Interior design in Dubai and Abu Dhabi

What you receive

• Measured survey of the property
• Two or three layout options with furniture
• Concept: mood, palette, materials and references
• Photorealistic 3D visualisations of every room
• Working drawings: partitions, ceilings, floors, electrical and lighting, plumbing points, wall elevations
• Joinery drawings for kitchens, wardrobes, wall panels and doors
• Specification of finishes, lighting, sanitary ware and furniture with quantities
• Design supervision on site while the project is being built

Not included: structural calculations, which an engineer signs, and the authority submissions that belong to the construction stage. If an idea touches the structure or the facade we say so early, because that changes the route through the approvals.

What we look at before drawing

The survey comes first: real dimensions rather than the developer's brochure. Then the things that decide what is possible — which walls carry load or are shear walls, how much void there is above the ceiling, where the air-conditioning units and ducts sit, the level of the existing drainage, the line of the glazing, and what the building management allows on balconies, facades and anything visible from outside. A layout that ignores a drain level looks beautiful on paper and dies on site.

How it runs

You talk to one designer, from the survey to the last visit to the site. Layouts first: two or three options, discussed until one of them is clearly right. Then the concept and the main materials. Then the 3D visualisations, where the interior design is agreed room by room — the apartment in Mamsha Al Saadiyat is shown at exactly that stage, as visualisations. Only after that the working drawings and the specification, because a drawing set made before the picture is agreed simply gets redrawn.

Decisions you make, and when

Layout comes first: how many bedrooms, whether the kitchen opens to the living room, whether a study is worth a wall. Then the palette and the materials that carry it. Then lighting, the decision most people underestimate: scenes, switching and the position of every fitting are fixed with the electrical drawings, not after the ceiling is closed. Then joinery fronts and internal fittings, then sanitary ware and taps, and last furniture, curtains and decor.

Designed by people who build

Our designers work next to the site team, so they know what a detail costs and how long it takes to make. A design is costed while it is being drawn. You do not fall in love with a picture and then find out it is twice your budget. On site, design supervision means the person who drew the detail is the person who checks it, as in the Azure apartment on Saadiyat Island.

If you only need the design

You can order the design package on its own and build it with any contractor: the drawings are complete enough for that. If you later decide to build with us, the estimate takes little time, because we already know every line of the drawings, and the package moves into a turnkey renovation without being redrawn.

Preparing for the free visit

Bring the approved drawings of the unit if you have them, and a folder of interiors you like — plus a few you dislike, which is often more useful. Tell us who lives in the home, how you cook, where you work, what you store and how much of it. Good interior design in Dubai and Abu Dhabi is built out of those details, not out of a style name.