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Full service interior design, from concept to completion
Full service interior design means one studio carries the house from the first conversation to the day the furniture lands, rather than handing it between a designer, a decorator and whoever the builder happens to use. Luxxe Interiors sets the brief, resolves the plan, documents it for the trades, sources and procures the pieces, and is on site while it goes in.
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It is the most complete service the studio offers, and it suits clients who want the fixed parts of a house and the movable parts designed by the same person, at the same time, against the same idea.
Key takeaways
- One studio carries the home from the first brief to the final install.
- You see key rooms in 3D before we draw or order them, and can walk them in virtual reality if you want to.
- The scope can cover the built work, furniture, art, curtains, buying and install.
What is included
- A clear brief and design direction.
- Interior architecture, room plans and joinery.
- Materials, fixtures, lighting and finishes.
- 3D views, with a full-scale VR walkthrough on request.
- Drawings, lists and documents for the build.
- Furniture, art, textiles and window treatments.
- Buying, delivery plans and the final install.
Where split scopes go wrong
Most of the expensive mistakes in a house are not design failures. They are handover failures, and they happen in the gap between two people who were each doing their job properly.
A pendant gets chosen before anyone has settled the table it hangs over, so it lands 200mm off centre and stays there. A power point is set out from an electrical plan that predates the bedhead, and now it sits behind the bed where nobody can reach it. A rug arrives to solve a proportion problem that should have been fixed on the floor plan eight months earlier, and it cannot, because a rug has never fixed a room that was the wrong shape.
None of those are anyone's fault in isolation. They are what happens when the fixed layer and the movable layer are decided by different people at different times. Full service exists to close that gap, and it is the single clearest argument for the scope.
How the four stages run
Discover is the brief. How the house is actually going to be lived in, who is in it, where meals really happen, what has to be stored and what has to fit. This is the stage that changes plans, and it is the one clients most often want to rush.
Define resolves the plan and the direction: where walls fall, how light enters, the big material calls. Get this wrong and no amount of furniture recovers it.
Create is the long one. Documentation for the trades, joinery elevations, lighting and switching, finishes schedules, then the 3D review before anything is priced or ordered. Most of the studio's hours live here, and almost none of it is visible in the finished house.
Complete is procurement, delivery and installation. Hundreds of line items across many months, with the lead times tracked so the house is not finished except for the sofa that arrives in March.
When a narrower scope is the better buy
Full service is not always the right answer, and it is worth saying so plainly. If the building work is already done and settled, most of what full service pays for has already happened without you. In that case the furniture and styling service covers what is actually left.
If you are working across distance, or the project does not warrant a studio on site, online interior design delivers the same drawings and the same decisions through a different rhythm.
And if the scope is genuinely one room, a kitchen or a main suite can stand on its own without the rest of the house coming with it.
Who this is not for
Full service is not for a house where the building work is already done and settled. Most of what the scope pays for has already happened, and the furniture and styling service covers what is left. It is not for a client who wants to run the buying and the install themselves. The point of the scope is one studio carrying the house from the brief to the day the furniture lands. And it is not for a scope drawn around a budget rather than a set of rooms, because the boundary then runs through decisions that belong together.
It is for a new build or a full renovation where the fixed parts of the house and the movable parts are designed by the same person, against the same idea.
Frequently asked questions
When should we engage Luxxe Interiors?
As early as practical. For a new build that means while the plans can still move, because ceiling heights, window positions and service routes are all interior decisions that get made by someone whether or not a designer is in the room. For a renovation, before a builder prices an unclear scope, since an unclear scope is priced defensively and you pay for the uncertainty.
Do you manage furniture procurement?
Yes. Sourcing, ordering, freight, delivery scheduling, inspection on arrival and replacement of anything that turns up damaged. On a full home this runs to hundreds of items over many months, and it is the part clients most consistently underestimate.
Can full service cover only part of a home?
Yes, where the rooms form a coherent project. A kitchen, a main suite, an entertaining zone or a wellness space can each stand alone. What does not work is a scope drawn around a budget rather than around a set of rooms, because the boundary ends up running through the middle of decisions that need to be made together.
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