We define your personal design language and create a clear, cohesive direction that guides every decision — whether as the starting point for a renovation or a powerful standalone service.
This stage provides clarity before layouts are refined or materials are selected. It ensures your home reflects who you are, how you live, how you would like your home to feel and the character of the property itself.
Many homeowners feel uncertain about their style — especially when making decisions as a couple or family. An abundance of inspiration and ideas, along with conflicting opinions can quickly become overwhelming and stall progress.
This phase is designed to remove that uncertainty.
Through conversation, exploration and curated visual discussion looking at style boards covering all different types of colour and style, we establish a cohesive, personalised aesthetic direction that feels entirely your own.
We take into account:
The result is a clear and confident design language that guides every decision that follows.
What This Typically Includes:
Who This Is For
This service is ideal if:
Investment
Projects for Style & Design Direction typically start
from £1,200.
Final investment depends on the size of the property and scope of areas
included.
Jo was a delight to work with. She helped us with extensive renovations to our home, including changes for disabled accessibility, and really went above and beyond to make sure the project kept on track and went as smoothly as possible. I can wholeheartedly and unreservedly recommend her.
Alan Barkway
From the very first contact with Jo, I felt at ease with my project. I have used and worked with designers both in the UK and in Europe and have often found them to be quite one dimensional, by that I mean they have a formula and then seek to fit you/your project within that. From our very first video call Jo was willing to explore new ways of working, collaborating with my existing supplier network (as well as introducing some of her own) and has made the whole process EASY. Jo, has a framework within which she operates but seeks to amend it to suit your needs, she challenged our thinking and really made us focus on what we wanted out of the project. Jo's common sense approach to problem s...
Mark Gibbs
Jo is a super interior designer. Her initial space Planning and master design approach was invaluable when we were setting out, thereafter she brought great attention to detail, programme management and logistics as well as great input to the overall design process so I’d highly recommend her.
Houzz User
It's been such a joy working Jo. From the initial discussions about overall style, to creating and talking through mood boards, and then detailed design, it's been a relief to know that we're getting such expert guidance - but that it's still our design. Jo is great at listening to what we want and finding a way to incorporate that into the design in a way that is so much better than we could have achieved by ourselves. By creating detailed packs for our contractors, there's also far less chance of things going wrong or getting missed on site - one of the key challenges in any project! I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Jo, and to employ her services again.
Houzz User
Where do I start. Jo has been amazing from the very start of the project. She has managed to take a lot of pressure off us by steering us through all the design options. The design packs that she puts together for each element of the build - Tiling, joinery, decor, etc have been so useful to us, but especially the various trades. Jo is an absolute pleasure to work with and has so many great suppliers to recommend. We would use her again without fail.
simon goldman
Jo was a delight to work with. She helped us with extensive renovations to our home, including changes for disabled accessibility, and really went above and beyond to make sure the project kept on track and went as smoothly as possible. I can wholeheartedly and unreservedly recommend her.
Alan Barkway
From the very first contact with Jo, I felt at ease with my project. I have used and worked with designers both in the UK and in Europe and have often found them to be quite one dimensional, by that I mean they have a formula and then seek to fit you/your project within that. From our very first video call Jo was willing to explore new ways of working, collaborating with my existing supplier network (as well as introducing some of her own) and has made the whole process EASY. Jo, has a framework within which she operates but seeks to amend it to suit your needs, she challenged our thinking and really made us focus on what we wanted out of the project. Jo's common sense approach to problem s...
Mark Gibbs
Jo is a super interior designer. Her initial space Planning and master design approach was invaluable when we were setting out, thereafter she brought great attention to detail, programme management and logistics as well as great input to the overall design process so I’d highly recommend her.
Houzz User
It's been such a joy working Jo. From the initial discussions about overall style, to creating and talking through mood boards, and then detailed design, it's been a relief to know that we're getting such expert guidance - but that it's still our design. Jo is great at listening to what we want and finding a way to incorporate that into the design in a way that is so much better than we could have achieved by ourselves. By creating detailed packs for our contractors, there's also far less chance of things going wrong or getting missed on site - one of the key challenges in any project! I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Jo, and to employ her services again.
Houzz User
Where do I start. Jo has been amazing from the very start of the project. She has managed to take a lot of pressure off us by steering us through all the design options. The design packs that she puts together for each element of the build - Tiling, joinery, decor, etc have been so useful to us, but especially the various trades. Jo is an absolute pleasure to work with and has so many great suppliers to recommend. We would use her again without fail.
simon goldman
Jo was a delight to work with. She helped us with extensive renovations to our home, including changes for disabled accessibility, and really went above and beyond to make sure the project kept on track and went as smoothly as possible. I can wholeheartedly and unreservedly recommend her.
Alan Barkway