Kitchen
Read the guideHow much does a custom kitchen cost in Dubai? What really moves the price
How a custom kitchen in Dubai is priced, line by line: what moves the total most, what a cheap quote leaves out, and when your price is fixed for good.
Guides
Kitchen, wardrobe and renovation guides for UAE homes.
Prices, materials, stone, mechanisms and renovation, in plain words with the sources named. Every guide ends with your next step.
Topic
Prices
Wood
Read the guideHow much does a built in wardrobe cost in the UAE? What really sets the price
How a built in wardrobe is priced in Dubai and across the UAE: width, height, doors and the fittings inside, what a fair quote lists, and when built in beats freestanding.
Kitchen · Wood
Read the guideWhy made to fit has always cost more, and what is changing
Custom kitchens and fitted wardrobes cost more because of the work done before anything is cut. Where your money goes, from 1630s London to Dubai today.
Kitchen · Wood · Build
Read the guideHow a book from 1788 explains your kitchen quote
How to compare kitchen quotes in the UAE: the seven lines every quote should show, what to ask before you sign, and a 1788 price book that got it right.
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Choosing well
Kitchen · Wood
Read the guideMDF, plywood or chipboard? The best material for kitchen cabinets in UAE humidity
Which board to choose for kitchen cabinets in the UAE: moisture resistant MDF, chipboard and marine plywood compared, plus fronts from melamine to super matt and why edge banding matters.
Wood
Read the guideWardrobe internals by width: hanging, shelves and drawers that fit the recess
How many bays a recess gives you, what hangs how long, how deep a shelf for folded clothes and where the drawers go, with the figures behind each rule.
Wood
Read the guideA wardrobe to the ceiling around an AC bulkhead
What sits inside the boxed section under your ceiling, what the Dubai Building Code says must stay reachable, and how a wardrobe is drawn under it or beside it.
Wood
Read the guideWall unit depths and TV sizes: the niche, the shelf and the distance to the sofa
TV sizes in millimetres from makers' own sheets, the air a screen needs in a niche, why our wall units are 300 mm deep, and how high and how far to sit.
Door
Read the guideInterior doors for a UAE home: solid core, hollow core, flush or panelled
What is inside a door decides how it sounds, swings and copes with a bathroom. Four constructions, with makers' weight and sound figures, and which suits each room.
Door · Build · Wood
Read the guideDoor and frame sizes in UAE apartments, and how to measure an opening
Standard leaf sizes, the minimum widths the UAE fire code and accessibility rules ask for, what a frame adds, and the five measurements we need to quote.
Door · Build
Read the guideFire rated doors in UAE homes: what the Civil Defence code asks for
Which doors in a UAE home must be fire rated and for how long, what a rated assembly is, which tests Civil Defence accepts, and why seals and closers matter.
Topic
Stone and surfaces
Every marble, quartz and compact surface we work with, with its properties, is in the stone guide.
Kitchen · Build
Read the guideQuartz, marble, compact or sintered stone: which worktop suits a UAE kitchen?
Quartz, marble, quartzite, granite, compact laminate and sintered stone compared on heat, acids, scratches, sealing, joints and strong sun, for kitchens in the UAE.
Kitchen
Read the guideIs marble a good kitchen worktop? Etching, sealing and the stones that cope
Marble looks wonderful and marks easily. What etching is, why honed hides it better than polished, and which natural stones cope with a busy kitchen in the UAE.
Topic
Mechanisms and cabinets
Hinges, lift ups, corners, larders and bins, by what they do, are in the mechanisms guide.
Wood
Read the guideThe 32 mm rule hiding inside your cabinets
What are the rows of little holes inside your cabinets? The 32 mm system, a grid makers share that decides how easily furniture can be adjusted and repaired.
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Renovation and handover
Build · Snag
Read the guideWhat is a snag list, and how do you track it?
What a snag list is, what goes on it, who writes it and when, and how to track its resolution separately from payment milestones.
Build
Read the guideRenovating an apartment in Dubai: approvals, working hours and the order of trades
How to renovate an apartment in Dubai: the building approval, contractor hours, what tenants and owners can change, the order of trades, living there during the work and paying in stages.
Snag · Build
Read the guideWhat your developer must fix, and for how long: defect liability in Dubai and Abu Dhabi
The one year and ten year periods in Dubai Law No. 6 of 2019, the federal decennial liability, Abu Dhabi's rules, and what structural and installation mean.
Snag · Build
Read the guideHandover inspection or snag list: which one you need, and when
The handover inspection is the walk with the developer, the snag list is your record of defects, an independent inspection sits between. When to do each.
Topic
Making, explained
Wood
Read the guideHow we draw a box: parts, codes and the numbers that mean the same everywhere
How one box is built from 18 mm board, how its parts are coded so a fitter learns them once, and the sizes of a real wardrobe bay from our own engine.
Wood
Read the guideEdge banding and grain direction on 18 mm board
Which edges get banded, how much banding a wardrobe uses, why veneered parts never turn on the board, and how two 18 mm boards become one 36 mm shelf.
Wood · Kitchen
Read the guideWhat to order for a bookcase: the cut list and the board count, worked through
A 900 by 2100 mm bookcase in veneered board from part list to cutting plan: 22 parts, one board plus a spare, and the rule behind every size.
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Working with us
Wood · Kitchen
Read the guideHow a fit out firm adds fitted joinery without running a workshop
You design and run the project. We measure, draw every part with its code, price every line and install under one contract and one warranty.
Kitchen · Wood · Door · Build
Read the guideReading an Ajusteur quote, line by line
What each part of the quote means, how a kitchen or wardrobe splits into lines, where VAT sits, what each payment ties to, and the four printed terms.
Wood · Kitchen
Read the guideWhat a design firm sends us, and what comes back
The brief and drawings that let us price first time, the measurements we take on site, and the drawing set, part codes and quote your client gets back.
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