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We pride ourselves on delivering high quality design and top-notch customer service.

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.

Working with our team

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.

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MELISSA

Director

MELISSA WOODCROFT
Director / Licencee 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

LISA

Senior Interior Designer

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.

PATTI

Administrator

Production Manager

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.

BRENDAN

Building Designer

BRENDAN LARSEN
Senior Technical Drafter / 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. 

KARLI BRASS

Senior Building Designer

KARLI BRASS
Senior 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.  

MARNEY

Interior Designer

MARNEY LINDSAY
Senior Interior Designer

A multi-disciplinary artist, Marney is an Interior Designer who is passionate about designing for physical, and especially psychological health. Marney is so invested in the topic, along with a Bachelor of Interior Architecture she also has a Bachelor of Art & Design (Honours) in which she researched and contributed to the academic and real-world movement of ‘healthy architecture’. To put a finer point on it – research shows that people who work and live within spaces designed for holistic health are happier, healthier and more productive!

Marney describes her decorating style as ‘Edited Eclectic’ – she loves to curate spaces with new and ‘found’ pieces, which all work together to tell a client’s personalstory. Marney’s fine arts background sees her revel in assisting clients with their artwork selections. She also helps our clients to really visualize their new homes bycreating realistic rendered images and producing the Studio’s unique virtual reality experience where clients can (virtually) walk around inside their new home!

JOSH

Building Designer

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.

JOSH

Building Designer

JOSH COLLIER
Building Designer

A Building Designer with a lifelong passion for the field, Josh combines his early hands-on construction experience with a strong academic foundation, now working towards his Master’s degree. Having contributed to a range of large-scale projects, Josh finds fulfillment in seeing his designs brought to life and actively used.

Josh’s style leans towards simplicity and structural elegance, seeing green spaces as essential elements in design, not trends. He believes that natural integration will play a consistent role in residential design for years to come.

SAM

Building Designer

SAM MASON
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, he emphasizes “passive design” and site orientation as essential elements of his work.

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.

HAYLEY

Office Support and Client Concierge

HAYLEY WISEMAN
Office Support and Client Concierge

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.

GEMMA

Interior Design Assistant

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.

ALEX

Interior Design Assistant

ALEX HAYES
Interior Designer

Alex’s passion for interiors stems from her belief in the power of good design on well-being.

She favours thinking outside the box and away from current trends, whilst also prioritising lighting that works in harmony with our circadian rhythms, for improved sleep, energy levels and overall health. Alex also notes that herringbone patterns and curves will always add a timeless and visual interest to a space.

Alex is very fortunate to be living in her grandparents’ home, which they built in the 1970s, however, the original brown floral carpet and pink kitchen and bathroom are no longer. Instead, Alex has shared that she’s updated the space with modern design elements and many house plants.

DOUGLAS

Interior Designer

DOUGLAS MAINA
Interior Designer

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.

FREDDIE

Office Mascot

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.

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