Start the thinking early. Tie the orders to the right checks.
You can make useful progress before you receive the keys: clarify your rooms, storage, preferred finishes and spending priorities. Some decisions still depend on the handed-over site, its dimensions and permission to work.
List the people using each room, work-from-home needs, guests and storage. Measure furniture you plan to keep and note appliances you own. Separate essential work from optional upgrades, so the first quotation reflects priorities instead of a collection of unrelated inspiration images.
Ask or check
Agree which rooms and new items belong in the initial scope, and which can wait.
What you leave with: A concise room brief, retained-item schedule and list of budget priorities.
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Explore finishes without locking uncertain quantities
Compare materials, fitting options and reference images against the brief. Review your builder documents and available plan. Keep uncertain dimensions and services visible as open checks; a brochure layout is useful for planning but may not be sufficient for fabrication.
Ask or check
Record assumptions beside the relevant item and decide who will verify each one.
What you leave with: A design direction and preliminary scope with the remaining checks clearly identified.
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Confirm the dependencies before ordering
Cabinets, countertops, curtains and other fitted items need appropriate measurements and installation conditions. Services, access, building requirements and the handed-over finish can affect the work. Ask the team to identify which approvals and site checks release each order.
Ask or check
Avoid fixing a start or handover date solely from an expected possession date.
What you leave with: An order and work sequence based on confirmed access, approved design and site readiness.
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Keep one agreed set of decisions
Bring the plan, scope, material references and approved changes together. If possession or the apartment condition changes, review the affected quantities, costs and sequence with the team. Keep approvals in the shared project records rather than relying on a message that only one person has seen.
Ask or check
Check that the latest approved drawing, specification and quotation describe the same work.
What you leave with: A coordinated handover from planning into design, procurement and execution.
Planning illustration · only selected, listed work belongs in a quote.
Put the decisions side by side.
Before access
Brief, preferences, retained-item list and scope discussion.
After required site checks
Final fitted dimensions, affected specifications and work sequence.
An expected possession date is not a guaranteed interiors start date. Make the dependencies explicit.
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Connect the advice to your apartment
Start with the right layout.
Room sizes, openings, handed-over finishes and building requirements differ. Use your own development and mapped flat, then confirm the site-dependent details with the team.
What interior planning can start before I get possession?
You can prepare your room brief, measure furniture you will retain, compare material references and review an initial scope against the available plan. Keep site-dependent dimensions, handover condition, permissions and service locations marked for confirmation before dependent orders or fabrication.
When should I confirm the interior work schedule?
Confirm it against the agreed scope, design approvals, material availability and actual building access. A possession date alone does not establish site readiness. Record dependencies and responsibilities, then keep original and revised dates visible when the plan changes.
Your floor plan. Your choices.
Put a clear scope behind your price.
Find your apartment, choose your rooms and work, then review what your price includes. GST is shown separately.
Livingly planning guidance helps you prepare questions and compare scope. Apartment dimensions, product specifications, building permissions and site conditions need to be confirmed for your own home. Inspiration images do not show delivered Livingly projects.
