After the call
Your unified action plan. Ready for your builder.
Annotated drawings, visual direction and clear next steps for your exact stage. A framework you can hand straight to your builder, and use to run your site with confidence.
Architect & Interior Design Consultation
Get your home rightbefore you build it.
One focused hour with an architect who is also your interior designer and project manager. I review your ideas, plans, finishes and builder's scope, then give you a written plan for exactly what to do next.
Only a few spaces a week.
Experience from
- Singapore Ion
- Macau Galaxy
- Foster + Partners
- Apple Park
- Harrods
- Louis Vuitton
The session
60
Minutes, one to one
Every minute spent on your project, because your plans are reviewed before we speak.
3
Disciplines, one session
Architecture, interiors and project management in one conversation.
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Written action plan
Annotated drawings, clear direction and next steps for your stage.
0
Details left to guess
Your builder knows exactly what you want, and why.
Why it matters
Every gap gets filled.The question is by whom.
The expensive part of a renovation isn't the building. It's the decisions nobody made. You know how you want it to feel, like the hotel you never wanted to leave. But a feeling can't be handed to a builder, so every gap gets filled the quickest, cheapest way. You pay a premium for an ordinary house, and only see it once it's built.
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Detail
What slips through
With your action plan
01
Windows
What slips through: Standard frames that look builder-grade
With your action plan: Slim frames that make the view the feature
02
Edges & trims
What slips through: Cheap metal trims and visible joins
With your action plan: Edges so clean they look effortless
03
Space
What slips through: Rooms that feel smaller than they are
With your action plan: Volumes planned to feel twice the size
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Budget
What slips through: Spread thin, spent where nobody looks
With your action plan: Spent where you see and touch it every day
05
Decisions
What slips through: Made on the spot, by someone else
With your action plan: Made once, calmly, by you
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Your quote
What slips through: "Provisional sums" that quietly double
With your action plan: Every allowance named before you sign
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Cost
What slips through: Paid twice: once to build, once to fix
With your action plan: Paid once
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Your guests
What slips through: "Nice… for a renovation."
With your action plan: "Who designed this?"
Three disciplines, one vision.
Exceptional spaces are neverone isolated choice
Most renovations go wrong because the architect, the interior designer and the builder never truly talk to each other. This session puts all three in one conversation, so every decision protects your design and your budget.
Where all three meet is your action plan.
Who you'll speak to
Why I do this.
I've spent my career on flagship buildings where nothing is left to chance. Every millimetre is decided, every joint drawn, before anyone arrives on site.
Homes rarely get that care, yet a home done well lifts you every time you walk through the door. The budgets are real and the intentions are good, but the details get settled on the spot, by whoever happens to be there.
This hour changes that. It's the conversation I wish every homeowner had before they start. You bring the ideas, however rough. I'll make sure nothing is left to chance.
Karisma
Chartered architect, interior designer and project manager.
Experience across Foster + Partners, Apple Park, Harrods and Louis Vuitton
Wherever you are
Where are you now?Your next move depends on it.
Viewing or about to exchange
Before you commit, find out what the space can really become, what it will take, and whether the price still makes sense.
Planning & budget
A clear direction for the whole home, and exactly where your money should go to make the biggest difference. Main home or second home.
Audit or second opinion
Drawings ready, or not happy with the ones you have? I stress-test them, find what was missed and show you what to change before anything is built.
Comparing quotes
Quotes that don't match, and no way to tell which is right? You'll know what each one leaves out, and what to ask before you sign.
Already building
Contractor pushback, delays, details going wrong. You get clear fixes that protect the design and get the site moving again.
Building to sell or let? We find where layout and spec will add value, where they'll only add cost, and what buyers at your price point will expect to see.
What you get
Exactly what youwalk away with.
Choose my time
01Architecture
The architect's eye
We review your floor plans to fix awkward layouts, bring in more natural light and correct the flow, so the bones of your home are right before a wall is built.
02Interiors
Interior cohesion
A clear, tailored direction for materials and finishes, and where to spend so the result looks unmistakably high-end, with no builder-grade compromises.
03Project management
Control on site
Practical ways to direct your contractors, spot where corners may be cut, and protect your timeline and your budget.
How it works
Three stepsOne clear plan.
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Step 1
Choose your time
Pick a date and time that suits you from the calendar.
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Step 2
Share your project
Send your plans, inspiration, site photos and current dilemmas. Everything is reviewed before we speak, so the whole hour goes on your plan.
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Step 3
Get your plan
We settle what's stuck and explore what your space could become. Sixty minutes by video, with a written plan to follow. By the end of the hour, your next move feels obvious.
Choose my time
Choose a date and time that suits you.
In their words
The brief: contemporary but warm
When I asked for contemporary but warm and cozy, I wasn't sure we would get that but you absolutely ticked all our boxes!
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Thank you again for all your help, everyone that has seen the house absolutely loves it as much as we do. When I asked for contemporary but warm and cozy, I wasn't sure we would get that but you absolutely ticked all our boxes! If you are ever in the area please do come over.
LaurenGround floor remodel & interiors, Chiswick
Begin here
Your ideas,taken further.
Bring whatever you've collected, even if it's just “it would be amazing if…”. Most people leave with ideas they'd never have thought of.
- 60-minute one-to-one video session
- Your plans, photos and questions reviewed beforehand
- Written action plan with annotated drawings
- Clear direction on layout, finishes and builders
- Weeks of back-and-forth settled in one hour
1:1 Design Consultation
€300per session · taxes included
Less than 1% of a typical extension budget, spent before the other 99%.
Choose your date on the next step.
Not sure of the day? Pick one, and move it later.
Only a few spaces a week.
Selected work
Projects behind the advice
Questions
Before you book.
Me, Karisma: the architect and interior designer behind Design by Karisma. My experience spans Foster + Partners, Apple, Harrods and LVMH, across residential, retail and commercial projects. You speak to me directly, from the review of your plans to your written action plan.
We meet by video link for a focused 60 minutes. Afterwards you receive your written action plan with annotated drawings, visual direction and clear next steps.
That's often when an hour helps most. Bring whatever you have, however rough. A single room, a listing you're unsure about, or just a feeling that it could be better.
At any stage, and the earlier the better. Before drawings, we set the direction and the budget. With drawings, we audit them. On site, we solve what's going wrong. Tell me your stage when you book and the session is shaped around it.
This is often where the session pays for itself. Most drawings are made to get through planning and building control, not to make the most of your space. I review them before we speak and show you exactly what to change before your builder starts.
Yes. Many people come for a second opinion: when the design doesn't feel right yet, when things have stalled, or when their architect has stepped away mid-project. I review your drawings before we speak and show you what to keep, what to change, and how to move forward from where you are.
Yes. Send it before the call and I'll show you what's missing, what's vague, and what is likely to come back later as an extra.
Yes. For developers, the hour focuses on what sells: the right specification for your price bracket, layouts buyers value, and where design adds to the exit, and where it doesn't. Send your drawings, schedule and target sale price before we speak, and your written plan follows within 48 hours.
Yes. Every session is held by video, so you can book from anywhere, and we'll find a time that suits your time zone.
Whatever you have: an address or listing link, plans or drawings, photos of the space or site, inspiration images or a Pinterest board, your budget if you have one, and the questions on your mind. Everything is reviewed before we speak, so the whole hour goes on your project.
Not at all. Most of the hour is spent looking at your plans and photos on screen together. Camera on or off, whichever you prefer.
Yes, and I'd encourage it. Most of the decisions that stall a renovation are the ones two people haven't agreed on yet. Join from the same room or from two different cities.
Within 48 hours you'll receive a written action plan: the decisions we made, in the order to make them, with budget and builder notes. For seven days after, you can email me any questions as you put it into practice.
No. This is a single hour together, with a written action plan: design ideas you'd never have thought possible, a first glimpse of what your space could become, and the complete clarity to run your project with confidence. If you'd like more support afterwards, we can talk about it, with no obligation.
Clarity
Design advice trusted by Harrods, LVMH and Apple. / shaped around the life you're building. / that keeps your budget where you set it. / your builder would rather you skipped. / so your home never looks builder-grade. / for the home your floor plan is hiding. / before a mistake is built in for good.
Most renovations fail in the same place. You've thought of everything. Then the builder finds a snag you couldn't have seen, fixes it the quick way, and every decision after bends around it. One hour with an architect who is also your interior designer and project manager means you see it first.
1:1 Design Consultation
Make the expensive decisionsonce, and make them right.
One hour, one written plan. The difference shows the moment someone walks in.
Luxury design and renovation, from the inside: real projects, real costs and the decisions behind them, before they're on Instagram.