Residential.
The hardest client is the Tuesday evening. Houses and apartments taken whole — plan, joinery, light, furniture — for people who intend to live in them, not photograph them.
- Unit
- Whole homes; single-room studies at minimum
- Includes
- Plan, joinery, lighting, furniture, textiles, art hanging
- Duration
- 8 — 16 months, survey to finish
- Fees
- From DKK 180,000 (study) · quoted after survey
- Intake
- 5 of 8 yearly commissions
A residential commission begins with an uncomfortable question: which rooms do you actually use after dark? The answers decide everything. Danish homes are bought for their daylight and lived in by lamplight; we design for both shifts, and we have opinions about the second one that have made grown clients defend their ceiling spots — briefly.
We take the house whole. Not because we distrust decorators, but because the teaspoon drawer and the structural wall answer to the same plan, and someone must hold both in mind at once. That someone brings fourteen colleagues.
A year, roughly, of your patience.
Autumn — the truth
Survey, inventory, and the subtraction list. You will part with a third of your possessions and, in our experience, remember none of them by spring.
Months 1 — 3Winter — the drawings
The plan settles, the joinery is drawn, samples arrive at your door in numbered envelopes. This is the season of decisions; we ration them to two per week.
Months 3 — 6The building year
Site weeks, bench weeks, and one controlled crisis (there is always one; ours are scheduled). You move back in on a Thursday, because Fridays are for the first dinner.
Months 6 — 14Apartment N° 4, Østerbro.
A nineteenth-century plan, subtracted by a third and corrected by eleven centimetres. Fourteen months, one exhale.
“We hosted Christmas for eleven people and nobody asked where anything was. That is the review I give at dinner parties.”