Damac Lagoons

The family bought a new villa in Damac Lagoons and received the standard developer handover: white walls, grey wood-look tiles, basic bathrooms and a flat ceiling. They asked for a warm, quiet home that feels finished down to the last detail, with real rooms for two children and a master suite that works like a private hotel room.

Everything had to be designed, supplied and built by one team, on a fixed programme, while keeping the lighting, furniture and stone within budget.

Developer villas look the same from the inside: one flat ceiling height, no concealed lighting, generic bathrooms and a large living room that feels empty rather than grand. We had to rebuild ceilings, walls and wet areas inside a finished building without touching the structure, and deliver while the family planned their move-in.

We replaced the developer tiles with large-format travertine and built stepped gypsum ceilings with warm cove lighting and slim linear tracks. In the living room a stone TV wall and an oak and fluted-glass screen frame the marble stair; stacked alabaster rings from DA Living hang over the sofa, and a cluster of alabaster drops lights the stairwell. The dining table sits under a linear alabaster 'sail' pendant with cream bouclé chairs; the kitchen island has two interlocking alabaster rings.

The master suite has a full-height oak headboard wall, fluted-glass wardrobes and a dressing room with lit walnut shelving. Bathrooms move from blue developer tiles to calacatta marble, warm grey stone, fluted oak vanities and backlit niches. The children's rooms have fibre-optic star ceilings, a reading arch and a magnolia mural in one, a pink loft bed in the other, each with its own DA Living pendant.

A Damac Lagoons villa that no longer looks like a developer unit: warm, layered and lit like a boutique hotel, with rooms built around how the family actually lives. Works are ongoing; this page will be updated with photographs from site.