Online interior design · Portland & remote · Est. 2019
Taking rooms for October
hello@alcovea.studio
Online interior design · Portland & remote · Est. 2019
Taking rooms for October
hello@alcovea.studio
Portland, Oregon
Est. 2019
142 rooms, seven states
From
Nadia Ferrant
Role
Founder, and the person who draws your plan
Written
Halsey Row, Portland · March 2026
Subject
Why we work this way
I spent six years at a firm where a living room cost eleven thousand dollars and four months.
Most of both went on meetings. I would drive across town to look at a wall I had already been sent eleven photographs of, and the client paid for the drive at a designer’s rate. The part that actually changed the room — the plan, the palette, the list of what to buy — took about a fortnight of real work.
So Alcovea sells that fortnight, and nothing around it. You send photographs and a few measurements. A scaled plan, a palette fixed against your own light, a priced list and an install guide come back. Everything a design firm normally bills for in between is the part I removed on purpose, and the price is what is left when you take it out.
People ask whether a room can really be designed by someone who has not stood in it. One hundred and forty-two times now, in seven states, the answer has been yes — provided the measurements are right, which is why we would rather redraw a plan for free than guess.
Founder · Alcovea Studio
Seven years, counted
2019
Opened in March with one desk and two clients from a former employer.
2020
Home offices, mostly. The questionnaire took its present shape this year.
2021
First kitchen package, and the first trade quote coordinated for a client.
2022
Marcus joined. Turnaround dropped from 21 days to 16.
2023
Supplier list rebuilt around lead times we measure ourselves.
2024
A waiting list for the first time. Intake moved to fixed monthly windows.
2025
Fewer rooms, larger ones. Six open-plan kitchens against one the year before.
Counted on the day each pack shipped. 2026 is not here because the year is not finished.
The house palette
Counted across 142 rooms. None of it is a house style you have to accept — it is what most people choose once they see it against their own light.
NCS S 1505-Y20R
Walls · 34 rooms
NCS S 5030-Y70R
Joinery · 21 rooms
NCS S 8005-Y50R
Floors · 18 rooms
NCS S 4010-G50Y
Upholstery · 26 rooms
NCS S 3040-Y10R
Fittings · 40 rooms
How the studio works
Removed
Two hours in the room, four in the car, billed to you at a designer’s rate.
Instead
photographs and a tape
Corners, not the doorway. If a measurement is wrong we redraw it free, and no plan has gone out on a bad number.
Removed
The meter that makes a client hesitate before asking a question.
Instead
re-quotes since 2019
One price per room, fixed before we start, and the plan is redrawn free until the day the pack ships.
Removed
The quiet fifteen per cent that decides which sofa ends up on your list.
Instead
passed back last year
You buy direct at the price we found, and the trade discount goes onto your list rather than into ours.
Removed
Four months for a living room, most of it spent waiting on someone else’s diary.
Instead
rooms per intake
Intake opens monthly and closes at five. It is why the average pack lands in 11 days against a promised 14.
Who draws your room
Founder · plans and palettes
98 rooms drawn
Designer · kitchens and open plan
44 rooms drawn
Sourcing · lists and lead times
38 suppliers tracked
Nadia draws the plan, Marcus takes anything with cabinetry in it, Iris prices every line and checks stock the morning your pack ships. There is no account manager between you and them.
Next intake opens October 14 · 6 rooms left
One room at a time, designed remotely. Send photographs and a few measurements; a scaled plan, a palette and a shopping list come back inside two weeks.
© 2026 Alcovea Studio LLC
Est. 2019 · Rooms designed remotely, from the first one
