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What the firm offers

The Service Offerings

Four services take your home from the first drawing to the finished rooms.A diagnostic shows which ones it needs.

What does Meridian Atelier offer?

Meridian Atelier designs your home, documents it for your builder, furnishes it and oversees its construction: four services we call Work Cycles.

Phase I, a paid diagnostic of your property and household, comes first. It shows the cycles your home needs; each commission begins with the design or the furnishings.

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How does a commission run?

Four phases, each validated before the next begins.

Choose a phase to follow its steps.

Phase 0
Pre-Engagement & Acquisition
An inquiry, then a 45-minute Discovery Call with the Principal. The firm checks the fit between your project and its practice, and learns how you prefer to receive information.
Starts with
Your inquiry.
You receive
The Phase I Agreement and its retainer invoice.
Your inquiry, read by the Principal
The Discovery Call, by video
The Phase I proposal
Phase I
Strategic Foundation
A technical and psychological diagnostic of the property and the household. It closes with a proposal that names the Work Cycles your project requires.
Starts with
The Phase I retainer.
You receive
The as-built plans, the readout and the proposal. A client who stops here keeps the Phase I Deliverable Package.
Base measurement: a LiDAR scan, a hand measure or your own plans, checked on site
As-built plans of the existing house
The Diagnostic Session: five personality traits and the household's constraints
The Diagnostic Readout: the design style your data points to
The Modular Proposal: your Work Cycles
Phase II
The Modular Design Commissions
The firm designs, presents and documents your home: the building and its hard finishes in The Master Plan and, if the project includes it, the furnishings in The Curation Commission.
Starts with
The signed Master Design Agreement.
You receive
A builder-ready drawing set, its execution guide and, with The Curation Commission, the catalog of every furnishing.
Selecting surfaces and finishes
The Point of No Return: your signed approval
The Design Codex™ and The Prime Project Outline™: the drawing set and its execution guide
Selecting furniture, textiles and art
The FF&E Dossier™: the catalog of every furnishing
Phase III
Atelier Logistics & Governance
Your contractor builds under the firm's oversight, while the firm purchases, stores and installs the furnishings.
Starts with
The retainers for White-Glove Delivery and Contractor Oversight.
You receive
The Field Archives, the record of every construction decision; The Logistics Ledger, the log of every furnishing from purchase to installation; and a finished home.
Bid comparison and the contract audit
Site visits, field reports and answers to the builder's questions
Purchasing, freight and secure storage
The Reveal: white-glove installation
Legacy Capture: photography and closeout

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Which services does your home need?

Choose your home's location and services; each commission begins with the design or the furnishings. Your commission appears alongside, and Phase I confirms it.

Where is your home?

Choose your services

The Master Plan
We design the building, interiors and landscape, and document them in The Design Codex™ and The Prime Project Outline™.
The Curation Commission
We select the furniture, custom textiles and fine art, plan every room and specify each piece in The FF&E Dossier™.
Atelier Procurement
We purchase, track, receive and store every piece, install it in the finished home and log each step in The Logistics Ledger.
Greater Los Angeles only
As your owner's representative, we compare the bids, audit the contract and oversee your builder, recording each decision in The Field Archives.
Greater Los Angeles only

Your commission

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Questions before a commission

The Principal's answers to the questions that come first.

Phase I gathers the measured facts the right scope depends on: the property's condition, the household's constraints and your five personality traits. Its proposal then names only the Work Cycles your project requires.
Yes. The Master Plan stands on its own: The Design Codex™ and The Prime Project Outline™ go to the builder you choose, and every other cycle stays optional.
Licensed contractors build it. Meridian Atelier holds no construction contract and takes no margin on construction. Through Contractor Oversight, part of a commission the firm designs, it oversees your contractor on your behalf.
Yes, for design. Across the United States the firm delivers The Master Plan and The Curation Commission to your local builder and consults remotely to protect the design. Atelier Procurement and Contractor Oversight run in Greater Los Angeles, where the Principal manages each site in person.
Each fee follows the labor time its scope requires. Phase I takes a fixed retainer, credited toward the design fee. The Master Plan and The Curation Commission take one fixed fee; Atelier Procurement and Contractor Oversight take a monthly retainer. Billing follows milestones, and the Principal sets each fee in your proposal.
The commission closes there, and you keep the Phase I Deliverable Package: the as-built plans and elevations, their CAD files and a summary of the diagnostic.
The firm keeps the copyright. At handover you receive the documents and a license to use them to build your home.

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The first step

It starts with one conversation with the Principal.

Send a short inquiry about the property and the household. The Principal reads it himself and, when the project fits, sets a 45-minute Discovery Call by video, or by phone if you prefer.

Begin an inquiry