Villa renovation
Full villa renovation in Arabian Ranches, Dubai Hills, Al Furjan, Tilal Al Ghaf, The Springs and other established communities. Design, joinery from our own Al Quoz workshop and the site works, under one contract.
When you renovate a whole villa, the risk is rarely one bad finish. It sits between the parties: a designer who draws a kitchen the joiner can’t build to size, a contractor who prices something different from the drawing, a stone order placed before anyone checked the floor levels. Each gap means a decision made twice, and you end up being the one coordinating it.
We work as design and build. The same team visits the villa, draws it, prices it line by line, makes the joinery in our Al Quoz workshop and runs the site with our own craftsmen in joinery, tiling and gypsum. Specialist work such as MEP is coordinated under the same contract. You deal with one team, and the drawing you approve is the one we build.
What a renovation covers
Most of our villa work is a full refurbishment, but we take on single-room and single-trade packages too.
Strip-out and rebuild across every room, with ceilings, flooring, joinery and finishes under one programme and MEP coordinated under our contract.
New layout, cabinetry made in our own workshop, worktops templated on site, and the appliance and services coordination around them.
Waterproofing, falls, sanitaryware, vanities and the plumbing changes most villas need once the tiles come off.
Reconfigured layouts, feature walls, media units and the formal majlis many Dubai villas are planned around.
Porcelain, timber and stone flooring, gypsum ceilings with concealed lighting, and the electrical and AC work behind them.
Terraces, pergolas, pool surrounds, outdoor kitchens and planting, with the drainage and lighting underneath.
How it runs
Four stages, one team from the first visit to the handover walk. Each stage ends with something you sign off, so nothing moves to site until you have seen it on paper.
Book a site visitWe measure the villa and look at what sits behind the finishes where we can: the condition of the bathrooms, the ceiling voids, the distribution board. We talk through how the family uses the house, what is not working, and what you want to keep. It is also the point to tell us if you plan to stay in the villa during the works.
Layouts, 3D views and material selections, then a BOQ priced line by line rather than a rate per room. You can see what moving a wall, changing a stone or adding a joinery run does to the total, and adjust before you commit. If you already have a designer, we build to their drawings and coordinate with them.
Once drawings are signed, kitchens, wardrobes, vanities, doors and feature joinery go into production in our own workshop while the site is stripped out and prepared. You are welcome to see finishes and joinery samples before they are made in full. Curtains and upholstery are made in house too.
Our craftsmen carry out the tiling, gypsum and joinery installation; specialist trades such as MEP and stone work under our contract, so there is one site lead to talk to. Before handover we walk the villa with you room by room, list anything to put right and close it out.
Recent villas
Al Furjan, Dubai Hills, Sports City, The Greens and Yas Acres in Abu Dhabi.
Scope & programme
We price line by line in a BOQ after a site visit rather than quoting a rate blind, and issue a dated programme before work starts. These are the choices that move both, and the ones worth settling early.
Paint, flooring, lighting and joinery with the layout untouched is a different job from stripping rooms back to the blockwork. Decide early which rooms are a refresh and which are a rebuild; it sets the whole programme.
Moving a kitchen or bathroom means new drainage, waterproofing and often new falls in the slab. It is the biggest single step up in cost and time, so we show it as its own line in the BOQ.
Taking out a structural wall or changing an opening needs a structural engineer’s input and brings a fuller approval route with it. Some communities don’t allow facade changes at all, so we check before you fall in love with a layout. Our guide to what needs approval when renovating a villa covers partitions, extensions and the NOC.
Kitchens, bathrooms and joinery usually account for over half the cost. Flooring and MEP follow. Paint is the smallest line and the most visible.
Imported stone, special-order sanitaryware and some appliances take time to arrive. Selecting them at design stage, not mid-build, keeps the site from waiting on a delivery.
In a premium villa the joinery does most of the work: kitchen, wardrobes, majlis, media walls, doors. Because we make it in our own workshop, you can change a detail at drawing stage without going back to a third-party supplier.
Tell us the community and roughly what you want to change. We will visit, measure, talk through the options with you, and come back with a BOQ you can actually compare against other quotations.
Common questions
Cost, approvals, timing and living through the works. If yours is not here, call +971 50 353 8845.
It depends on scope far more than on floor area. A light refurbishment (paint, flooring, lighting and joinery with no layout change) sits at one end; a full rebuild with structural change and imported stone sits at the other. Kitchens, bathrooms and joinery usually account for more than half the total, with flooring and MEP next. We visit the villa, then price line by line in a BOQ so you can see each decision and adjust before committing.
For most renovation work, yes: the developer NOC and the permit from the authority that covers your area. If you are renting, you also need written consent from the owner first. We confirm the route at the site visit, prepare the drawings and handle the submissions. More detail is on our authority approvals page.
Not much needs to be final. It helps to know which rooms bother you most, whether you plan to stay in the villa during the works, and any pieces you want to keep, such as a kitchen, flooring or furniture. Photos of interiors you like are useful. Budget and finishes we can work through together once we have seen the villa.
It depends on the scope and on the approval route for your community. A refurbishment with no layout change is quickest; a full renovation with structural change takes considerably longer. We issue a dated programme before work starts rather than an estimate over the phone, and joinery production in our workshop runs alongside the approvals and strip-out rather than after them.
For single-room work, usually yes. For a full renovation we would advise against it: strip-out, MEP first fix and floor screeds make a villa genuinely unliveable, and working around occupants adds time. Where clients do stay, we phase the work by floor or wing and seal off the active area, but it is slower and costs more.
Yes. We are registered with six of Dubai’s major developers: Emaar, Nakheel, Meraas, Dubai Holding, Nshama and DAMAC. That means we can take your project through the community’s contractor process ourselves, without you appointing a second firm to do it.
Non-structural partitions, usually yes. Structural walls, slabs and openings need a structural engineer’s assessment and drawings before anything is touched, and some communities don’t allow facade changes at all. We check what your community allows before you commit to a layout.
Yes, that is the point of a design and build contract. You get drawings, 3D visualisation, material selection, joinery from our own workshop and the site works under one accountable team. If you already have a designer we will build to their drawings and coordinate with them.
Yes. We work across the UAE, including Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. Recent work includes The Dahlia, a private residence at Yas Acres in Abu Dhabi.
