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A designer marking up an apartment floor plan on a large monitor with a stylus.

Space planning

ALL SERVICES

Where the walls, doors and services go, and what that costs in floor area. Often the stage that finds the extra room you thought you would have to build — a moved door is cheaper than an extension.

What it involves

Walls, doors, and where the water goes. We draw the space as it is first — measured, not assumed, because a survey drawing and the floor plan from the estate agent are rarely the same building.

Then two or three options, costed in floor area rather than in feeling. The one that wins is usually not the one that moves the most: a door hung the other way, forty centimetres stolen from a hallway nobody stands in, and a room stops being a corridor.

WHAT YOU RECEIVE

  • Measured survey drawings
  • Two or three plan options, compared
  • Furniture layouts at 1:50
  • Coordination with your engineer

Five phases, one fixed fee

BOOK THE FIRST VISIT

  1. Survey

    Half a day on site with a tape and a camera. We measure what is there, listen to how the rooms are actually used, and write it down as a brief you sign off before anything is drawn.

  2. Concept

    Direction before detail: two plan options, a material palette, and where the light falls. Two options rather than twenty — a long menu moves the decision from us to you, which is not what you hired us for.

  3. Drawings

    Plans, elevations and sections at the scale a builder quotes from. Approvals go in here, and this is the last comfortable moment to move a wall.

  4. Detailing

    Joinery drawn at 1:5, and at 1:1 where a maker would otherwise have to guess. The material schedule closes with nothing left to interpret on site.

  5. Site

    We visit weekly while it is built, hold the schedule against what arrives, and snag the whole thing before you move back in.

You asked, we answered

ASK US YOURS
What does a project cost?
Design fees run as a percentage of the construction budget, typically [10–15]%, with a minimum engagement of [DKK X]. We quote a fixed fee after the first visit, once we've seen the space and the scope. Construction and furniture are contracted separately, and you pay those suppliers directly.
How long does a full renovation take?
An apartment is usually [6–9] months from first visit to handover, a house closer to [12]. Roughly a third of that is drawing and approvals before anyone lifts a tool. We hold four projects at a time, so the dates we give you at the start are dates we can actually keep.
Do you work outside Copenhagen?
Yes, anywhere in Denmark, and we have worked in southern Sweden and northern Germany. Beyond about two hours from the studio we add travel to the fee and visit site less often but for longer — which in practice changes the rhythm of a project more than the price of it.
Can we keep our own builder?
Gladly, if they will work from our drawings and quote against them. We will meet them before anything is agreed. Where we have no history with a contractor we usually ask for one comparison quote, not to undercut them but so everyone can see what the drawings actually cost to build.
Do you do kitchens and joinery only?
We do, and it is often how a longer relationship starts. A kitchen or a run of built-in storage is a real project on its own — measured, drawn and detailed the same way — rather than a trimmed-down version of a whole-home commission.
What if we already have an architect?
That works well. We come in on interiors, joinery and material specification while they hold the building, and we join their site meetings rather than running a second set. What we ask for early is one clear line about who decides what, so you are never asked the same question twice.
Do you buy the furniture for us?
We specify everything and we can procure it, in which case you pay the supplier and we manage the ordering, lead times and delivery. Some clients prefer to buy from the schedule themselves. Either is fine, and we do not take a commission from suppliers in either case.
Will we see it before it's built?
Always. Every room is modelled and rendered before joinery is ordered, and you get physical samples of the finishes — the timber, the stone, the paint — to live with at home for a week. Nothing goes into production on the strength of a screen.

Every good roomstarted as a conversation.

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