Archipsych Library

E-books for a home that feels like you

A guided path from your first questions to a home that supports how you live.

Start where you are.

Every home begins with different questions. You may be choosing a block, trying to understand what you really need from your home, reviewing a floor plan, or preparing to engage a designer.

The Archipsych resources are designed to help you think more deeply at each stage — about your site, your lifestyle, your floor plan and ultimately how you want your home to feel.

01Understand

02Explore

03Test

04Refine

05Discover

06Design

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A good place to start

Before You Build

12 design decisions worth considering before you draw your home.

This practical introductory guide explores some of the decisions that influence whether a home simply looks good on a plan or actually feels good to live in.

Where to next?

If you're still choosing or weighing up a block, this checklist shows you what the land itself will ask of your home before you commit. The Ultimate Site Inspection Checklist

Ready for personalised guidance? The 90-minute Discovery Session

Understand your site

The Ultimate Site Inspection Checklist

A practical screening tool for any block — orientation, solar access, access, constraints and hidden costs — before you fall in love with it.

Purchase — $9

Where to next?

With the site understood, the questions turn inward — this workbook helps you work out what you actually need from your home. Home Design Brief

Ready for personalised guidance? The 90-minute Discovery Session

Understand your needs

Home Design Brief

A guided workbook that turns the way you live into a clear design brief — work out what you actually need before you start drawing.

Purchase — $9

Where to next?

Once your brief is clear, it's worth seeing how it holds up in plan form — the toolkit shows you what to look for before anything is built. Floor Plan Review Toolkit

Ready for personalised guidance? The 90-minute Discovery Session

$19

Review your plan

Floor Plan Review Toolkit

Learn to read a floor plan like a designer — spot problems before you build them, in a new home, renovation or extension.

Purchase — $19

Where to next?

Reviewing a plan often raises questions that are best talked through with a designer — the Discovery Session sets aside the time to explore them. The 90-minute Discovery Session

$19

Go deeper

What's Your Home Personality?

A discovery guide to the spaces that make you feel at home — and what your answers mean for the way your home should be designed.

Purchase — $19

Where to next?

Your answers describe how you want to feel at home — the toolkit helps you test that understanding against an actual floor plan. Floor Plan Review Toolkit

Ready for personalised guidance? The 90-minute Discovery Session

$29

Plan your home

Home Design Master Workbook

Our most complete planning workbook — take your home from site and lifestyle analysis through to a considered floor plan, step by step.

Purchase — $29

Where to next?

If the workbook has surfaced bigger questions — or a project you'd like to move forward — the Discovery Session is a natural next conversation. The 90-minute Discovery Session

Best value

The Complete Self-Guided Collection — $59

Follow the complete Archipsych resource journey with all five paid e-books in one bundle — a saving of $26 (around 30% off buying individually). Move from practical planning tools into deeper personal and design discovery at your own pace.

The Ultimate Site Inspection Checklist($9)
Home Design Brief($9)
Floor Plan Review Toolkit($19)
What's Your Home Personality?($19)
Home Design Master Workbook($29)

Purchase — $59

Ready for personalised guidance? The 90-minute Discovery Session follows the complete journey.

Personal session with Archipsych

90-Minute Archipsych Discovery Session

From ideas and questions to clear design direction.

A focused 90-minute design conversation exploring your site, lifestyle, priorities, spatial preferences and the way you want your home to feel.

This is not simply a discussion about rooms and square metres. The session is designed to uncover the practical, emotional and psychological qualities that should inform your home.

$295 — AUDBook Your Discovery Session

What the session includes

Pre-session Discovery Questionnaire
Review of relevant Archipsych worksheets and resources you have completed
90-minute one-to-one discovery session
Exploration of lifestyle, site, spatial and emotional priorities
Identification of key design opportunities and issues to investigate

How the session works

01Discover

02Purchase

03Book

04Prepare

05Discovery Session

Discover

Read through the session information above — what it covers and where it fits in your journey.

Purchase

“Book Your Discovery Session” takes you to checkout to secure your session.

Book

After payment you’ll be directed to the booking calendar. Your Discovery Session is confirmed once you’ve selected your appointment time.

Prepare

Complete the Discovery Session Questionnaire so the conversation starts where you already are.

Discovery Session

We meet. The questionnaire is preparation for the conversation, not a test — you don’t need your design worked out beforehand.

Before we meet

Your questionnaire helps me understand the people behind the project — your routines, priorities, preferences and the way you want home to feel.

If you've already completed any Archipsych resources, you won't need to repeat yourself. Bring or send those with your questionnaire and we'll use them as part of our conversation.

The questionnaire is preparation for our conversation, not a test — and there's no need to have your design worked out beforehand. Whatever stage you're at, that's exactly where we'll start.

You'll receive the Discovery Session Questionnaire once your appointment is booked.

Work with Archipsych

When self-guided discovery becomes a design conversation

A 90-minute Discovery Session brings your insights, priorities and questions into one focused conversation. From there, Archipsych can help shape the right residential design service for your home.

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Ready to design?

When thinking becomes design

The Archipsych resources help you understand your site, your needs and the qualities you want from home. When you're ready to translate that thinking into architecture, Archipsych Designs can work with you to develop a considered residential design.

Enquire About Design Services

A professional design enquiry — no obligation, just the start of a conversation.