Consultancy
A Homey home is not a finished product. It's a long relationship between the person and the place.
Our consultancy sits alongside your architects, engineers, and builders, holding the brief steady through every decision, so the home you move into is the home you set out to build.
How we work
Discovery and the Brief
The work begins long before any architect is appointed. We sit with you and build a portrait of how you actually live — your sleep, your routines, your sensory preferences, the relationships in the home. From that, we write the Brief. The Brief is the most valuable thing we make. Every architect, engineer, and builder on the project works from it. Every decision, for the next eighteen months, is held against it.
Design and build
Once the Brief is written, we coordinate the full project around it. Architects, engineers, interior designer, landscape architect — every specialist the home needs. Through design, we manage the team and protect the Brief through every decision. Through construction, we are on site as your eyes — checking that what gets built is what was designed, and that every detail still serves the person who'll live there.
Handover and beyond
When the home is ready, we walk you through it. Every system, every routine, every reason a decision was made. We hand over the documentation, the contacts, and the maintenance schedule. From that day forward, you become a member of the Homey community — with access to our concierge, our practitioner network, and the events that make the home part of a wider life. The relationship doesn't end at handover. It's where the rest of it starts.
The Brief is the foundation.
If the Brief is wrong, everything built from it is wrong.
The Homey Brief is a complete portrait of how a person, a family, and a household actually live.
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A detailed picture of what a good day feels like for each person in the home, and what a bad one feels like. The Brief begins here, because every design decision after it traces back to these answers.
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A ranking of every room in the home by how much it matters to daily life, so budget is spent where it earns its keep.
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A curated set of references — images, materials, finishes — that aligns the look of the home with your sensory preferences and our toxin-free requirements.
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Eighteen months into the design process, the Brief is what prevents drift. Every architect, engineer, and builder works from the same document, and your health stays the primary measure of success.
Completion is the beginning, not the end. A bespoke maintenance protocol takes care of the home's systems, from air filtration to material preservation, so the Standard holds long after you move in. You have ongoing access to our private concierge and practitioner network, for as long as you live in the home.
Learn about the Homey Standard
The Alba House: the Standard, in practice
Our first home, built to the Standard our consultancy delivers. The clearest way to understand how the work ends, before you begin it yourself.
View the Alba House
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