Options and revisions
Every room is laid out three ways, then every major piece is drawn and priced three ways, with a reason for each and our suggestion. Tell us what’s wrong and we redraw until it’s right. No revision count, no hourly meter.
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| Item | One firm’s written proposal | Stanza |
|---|---|---|
| How the design reaches you | Selections narrowed with you, then the full design presented once it’s complete | Three layouts for each room, then three options for each major piece, with our suggestion |
| Revisions included | Two revisions to the renderings | As many rounds as it takes |
| After that | $225 an hour | Never billed hourly |
| Changing your mind | Up to three revisions to the proposal, each by written change order, the time to agree it billed hourly | During your project, a settled room reopens whenever you ask |
Their column is taken from a written proposal a high-end Austin design firm gave us in 2026: one firm, not every firm. The full comparison: designers known for a look.
The layout first
Show someone a finished room with a particular sofa in it and they’ll judge the sofa, not whether it should face the fire. So the first round for each room is the plan: three layouts drawn plainly to your dimensions, so you’re choosing how the room works.
Once the layout is settled, every piece has real limits, a sofa between 80 and 90 inches or a bed that clears the window, and every option after that is sized to the plan.
The living room, 22′-7″ × 20′-11″: three schemes drawn on your walls, priced, then redrawn until one is right.
Then the pieces
Then we go piece by piece, in the order a room comes together: the large pieces everything else is arranged around, then the lighting, the rug, the rest. Three options for each, with what each is good at, and our suggestion marked.
Each option is priced, so you can see what the room adds up to as you choose.
The living-room sofa for scheme B, three ways, each sized to the plan before it’s ordered. Illustrative options and prices.
Rounds
A round is simple: you mark it up, we redraw, you look again. There’s no count to keep and no hourly meter, because the design fee is agreed by the square foot before we start and every round is inside it.
During your project, a settled room isn’t sealed. Change your mind in March and we reopen it.
A first conversation
A free 30-minute call with the people who will design it. Walk us through the rooms you want designed, with photos or plans if you have them, and we’ll work out your design fee with you on the call. Nothing to sign.
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