Witham Project
The home you'd commission yourself — if you had the time
A substantial Essex residence near Witham, treated as a single Commission across reception, sleeping, and bathroom suites. The brief was the work of a single Discovery hour: how the household actually lives in the property, what the next twenty years require of it, and where the previous interior had stopped doing that work.
The household had been thinking about this project for years. The studio took it off their hands. Every room held in one brief — materials carrying across floors, joinery languages compounding, lighting unified across the principal level. The result reads as a single intelligence rather than a collection of room refreshes. The kind of work a property of this scale had been waiting for.
Walk YOUR home with Manong before a single thing is specified.
The Discovery is the first stage of every Tone Commission: a structured meeting at YOUR property or at the studio, where Manong walks YOUR brief with you and tells you plainly what she would do with the space. She is the designer on every Commission she takes, and the work is never handed to a junior. The Discovery is a paid stage, credited in full against the design fee if you both decide to go on, so YOU find out what YOU are dealing with either way.
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