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Process · March 2026 · 6 min

How we work: six rooms, in sequence.

A look inside the Northwall studio process, from first sketch to final styled photograph.

How we work: six rooms, in sequence.

We work in six stages, each ending in a single decision point with the client. No stage begins until the previous one is signed.

Discover. We listen, walk the site, and ask uncomfortable questions about how the client actually lives — not how they want to be seen living.

Design. Concept, mood, spatial language. We commit to a direction here and rarely revisit it.

Develop. Drawings, materials, lighting, furniture. The slowest stage on purpose.

Detail. Joinery, hardware, transitions. Every junction is drawn.

Deliver. Execution, supervision, single-point accountability. We are on site weekly until handover.

Style. The final week. Soft furnishings, art, the last hundred objects. The room is not finished until it is styled.

Northwall Design Studio · March 2026

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