01Salt HouseHome, 2026
HalvaneInteriors and architecture
We design homes, hotels and studios that feel calm on the first day and better every year after.
Since 2014Nine designers, one workshop
(Featured projects)
and forty more
(The studio)
A small studio that draws every room, joint and window itself, so that what you live in is what was drawn.
Halvane designs interiors and the buildings around them. We work on homes, small hotels and studios, and we take on few projects so that the same people who draw a room are the ones on site when it is built.
We are not tied to a style. We start with the light, the way you move through a place and the materials that will look better in ten years than they do today.
- Founded
- 2014
- Designers
- 9
- Projects
- 62
Featured projects
Five places we are proud of. Select one to open it.
and forty more
(Process)
How a project runs
Nine steps, in the same order every time. Drag to move along.
- 01Understand
Listen
We visit, walk every room and ask how you live: when you wake, where you sit, what you keep.
The brief
- Wake
- 6.30
- Coffee
- Window seat
- Keep
- The oak table
- Never
- Open shelves
- 02Understand
Measure
We survey to the millimetre and draw the place as it really is, not as the old plans say.
- 03Understand
Imagine
A mood, a palette of materials and three sketches, so you can react before we commit.
- 04Design
Plan
Layouts, routes and light studied together. We draw the options until one is clearly right.
- 05Design
Choose
Stone, timber, plaster and textiles picked in daylight, in your rooms, next to each other.
- 06Design
Detail
Joinery, lighting and fittings drawn at full size so the builders have no questions.
- 07Deliver
Price
A line by line budget and a tender with builders we trust, with every trade-off made in the open.
The budget
- Joinery
- 34%
- Stone
- 21%
- Lighting
- 9%
- Build
- 28%
- Reserve
- 8%
- 08Deliver
Build
We are on site every week: checking, adjusting and keeping the drawings honest.
- 09Deliver
Hand over
We style the rooms, write the care notes and come back after a year to see how it lives.
(Notes)
Insights
Short notes from the drawing table.
Draw the light before the furniture
Where the sun lands at eight and at five decides more about a room than anything you buy for it.
We start every plan with a sun path and a week of photographs of the empty rooms. Beds, desks and tables then go where the light is kindest, not where the old layout put them.
Stone that is meant to stain
Honed travertine, waxed oak and unlacquered brass: surfaces that improve with use.
A ring from a glass is not damage, it is a record. We choose finishes that wear into character and we write a short guide on how to live with a mark instead of fearing one.
Why we draw every joint at full size
A drawing at one to one finds the mistakes a model hides, and tells the carpenter we respect the job.
Some details only fail when they meet a real hand. We print them on the studio floor, stand on them and change them before anything is cut.
(Enquiries)
Have a space in mind?
Tell us where it is, what it is for and when you would like to be in. We reply within two working days.