Online interior designPortland & remoteEst. 2019

Taking rooms for October hello@alcovea.studio

Alcovea
Start a room

Full-room design, drawn in fourteen days.

From $795Two revision roundsLinks live 90 days

What lands in your inbox

One PDF, six documents,and a list you can shop.

  1. 01

    Scaled floor plan

    Your room drawn at 1:50 with every piece placed and dimensioned, including the walkways between them.

    2 pages

  2. 02

    Elevations

    Each wall drawn flat, so you can see hanging heights, shelf runs and how the lighting sits against the window.

    3 to 4 pages

  3. 03

    Palette and finishes

    Paint codes, timber, metal and fabric names, tested against photographs of your own light rather than a showroom’s.

    1 page

  4. 04

    Shopping list

    Every piece with supplier, price, lead time and a cheaper alternate on the same line. Links stay live for 90 days.

    20 to 30 lines

  5. 05

    Install guide

    The order of work: what to paint first, what to measure again before ordering, and which four pieces to buy if the budget stops early.

    2 pages

  6. 06

    The mood board

    One page, not twenty. It exists to agree a direction on day three, not to decorate the pack.

    1 page

Where the fee goes

Fifteen hours of studio time,counted honestly.

  1. Drawing the room

    6 hrs

  2. Sourcing and pricing

    5 hrs

  3. Two revision rounds

    3 hrs

  4. Stock checks and assembly

    1 hr

15 hrsat $795

Which works out at $53 an hour — roughly half what the same work bills at hourly, because nobody is driving anywhere and nobody is sitting in a meeting.

Not in the fee: the furniture, deliveries, trades, permits, install labour, or a third revision round at $95.

While the pack is being made

How the palette getssettled, and posted.

Nadia and Marcus comparing woven fabrics against timber and stone samples
Two people, one room, no meetingNadia and Marcus settle the weave between them — the only people who see your room
Linen and wool swatches fanned on the sourcing desk
Samples in the postFree on every full room, before you buy anything

You never sit in on this part, and you are not billed for it. What reaches you is the palette page in the pack, with paint codes and fabric names you can order from — and, if you want to feel the cloth first, the samples themselves.

One worked example

The Alberta Street loft,from photographs to install.

Room
Living room, 18′4″ × 12′6″
Design fee
$795
Furnishing budget
$4,180
Pack delivered
Day 11 of 14
Pieces sourced
23 from 9 suppliers
Kept from the client
4, including the sofa

The plan was built around a sofa the client already owned, which is the usual case rather than the exception. The full sourcing list for this room is on Shop the look.