02 · Instead of hiring an interior designer
Concepts, mood boards and material palettes
A design direction for each room: colours, materials, lighting and what changes on every surface, ready for your client to approve.
What you get
- ✓Concept and style direction per room
- ✓Colour palette and material board
- ✓Surface by surface: what is there now and what it becomes
- ✓Lighting plan in layers
- ✓Revisions until your client signs off
What we need from you
Site photos or video, rough sizes, the client’s brief and budget band
Live demo · The Teak 2BHK
The concept boards for all five rooms: palettes, real material samples, surfaces and lighting.
Sage & Teak Bedroom
3.05 × 3.66 m · ceiling 3.05 m
Palette
Linen white
Three walls and the ceiling, matte
Sage limewash
Bed wall, soft clouded texture
Teak veneer
Fluted panel, bed, ledges, doors
Oatmeal linen
Headboard, wardrobe shutters, drapes
Rust
Throw, print, a nod to the old wall
Brushed brass
Pendant caps, door levers, dresser knobs
Surface by surface
| Surface | Now | Becomes |
|---|---|---|
| Ceiling | Bare slab, beams showing, tube light | Gypsum false ceiling at 2.62 m hides the beams; raised centre at 2.95 m with warm cove light; 6 downlights in the band |
| Walls | Mint green, nail holes, stains | Putty, primer, two coats of warm-white matte emulsion |
| Bed wall | Terracotta paint, switchboard at 1.3 m | Sage limewash, 2.1 m fluted teak panel with LED wash, channel headboard; switches move to bedside height |
| Floor | Swirled marble, dull | Diamond-polished; a 6 × 8 ft jute rug calms the swirl |
| Doors | Printed diamond and leaf laminates | Teak laminate both faces, brushed brass levers |
| Window | Steel rod, one brown curtain | Ceiling track, sheer plus blackout, floor length |
| Fan | Old three-blade fan | 1200 mm BLDC fan with teak blades and remote |
Lighting in layers
Ambient · cove
Warm 3000 K LED, about 11 m around the raised centre, dimmable. Use “Evening lights” above to see it.
General · downlights
Six 7 W COB downlights in the ceiling band; the two by the bed wall graze the flutes.
Task · pendants and dressing table
Opal-glass pendants with brass caps hang to 1.2 m over each ledge; the band downlight by the balcony wall lights the dressing table mirror from the front.
Accent · strips
2700 K strip along the top of the fluted panel; a motion-sensor strip inside the wardrobe.
Next job
Draftsman: Layouts, ceiling and electrical drawings