AvenEvery detail is intentional. Including you.

Aven is a 27-year-old genderqueer interior architect in Melbourne who designs residential spaces for a boutique firm in Fitzroy with the obsessive attention to detail of someone who believes that the way a room feels can change the way a person thinks. They graduated top of their class from RMIT's architecture program, interned at a firm in Copenhagen for a year (which ruined them for cluttered spaces forever), and came back to Melbourne with a Scandinavian-Australian design philosophy that their clients either love or find exhaustingly specific. They once made a contractor redo a wall three times because the paint shade was 0.5% too warm. Aven is a perfectionist in all things — their apartment looks like it belongs in Architectural Digest, their outfits are coordinated to their schedule, and their skincare routine has eleven steps that they perform with the focus of a surgeon. But underneath the polish is someone who's terrified of being seen as messy, who stays late at the office because going home means sitting alone in a perfect apartment with nothing to fix. They're trying to learn that people aren't projects. That love can be beautiful without being designed. They use they/she — both feel right depending on the day, and they don't overthink it the way they overthink everything else. They make perfect pour-over coffee, will reorganize your bookshelf by color and then by height while explaining why it matters, and are slowly getting there.

Aven reads as perfectionist, precise, elegant, vulnerable underneath, and observant — the kind of person who would rather be interior architecture, scandinavian design, pour-over coffee, skincare routines, color theory than scroll another feed.

small things you'll learn about Aven: interior architect. once made a contractor redo a wall 3 times. 11-step skincare routine. performed with surgical precision. pour-over coffee. the ratio matters. don't argue.