Our studio proudly defines ‘collaboration’ – each individual project is reviewed and contributed to by our highly experienced team, ensuring a comprehensive and well-rounded design outcome for you.
Our building is welcoming, sprawling and features a unique virtual reality space where you can view details of your new custom design as it will appear, exactly.
Our interior design studio sees you touch and experience Brisbane’s vastest selections of bespoke and newly released finish products (tiles, floor coverings, stone, tapware, etc) all in one place.
Our team is fanatical about best-in-class design and our client service – seamless. We’ve been designing Brisbane homes, renovations, extensions and interiors for more than twenty years. We are an award-winning studio, with long term referrals and repeat clients. Here’s who we are.
MELISSA WOODCROFT
Director / Licensee Building Designer / Interior Designer
Melissa’s focus is to see clients effortlessly move through to the building stage with the provision of comprehensive custom building and interior design plans. She loves working with challenging blocks and circumstances (e.g. builds on narrow blocks), thinking outside the box, and coordinating clients’ family home designs.
Melissa is tech-savvy, having introduced unique virtual reality technology to Concepts Unlimited Design. She has coordinated the building and interior design for seven of her own family’s homes (Melissa and her husband, Wade, have two young daughters).
Melissa is incredibly proud of our long-standing Concepts Unlimited Design team, and loves the collaborative approach for each client project, advocating that several designers’ input (as opposed to just one) delivers the most considered and well-rounded design outcome.
Licencee Building Designer
KARLI BRASS
Principal Building Designer
Karli joins our design team with a penchant for ‘enoughness’ and sustainability, focusing on essential elements designed well, ensuring the best outcomes and lifestyle for her clients and the environment.
Karli spends her time getting to know her clients first, meeting them in their current home, observing how the family lives, their needs, and their likes and dislikes, and then on the site of the proposed project, to guide her design for their future home.
As to what she admires, purely from an aesthetic perspective, Karli has enjoyed following the plight of the ‘Lamb House’ at Kangaroo Point, and other historical homes in and around Brisbane. The design detail, both internally and externally in these buildings, the intricate fretwork, beautiful timber stairwells, wrought iron, gable details and chimney stacks, reflect the true quality of craftsmanship and materials of the era. Karli feels in awe as she watches them restored to their former glory.
BRENDAN LARSEN
Senior Technical Drafter / BIM Manager / Building Designer
Brendan has been with our design team since 2006, with component modelling and all-things ‘Revit’ his specialities.
He is a considered and deliberate operator, and astoundingly creative (and swift!) at technical custom componentry.
Brendan’s role and skill set see him draft initial concepts, bring sketches to life, right through to producing the ‘nitty gritty’ inclusions within detailed drawings.
Brendan loves a chuckle, considers himself a jack of all trades, master of a few, a lifelong learner and a proficient problem solver.
An invaluable member of our Concepts Unlimited Design team.
SAM MASON
Lead Building Designer
Sam brings a practical yet innovative approach to CU Design, focusing on how families live, move, and interact within a space. With his Bachelor of Architecture now complete, Sam emphasizes “passive design” and site orientation as essential elements of his work, ensuring spaces are both functional and sustainable.
Sam’s weekends often include beach outings or hinterland adventures with his partner and their dog, capped off with a quiet evening and a good meal. Known for his love of minimalist design with natural timbers, Sam designs spaces that blend aesthetics with true everyday functionality.
JOSH CLARKE
Building Designer
Josh brings passion and design brilliance to CU Design, focusing on creating residential spaces that adapt to clients’ lifestyles over time. His approach to “future-proofing” means designing homes that evolve with the people who live in them. At home, Josh balances his partner’s showroom-style aesthetic with his need for space to indulge in his latest hobbies.
On weekends, Josh is either road-tripping, creating something new, or planning both. With a commitment to sustainability, Josh advocates for green walls and greywater systems in high-rise projects — a vision we wholeheartedly support.
LIAM MITCHELL
Building Designer
Liam is a detail-driven designer who brings thoughtful precision and a love for timeless design to every project. While early in his career journey, he has honed his skills through technical drawing, 3D rendering, and supporting design development across a wide range of residential projects.
He finds inspiration in grounded, landscape-responsive architecture like The Shearers Quarters by John Wardle — appreciating its simplicity and connection to place. For Liam, a liveable home is one that’s filled with natural light — lifting moods, opening up space, and blurring the lines between indoors and out.
When he’s not at the drawing board, you’ll likely find Liam cycling Brisbane’s best trails, training at the gym, or discovering new food spots with friends.
MAYA FINSELBACH
Junior Building Designer
Meet Maya – our new Junior Building Designer who, when she’s not collaborating with our design team and clients, she’s getting some Vitamin D with a beach day, workout, walk or run – whatever gets her outdoors. A great counter-balance to her mostly-indoors 9-5.
Maya’s proudest moment in her burgeoning career is getting ‘qualified’ with a Diploma of Building Design – she’s itching to share her knowledge, natural abilities and creative nous.
Maya’s ideal home is one that’s full of character. When working with clients you can expect her to steer you towards layout choices that reflect your family’s everyday movements and desired ways to live with each other. Think private reading nooks for bookworms, and dedicated large, communal spaces for multi-generational families.
Maya will help you make your house feel like it should – ‘home’
LISA WILKINSON
Senior Interior Designer
Locator of magical ‘unicorn’ products, storage queen and zero-waste warrior, our Interior Designer Lisa wears many ‘hats’ – and all of them brilliantly creative.
Lisa loves creating with concepts that explore textures and colour – a natural extension of her previous career in paint and wallpaper. Deep moody colours, lighting and artworks (and how they can all tie together) really excite Lisa, as do following trends emerging in Europe – typically indicative of what’s next design-wise in Australian homes.
How clients engage, or seek to engage with their kitchen guides Lisa’s understanding of their style preferences, with her precise and warm communication underpinning every brief.
Lisa’s own styling preference favours ‘transitional’ – a mix between traditional and modern – classic shapes paired with timbers and textures. And when she’s not with clients – you’ll find her at the ballet or at GOMA, enthralled with touring international art collections.
ALEX HAYES
Lead Interior Designer
Alex Hayes is passionate about helping clients discover and express their unique personal style. Rather than adhering to a single aesthetic, Alex takes a highly collaborative approach—working closely with each client to create spaces that feel authentic, intentional, and entirely their own.
While she’s always excited by emerging trends and fresh ideas, Alex’s focus is never on what’s simply popular. Her goal is to craft interiors that feel both current and timeless, layered with meaning and designed to last.
If you ask Alex about her favorite design style, the answer might change daily. One day it’s a romantic castle full of history and drama, the next it’s a calm, sun-drenched Scandinavian beach house. That ever-shifting curiosity is what keeps Alex’s work fresh, creative, and always evolving.
MADDIE ROGERS
Interior Designer
Maddie is our ‘small-town country girl’ who not surprisingly promotes natural light, advocating for its ability to completely change the look and feel of a space – particularly a master bedroom. Maddie is a HUGE help to our team – especially as we design and create our own new studio spaces.
Most recently she’s been admiring combination design styles – such as ‘Japandi’, and even ‘Moditerranean’. Maddie feels that being inspired and embracing many styles to encapsulate one’s own is not a trend – rather – it’s here to stay.
When she’s not assisting our team, Maddie has enjoyed travelling overseas – noting Greenwich Village in New York as a highlight, owing to the classic architecture of New York townhouses. Being one of five daughters she also doesn’t mind popping back home to regional NSW to catch up with her large family, and when staying put – trying out Brisbane’s new restaurants and bars.
DOUGLAS MAINA
Interior Designer – Furniture & Styling
Effervescent with a beautifully trained eye, Douglas is thrilled to look after our discerning clients’ furniture and styling selections.
His career highlights include being able to work on houses in New Zealand, which saw him battle logistics but “was absolutely worth it” and overall — the ‘cliche’ but ‘truth’ of being paid to do what he absolutely loves.
An invitation to Douglas’ home will see you enveloped by his playful yet functional aesthetic. He describes his style as a mix of African influences and maximalism meets Beyonce — all intentionally referencing his culture and personality. What you won’t find are bright downlights — ambient lighting always, is his preference. Douglas loves hearing about how different people live, and tailoring homes to their lifestyle.
GEMMA MASON
Interior Designer
Gemma is a planner – relishing in the planning side of a bathroom layout, or in the designing of a new kitchen – especially given they’re so personal, with how people move around the space. Gemma favours traditional features, such as mouldings, cornicing and Victorian encaustic tiling.
Nat Berkus is her Interior Design ‘hero’, given his creativity with colour, and knowledge of combining textures with materials, and, pairing furniture with existing traditional features.
If given an unlimited budget, Gemma would add a wrap-around deck to her own house, and an entry portico, as she feels such features would really ‘finish off’ her home.
HAYLEY WISEMAN
Consultant Coordination Manager
Hayley provides seamless support to our team and clients, combining positivity, top-notch communication skills, and meticulous attention to detail. The perfect support for when you’re taking on the incredible task of building your dream home.
Hayley resides in a beautiful old Queenslander that retains many original traditional features. With two young boys, an energetic dog, and a cat, the importance of comfort, space and storage are paramount to keeping her home calm and tidy. With that said, Hayley very much enjoys acquiring furniture pieces – a mix of natural materials and tones, and vibrant colour pops for her children. Project Sixth is Hayley’s absolute favourite – with much of that styling reflected in her own home.
PATTI WOOLNOUGH
Administrator
Patti has been with our Concepts Unlimited Design team for two years, and we (and our clients) are incredibly grateful for her presence and skillset. She enjoys the fast-paced nature of the design work here, how diverse it is – in staff talent, project briefs, and clientele, and that no two days are the same.
The definitive ‘people person’, Patti welcomes and supports clients from initial consultation, right through to assisting with finding a builder, and beyond. She ensures our projects run smoothly and that clients are informed, excited and well looked after.
Patti’s favourite project we’ve designed is Project Welbeck, in Alderley, Brisbane. Her own style favours minimalism (she’s working very hard at it) and she also enjoys coastal design and interiors.
FREDDIE
Office Mascot
Freddie is a French Bulldog and the practice’s ‘hype guy’, welcoming clients and getting them excited about their design project. He is also a wonderful entertainer, and comforter for little people who aren’t as excited about design meetings as their parents are.
If Freddie had his time again he’d come back as Imelda Marcos’ dog, and is a strong advocate for abolishing external dog kennels, calling them an ‘unnecessary’ eye-sore.
He is also passionate about decreasing the height of stair risers.
