THE DESIGNORY GUIDE:
eBooks and Design Guides
The Designory Guide includes eBooks and guides that are grounded in 20+ years of real project experience, offering a practical, step-by-step roadmap backed by the same systems, strategies, and insights we use to lead hundreds of high-end residential projects. Whether you're planning a major renovation, shaping a custom-designed home, or decorating your interiors, these guides replace confusion with confidence, helping you create a home that feels as good as it looks.
Create interiors that feel like home, function like a dream, and look effortless.
This guide is your step-by-step playbook for styling, furnishing and finishing your home with timeless confidence. Whether you’re decorating a single room or curating an entire home, this roadmap helps you clarify your style, source with purpose, and create interiors that are as elevated as they are personal.
What You’ll Learn:
✔️ How to Identify and Apply Your Unique Style
✔️ How to Design Functional, Flowing Spaces
✔️ What Makes Furniture Worth Investing In
✔️ The Power of Intentional Material Choices
✔️ A Confident, Cohesive Approach to Decorating
Included Tools:
A clear, professionally guided 8-chapter eBook
Interactive workbook for planning floorplans, finishes and brief
Checklists for styling, selections and shopping.
Recommended suppliers and tips and tricks we use
Who It’s For:
Homeowners unsure how to style their home or define their vision
Design lovers who want to get it right the first time
Renovators upgrading their homes for future functionality and style
Plan with purpose. Renovate with confidence. Live beautifully.
A strategic framework for homeowners ready to renovate without stress, waste, or second-guessing. This guide walks you through every phase—planning, briefing, builder prep, site delivery, and post-completion—with insider tools and expert systems drawn from 20+ years of high-end renovation work.
Includes:
Setting Up for Success
The foundations of a calm, confident renovation journey.Creating the Brief
Articulating your design intent and lifestyle goals with precision.The Design Phase
Turning your ideas into intelligent, functional plans.Construction Documentation
What your builder actually needs (and how to avoid costly assumptions).Builder Selection & Pre-Construction
Choosing the right team, locking in costs, and preparing for site.Construction & On-Site Delivery
Managing the build phase, making decisions, and maintaining momentum.Post-Construction & Living In Your Home
Handover, maintenance, styling, and settling in with ease.Creating a Home for Life
Designing beyond trends—for longevity, sustainability, and future stages of life.Checklists
Practical tools to guide your planning, decision-making, and quality control.Client Worksheets
Strategic exercises to define your vision, priorities, and long-term needs.
When it comes to building, renovating, or decorating, we know it’s often the unasked questions that make the biggest difference. That’s why we created this guide—a collection of the 100 design questions you didn’t even know you needed to ask, with clear, practical answers from our team. Think of it as your insider’s companion: the wisdom, shortcuts, and know-how we’ve gathered over years of working in design, all in one place. Whether you’re choosing paint colours, planning layouts, or considering your next big investment, this little book will help you make confident, inspired decisions every step of the way.
Who It’s For:
Homeowners unsure how to style their home or define their vision
Design lovers who want to get it right the first time
Renovators upgrading their homes for future functionality and style
Design Your Dream Home with Confidence: The Designory Guide to Smarter, Strategic Home Design
From Floorplans to Facades—Design the Home You’ve Been Imagining
Stop second-guessing design decisions. The Designory Guide: Design Roadmap gives you clarity and control through every architectural phase—from briefing to approvals.
This is the insider knowledge your architect wishes you had. Whether you’re designing from scratch or refining your renovation plans, this guide empowers you to think like a designer, speak like a client who knows what they want, and avoid compromise before it’s built in.
Crafted by a team with 430+ completed residential projects, this guide walks you through the design process in real language with real tools—not just inspiration.
What You’ll Learn:
✔️ The stages of architectural design, and how to approach each with confidence
✔️ How to create a detailed, precise client brief that saves time and money
✔️ How to assess and improve floorplans, flow, orientation and materiality
✔️ What approvals you need, and how to prepare for them
✔️ How to design with the build in mind—so your vision survives the construction site
Included Tools:
A clear, professionally guided 8-chapter eBook
Interactive workbook for planning floorplans, finishes and brief
Checklists for briefing, orientation, zoning, documentation and council approvals
Curated supplier links, regulations and reference tools (AU + international)
Who It’s For:
Clients working with architects, building designers or design-build firms
Homeowners unsure how to shape their floorplan or define their vision
Design lovers who want to get it right the first time
Renovators upgrading their homes for future functionality
The clarity, strategy, and tools you need to buy or sell with confidence.
Whether you're upgrading, downsizing, or stepping into the market for the first time, buying or selling a home is one of the most financially and emotionally significant decisions you'll make. This expert guide unpacks the entire journey—from preparing your home for sale, navigating inspections, styling for maximum value, negotiating with clarity, and buying with vision.
Crafted by one of Australia's leading design and strategy firms, this roadmap blends real-world insights with step-by-step frameworks to help homeowners make smart, calm, and empowered property decisions.
What’s Inside:
A digital guide with practical chapters on buying psychology, agent selection, property research, finance, and transition planning
Downloadable checklists, buyer/seller workbooks, and curated resources
Real questions to ask professionals, templates for planning, and design insight to spot value where others can’t
Perfect for:
First-time buyers or sellers
Upsizers, downsizers or renovators
Anyone navigating Australia’s fast-moving property market
Instant download available. eBook, workbook, and resources included.
Prompts and frameworks for planning, approvals, budgeting, layouts, and project management.
When it comes to renovating, planning, or decorating, it’s not just the big ideas that matter—it’s the structure behind them. That’s why we created this guide—a collection of powerful AI prompts and step-by-step frameworks designed to take you from vision to execution with ease. Inside, you’ll find the AI tools to clarify your design direction, streamline approvals, budget with accuracy, plan layouts, and keep your project on track. Think of it as your personal co-pilot: a smart system that blends practical know-how with AI assistance, giving you the confidence and clarity to make decisions at every stage of your renovation.
Who It’s For:
Renovators who want to plan smarter and avoid costly mistakes
Homeowners looking for clear frameworks to manage design and project details
Design lovers who want to harness AI to bring their vision to life with confidence
A guide to navigating AI platforms and how to prompt effectively.
Building or renovating a home is one of the biggest projects most people will ever undertake — yet homeowners are rarely taught how the building process really works. That lack of visibility leads to stress, delays, budget blowouts and frustration that could have been avoided with the right systems and knowledge.
Project Management Essentials for Homeowners is your end-to-end roadmap for staying organised, informed and in control throughout your renovation or new build. Created by building designer and industry expert Melissa Bonney, this guide breaks down the complexities of construction into clear, practical steps you can follow with confidence.Who This Guide Is For
This downloadable resource is perfect for:
✔ Homeowners starting a new build or renovation
✔ Owner Builders wanting a clear framework
✔ Anyone feeling overwhelmed by decisions, timelines or communication
✔ People who want to stay involved without micromanaging
✔ Those who want fewer surprises and more control
Why You’ll Love It
Clear, actionable guidance from an industry professional
Step-by-step structure that works for any size project
Real tools and templates you can use immediately
Builds your confidence, not your workload
Helps prevent the costliest project mistakes
Leaves you feeling empowered, not overwhelmed
This isn’t another generic renovation guide — it’s the missing piece that bridges the gap between homeowners and the industry, giving you the clarity and foresight normally reserved for professional project managers.
Feel Calm, Clued-In, and In Control of Your Build
A successful project isn’t about perfection — it’s about progress, partnership, and clear decision-making. With the right systems, communication and mindset, you can navigate your build with confidence and create a home that truly reflects your vision.
Project Management Essentials for Homeowners gives you everything you need to lead your project with clarity, consistency and control — no experience required.
From breaking ground to handover – your step-by-step roadmap to building in Australia.
Building or renovating a home shouldn’t feel like guesswork. The Building Process – The Homeowner’s Guide is a practical, plain-English checklist and toolkit created for Australian homeowners who want to feel informed, organised and in control throughout their build.
Whether you’re working with a builder or stepping into the role of Owner Builder, this guide walks you through every stage – from pre-construction approvals and excavation, right through to final inspections, defects and handover. At each step, you’ll find a clear breakdown of what’s happening on site, which trades are involved, and “Your Role” checklists so you know exactly what to look for, ask and document.
More than just a timeline, this is a working tool you can use on site:
Stage-by-stage breakdowns of the build process – foundations, frame, lock-up, rough-in, fit-out, bathrooms, external works and more.
Homeowner checklists for every stage so you can literally tick tasks off as you go.
Practical templates to log decisions, variations, inspections, issues and defects.
30 pages of insightful step by step guidance for every stage and checklists to help you along the journey.
Use it to understand what’s coming next, as a checklist to stay across the details, and as a record to protect your budget, timeline and peace of mind.
If you’re planning to build or renovate and want to go from “I hope it’s all on track” to “I know exactly where we’re up to and what happens next” – this guide is for you.
