--- title: "Wrasse and Slack Tide: Interior Design Pitch for Kurrajong Hospitality" description: "Ochre Index's pitch for a 120-cover seafood room and 48-seat mezzanine bar in Perth: a design that wears in, not out, on a AUD 2.38m fit-out." canonical: "https://pr-99.preview.formlio.com/documents/perth-interior-design-pitch" locale: "en" type: "document" lastModified: "2026-10-20" alternates: fr: "https://pr-99.preview.formlio.com/fr/documents/perth-pitch-de-design-dinterieur.md" --- # Wrasse and Slack Tide: Interior Design Pitch for Kurrajong Hospitality ## Cover ### Wrasse and Slack Tide *Modern restaurant dining room* *Terrazzo bar counter* *Limestone wall texture* *Minimal dining room* *Cocktail glass on a bar* *Ochre Index* ## The brief ### What you asked us for *The brief* A 120-cover seafood room on the ground floor and a 48-seat bar above it, open in February 2028, inside a podium you get the keys to on 5 July. The fit-out budget is AUD 2.38 million, the chef and operations team are hired, and two other studios are pitching. You also told us your last venue looked its best on opening night and tired by month six. That is the real brief: a room that wears in rather than out, and a bar that earns a second visit on its own. If we have any of this wrong, tell us before you read on. ## The idea Design the room for 10pm on a Thursday, not the launch photos. ## The numbers ### The numbers behind the pitch Your figures, from the operator brief dated 17 February 2027. Every design decision here works backwards from them. ### Covers, ground floor **120** ### Bar seats, mezzanine **48** ### Across two levels **640 m²** ### Weeks, keys to opening **31** ## The concept ### One long limestone wall ### A bar you see from the street *Dark timber bar* ### Booths built for four-hour tables *Curved booth seating* ### Light that steps down *Warm pendant lighting* ## Materials ### The material palette Six finishes, each specified for a room that turns 400 covers a day. Nothing here needs resealing more than once a year. *Travertine stone slab for the bar top* *Blackened oak for the mezzanine joinery* *Brushed brass footrail detail* *Performance wool boucle for the banquettes* *Terrazzo floor in the entry* *Ribbed glass screen at the pass* ## Past work ### Rooms we have opened Four venues, each still trading on its first fit-out. The numbers are the operators', shared with permission. ### Gimlet Hall, Fremantle - Restaurant - 180 covers - Full interior ### Marri Rooftop, Perth CBD - Bar - Rooftop - Lighting scenes ### Tamarisk, Cottesloe - Restaurant - FF&E specification ### Paperbark Wine Room, Margaret River - Wine bar - Joinery ## The team ### Who you would work with The people in this pitch are the people on the project. Nobody hands you over once the contract is signed. ### Tamsin Rourke Founding principal. Leads the concept and sits in every client review. Fourteen hospitality openings across WA. ### Jarrah Whitlock Principal, delivery. Runs tender, site and the snag list. A former fit-out project manager, so contractors rarely surprise him. ### Ines Kowal Senior interior designer. Joinery and banquette detailing, and the live FF&E tracker you can open from week six. ### Ravi Menon Lighting designer. Owns the five evening scenes and the commissioning night. Has lit eleven of our rooms. ## How we get there ### From pitch to first service Forty-four weeks from our first workshop on 6 April 2027 to opening in February 2028. Supplier lead times set the pace, not the drawings. ### 1. Concept, weeks 1 to 5 Two routes, judged as photoreal 3D and a VR walkthrough with your chef in the room. One goes forward. ### 2. Developed design, weeks 6 to 15 Plans, RCP, joinery details and lighting scenes. Banquettes and Italian pendants ordered in week 12, before documentation closes. ### 3. Tender, weeks 16 to 19 Three Perth fit-out contractors price one complete package. We recommend, you appoint. ### 4. On site, weeks 20 to 41 Fortnightly site visits with written reports. The stone bar top is templated on site in week 30 for an eight-week lead time. ### 5. Install and styling, weeks 42 to 43 FF&E in over five days, styling over two, then a full service rehearsal with staff before we close the snag list. ## Design fee All figures in AUD, excluding GST at 10%. Built from day rates: principal 2,240, senior designer 1,680, designer 1,190, visualiser 1,360, lighting designer 1,520. The AUD 2.38 million fit-out budget is yours and sits outside this fee. #### Stage 1, concept | Item | Price | | --- | --- | | Brief, site measure and operator workshops | $17,010.00 | | Concept design, two routes | $39,760.00 | | Photoreal 3D and VR walkthrough | $19,040.00 | #### Stage 2, developed design and documentation | Item | Price | | --- | --- | | Plans, RCP and elevations | $74,340.00 | | Joinery detailing, bar and banquettes | $39,200.00 | | Lighting design and scene programming | $21,280.00 | | FF&E and finishes specification | $27,720.00 | #### Stage 3, tender to opening | Item | Price | | --- | --- | | Tender and contractor review | $15,120.00 | | Site observation, 11 visits with reports | $32,480.00 | | Procurement tracking and install days | $18,620.00 | | Styling and opening-week snag list | $9,240.00 | #### Project management | Item | Price | | --- | --- | | Programme, operator coordination and weekly reporting | $31,381.00 | - GST: 10% ## Operators ### Operators on working with us > They moved the bar back 600 mm in week nine because the service route clashed with the dumbwaiter. Our contractor had missed it. We opened on the date we had announced. — Shona Brierley, Operations Director, Gimlet Hall Group > Every banquette on Marri Rooftop is still the original. Three years of Friday nights and not one recover. That is specification work nobody sees in the renders. — Deon Pillay, Owner, Marri Rooftop > Tamsin told us the second route was wrong for our price point and showed us why inside the VR walkthrough. She was right, and it saved us a fortnight of arguing. — Mei Lin Foster, Founder, Paperbark Wine Room ## Next step ### One decision, then we start This pitch holds until Friday 2 April 2027. Appoint us by then and we begin on Tuesday 6 April with a half-day workshop at the podium site, your chef and your operations lead in the room. ### Prepared by **Tamsin Rourke** Founding Principal, Ochre Index Level 2, 112 Aberdeen Street Northbridge, Perth WA 6003 tamsin@ochreindex.com.au ### For approval by **Dimitra Kallis** Director, Kurrajong Hospitality Perth WA dimitra@kurrajonghospitality.com.au ### Appoint Ochre Index By confirming, you appoint Ochre Index to design Wrasse and Slack Tide for AUD 345,191 plus GST (AUD 379,710.10 including GST), across three stages from Tuesday 6 April 2027 to opening in February 2028. Stage 1, AUD 75,810 plus GST, is invoiced on approval.