Interior design in Abu Dhabi

Interior design is where a project is either saved or wasted. A plan that ignores how a room is actually used, or specifies a finish that will not survive the light it sits in, costs far more to put right later than it did to draw. We design from the room and the brief, not from a look pulled off a screen.

What makes the design worth having is that we also build it. The concept, the 3D, the material choices and the working drawings all come from the team that will be on site, so nothing is drawn that cannot be built, and the detail that justified the drawing does not quietly disappear in a handover between a designer and a contractor. Take the drawings and build them elsewhere if you prefer, or have us carry the whole thing through to handover on one contract.

What you actually receive

A concept sets the direction: the palette, the materials, the feel of each space, and how the rooms relate to one another. It is deliberately not a construction document, and approving it means approving an intent rather than a specification.

Space planning is the layer that decides whether a room works. Where the circulation runs, how far a door swings, whether two people can pass behind a dining chair that is occupied, where a sofa can sit without blocking a view or a route. Most of the regret in a finished interior traces back to this stage rather than to a finish choice.

3D visualisation shows you the room before it exists. Worth being clear about what it is: a render is lit by someone making decisions about light, and it will always be tidier than the real room. Use it to judge proportion, sightlines and how materials sit together. Do not use it to judge an exact colour.

Material selection is where a design becomes real, and where our library does the work. Colour under showroom light is not colour under Abu Dhabi afternoon sun, and a finish that suits a north-facing room can look entirely different on the other side of the same villa.

Technical documentation is what a contractor actually builds from: dimensioned drawings, elevations, joinery details, finishes schedules, and the notes covering what happens where two materials meet. A design that stops before this stage is a mood board, and the gap gets filled by whoever is on site that week.

Bring a floor plan if you have one, some sense of how the space needs to work day to day, and any fixed constraints such as an existing kitchen position or a structural wall.