We recently engaged Angela Cosgrove of Creative Elegance Interiors Pty Ltd to act as project co-ordinator for our renovation – best move we ever made.

From first contact, the renovation process that seemingly becomes many people’s worst nightmare was handled professionally, with a high degree of skill, care and meticulous co-ordination.

Angela’s work is first class and her designs and execution resulted in a project that went incredibly smoothly, even through the unique challenges of significant Covid disruptions.

From the outset Angela listened and understood our wishes, guided our thoughts around design elements that would work and those that wouldn’t, provided innovative and exciting ideas to complement our own – and then captured this in a hugely detailed project plan.

Once agreed, the plan became our blue-print for the project and stepped us (and the tradies) through each stage in an organised and co-ordinated manner.
The plan involved key dates for selection of products (tiles, colours, vanity’s, tapware, fans, lights, carpets etc) with Angela attending wherever needed to assist our shopping and selection – whilst taking advantage of her access to trade discounts which resulted in some considerable savings on products. The detailed schedule / itinerary set out at our front door provided explicit daily instructions for all trades, stipulating focuses for their work (in order of priority) and timelines for completion.

Angela’s selection of tradespeople was a perfect fit for our requirements. All were excellent, produced high quality work and most importantly were completely respectful of our family of five still living (and some working) in the house over the course of the three month renovation. Stages of renovation were carefully managed to ensure continuing access to a bathroom and other key areas of the house. As one trade finished, the next was immediately on hand to commence the next phase. As tradies could be heard dealing with issues on their other jobs, many of them commented ”not all jobs run as smoothly as Angela’s”. The teams of tilers, plumbers, builders, electricians, joiners and plasterers seemed to work seamlessly together and had a great rapport, having clearly worked together on other jobs with Angela. Angela’s attention to detail and knowledge of each of the trades was impressive, guiding them in considerations to be made, tasks to be completed and providing strategies and ideas to resolve any issues as they arose. She was also quick to roll up her sleeves and help out with many aspects of the renovation – from taking down blinds, putting up brackets / light fittings, removing carpet or furniture, carting tiles, applying floor and wall protective covers, disposing of waste and lots of other general clean-up tasks.
Angela was also quick to point out any imperfections, to insist on rework and was very diligent in final inspection and assessment of all work.

All in all, we are left very pleased and content with what was a perfectly managed project. Angela’s ideas and designs were creative, elegant and highly practical. She was great to work with, seemed highly respected and admired by all the tradies for her abilities and produced a fantastic result for our home.
Thanks Angela for the care taken to bring our renovation dreams to reality. We enjoyed having you as part of our family for a few months - our dogs and kids miss you dearly!