Online interior designPortland & remoteEst. 2019

Taking rooms for October hello@alcovea.studio

Portland & remote · est. 2019

The plan isthe product.

One room at a time, drawn remotely for a fixed price, and delivered as a drawing you can build from.

A finished bedroom in a Sellwood house
Room 141Sellwood house · day 9

The rooms we draw

Four rooms, four prices,one way of working.

A living room corner drawn for a Portland loft
From $795 · 14 daysLiving room
A bedroom finished in green and linen
From $645 · 12 daysBedroom
A timber and white kitchen with cabinetry specified
From $1,095 · 18 daysKitchen & dining
A study drawn into a small room
From $545 · 10 daysHome office

What clients say, counted

The numbers behindthe nice words.

96 in 100
Rooms settled inside the included revision rounds
11 days
Average pack against a promised fourteen
31%
Of clients who have come back for a second room
2 in 142
Refunds in seven years, both before drawing started

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

Aaron · consultation only · refunded in full

Shop the look

Where every line onthe list is bought.

  • Burrard & Co.Upholstery · 6 to 11 weeks · trade discount passed through
  • Marlow TextilesRugs and curtains · 2 to 5 weeks · samples posted free
  • Hollis WoodshopTables and case goods · 3 to 8 weeks · one-offs taken
  • Sellwood SalvageSecond-hand · in stock or gone · no commission, no account
  • Halsey MetalworkShelving and tracks · 4 to 6 weeks · made to the drawing

Thirty-eight suppliers in all, none of them paying us. The trade discount lands on your list as a lower price — $18,400 of it last year. A full list, with totals

How it works

Fourteen days, markedon a calendar.

  1. Day 0

    You send the room

    Four corner photographs, two measurements and the questionnaire. Read the same day.

  2. Day 3

    We draw and price

    The plan first, the palette against your light, then a list with every line in stock.

  3. Day 9

    First draft, two revisions

    Swap a rug, keep a chair, move the desk. The list rebalances around whatever you change.

  4. Day 14

    The pack ships

    Six documents in one PDF. Links live for ninety days, and the average lands on day eleven.

If we miss the promised date, the balance drops 10%. Four packs have, in one hundred and forty-two.

Before and after

One loft, eleven days,nothing visited.

The Alberta Street loft furnished from the plan
After · day 11$4,180 · 23 pieces from 9 suppliers · the sofa kept
The same loft empty, before the scheme
Before · day 0A radiator, a sofa and four photographs

Drawn from four photographs and two measurements by people who have never stood in the room. Three more, with the numbers

From the journal

Nineteen posts since 2019

  1. Mar 122026

    Oak and linen against a terracotta rug

    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.

  2. Feb 282026

    A curved timber stair in warm light

    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, and how to take the four we need on a phone.

  3. Feb 62026

    A kitchen shelf with jars and a kettle

    Budgets · 8 minute read

    Where a kitchen budget goes, line by line

    A $9,600 kitchen split into cabinetry, appliances, worktop and the forty lines nobody plans for.

A full room, drawn

$795

Plan, elevations, lighting layout, palette, a twenty to thirty line shopping list and an install guide. Two revision rounds. Ninety days of live links.

See all three packages

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 — not a designer in the doorway.

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.

Is the price really fixed?

Yes. It is agreed before a line is drawn and has never been re-quoted since 2019.

After the pack

Do I have to buy everything on the list?

No. Every line carries a cheaper alternate that still works in the plan, and the room reads the same from the drawing whichever you choose.

What happens when something sells out?

Email us inside ninety days and a same-price alternative comes back within two working days.