in Halifax, Annapolis Valley + South Shore, Nova Scotia
Are you concerned about making the best choices to add value to your investment and enhance the beauty and enjoyment of your home?
One good choice
leads to another
We know…
minimal can be cozy…
accessibility can be beautiful… and
a masterful blend of re-loved, re-purposed, eco-new, and hand-crafted will create a joyful home.
With a focus on sustainability (of our planet and your resources) we know your choices will be good ones.
Need a little help? Or a lot of help?
A well-designed home starts here.
Self-Guided Project
$380
You’ve got the ball and we’re your coach
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Self-Guided Project
This solution is ideal if you’d like to spend a couple of solution-focused hours with your designer. Then, with some sound advice, insights and resources in hand, you’ll be prepared proceed with your project yourself. After you’ve completed your Design Detail Gathering Questionnaire and uploaded a few photos, inspirations and drawings of the spaces you’d like to focus on, we’ll meet for our Design Work Session. We’ll work through your list with in-session answers to dilemmas such as:
• best paint colours
• layout improvements
• kitchen and bathroom refresh ideas
• lighting design and fixture selections
• guidance selecting the perfect tile, area carpet, sofa, etc.
• displaying artwork
• finishing a room
After our Design Work Session, you may need answers as questions arise, or you may want us back for a whole new list. We can continue to collaborate on an hourly basis through our Designer on Call service.
Should you decide you’d like us to source and specify furnishings, fittings, and finishes, and have us to take a more active role in your design project, we can easily transition you into our Designer-Directed Project.
Every Designer-Directed Project has four phases. However, the objectives and content of each phase is completely custom tailored for you.
Your design project is completely unique, so we’ll begin by digging deep into identifying and sorting through your design goals and how they relate to your home, design tastes, budget, expectations, and lifestyle. That’s what PHASE ONE: DISCOVERY AND CONCEPT, is all about. It’s covered under your $680 fee, and it looks like this:
Gathering of details through initial phone conversation, design questionnaire, inspiration photos, site photos and existing drawings, and our 2.5 hour Concept Work Session.
After our work session, we may ask you for a couple of photos and dimensions and you will likely have a bit of homework to complete.
Within a few days, we’ll meet (usually by video chat) for a 30 minute Concept Check-In Session to ensure we’re headed in the right direction.
Shortly afterwards, we’ll meet again to present you with the Design Concept, Action Plan and our Quote for design fees to carry forward with your complete project. This is a high level over-view and your presentation will include a few key elements in the form of samples and images. Depending on your project scope, we may include a preliminary budget from our General Contractor.
With your approval, we’ll move onto the next phase, where we’ll develop your design in great detail….
PHASE TWO: DESIGN
As we work together in this Design phase, you’ll come to understand the hows and whys of all the elements that contribute to accomplishing your design vision. Most everything that you’ll touch and see in your newly designed space will be pre-selected by us, so your choices will be easy to make from a small number of best options.
With your choices made, we’ll place all orders and coordinate a delivery schedule. You’ll benefit from our designer resources and preferred prices.
We work closely with our General Contractor during this phase to assemble the best trades people for your project and to finalize your budget and timeline.
PHASE THREE: DELIVERY
During the implementation of your project, our role is to provide clarification to you and our General Contractor and to visit your project as needed to ensure everything is being done according to plan.
PHASE FOUR: WRAP UP
When the trades people have finished and your deliveries have arrived, we’ll be there to style the spaces so everything is picture-perfect. And, together, we’ll celebrate the successful transformation of your design dream into your dream home.
Deborah brought a full tool box to our large project: enthusiasm for all details of the design, wealth of experience, efficient organization, patience, humor, ability to gently nudge us away from the ‘usual’ toward greater creativity, and ability to source cost effective solutions.
Deborah listened so carefully, calmly helping us sift through ideas and challenges to find wonderful solutions. She pivoted with great flexibility as some of our priorities, choices and timelines had to change due to COVID. She has been a great guide and skilled coach. Call her! – Lis and Ian Porter
