Meiger's interior-design fee is £60 per square metre, excluding VAT, calculated across the agreed design area. That figure prices the design service. It is separate from the cost of furniture, bespoke joinery, kitchens, lighting, specialist finishes, procurement, installation, construction and any external professional appointments.
There is no single reliable figure for the completed interior of every luxury home. The total investment is established only after the property, rooms, design responsibilities and intended level of completion have been defined. This distinction matters: a design fee and a complete project budget answer different questions.
The £60 per square metre fee gives a clear starting point for Meiger's interior-design work. The measured area may be an entire home or a defined group of connected spaces. The proposal records the rooms, design stages and visual material included.
The complete project investment is then built from the approved design and specification. It may include bespoke manufacture, sourced furniture, kitchens, bathrooms, lighting, art, accessories, procurement, installation and building work. Architecture design and residential-development services are assessed separately because their technical duties and delivery requirements are different.
The exact deliverables are confirmed in the appointment, but the agreed interior-design scope can coordinate:
The design fee should not be read as the supply or construction price. Products, manufacture, delivery, installation, building work and third-party consultants are priced according to the approved project scope.
A useful cost plan separates the project into clear parts instead of relying on one headline number.
This pays for the agreed creative and technical design work. At Meiger, it is £60 per square metre excluding VAT across the commissioned design area.
Wardrobes, libraries, media walls, bars, display cabinetry, architectural panelling and other made-to-measure elements are costed from their dimensions, materials, internal fittings, engineering and installation requirements.
Kitchens, bathrooms, cinemas, pools, bars and wellness rooms combine furniture, equipment, services and specialist finishes. They usually require more coordination than a room furnished primarily with loose pieces.
The procurement allowance depends on the number and provenance of pieces, whether they are bespoke or sourced, and whether the brief requires a fully dressed, turnkey result.
Ordering, checking, storage, delivery, installation and resolving supplier issues involve a separate operational workload. The proposal should state which responsibilities and charges are included.
Structural alterations, new services, electrical work, plumbing, plastering, decoration, specialist finishes and making good belong to the delivery budget. The condition of the existing property and access to the site can materially change these costs.
Structural engineers, planning consultants, building-control services and other specialist appointments may be necessary. Their responsibilities and fees should be identified rather than assumed to sit inside the interior-design rate.
Floor area is useful for establishing the design fee, but it does not determine the final specification. Two homes of comparable size may have entirely different budgets because of:
A reliable proposal therefore describes both scope and specification. Without those two elements, a total figure can be precise in appearance but misleading in practice.
A substantial whole home with extensive bespoke joinery, several specialist rooms, premium furniture and significant building work will normally require a higher overall investment. Equally, a carefully defined group of rooms may be costed on its own merits. The figure becomes useful only when the rooms, products and delivery responsibilities attached to it are clear.
Interior design addresses how the home is planned, experienced, furnished and finished. Meiger's architecture-led method considers proportion, circulation, natural light, ceilings, lighting, joinery and the relationship between connected rooms before decorative decisions are finalised.
Interior architecture can extend into spatial reconfiguration, technical detailing and the integration of the interior with the building fabric. Architecture design may reach further again, including extensions, external form, planning information, building regulations and coordination with structural engineers or other consultants.
Where a commission includes more than one discipline, the proposal should identify the responsibilities and outputs for each. Architectural services are not automatically included within the £60 per square metre interior-design fee.
Residential development has a commercial and technical brief as well as an interior-design brief. A commission may involve several homes, a heritage conversion, a mixed-use property or a scheme intended for sale, rental or hospitality use.
Its fee cannot be calculated from a private whole-home example. Site conditions, planning status, unit numbers, shared areas, specification tiers, delivery phases and Meiger's role all need to be assessed. Developers should request a project-specific proposal through Meiger's residential development service.
A senior-level proposal should make the commercial structure easy to understand. It should identify:
This allows clients to compare like with like. A design-only appointment cannot be compared directly with a turnkey proposal containing products, manufacture, installation and construction.
Meiger's interior-design fee is £60 per square metre, excluding VAT, calculated across the agreed design area.
No. It is an example of investment allocated by some clients to a defined home-interior scope. A substantial whole-home commission will often require a higher overall investment, depending on its scale, specification and delivery requirements.
Unless the written proposal states otherwise, the rate should not be assumed to include furniture, bespoke manufacture, kitchens, lighting products, procurement, installation, construction or external consultants. These are priced from the approved scope.
The agreed design service includes photorealistic 3D visualisation so the client can assess spatial composition, fitted elements, materials and lighting before procurement or construction decisions are finalised.
No automatic inclusion should be assumed. Architecture design and wider technical responsibilities are defined and priced separately according to the property and the professional team required.
No. Residential-development work requires a project-specific brief and proposal based on the site, number of units, commercial objectives, technical scope and delivery responsibilities.
No. The £60 per square metre interior-design fee excludes VAT. The VAT treatment of other project costs should be shown clearly in the relevant quotation.
Meiger designs whole-home interiors across Cheshire, Manchester and the wider North West. The process begins by defining the property, rooms, architectural requirements and desired level of completion. The £60 per square metre design fee then establishes the design appointment, while the complete investment is developed transparently from the approved scope and specification.
Explore Meiger's interior design and architecture service, review its luxury interior design projects, or discuss a development through the residential development service.
