A commercial interior design practice creating functional, refined and engaging spaces.

Oxford Road was where it started: the brand's first dine-in restaurant. By 2023, Archie's had grown into a recognisable name, and the brief was to bring its original home in line with that success - a full refit built around the brand's bold, all-pink identity, during its most playful and image-led period.

Our response leaned into a transport theme that runs through the whole building, built from a refined, premium take on industrial materials. Painted concrete panels, custom perforated stainless steel, feature screen housings and a suspended mesh-and-strip-light ceiling - references that come together in the basement, reconceived as a complete underground station. At its centre sits a fully immersive 24-seat pink subway carriage - a working feature for parties and photos - alongside a bespoke vending machine, billboard, infinity-mirror tunnel and a mirrored stairwell finished with graffiti-style branding.

Opening in December 2020, the Trafford Centre was the brand's first venue inside a shopping centre and, with 250 covers, the largest unit in the centre at the time. Billed as Archie's flagship, the brief was to make an impact: a fully immersive Archie's experience that would mark the start of its bold, pink and playful era.

Our response worked with the volume of the unit rather than against it. Large-format textures and feature LED lighting give the space a playful, industrial edge, while the exposed services overhead are embraced rather than hidden. A variety of seating keeps the large floorplate engaging - from diner booths to a feature mezzanine level overlooking the room below - and a raised area sits beneath a cloud-light installation, drawing the eye to the brand's "it was all a dream…" tagline. Throughout, bubble-tube walls, suspended branded features and mirrored surfaces build the kind of detail that rewards a second look, and a photograph.

The Trafford Palazzo site placed Archie's alongside the NERF Action Xperience centre - a standalone restaurant next to a high-energy neighbour, working the theme through material and detail.

Our response used a playful industrial palette to tie the two worlds together. Exposed grey concrete and a refined industrial language give the space its backbone, while pink mesh, feature screens and LED lighting carry Archie's identity at full volume. The interior bridges Archie's image-led era and the energy of the attraction next door - same family, different address.

The layout works a busy floor hard, balancing party groups and walk-in diners across seating and circulation planned for turnover and movement.

Archie's had traded on Ranelagh Street since 2015 - one of the earliest sites outside Manchester. By 2024 the unit was due a reset: a refurbishment to bring an established restaurant in line with the shopfit the brand had developed across its newer venues, giving the Liverpool market the current-era Archie's.

We carried the material language from Oxford Road and the NERF project into a two-floor space. The same playful industrial palette runs throughout - heavy pink against raw, utilitarian surfaces - anchored by bespoke stainless steel detailing that lifts the fit-out above standard fast-food finish. Branded signage, directional floor graphics and a reworked seating layout across both levels make the space current Archie's.

Trinity Kitchen was Archie's first site in Yorkshire - a kiosk inside the food hall at Trinity Leeds, a fast-paced city-centre setting where operators trade side by side around shared seating. The format was new territory for the brand: no four walls of its own, a compact footprint, and a build that had to hold its own in a busy communal space.

We took the finishes developed for the Trafford Centre and re-engineered them for the demands of a food hall. The curved, illuminated counter carries Archie's identity at full strength - heavy pink, branded signage and the brand's neon slogans - while the specification was toughened throughout to take constant footfall and trade.

Archie's Atomic is a new leisure concept built around roller skating and retro entertainment, drawing on old-school American rink culture and the social, competitive energy of skating, with an 80s/90s Miami nightclub edge. The £3m venue at Trafford Palazzo brings together a 5,000 sq ft rink, a SEGA arcade, an immersive games arena, an Archie's diner and the brand's first dedicated milkshake bar.

We led full creative and technical design and delivery, guided by the client's vision. Our role covered every aspect of the build - contractor and supplier management, specialist product sourcing and testing, and close coordination with local authorities and the landlord, from the arcade and rink-floor specialists to the signage and lighting teams.

The design commits fully to its identity: a saturated pink palette across almost every surface, a glass-block bar, neon signage, integrated retail and a spinning disco floor at its centre - detailed to withstand a high-traffic leisure environment while delivering the immersive, photographable atmosphere the concept depends on. A complete branded world rather than a fit-out, where the design is inseparable from the experience.

Jerk Junction had grown from its takeaway origins into a dine-in restaurant in Wilmslow before the Trafford Centre marked a return to fast-paced takeaway. The brief was a kiosk that signalled how far the brand had come without leaning on the rustic palette of the dine-in.

The food court came with heavy theming, tight shopfront restrictions and centre-mandated smoke ventilation. We worked with the centre to push the frontage to the limit of what was permitted - opening it up into a walk-in unit rather than the counter-at-front format most tenants take. A bold shopfront with mesh signage conceals the smoke vents behind, lifting the unit's presence well beyond the previous tenant's.

Inside, the core materials of the brand's dine-in style are refined and rebuilt for trade. Corrugated aluminium, cut-face concrete brick slips and polished concrete set an industrial base, lifted by linear LED lighting, hanging planting and blocks of brand green. Stainless steel and quartz at the servery take constant footfall.

The success of the Trafford Centre kiosk led to the offer of a 4,100 sq ft restaurant on The Terrace at Liverpool ONE - the brand's first 50-cover, in the unit GBK had departed. The brief was to land Jerk Junction's identity at a larger scale on a refit budget: keep the existing structure, kitchen layout, services and facilities, transform everything visible.

We concentrated the work where it would read hardest. The corrugated aluminium, concrete brick slips, brand-green colour blocking and hanging planting from the Trafford Centre were reworked at restaurant scale. Bold geometric murals, the brand neons and oversized graphics give the new dining space its own voice. The servery line and back of house were left in place; the front of house is unrecognisable from what was there.

The unit was offered on short-term terms in one of the city's busier food halls. Budget was tight: the kiosk's format, structure, layout and services were retained largely as found, with spend directed to where it was most visible.

Trinity Kitchen sits inside Trinity Leeds in the city centre - a busy food hall with fast-paced shared seating. Holding a brand identity in that environment means working hard at counter level: the queue, the menu boards and the moment of arrival do most of the work.

We reworked the customer-facing surfaces in simple, durable finishes. The curved counter, neon Jerk Junction signage and brand-green colour blocking carry the identity at full strength.

Completed works include a new central bar and dessert counter, a VIP mezzanine, the refresh of the external covered terrace, additional storage and a refurbishment of the customer WCs. We treat each stage as a self-contained project while contributing to a coherent overall scheme.

The design register is opulent but restrained - brass-framed glazing, ribbed timber, fluted glass, marble, planted features and considered linear lighting. Materials and details carry across the work to bind older and newer areas into a single resolved interior.

An evolving interior rather than a fixed scheme, designed to grow with the venue and absorb future work without losing coherence - keeping the operator trading throughout and allowing investment to flow as the business grows.

The brief was twofold: update the existing Koffee Pot for a modern audience, and reconfigure the space to accommodate a second business, Birria Bros tacos, operating from the same site in the evenings. Two identities, one space, both needing to feel resolved.

The scheme draws on two parallel references - the British greasy spoon and the retro taquerías of Mexico - traditions that share a visual language of checkerboard floors, vinyl banquettes and marble surfaces. Pattern, colour and varied seating styles bring the playfulness the venue is known for, set against hard-wearing materials chosen to absorb daily use without showing it.

We phased the works to minimise closure of the existing business, with a focus on maximising every pound of the client's investment.

The brief was simple: a fast, high-quality fish and chip offer for city centre workers, commuters, and station traffic. The unit is small, services were limited, and every square metre had to earn its place. Our response took the classic chippy palette - white ceramic tile, stainless steel counter, panel lighting - and rebuilt it at a higher specification, letting the building do the rest.

Brushed stainless steel runs the full length of the servery and wraps the counter fascia. Polycarbonate cladding above the counter line diffuses the linear LED behind it. The existing ventilation ductwork was left fully exposed overhead, its scale and rawness giving the tight interior an unexpected industrial presence. Small-format dark mosaic tile covers the floor throughout. White ceramic tile completes the back wall - the reference is direct and intentional.

NERF Action Xperience at Trafford Palazzo is NERF's first venue in Europe - a 35,000 sq ft attraction operated under licence from Hasbro. The attractions and gameplay were developed by the brand and operator. The public areas around them - retail, social and party spaces - were ours.

We developed the concept, materials, retail layouts, lighting and party-space design for the non-attraction areas. Raw concrete and blackened steel run throughout, picked up in NERF's orange and blue and oversized graphic signage. The NERF retail store sits behind caged industrial display under coloured LED; booth and high-table seating mark the transitions between zones. Through delivery, we worked alongside the project architect and contractor to align materials and services with the adjoining Archie's.

One coherent environment across the public zones and the adjoining restaurant.

Located on Fulwood retail park outside Preston, Swim Central combines a children's learn-to-swim school with a wider community offer - pool, studio space and refreshment facilities under one roof. The brief was to create somewhere genuinely high quality and considered, rather than the utilitarian environment the sector usually settles for.

We provided the full design package, from planning and local authority drawings through to the complete interior fit-out - working closely with the architect, structural engineers, swimming-pool specialists and children's swim-teaching experts so the design supported the experience as well as the operation.

The interior is playful and welcoming without tipping into the childish. A confident palette, illustrative wall graphics, timber detailing and generous spectator and breakout areas give the space personality while keeping parents comfortable and the environment easy to run. We worked alongside a Manchester branding agency throughout to keep brand and interior fully aligned.

The brief was to transform an existing kiosk unit into a distinctive, high-presence retail offer for a new matcha-focused brand. Budget was concentrated on what would read hardest: the exterior fascia, signage, and customer-facing counter.

The existing structural framework was retained and overclad throughout with bespoke fire-rated 2-pac lacquered panels, rounded arch detailing and fluted MDF fascia boards in the brand's sage green. The existing Corian counter was retained and refaced. LED strip lighting traces the counter base and arch reveals, giving the unit strong visual presence in a busy thoroughfare.

Inside, the servery was redesigned around the brand's offer - matcha on tap via twin branded dispensers, espresso machine, soft-serve and a glazed pastry display.

The client wanted to bring a quiet, underused part of the venue back into use as an open kitchen and casual all-day dining room. Years of successive fit-outs had buried the bar's original late-90s character - glass block, exposed steel - under later iterations. Our response was to strip that back and bring it forward, extending the recovered glass blockwork into new runs that screen the kitchen and guide circulation through the space.

The kitchen sits behind a low, deep counter run in continuous white granite, kept open and domestic rather than walled off. Reclaimed and vintage furniture fills the room, sourced piece by piece on a tight budget: marble café tables, jewel-toned moulded chairs in teal and orange, worn rugs and a mid-century sideboard, set against deep oxblood steelwork and exposed brick.