
    Delivered
    12 days
    Typical
    14 pieces
  4. A study drawn into a small room

    04

    Home office & small rooms

    Drawn around your working day, and to the inch: under 120 square feet, one wrong width ruins the whole plan.

    What arrives
    From
    $545
    Delivered
    10 days
    Checked
    Desk height

Shop the look

What a $4,180 roomis actually made of.

  1. Seating$1,480 · the one line worth the trade discount
  2. Rug$740 · where a cheap choice shows within a winter
  3. Tables$620 · usually the easiest place to save
  4. Light, storage, the rest$1,340 · twelve to eighteen smaller lines

Taken from the Alberta Street loft and typical of the twenty-three living rooms drawn last year. Every line on your own list carries a cheaper alternate, and the plan names the four pieces that hold the room together if the budget stops early.

What people say

Every quote carriesa number.

“I had measured that wall three times and still could not decide where the sofa went. The plan arrived on day nine and I ordered everything on my lunch break.”

MargueriteLiving room · $4,180 · 11 days

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

Devon & RuthKitchen · $9,600 · 18 days

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

PriyaBedroom · $2,310 · 12 days

“They told me not to book. The room needed a floor, not a plan, and they said so before taking any money.”

AaronConsultation only · $240 · refunded

“Ten square feet of usable floor and they drew it to the inch. The cot fits with a hand’s width to spare.”

HanaNursery · $980 · 9 days

“They asked for my chair height before anything else. Nobody has ever asked me that.”

TomasHome office · $1,240 · 8 days

“I took every alternate on the list and the room still looks like the drawing.”

EllenLiving room · $2,960 · 13 days

From the journal

Writing about rooms,not about design.

Asked before you ask

The five questions that arrivewith every enquiry.

Before you book

Can a room really be designed without a visit?

One hundred and forty-two times so far, in seven states. A plan needs measurements, corner photographs and an honest questionnaire.

What if I measure something wrong?

Photograph the tape against the wall and we redraw at no cost, up to the day the pack ships.

Do I have to buy everything on the list?

No. Every line carries a cheaper alternate, and the plan names the four pieces that hold the room together.

What happens if a piece sells out?

Links stay live for ninety days and we watch them. A same-price replacement comes back within two working days.

Do you ever visit?

Not for a room package — that is what keeps it at $795. Portland clients can book a two-hour walkthrough separately.

All seventeen questions