Proportion first
Get the plan and the ceiling heights right and the finishes almost choose themselves.
14People
Since 2004
We design rooms you stop noticing — in the best way
Novaris began as two architects and a drawing board above a joinery workshop in Lower Parel. Twenty-one years later we are fourteen people, still one floor above a workshop, and still convinced that the best interiors are the ones that quietly get out of your way.
Our work runs from single-room refurbishments to forty-key hotels. What holds it together is method: a careful survey, an honest budget, drawings detailed enough to build from, and a designer on site every week until the last handle is fitted.
Work With Us0+Projects Delivered
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What Guides Us
Four convictions
They sound simple written down. Holding to them on week eleven of a build is the actual work.
Honest material
Real oak, real lime plaster, real stone. Nothing pretending to be something else.
Light as material
We plan daylight before we plan lamps, and we plan lamps before we plan sockets.
Documented properly
A complete drawing package is the cheapest insurance a client can buy.
Our Method
From first walk-through to handover
Every project runs on the same four stages, whatever its size. You always know which one you're in.
01
Listen
Site survey, brief workshop and a frank conversation about budget before any design work starts.
02
Draw
Concept plans, elevations, material boards and a costed scope you can approve or challenge.
03
Make
Tender packages, maker selection, weekly site visits and a single point of contact throughout.
04
Settle
Styling, snagging, a handover manual, and a follow-up visit six months after you move in.
Questions
Things clients ask before signing
If yours isn't here, ask us directly — we answer every enquiry ourselves, usually within a day.
Ask a QuestionDesign fees typically run between 10% and 15% of construction value, with a minimum engagement of £14,000. We give a fixed fee after the first survey so you are never billed by surprise.
An apartment usually takes four to six months from brief to handover; a house nine to fourteen; a hotel twelve to twenty. Roughly a third of that is design and procurement before anyone lifts a tool.
Yes. We have delivered projects in twelve countries, usually paired with a local project manager for permits and site attendance while we hold the design.
Gladly. We produce drawings any competent builder can price and build from, and we're happy to tender to a contractor you already trust.
We do, when the room carries the house — a kitchen, a principal bedroom, a library. Below our minimum fee we'll usually recommend a smaller studio rather than take your money.
Let's Begin
Twenty-one years of practice, ready for your plan
Send us a floor plan, a photo, or just a rough idea. We'll tell you what's possible and what it's likely to cost.
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