Snug NestYou get to change your mind when it’s easy, not when it’s expensive.
Building a home in Melbourne means hundreds of decisions, most of them made in rooms that look nothing like your house. Powerpoints, lighting, joinery, the depth of a benchtop. We work through them with you before the slab goes down, while changing your mind still costs nothing but a conversation.
The call is free and runs half an hour. It is most useful before you sign with your builder.
Snug Nest Designs. Interior design for new builds across Melbourne.
“Why I decided to go with Snug Nest Designs is because I had shopped around a fair bit. But the minute I met Srishti, everything changed. It was that 45 minutes meeting, and I felt like I was talking to a friend.”
Homeowner on camera, 23 seconds, unedited.
“I thought I can do it myself. I'm a smart girl, I can do a lot of things. I bought furniture, I bought carpet, and then I put it all together.”
“I've stayed in two or three houses before and every time we've done the stuff ourselves.”
“For me, I'm quite time poor. So the thought of having to buy everything and put something together that I liked was quite daunting.”
If any of that sounds like your build, the next step is a conversation — before anything is ordered.
Every decision in your build has a date after which it stops being free.
Move a powerpoint before the frame goes up and it is a phone call. Move it after the plaster is on and it is a variation, a price, and a trade coming back.
Watch your choices close
Every bar below is one decision about your home. It stands tall while the choice is still yours, and drops as the build closes it off. Tap where your build is up to.
At contract signed, 4 of these are still free to change and 1 is already locked in.
These are our general readings, not a promise about your build. Your builder and your contract decide the real answer, and Srishti will give it to you on the call.
Wherever you put the marker, something on that list is still free to change. See all ten decisions
“We wish we’d planned the interior while the walls were still open.”
It is the sentence families say to Srishti after they have moved in, and the reason the studio works the way it does. Seventy-five seconds on what closes off once the contract is signed, and what we do about it before that.
That list is the general case. Half an hour with Srishti is the version with your contract and your floor plan in it.
The things we end up saying on every first call.
Pick one and Srishti answers it right here, with sound. None of them runs longer than thirty-five seconds.
Once layout, electrical and joinery are locked in, changing them is expensive and disruptive.
Thirteen seconds inside the studio, quiet and without commentary. Press play if you would like a look at the room your selections get made in.
Your builder can build the house perfectly and it still will not be the one you pictured.
A builder builds what the drawings say. Our job is making the drawings say what you meant: the ceiling you keep describing to people, the pantry door that should swing the other way, the powerpoint that belongs inside the cupboard rather than beside it.
Nobody on site is guessing.
Srishti on the order most builds run in: a year spent perfecting the structure and the facade, interiors thought about once the plasterer is nearly finished.
“I don’t want to burden ourselves with making expensive mistakes.”
Officer. Two busy professionals who came to us before the colour appointment, and were six months pregnant by the time they moved in.
Client interviewTwo and a half minutes with the family, in the house they now live in.
A Hawthorne renovation, bought sight unseen on the day of the auction. “My lounge room could actually look like that.”
Officer, finished. Timber joinery, a window where most builds put a tiled splashback, and an island long enough to actually sit at.
The same room, before we touched it and after.
Sixteen seconds on a loop, no sound: a room the way we found it, then the same room with the joinery, the lighting and the furniture in. It is the shortest version of the whole argument on this page.
Three details from finished homes, a few seconds each. They open full screen, with sound, and you can move between them.
Srishti buys in person, at the factory.
Furniture, lighting, wardrobes, doors, wall panelling. She goes to the markets in China and the factories behind them, which is how a client ends up with a front door that is not on anyone else’s street.
Global sourcing isn’t about cost. It’s about access.
Srishti walking a wall-panel studio in China: timber, mesh, leather, fabric-sandwich glass, panels that look like concrete and weigh almost nothing. This is where a feature wall stops being a paint colour.
Before your next decision becomes permanent.
Half an hour with Srishti, on video or over the phone. You tell her where the build is up to and what has already been signed. She tells you what is still worth changing and what you should leave alone.
It costs nothing. If the honest answer is that you do not need us yet, that is what you will hear.
SrishtiTwelve seconds of Srishti on how Snug Nest started, so you know who is on the other end of the call.
What the half hour is for
- Where the build actually is
- Contract, colour appointment, slab, frame. What is fixed and what is not.
- What is still in front of you
- Usually the electrical and lighting plan, the joinery, and every finish that has not been selected yet.
- Whether we are the right call
- Some builds want us from the floor plan through to the furniture. Some want a second opinion and nothing more.