Christmas With Personality, Part 1: Your Color Story
Why primary colors scare me, how to keep the red and the green without the crayon versions, and why green and burgundy are the new neutrals.
Text Michelle BrewerRead 11 min
Astratto
Design
Interior·Exterior·Photoreal renderings
A head designer on your team who helps you decide the colors, the materials and the style, without putting one on payroll.We do the renderings, the drawings and the sourcing, in your style and under your name.And we catch the expensive mistakes on paper, not on site.A head designer on your team, not on payroll.We help you decide, and ship under your name.
Astratto
Design
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My Christmas Picks
Everything I would buy this Christmas, store by store: IKEA, Kave Home, CB2 and Desenio. Fun, cute, elegant, and a little bit of everything.
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Michelle's Picks
Things I'd put in your home: the lamp that makes a corner glow, the rug that pulls a room together, the little vase that makes a shelf feel finished.
Shop my picksHow it works
Five steps, start to finish
01
The Brief
Send a project. Michelle replies with a plan and a fixed price.
02
Onboarding
We learn your templates once, then keep them.
03
Production
Space planning, drawings and renderings, in your style.
04
Review
Michelle reviews, then you do. Two rounds included.
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Under Your Brand
Files in your format, under your firm's name.
The renderings are how we show you the design. The design is what you're hiring us for.
Your taste, in pictures
Point at what you like. We'll do the rest.
Pick the rooms that pull you in and we'll hand you a board, in your words, ready to brief from. It takes about two minutes.
Pictures via Pinterest, from our board
What people are saying
Five stars, every time
★★★★★
Wish there were more than 5 stars to give. What great service and outstanding vision. Whether it be their prompt communication to their knowledge of current design trends they totally exceeded my expectation. I could not be happier with the product received.
It is always a wonderful experience working with Astratto Design! My renderings turned out even better than I imagined! Fast and quality work will keep me coming back for all of my rendering needs! Thank you Astratto Team!
Very Professional. Responds in a timely manner, provides great quality, and just an overall pleasure to deal with. It is an absolute no brainer to go with Astratto for any Design Needs.
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Christmas With Personality, Part 2: Which Palette Is You?
More than 60 Christmas color palettes from the creators we love, sorted by personality: classic, retro, fun, romantic, serious, moody, natural, rustic and calm.
Text Michelle BrewerRead 18 min
Christmas With Personality, Part 3: Pattern, Wrapping And Bringing It Home
Pattern, gift wrap, greenery, candlelight and traditions: how to bring your Christmas palette home and keep it classy, plus my Christmas picks.
Text Michelle BrewerRead 25 min
AI can make a picture. It can't make a decision.
Everything here comes from a designer, not a prompt. We use AI early, for direction. It can't tell you what can be built. See how that worked on Ta’Da Laundry.
A head designer, without the payroll. You pay per project. No salary, no slow months.
We catch clashes before your contractor does
We spec things you can order
Changes for a reason, not a re-rolled prompt
Work that holds up when your client asks why
Sixty projects, and nobody knows our name
One design firm has sent us more than sixty projects. Their clients have never heard of us. Yours won't either. That's the point.
Meet Michelle.
Astratto is my studio. One head designer, not a queue of juniors. I have an interior design degree and a kitchen and bath certificate. I set the brief, make the calls and answer when you write.
60+
Projects for one design firm
2
Revision rounds included
1
Head designer on every project
100%
Delivered under your brand
For every stage of your project
Design Development
Space planning, finishes, and specifications.
Drawings and Documentation
Floor plans, elevations, and millwork drawings.
Visualization
Photoreal renderings, video tours, and VR walkthroughs.
Every service, side by side · Turning an AI concept into something buildable
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln
Have more work than hours?
Michelle reads every one and replies with a fixed price.
Start a ProjectOne fixed fee per project. See how pricing works or the questions firms actually ask.
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