Every detail, considered with you, for a home that’s yours and ages with grace.

Three things. The design fee: $2.50 a square foot of the rooms in scope, paid once, however many rounds it takes. The membership: $249 a month while we design, the only monthly charge, from the day you sign. And what we buy for you, at our trade price plus a flat 20% service fee. Freight and tax are at cost, and storage, if you need it, is billed separately.

A working session after you sign: we walk you through the drawings and options, and you tell us what’s right and what isn’t. The free consultation doesn’t count. If you don’t love the direction after the first three, we refund your design fee and membership, no questions asked. A refund ends our work together, and the drawings stay with Stanza; anything already ordered for you is yours.

For full service, yes: we order your plumbing fixtures, appliances, lighting, furniture and decor, and that’s what the design fee covers. What you pay for each piece, and how it compares with retail, is set out in Where we buy. Your builder orders the tile, stone and other building materials from our parts list.

Look at the numbers above: a whole 3,200 sq ft house is an $8,000 design fee, paid once, half when you sign and half on delivery, plus $249 a month while we design and a flat 20% on what we buy for you. Your fee arrives in writing before you decide, and the call is free.

Yours. Every option comes with a reason, and you decide. Hate all three and we’ve learned what you don’t want, which is most of the work.

Fair question. Meet us: we’re the two people who draw your house, from the first call to the last order. Look at the work, each project marked photo or rendering. Then hold us to the three-review promise.

Good. We work inside your builder’s plans. They get a parts list with the item, finish, quantity and maker’s lead time for every selection, and a Selection Calendar dated to their schedule. They order the tile, stone and other building materials from it, and the parts inside the walls, like shower valves and ceiling light housings; we order the plumbing fixtures, appliances, lighting, furniture and decor. Where a selection depends on a field measurement, it’s on the calendar with the date we need it. Their questions come to the same text line as yours, and anything we buy for you is delivered to site on a date they set.

As many as it takes, on every room in scope, each back within 3–5 days, never billed hourly. A settled room reopens whenever you ask; if your builder has already ordered or installed something in it, we show you what changing it would mean for their schedule before we redraw.

No. We don’t make site visits, install or manage construction. You or your builder send us photos, measurements and plans, and we send drawings and options back. A local partner receives deliveries.

Austin and San Francisco. We work from your plans, photos and measurements, so the design runs the same way in both.

No. Makers and builders set those dates. What we do is date every decision against your builder’s schedule, so your choices are ready before they’re needed.

The floor area of the rooms you want designed. A whole house is its conditioned square footage; two rooms are those two rooms. We agree the number in writing before you pay anything.

If walls move or the work needs stamped drawings, yes. We design the rooms within their plans and hand your contractor the selections.

Yes, that’s how the work runs. Send us the tile at your friend’s house the moment you see it.

From the day you sign until every room is designed: revisions until each room is right, one request at a time, each back within 3–5 days; your text line to the team; product research; and your file kept up to date.

We’re a small team, so nobody hands you off. If Stanza ever closes, every drawing, rendering and selection is yours to keep.