Kitchen Renovation in Dubai

Send your community or building, room photos, approximate wall lengths and ceiling height, whether you need cabinets only or a full renovation, preferred finishes, appliance models if known, budget and timing. Existing drawings help but are not required to enquire. A firm price follows a site survey and an agreed specification and scope.

Approve the measured plan, cabinet elevations and internal layouts, appliance models and clearances, board and edge specification, physical finish samples, worktop details and fittings schedule. Record the drawing revision and any exclusions. A 3D visual shows the appearance but does not replace dimensioned production drawings.

Yes. Send the drawing set, materials and fittings specification for a manufacture-and-installation quotation. Halo checks the site dimensions and coordinates production drawings before workshop manufacture. If you also need removal, services, tiling or a wider renovation, those works should be defined and priced in the agreed scope.

As an indicative market range, a cosmetic kitchen refresh in Dubai starts around AED 15,000, a full apartment kitchen replacement on the same layout typically runs AED 40,000 to AED 75,000, and a villa kitchen with a new layout and island generally falls between AED 80,000 and AED 160,000. Large or heavily specified kitchens go above that. Those are planning figures, not a quotation. What your kitchen actually costs comes down to the run length in linear metres, the front finish, the worktop material, how far the plumbing and electrics have to move, the appliance package and what your building permits — which is why we survey the room before we price it.

From signed quotation to a working kitchen, most Dubai projects run six to ten weeks. Manufacture in our workshop takes three to five weeks and overlaps with the site works, so the room itself is usually out of action for two to four weeks. Worktops add another week to ten days after the cabinets are installed, because stone is templated on site rather than cut to the drawing. A layout change with relocated drainage, or a building that restricts working hours, pushes the programme out — we give you dates once we have surveyed the space.

Yes. Halo has run its own joinery factory in Al Quoz since the 1990s. Carcasses, doors, islands, tall units and pantry joinery are cut, edged, assembled and finished here in Dubai, which is why the cabinets are sized to your walls rather than to standard modules, and why a damaged or wrong part is remade in days instead of reordered from Europe.

Yes, and most of our kitchen work is in towers. What changes is the process rather than the craft: the building NOC, contractor insurance and access permits are submitted by our approvals team, lift bookings and waste routes are agreed in advance, noisy work is scheduled inside permitted hours, and any water isolation is planned with building management so it happens once. What towers usually restrict is how far drainage can move, which we confirm at the survey before drawing a layout that will not be approved.

Not the kitchen itself, no — once the strip-out starts, the room is a site. What we can do is set up a temporary arrangement elsewhere in the home with the fridge, a worktop, a kettle and a power point, screen the works off from the rest of the property, and protect the route in and out. Families generally manage a two to four week window with that in place. If you are renovating the whole home, we will sequence the kitchen so it comes back first.

Either. Plenty of clients buy their own during a promotion and simply send us the model numbers so the cabinetry is built to the real cut-out and ventilation dimensions. Others prefer us to supply and install the package, which is quoted as a separate line so you can see the price and compare it. What matters more than who buys them is that the list is fixed before manufacture — changing an oven size after the tall units are made is an expensive afternoon.

Usually, within limits. Water feeds are relatively easy. Waste is harder, because it needs fall to the existing stack and there is only so much floor build-up available before the kitchen sits higher than the rest of the apartment. Extraction depends on whether a duct route to a riser or an external wall exists — where it does not, a recirculating hood with carbon filtration is the honest answer. All three are checked at the site visit, and the layout is drawn around what is genuinely possible rather than what would be nice.

For most family kitchens in Dubai, engineered quartz is the sensible default: hard, non-porous, consistent, and it handles daily use without ceremony. Large-format porcelain and sintered stone are better where heat and UV matter, including outdoor and terrace kitchens. Granite is durable and cheaper than it used to be, though the pattern is less controllable. Natural marble is beautiful and will etch and stain — clients who love it choose it knowing that, and we say so before it is ordered rather than after.

A full kitchen renovation with Halo covers design and 3D visuals, strip-out and disposal of the old kitchen, making good to walls, floors and ceilings, plumbing and electrical work for the new layout, extraction, tiling and splashback, custom cabinetry manufactured in our workshop, worktops templated and fitted on site, lighting, appliance installation and connection, then snagging and a final clean. The exact inclusions are written into your scope after the survey rather than assumed from a package name.

Yes. Most Dubai towers and gated communities require a works NOC, a licensed contractor and valid insurance before access is granted, and some require drawings for wet-area or gas alterations. Our in-house approvals team submits the documentation and arranges the access permits. Requirements vary by building and by the scope of what you are changing, so the applicable route is identified at the site visit rather than promised in advance.

If the carcasses are sound, yes — and it can be a genuinely good decision. New fronts, new handles and hinges, a new worktop and splashback, and better lighting will transform how a kitchen looks for a fraction of a full replacement. The catch is that water-damaged bases, sagging shelves and a layout that never worked are not solved by new doors. We will tell you honestly at the survey which of the two you are looking at.

Both. Design is part of the scope for confirmed projects: measured survey, layout options, 3D visuals, and material and hardware selection against real samples. We also build to other people’s drawings — if you are working with an interior designer, we regularly take their scheme through technical detailing, manufacture and installation, flagging anything that cannot be built as drawn instead of quietly changing it on site.

German and Austrian systems — Blum, Hettich and Häfele are the ones we specify most — and whichever is quoted is named on your proposal rather than described as "premium". Soft-close hinges and runners as standard, with lift systems, corner mechanisms, larder pull-outs and internal dividers specified per unit. Hardware is the part of a kitchen that gets used ten thousand times a year, and it is the cheapest place to over-specify and the most expensive place to save.

All of it. Villa communities including Emirates Hills, Palm Jumeirah, Arabian Ranches, Dubai Hills Estate, The Meadows, The Springs and DAMAC Hills; apartment districts including Downtown, Business Bay, Dubai Marina, JBR, JLT, Dubai Creek Harbour and JVC; and established areas such as Jumeirah, Umm Suqeim, Al Barsha, Mirdif and Al Khawaneej. Each building or community sets its own access rules and working hours, so those are confirmed for your address rather than assumed from the district.

Send us the location, roughly how large the kitchen is, whether the layout is staying or changing, and a few photos — WhatsApp is easiest. We will give you a sense of the range on the phone, then arrange a free site visit to measure the room and check the services. The itemised quotation follows the visit, priced against a written scope you can compare line by line with anyone else you are speaking to.