Let’s get the mental load off your plate.

Not at all. Better if you don't, actually. Your job is just to tell me what's not working, the lack of bench space, the morning routine that frustrates everyone. My job is to turn that into a joinery-led design that fixes it.

The same way it works for my remote clients across New Zealand, who I design for from hundreds of kilometres away. Everything runs online: Teams meetings, questionnaires, concepts, revisions, and decisions, all on a screen we're both looking at.

Here's the part most people don't expect: I don't see the mistakes in a space from photos. I see them in the floor plan. The things that make a room fail, benches with no landing space, doors that fight each other, storage in the wrong zone, are mathematical. They're visible on paper before they're visible in person, and they're the same on both sides of the Tasman. Photos of your space help me understand how you live in it, but the space you have now isn't the space we're designing. The floor plan is where the work happens, and the floor plan travels perfectly.

After eleven years and hundreds of homes, remote and in person, I can tell you the honest difference being in the room makes: it shows me the sunlight. Which the plan also shows me. So instead of meeting in person like my local clients do, we meet on video. It works perfectly, and it's how a good share of my New Zealand projects have always run.

Design usually takes one to four weeks, depending on the scope. We move at a steady pace, not rushed, because rushing the design is exactly how expensive mistakes happen on site.

Yes. New Zealand and Australia share the same joint building standards, the AS/NZS system, along with the same construction methods and largely the same products and suppliers. There's nothing for your builder to translate.

And my drawings aren't a concept sketch they have to interpret. Every project is documented with detailed plans, elevations, specification sheets, and supporting images, so your builder, joiner, and subtrades have everything they need to price accurately and build without guessing. It's the same documentation my remote New Zealand builds run on, and it works the same way in Australia.Item description

At concept stage, nobody has to. Your council holds your house plans on file, and that's what I design from. It's exactly how I work across New Zealand.

Then, before a single thing is manufactured, your builder and joiner check every measurement on site. That's standard practice on every project in the industry, whether the designer lives down the road or across the Tasman. If anything's out, and it's rarely out by much, it's one call, the plans get updated and resent, and manufacturing starts from confirmed numbers.

So the measurements that matter, the ones things get built from, are always taken in your house, by the people building it. Distance never touches them.Item description

Honestly? You're not missing much. Showrooms can work against you: infinite colours, infinite materials, and no way to know which of them suit your home, your budget, or your life. That's where the 400-Pinterest-saves feeling comes from.

I do it differently for every client, remote or local. I shortlist samples for your specific project, chosen against your lifestyle, your budget, and your floor plan, and you see them alongside photo-real renders of your actual rooms. Fewer options, all of them right, seen in your light and your layout instead of a showroom's. Most clients find deciding this way easier than any showroom trip they've done.Item description

The same thing that happens on every well-documented project: your builder or joiner flicks me an email or we jump on a call, we work it out, and updated plans go back to them before anything proceeds. That loop exists on every build in the industry, in-person designers included, because good trades always confirm before they cut. The difference on my projects is that the documentation is detailed enough that the questions are small and rare. Your builder is never left interpreting, and you're never stuck in the middle relaying messages.Item description