Interior design · London
Hulver Studio designs colour and material schemes, and complete rooms, for houses and flats across London. Two of us, about a dozen projects a year.
First visit £180, two hours — credited against a project.
Garden flat, Peckham — Full room design
A dark room made deliberately darker, and lit so it works at 7am and at 11pm.
Spruce 12 · Oyster · Aged brass
Islington townhouse — Colour & material scheme
Panelling, a cold north light, and one colour that had to hold up under lamps as well as daylight.
Sage 21 · Bone · Lagoon velvet
Victorian terrace, Walthamstow — Full room design
A galley kitchen given back two metres, and a worktop you can actually cook a Sunday lunch on.
Oiled oak · Bone · Graphite
Stone cottage, Hathersage — Colour & material scheme
A cottage full of inherited furniture, rehung and relit rather than replaced.
Bruges brown · Chalk limewash · Old brass
Three ways to work with the studio. Every fee below is for our design work — the building, decorating and furniture are yours to spend, and we give you a range for those at the first visit.
One room, one visit, honest answers.
We come to the room, look at it at the hour you actually use it, and talk through what it needs. You get a written summary of the directions worth pursuing within five working days — colours, materials, and what we would not spend money on.
Good if you want a second opinion before you commit to anything.
Everything specified, nothing built.
A full scheme for the room: dominant, supporting and accent colours specified to the paint reference and finish, with floors, stone, joinery, metal and textile pulled into one story. Proofed on your walls before a tin is opened. You order from the schedule yourself.
Good if the room works and only looks wrong.
Drawings your trades can price and build from.
The scheme, plus layout, lighting and built-in joinery drawn properly — a set a builder and a cabinetmaker can quote against without ringing you every other day. We visit site through the build and handle the snag list at the end.
Good if walls are moving or anything is being made.
Which end depends on whether anything is being built. This is the order it happens in either way.
A visit to the room at the hour you use it. We measure, photograph, and ask what you already own that has to stay.
Colour, material and layout worked up together, then shown to you once as a whole rather than dripped out in pieces.
Paint goes up on the actual wall over the actual primer, and samples sit in the room for a week. One full revision is included here.
You order from the schedule, or we run the build with your trades and hand over a snag list at the end.
A scheme is a set of documents, not a mood board. Everything here is yours to keep and to hand to whoever does the work.
For a scheme-only room, decoration and soft furnishings usually land between £180 and £400 per square metre. A full room design with joinery is rarely under £1,200 per square metre. We give you a range at the first visit, before you commit.
No. Where we buy on your behalf you get the trade discount passed on; otherwise you order from the schedule yourself, at your own pace.
Yes, and it usually makes the room better. Every project starts with a list of what stays — the Tarn Cottage rooms were almost entirely furniture the family already had.
One full revision is included, and the proofing week exists so you see the colour on your own wall before anything is ordered. It rarely gets as far as a revision.
Within about two hours of the studio. Beyond the M25 travel is charged at cost and we group visits so there are fewer of them.
The first visit is £180 and lasts two hours. You get a written summary either way, and it comes off the fee if you go ahead.
Sage 21 · Bone · Lagoon velvet