The Same Four Walls, Eleven Weeks And One Crew Apart

Photographs of a finished interior only tell half the story, which is why we document our renovation projects from the stripped-back starting condition all the way through to final handover. Our before and after portfolio includes apartments reduced to bare walls and concrete floors, villas gutted back to their structural shell, and offices cleared of every previous tenant's fitout, each one rebuilt by our own joiners, plumbers and electricians on a fixed programme. Seeing the starting point makes the finished result mean more, because it shows the actual scope of work involved rather than just the polished outcome.

A recent example is a two-bedroom Downtown Dubai apartment stripped to shell and rebuilt in eleven weeks, with new plumbing, wiring and lighting throughout and every wardrobe and cabinet built in our own Al Quoz workshop to fit the actual room dimensions, not a generic standard size. That project, like every renovation in our before and after portfolio, followed the same sequence: a detailed survey of the stripped condition, structural and MEP work completed first, then joinery and finishes, and a joint snagging walk before handover. The transformation is dramatic, but the process behind it is deliberately unremarkable and repeatable, which is exactly the point.