Living & Dining Room Renovation in Dubai

As an indicative market range, an apartment living room refresh typically starts around AED 25,000, a full apartment living-dining fit-out falls between AED 60,000 and AED 140,000, and a villa living and dining renovation runs from AED 140,000 to AED 300,000, with large villas carrying a majlis and formal dining above that. Those are planning figures rather than a quotation. The actual living room renovation cost depends on the room size, the existing condition, how much joinery is built in, whether the ceiling is rebuilt, the finish specification and whether any walls move — so after the site visit you receive an itemised quotation against a defined scope.

The programme covers the site visit, design and quotation, any building NOC, workshop production and site works, then snagging and handover. On an apartment living room with a new ceiling and a media wall, the site works are usually a matter of weeks rather than months, and joinery production runs in parallel. The critical path is normally the building permit and the joinery lead time. You receive a dated programme once the room has been surveyed rather than a generic duration.

Yes, and it is most of what we do in Dubai apartments and modern villas. Open-plan living dining works when the two zones are separated by something other than a wall — a joinery divider or slatted screen, a change in the flooring or a level change, a ceiling detail that runs over one zone and not the other, and separate lighting circuits so each can be lit independently. Where the brief needs more privacy, glazed or half-height partitions give separation without losing the daylight.

Yes. TV units and media walls are manufactured in our own Al Quoz workshop, which is why we can build to your actual wall rather than to a standard module. Cable routing, power and data positions, ventilation for the equipment, integrated lighting and the ironmongery are designed into the unit, and the panelling or stone that wraps the wall behind it is set out to align with the unit rather than meeting it awkwardly.

Three things: it hides the services and any level changes in the slab, it gives the lighting somewhere to live — coves, profiles and a properly planned downlight grid instead of a random scatter — and it defines the zones in an open-plan room without any wall. False ceiling design for a living room is drawn together with the lighting layout and the joinery, because the cove line, the light line and the top of the TV unit all have to agree with each other.

Often, but not always. Whether a wall can be removed depends on whether it is structural, what services run inside it and what your building or community will permit. We check all three during the site visit and, where the wall is structural, tell you so rather than designing around a layout that will never be approved. Where it can come out, the scope includes making good the floor, ceiling, electrics and finishes on both sides.

Yes. Most Dubai towers and villa communities require a registered contractor, proof of insurance and a works permit before a renovation can start. Halo submits as a licensed contractor and our in-house approvals team handles the documentation. Requirements vary by building and community, so the applicable route is confirmed for your address rather than assumed.

Usually yes, for a single-room project. Where the whole ground floor is in scope, the work is phased so you keep a usable living space throughout. In every case the route from the lift or entrance is protected daily, dust screening goes up before strip-out, noisy work is scheduled inside your building’s permitted hours and the site is left clean at the end of each day. What is realistic for your home is confirmed at the site visit.

Yes. A majlis is a different brief from a family living room — seating capacity comes first, then the acoustics of a room full of people, the serving route from the kitchen and the guest entrance where the layout has one. Halo delivers majlis design in Dubai in both Arabic and contemporary schemes, including the wall panelling, feature ceilings, seating joinery and lighting that the room needs to work when it is full.

The built-in element — TV units, storage walls, dividers, buffet units, window seats and panelling — is manufactured by us and is part of the scope. Loose furniture such as sofas, dining tables and chairs is normally bought separately so you can choose it on your own terms, though we will coordinate the sizes and layout so what you buy actually fits the room we have designed. Custom loose pieces can be produced through our furniture service where you want them to match the joinery.

Halo delivers living and dining renovations across Dubai, including Emirates Hills, Palm Jumeirah, Arabian Ranches, Dubai Hills Estate, The Meadows and Springs, DAMAC Hills, Downtown Dubai, Business Bay, Dubai Marina and JBR, JLT, Dubai Creek Harbour, JVC, Jumeirah and Umm Suqeim, Al Barsha, Mirdif and Al Khawaneej. Each tower and community carries its own permit process, access rules and permitted working hours, so those are confirmed for your address rather than assumed.

Confirm who actually builds the joinery, whether the ceiling and lighting are designed by the same team that builds them, whether the quotation is itemised, whether the contractor is registered with your building or community, who does the electrical work, and how your home is protected while the work runs. The checklist on this page sets out why each question matters and how Halo answers it.