See what your room could look like with a joy-driven, science-backed direction, before you buy a single thing. I design it, you preview it in your actual space, and every piece arrives found, vetted, and ready to purchase the moment you say yes. Vintage first, ethically screened, grounded in published color and design research.
Not sure yet? Take the free 2-minute Room Direction quiz and see your starting palette before you spend a dollar.
Marketplaces hand you fifty thousand chairs and no direction. Full-service designers hand you direction at full-service prices. This is the third thing: fixed-price design direction, previewable before you commit, with the sourcing already done and the science behind every choice, from color psychology to biophilic design, cited by name. You take the plan, hire your own painter or handyperson, and the decisions are already made.
Pick the level of detail your project needs. Every package is built on the same brand engine. The difference is how deep we go.
A custom 5-color palette and atmosphere direction for one space, delivered in a week.
Best for: Repaints, branding refreshes, single-room makeovers.
Book Color Story · $147Three color and mood directions built from your intake. You pick the one that feels like you, and it gets developed into a full concept, shown in your actual room at three price points.
Best for: Cafes, boutiques, salons, wellness studios, and meaningful room redesigns.
Upgrade path: Your $497 credits toward the Specification for 30 days after delivery.
Book the Concept Package · $497Everything in the Concept Package, plus the spec sheet your contractor can follow line by line.
Best for: Clients ready to execute who want a roadmap, not just a vision.
Add-on: White glove ordering. I place and track every order for you, 15% of the furnishings total. Ask me when we talk.
Book the Specification · $1,297Most design advice is opinion dressed up as taste. Ashthetics works differently. Every recommendation in your package is grounded in three principles.
The colors you live and work in are doing real things to your nervous system. Warm hues advance and socialize. Cool hues recede and restore. High saturation reads as vitality. Frank Mahnke’s work on color and human response is the backbone, and we use it to choose colors that match the feeling you want, not just the look.
"This color doesn't ask permission. It just makes you feel something the moment you walk in."
The brain reads space before the conscious mind catches up. Ceiling height, threshold moments, prospect and refuge, fractal patterns. These aren't design buzzwords, they're the structural reasons certain rooms feel right. Every concept names the principles it's using.
"That's not opinion. That's how the nervous system works."
Humans evolved in nature. Roger Ulrich’s landmark hospital window study and Terrapin’s 14 Patterns of Biophilic Design map what a nature connection does for stress recovery and attention. Plants, organic patterns, natural light, material choices. Every package treats nature as design strategy, not decoration.
"Floral patterns aren't just pretty. Biomorphic form is one of the fourteen ways a room borrows from nature."
Sourcing is a paid feature of this service, not a background habit, and it runs on rules. Vintage first: one-of-one pieces with a documented past get priority, because reuse is the most sustainable choice in the room and nothing from a big-box warehouse has a story. Original designs only: no knockoffs, ever, and never a reproduction of a living designer's protected work. Credited makers favored: when a piece is newly made, it comes from a named maker, not an anonymous listing. Vendors are excluded until proven ethical: unvetted dropshippers never appear in a client specification, full stop.
Two practical notes that come with the standard. One-of-one vintage can sell to someone else at any moment, so those pieces are purchased at specification, when you say yes, not weeks later. And every sourced item arrives as a clickable link with the vendor named, so you always know exactly where your money is going.
From a two-minute quiz to a finished room, with a preview before you spend.
The free Room Direction quiz gives you a feeling and a starting palette in two minutes. No account, no commitment. When you're ready, book the package that fits.
After booking, the intake form covers your goals, your constraints, what the room has to keep doing, and the feeling you want. Photos and dimensions help.
Concept and Specification clients get three color and mood directions built from the intake. You pick the one that feels like you. Mini clients go straight to their custom palette.
Your chosen direction gets developed and shown in your actual room, at real scale, at three investment levels. See it before a single dollar goes to furniture.
Revisions get folded in, then your branded PDF arrives with every piece sourced, priced, ethically screened, and clickable. The shopping is already done.
Hire your own painter or handyperson, or just start clicking. Every decision is already made, and one-of-one vintage gets purchased at spec so it doesn't slip away.
Ashthetics packages provide design direction and specification only. I don't perform construction, installation, or contractor coordination, and I don't carry the licenses or insurance to do that work safely. That's a feature, not a limitation. It keeps the package focused, affordable, and fast.
You hire your own painter, handyperson, or contractor. They follow the document. If you'd like recommendations on how to vet a good one, I'm happy to share what I look for.
The exception is styling support. If you'd like me to come in once the work is done to physically style shelves, place plants, hang art, and edit the space for the final reveal, that's available as a half-day or full-day add-on. Pricing on request.
Start with the project. If you just need a palette, the Color Story Mini is the right call. If you want to choose from three color and mood directions and see your pick developed at three investment levels, the Concept Package is the flagship and the one most clients book. If you're ready to execute and want every product, paint code, and plant pre-specified, the Specification Package gets you there.
Yes. If you book the Color Story Mini and want to upgrade to the Concept Package within 30 days, the $147 is credited toward the larger package. Same for upgrading from Concept to Specification.
The Specification Package gives you a clickable shopping list where every item from your chosen visualization is already sourced and priced, so ordering it yourself takes an evening, not a month of decisions. If you'd rather not touch a checkout page at all, white glove ordering is available as an add-on and I place and track every order for you for 15% of the furnishings total.
Yes. Every package is delivered digitally, so location doesn't change anything. The design works wherever you are.
You choose your direction before it gets developed, that is the whole point of showing three. And every package includes revisions on top of that. In practice, clients refine details, not the direction they picked themselves.
For the Specification Package, yes. Half at booking, half before final delivery. Just ask.
Not at this time. Ashthetics is a design direction studio, not a general contracting business. The package is built so a good local painter or handyperson can execute it without me.
One-time. You pay for the package, you receive the package, the work is yours.
Whether you're opening a new business, refreshing one you already love, or finally redesigning the room you've been staring at for two years, pick the package that fits and let's get started.
Questions before booking? Email ashley@ashtheticsnyc.com