Interior design for
renovations — with a builder in the room
A full interior design project for your Perth renovation: concept, documentation, material sourcing and site attendance — designed by someone who knows what the drawings cost to build. From $185/m², credited toward a Signature build.
Design that survives contact with a budget
The classic renovation heartbreak: a beautiful concept that costs twice the budget and loses the argument with a load-bearing wall. Our design service works because the designer and the builder share an office — Anna prices decisions as she draws them, so nothing gorgeous gets designed that can't also be built and afforded.
You get concept boards, the full documentation set, materials sourcing on trade accounts, and a designer attending site at the moments that matter. For the drawings-only version, see design & drafting.
What's actually included
The same list goes into your contract, line for line. If it's not here, it gets quoted separately — not invoiced quietly later.
Style direction, colour and material palettes, mood imagery — tested against real products and real prices, not fantasy boards.
IncludedEverything in the drafting scope plus joinery design, finish schedules and 3D views.
IncludedTiles, tops, brassware, boards, paint — sampled physically, specified in the set, ordered on trade accounts in your name.
IncludedPhotoreal views of the key rooms — approve the look before it exists, not after the invoice does.
IncludedThree scheduled visits during the build: setout, tile day, final styling check. The designer defends the design on site.
IncludedOrder schedules, lead times and deliveries coordinated — the long-lead items get ordered at design stage, not discovered missing at fit-off.
Included
What it costs
Guide rates for standard-spec work. Your fixed number comes after the free measure.
- Concept + full documentation
- Material sourcing at trade rates
- 3 site attendances
- Design fee largely credited back
- when we build your project
- see package rates
* Furniture, window treatments and styling products are quoted separately at trade rates — the design fee covers the work, not the sofa.
How the job runs
Same playbook as every Apex job — measured, scheduled, reported every Friday. The about page covers the company side.
Photos of every stage land on your phone each Friday, including the hidden work before walls close.
- Brief & conceptHow you live, what you hate, what the budget really is. Then concept boards you react to — honest reactions only, politeness costs money later.
- Design developmentLayout, joinery, finishes and 3D views built around the concept. Every selection gets priced against the budget as we go.
- Documentation & selectionsThe full drawing set plus a selections day where you touch every material that'll live in your flat.
- Orders & siteLong-lead items ordered, site attendances at setout, tile and styling — the designer in the room when decisions get made fast.
What we put in, and why
Sourcing, not showroom markup
Materials bought on our trade accounts in your name — typical 15–30% under retail on tiles, tops, tapware and boards. The discount lands in your budget, disclosed, not blended into a margin.
WA-proof choices
Coastal air eats cheap finishes. We spec for Fremantle's salt and Perth's UV: marine-grade stainless where it matters, porcelain over soft marble in wet zones, engineered boards that survive a slider left open.
One honest filter
Everything we spec is something we'd install in our own projects — because we will be installing it. That keeps the fantasy render honest: if the joiner can't build it for the quoted price, it doesn't make the board.
Asked before this job starts
Different scope, different worries — these are the ones clients put to us first.
Design it once. Build it once.
A concept session costs nothing — bring your saved images and we'll tell you which ones your flat can actually wear.
- Free measure — laser, moisture readings, honest verdict
- Itemised fixed quote inside a week
- Good for 30 days, zero pressure
