Spatial Design · Joinery · Material Strategy
01 — Our Position
Interior architecture, not interior decoration.
There's a difference between an interior designer and an interior architect. The decorator chooses the cushions; the architect designs the room. We do the second.
Our interior work is concerned with spatial planning, structural opening-up, bespoke joinery, lighting strategy and the specification of materials that age well. The plan, the section and the material palette are settled together — not stitched on at the end.
We take on interior architecture as part of an integrated architectural commission, or as a standalone project — typically a whole-house refurbishment, a flat, a hospitality fit-out, or a workplace.
Workplace interior
02 — What's Included
The six disciplines of interior architecture.
A complete interior architecture service covers the spatial, the structural, the technical and the tactile — from first plan to last fitting.
01
Spatial Planning
Walls moved, removed or rebuilt. Circulation rationalised. Rooms re-proportioned. The discipline that turns a poor plan into a good one — usually the most valuable thing we do.
02
Bespoke Joinery
Kitchens, libraries, dressing rooms, panelled walls, built-in storage. Drawn at full scale, specified in detail, made to last decades — not flat-packed and replaced.
03
Lighting Design
Ambient, task, accent, theatrical. Designed in section as well as plan. Lighting is half of how a room feels and the part that's most often badly done.
04
Material Strategy
Floors, walls, ceilings, hardware. A coherent palette of materials chosen to age — timber, stone, plaster, brass, linen, leather. Specified by us, not by a magazine.
05
Sanitaryware & Specification
Bathrooms, kitchens, mechanical and electrical detailing, integrated technology. The technical detail that determines whether the architecture works once it's lived in.
06
Furniture & FF&E
Loose furniture, soft furnishings, art and accessories on request. Not every client wants this — we're happy to stop at architecture, but we'll see it through if asked.
In Practice
Interior architecture resolved in the same hand as the building itself.
03 — When to Commission
Three common entry points.
Most clients come to us at one of three points. Where you join shapes how we engage.
01
As part of a full architectural project
The most common — and the most coherent. We design the architecture and the interior architecture together so the plan, section, joinery and materials are all set in one mind.
Whole-house renovations, new builds, listed building works.
02
As a standalone interior commission
The shell of the building doesn't need to change but the inside does. We'll come in cleanly and treat the existing building as the brief.
Flat refurbishments, kitchens, primary suites, hospitality fit-outs, workplace interiors.
03
As a "rescue" after another consultant
Plans don't work, joinery isn't ready, the lighting plan is wrong, the spec is incoherent. We can usually pick up a stalled interior project and finish it.
Always cheaper, faster and better to start with us — but possible to rescue.
04 — Fees
Transparent and staged.
Standalone interior architecture is typically 10–15% of construction cost, reflecting the higher density of detail per square metre compared to a full architectural commission.
Where we're also the project architect, the interior fee is usually rolled into the overall RIBA appointment. Smaller pieces of work — a single room, a kitchen, a bespoke joinery package — are quoted as a fixed fee.
Start an Interior Project
Free consultation. Honest advice.
A whole house to refurbish, a single room to rethink, or a stalled project to rescue — an initial conversation is always free.