Interior Design and Fit-Out in DAMAC Hills

A golf course community with three kinds of home

DAMAC Properties presents DAMAC Hills as an exclusive gated community of villas, townhouses and apartments, surrounded by parkland and a championship golf course. Among the amenities its developer lists are a clubhouse, a wave pool, tennis courts, stables, a fishing lake and a skate park.

For interior work, the mix of homes matters more than the amenities. A villa or townhouse can be replanned within the community's rules, while an apartment sits inside a building with its own management, shared services and fixed structure. We treat these as different kinds of project from the first conversation, because the constraints, the sequence of works and the approvals are not the same.

A design package or the full build

Some owners already have a contractor and simply want a strong set of drawings. For them we produce the concept, 3D renders, a full specification of materials and finishes, and working drawings, and their builder takes it from there. Others would rather deal with one party. Then our team designs, procures, fits out and supervises the site, giving you a single line of responsibility from first sketch to handover.

For a house, our villa interior design service describes the turnkey route in detail, taking in architecture, MEP, lighting and smart home integration. Most projects settle at one of these levels:

• Renovation: selected rooms given new finishes, joinery and lighting, with the rest of the house left alone.
• Full Turnkey: every room from concept to handover, with MEP, joinery, fit-out and FF&E in a single scope.
• Bespoke: structural change and ultra-luxury finishes, plus custom fabrication and pieces imported for the project.

Rethinking a townhouse or villa

Developer-built houses tend to arrive with neutral finishes, standard kitchens and wardrobes, and a plan drawn to suit as many buyers as possible. Owners typically want to change how the ground floor flows, where storage goes and how the rooms are lit in the evening. A townhouse rewards careful planning: a kitchen that opens properly onto the living space, a study carved from a spare bedroom, joinery that uses the recess under the stairs.

In a bigger villa the conversation widens to feature ceilings, a proper entrance hall, a majlis or family room, and outdoor space that works with the house. Where a plot faces the golf course, the view deserves to be planned around, with seating, window treatments and lighting arranged so the outlook stays the focus rather than the television wall.

Utility rooms, staff rooms and garages are often the easiest places to win back space, whether for a proper laundry, a home gym or a store for bikes and golf clubs. All joinery is drawn for your rooms rather than chosen from a catalogue, and you review each piece in 3D before anything is made.

Fitting out an apartment in DAMAC Hills

An apartment is a tighter exercise. Walls, risers and shared services are usually fixed, and the building management sets rules on working hours, lifts, deliveries and noise. The design effort goes into what can change: kitchen and bathroom layouts where the services allow, built-in storage, lighting, flooring and finishes that make a compact plan feel generous.

Our apartment interior design page explains that service in full. The closest published example is the Imperial Avenue Apartment, a Downtown Dubai residence of 5,500 sq ft, designed and built by us in 2023 around creams, warm beiges and soft taupes, with soft-lit arched wall features and recessed ceiling details.

Approvals for work in DAMAC Hills

What your project needs depends on its scope and on the type of home. Depending on the works, the master developer or community management may need to review the plans, as may the building management of an apartment block and the relevant authority. Replacing finishes and furniture is usually simple; moving walls, changing MEP or altering anything visible from outside calls for far more preparation.

We prepare the drawings and take care of authority approvals within the programme, including no objection certificates and compliance sign-off, and we confirm the route for each address before we price. Keeping approvals inside our own programme also means the documents submitted match what is finally built. If a house or apartment was altered by an earlier owner, tell us at the outset, because that history can change what is allowed now.

Our nearest published work

We have not yet published a project in DAMAC Hills. For a family villa carried through design and build, see the Emirates Hills Villa, which covers 6,700 sq ft and was completed in 2024. Its owner asked for no colourful tones and very few visual elements, so the effort went into proportion, natural light and a strict neutral palette, and the authority approvals were part of our job.

Read alongside the Imperial Avenue Apartment, it shows both sides of what we would bring to this community: a whole house planned and built to a clear brief, and an apartment finished with restraint inside a managed building.

Budget, living at home and next steps

Projects start from AED 150,000, and above that the scope sets the figure. What moves it most is the floor area, the share of joinery made to measure, the level of finish, whether services or structure change, and how fully the home is furnished. Give us a working budget at the start and we will design to it rather than cut back later.

Plenty of owners stay put while the work goes on. We can phase rooms, screen off dust and keep to agreed hours, although phasing lengthens the programme. Nearby, we also cover Arabian Ranches, Tilal Al Ghaf and Motor City, each with its own developer and rules.