Award-winning studio · 110+ homes designed
We design apartment interiors and renovations in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and across the UAE, around the way you live. From new handover apartments to full renovations and layout changes, we bring together thoughtful design, material selection and detailed construction documentation, with site support to help bring the design to life.
Tell us about your apartment
Free consultation and site survey. Share a few details and our design team will contact you to arrange it.
Recognised for
Best Residential Home
Dubai's Top 50 Homes 2023
Sound familiar?
Most of what goes wrong in an apartment is decided before a single wall is touched.
You sign one price, then the extras start. With us, you know the full fee before we start. No surprises.
Your designer, contractor and suppliers don’t talk to each other, and every problem lands on you. With us, one studio handles the design and coordinates the site until the work is done.
When something goes wrong, everyone blames someone else. With us, you always know who is responsible for your design, from the first meeting to the last site visit.
They push you to sign and pay before you’re sure. With us, the consultation and site survey are free, so you decide in your own time.
The design looks great, then you find out it costs twice what you planned. With us, we plan the design around your budget from the first meeting.
You never know when anything will be ready. With us, the site survey is in week 1 and your design is ready by week 4.
How it works
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Free consultation
Sit down one to one with our design team. Tell us about your apartment, how you use it and what you want to change. We listen, then share our first ideas.
You receiveAdvice on what is possible, our first ideas for your apartment, and a clear next step.
Our approach
In an apartment, every bit of space counts. We plan each room in detail before work starts, from the layout to the storage.
One room doing two jobs. The seating has to work for both the window and the television, and the dining table must not block the way out to the balcony.
Usually closed, and usually small. Whether the kitchen can open into the living room depends on where the cooker fan can send air outside, and on what the building allows. We settle that before anything is drawn.
The bed wall, the sockets and switches beside the bed, and a drawing of every wardrobe front down to the millimetre. A fitted wardrobe here has no spare wall to borrow from.
A bathroom rarely moves, because the drain cannot. The layout inside it can change, and so can the amount of storage. We set out every tile on the drawing. A half tile at the end of a wall is the thing you will notice every day, long after the builders leave.
The difference between a small apartment that works and one that does not. Every metre gets drawn, because there is no store room to absorb what will not fit.
Most apartments have no spare room. So the desk ends up in a bedroom, the living room or a corner of the hall. Which one works depends on the sockets, the daylight and what sits behind you on a video call. We settle that before we draw the built-in furniture.
Our work
Across Business Bay, Dubai Marina, Downtown Dubai, Jumeirah Beach Residence, City Walk and Zabeel. Palm Jumeirah, Dubai Creek Harbour, Dubai Hills and JVC are the other areas we cover.
Our story
We founded Conceptor in Dubai in 2021 to design architecture, interiors and landscape as one process. In an apartment, the layout and the fitted storage are planned together, so the finished home matches the first idea.
Today we are an award-winning studio. Our architects, interior designers, visual artists and strategists work with private clients and developers across the MENA region. Every apartment starts with a brief on how you live, and every drawing follows it.
The Conceptor team
Design studio, Dubai
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Why us
One studio for architecture, interiors and landscape, based in Dubai.
You know the full design fee before we start. No hidden charges.
Meet our designers and get a free site survey before you decide anything.
110+ homes designed, from city apartments to large family villas.
Site survey in week 1. Your full design and drawings by week 4.
What owners say
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FAQ
Yes. We design full apartment renovations and single rooms like kitchens, bathrooms and storage. You get 3D views, full drawings and site visits until the work is done.
Our focus is the design, from the first concept to construction-ready drawings. We work alongside the contractor you choose, and we stay involved on site until the work is finished.
The price depends on the size, and on how much furniture is built into the rooms. Moving a kitchen or a bathroom adds more, and so do your building's own fees. Expensive finishes push the price higher again. Every apartment is different, so we price each project on its own brief. Tell us the building and what you want done, and we will come back with a realistic range.
Design takes about four weeks, from the first visit to measure the apartment to a complete set of drawings. That assumes you approve each stage within a week. The build after it usually runs a few months. Your building's limits on working hours affect that more in an apartment than anywhere else.
Some walls keep the building standing, and those cannot move. The rest can usually come out. Moving a kitchen or a bathroom needs your developer to approve the new waste pipes first. We find out what your building allows before we design, not after.
If the work is limited to one or two rooms, sometimes. For a full renovation or remodelling, rarely. In an apartment there is no room to escape the noise and dust, and most buildings only allow noisy work at set times. Most owners move out for the noisiest stage.
Yes. A small flat is where an interior designer makes the biggest difference, and we draw it to the same standard as anything else. With a studio apartment design, storage is the whole problem. A small apartment needs the same drawings as a penthouse, because every decision is just as detailed in less space.
Yes. Our work runs from a one bedroom flat to luxury apartments and penthouses, including projects in City Walk, Dubai Marina and Meydan. Each one gets the same full set of drawings, with every main room shown in 3D first.
The design work is the same, but the limits are not. An apartment is tighter, the walls that keep the building standing cannot move, and your building sets rules a villa never has. Home interior design in Dubai covers both, and we do both.
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