I have lived, now it's time to share.

Book a Design Conversation with Alex

You've done well, made a great start, and now want to glue it all together? This is what I do best.

The meeting starts with saying hello to get grounded, I share my screen with your ideas preloaded and I sketch and pour out solutions with you. You share and explain your latest thoughts on your project's vision and goals. The beauty is, I can read your reaction in real time, feeding the refinement path as we go. Many solutions can land within the 89 minutes. Depending on your project complexity and the completeness of what you have shared, more sessions are likely needed and that's simply part of doing the work properly. I will send you a report of the meeting including my sketches, and next steps.

When you book you will be prompted to send your ideas, site plan, topography, and your Analytical Guru Specification Workbook, if you have one (part of the course pathway, a Design 101 asset), with your calendar booking. Most importantly, explain your project's vision and goals, along with the challenges you're facing, so I can come prepared.

Book a Spark Call

Not ready for a full Design Conversation, but want to talk it through first? A Spark Call is a quick, focused check-in.

Introduce your project, share your vision, and tell me where you're stuck. I'll listen and propose a possible path forward, enough to help you decide your next move. You will be prompted to upload your ideas when you book.

Book an On-Site Design Conversation

For Kiwis who'd rather talk it through face to face, on-site Design Conversations are usually the most efficient process.

The meeting starts with welcomes, we talk about your project, you share and explain your project's vision and goals, along with the challenges you're facing. As we share, I am taking notes and sketching. The best part of a site meeting is that I can fully incorporate the site context, and of course read your reaction in real time, feeding the refinement path as we go. Many solutions can land within the 89 minutes. Depending on your project complexity and the completeness of what you have shared, more sessions may likely be needed and that's simply part of doing the work properly. After the meeting you get a report, including my sketches, and next steps.

Site visits within the Wellington Region, for additions, alterations, small projects, and a first design session for new homes, one and a half hours usually works.

Outside the Wellington Region? Usually for new home projects, plan for two days, two to three hour sessions, two per day, split by lunch. Fees plus travel costs apply here too, I recommend booking a Spark Call first so we can discuss a path forward and decide what time investment is needed.

Breathe and Develop Your Design Brief

This option is a guided course, first to breathe and open up your instincts and creativity, then to develop your design brief.

My 1991 manifesto called for "a home that breathes like you do." That belief hasn't changed: the best home design is the one you already carry inside you.

You don't have a design brief, or need to collect your thoughts, you're stuck on floor plan version #59?

Well I have a solution for you! I've created a guided course to help you find the calm, confident concept for your project, your sanctuary.

It starts out with supercharging your instincts and creativity with the Breathe module, and then develops your ideas ready to start a Design Conversation with me. Kind of important to breathe, so I encourage you not to skip this, but if you feel your synaptic nerves are all firing in all their creative glory, then dive straight into the Design module.

Send me questions along the way, and when you're ready, book a Design Conversation.