brave new eco

CONSULTING SERVICES PACKAGES
Thank you for your enquiry about our consulting services packages that allow us to bring our insight, technical expertise and creative problem solving to your project; assisting you to create cohesive, functional and enjoyable spaces. We can help you get back on track when you are stuck and move you towards realising the potential of your home’s design by generating feasible ideas and offering unique insights into possibilities you may not have considered. The packages also enable you to draw on our unique holistic skill-set that has been honed and developed over the past two decades, ensuring that sustainability and the permaculture principles are embedded in all of our design objectives.

Whether you are an owner-builder or working with a designer or builder, we apply our design thinking and expertise to your project for you to realise with your team. Our Founding Director and Principal Designer Megan Norgate has consulted on residential design projects for 14 years and worked with over 100 households. 

Please read our FAQ guide below to further understand our consulting services offerings.

HOW MANY HOURS ARE PROVIDED WITH THIS SERVICE?
From the outset it is important to understand that our consulting services are not resolved designs but rather an offering of “big-picture thinking”. Consulting services are delivered in approximately 20 hours of work including preparation, a face-to-face meeting, follow up and feedback. Whereas full design services are a very involved work process that occurs over 400-700 hours for an average size renovation. 

HOW DO I GET THE MOST FROM THIS SERVICE?
Our consulting services are an insightful response to existing information. Therefore in order to engage us you must have a base amount of information that includes floor plans. The more accurate and broad the particulars you provide us, the more resolved the consulting feedback will be.

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN A CONSULTING SERVICE?

Consulting services include:

  • gathering preliminary information and an initial phone chat.

  • an assessment of the existing conditions in either your plans or home/garden.

  • a face-to-face meeting and visit to your home to explore ideas (or the virtual equivalent via video conferencing).

  • an inquiry into the nuances of your goals and what your resources and priorities are.

  • a follow-up response including a summary sketch plan and notes based on our extensive experience with similar projects that will offer feasible ideas and unique insights into possibilities you may not have considered.

WHAT IS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS SERVICE?

Our consulting services:

  • provide useful ideas, potential directions and contacts but we are not able to deliver, manage or make detailed final decisions for a project. 

  • can transform the direction and outcomes of your project but they do not resolve fine details. Therefore they are not suitable for specifications or detailed design. 

  • can provide you with useful resources and leads however we are not financially or otherwise affiliated with suppliers and trades.

  • can apply a Brave new eco design philosophy to your project but don’t result in your project being a “Brave New Eco design” as our design outcomes are born from a more involved and highly resolved process of design interrogation development and documentation. 

  • do not provide full due-diligence for any sketch plans or design approaches we discuss or provide as these are subject to several factors including statutory regulations, structural requirements, cost of works and feasibility. The ideas presented are intended for the client to explore further and resolve fully with their project team.