A studio instrument · Resources
Start your design brief.
Not a style quiz. Fourteen considered decisions, the same ones we open every project with, and you leave with the first draft of a real brief: palette, materials, light, and the tension in your taste, named.
The rooms in this instrument are visualisations in the True Build design language, generated so that only the design changes between each pair. They are not photographs of our projects.
Spaces.
Six pairs of rooms. Same view, opposite instincts.
Materials.
Choose the three you would live with.
How you live.
Because a brief is for a life, not a photograph.
The trade-offs.
Where your answers disagree, we ask you to choose. That is where the brief lives.
No account, no email required to see your brief. Your decisions and their timing shape the reading.
Assembling your brief.
Fourteen decisions, their timing, and two resolved trade-offs.
Your design brief · First draft
Where you sit
The rooms you chose
Six decisions, in the order you made them. The brief is read from these.
Palette
Materials
The three you reached for.
Light
Five signature moves
The tension, named
What to avoid
In your words
The line the whole brief answers to
What this means for budget
Open the Budget Studio Your brief travels with you.
Keep the brief.
We’ll send it as a document you can share with a partner, an architect, or us. It also makes a consultation considerably sharper.
A consultation starts from this brief instead of a blank page.
How this was read: your brief is composed from your fourteen decisions, how long each one took you, and the trade-offs you resolved, mapped against the studio’s design doctrine. No generative AI writes it, and it is a first draft, not a verdict: a designer sharpens it in conversation. Room imagery on this page is studio visualisation in our own design language, tagged as such, not photographs of built work.
Taste is half the brief.
The other half is what it costs to build well. Open the Budget Studio: a live planning band, space by space.
A brief is better read aloud.
Bring it to a working consultation: forty-five minutes with a principal, honest feedback, and the brief rewritten the way we’d hand it to our own design team.
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