迪拜的翻新——出自设计工作室,而非承包商
别墅翻新、住宅翻新、公寓翻新、厨房与浴室改造——由同一位主创设计师统筹,从概念到十二个月售后。
Most renovation in Dubai is treated as a contracting problem — the cheapest tile, the fastest schedule, the shortest punch list. Montaigne Design is the alternative. We are a boutique interior design studio that runs the design and the renovation under one contract. Villa renovation, home renovation, apartment renovation, kitchen remodelling, bathroom remodelling — all handled by the same lead designer, from concept through the twelve-month aftercare programme.
Villa renovation across Dubai's communities
Villa renovation in Dubai is the work the studio is asked for most. Among the renovation companies in Dubai, ours is the one that designs the room before it specifies the tile — which is why a villa renovation with us begins with how the family lives, not with a materials catalogue. We renovate frond villas on Palm Jumeirah, mansions in Emirates Hills, and the Sidra and Maple plots in Dubai Hills Estate.
Each community asks a different question of the renovation. Palm Jumeirah demands salt-tolerant stone and marine-grade ironwork. Emirates Hills carries longer commissioning cycles and heavier joinery. Arabian Ranches renovations are more contained. We hold the design, the approvals, and the build for all of them under a single contract.
Home renovation and house remodelling
Home renovation in Dubai covers a wider range than the phrase suggests. There is the cosmetic refresh — paint, flooring, lighting, new furniture, the bones left intact. There is the structural renovation — walls moved, wet areas relocated, the plan reworked. And there is the full refurbishment, where the house is taken back to shell and rebuilt around a new brief.
The studio is candid about which one a house needs. A great deal of what is sold as house renovation in Dubai is really a cosmetic refresh dressed up as more. We will tell you where the money should go — and where it should not. Home remodelling done well is fewer decisions, held to a higher standard, not more surfaces touched for the sake of the invoice.
Apartment renovation in Downtown, Marina and Bluewaters
Apartment renovation in Dubai is a discipline of millimetres. Downtown penthouses, Marina duplexes, Bluewaters and JBR apartments — the footprints are tighter, the building management is stricter, and every storage transition has to be resolved in joinery rather than in space.
We coordinate with building management on working hours, lift bookings and material deliveries as standard, and we run the apartment as a single considered room rather than a collection of separate specs.
Kitchen and bathroom remodelling
The kitchen and the bathroom are where a renovation is won or lost. Kitchen remodelling is planned around the actual cook — the triangle, the prep zones, the ventilation, the pantry-to-show-kitchen suite for households that entertain. Bathroom remodelling begins below the finishes, with drainage, falls and waterproofing, before a single slab of travertine or onyx is selected.
Cabinetry, islands and vanities are produced in the studio's Shanghai atelier and installed by our own team in Dubai. Stone is chosen, slabbed and book-matched in person — not ordered from a sample chip.
The Emaar handover NOC, the DM permit, the Trakhees approval
Renovation in Dubai is half design and half paperwork. A bare-shell Emaar villa needs a No Objection Certificate before tools arrive. A freehold community governed by Trakhees has its own approval track. Dubai Municipality requires a separate permit for works above a certain scope, and the contractor must be registered with the community before mobilisation.
We manage this entire trail — drawings prepared and submitted, approvals tracked, the contractor registered, inspections scheduled. The client does not file a single application. It is administrative work, and it is the work that delays a programme when a studio that rarely works in these communities gets it wrong.
What it actually costs
A villa renovation in Dubai runs from roughly AED 500,000 for a cosmetic refresh to AED 5 million and above for a full structural renovation in Palm Jumeirah or Emirates Hills. The honest answer depends on the community, the scope, and the finish tier — which is why the studio published its own pricing framework rather than a single misleading number.
We are transparent about where the money goes: roughly forty per cent construction and trades, thirty per cent joinery and millwork, fifteen per cent FF&E and decorative finishes, and fifteen per cent design fees, approvals and project management. Aftercare is costed into the proposal, not added at the end.






