Project Consulting & Design Coaching

EXPERT DESIGN DIRECTION, WITH A CLEAR PLAN TO BRING IT TO LIFE

Project Consulting is for people who want to be involved in creating their home, without having to work out and manage every part of the project themselves.

A large interiors project can be exciting. It can also bring an enormous number of decisions, competing priorities and periods of frustration and disruption.

Perhaps you love researching furniture and visiting showrooms, but have limited time for an entire project. Or you may be happy to organise local trades and suppliers, but want expert help deciding what needs doing, in what order, and how all the individual elements should come together. Maybe you’re not sure of what your style preferences are – but you know what they are not!

In Project Consulting you don’t need to arrive with every answer.

We’ll work out where your time and energy are best spent, where you need my design expertise, and where it makes sense for me to take the lead.

We do that through a simple Define, Design, Deliver process.

DEFINE

Every Project Consulting package begins by properly defining the project.

• We’ll explore what you want your home to achieve, the scope of work, where the project currently stands, your budget and timescales, and how involved you realistically want to be.
• I’ll turn this into a clear Project Plan: what we’re going to deliver, what needs to happen and in what order, where the priorities and dependencies lie, and which tasks sit with you or with me.
• You’ll have a much clearer picture of what needs to happen next, rather than having to hold the whole project in your heads.

DESIGN

Good design doesn’t come from making dozens of individual choices in isolation.

• My Design Analysis process helps us establish the bigger picture first: how you want your home to work, look and feel.
• I’ll use this to develop an overall design concept and decorative scheme, giving us a coherent direction against which we can consider every design choice that follows.

DELIVER

• We work through the agreed Project Plan together.
• As we progress, regular Project Review Meetings keep us focused on what’s happening now and what’s coming next, while allowing the plan to respond when real life – or the project itself – changes.

The result is a genuinely collaborative way of working. You can keep hold of the parts of creating your home that you enjoy, while I provide the design thinking, structure and heavier support where it adds most value. You remain part of the process without the project having to take over your life.

Project Consulting is booked initially as a five-day package. The first day establishes the project and design direction; we then agree how my remaining time can add the greatest value. If the scope needs more support, we’ll identify that early and agree whether to prioritise particular work, add further consulting days or consider Full Service Design.

Just need help with one specific design challenge?

DESIGN COACHING – HALF DAY

Not every project needs ongoing design support.

If you have one thing you’re feeling stuck on – perhaps a room layout, lighting plan, window treatment, material choice or joinery idea – a half-day Design Coaching session gives you four hours of focused professional input to work through it.

That time includes preparation and research as well as our bespoke in-depth consultation. You’ll walk away with clear, confident next steps.

£250 for four hours

Available online or in person (within 45 minutes drive of East Meon)

Would you like focused advice to move forward with confidence? Contact me now to discuss how Project Consulting or Design Coaching can support your unique project.