Sand House — Palm Jumeirah Garden Home Renovation

This villa was planned as an end-user family residence. The client asked for an interior with a sandy, warm atmosphere that related naturally to the villa’s waterfront setting rather than an interior developed primarily around resale presentation.

The material plan uses a limited palette through the house. Warm microcement forms the principal background, cream cabinetry keeps large storage volumes visually light, and dark metal details appear in windows, internal glass screens, electrical accessories, kitchen fittings and bathroom fixtures.

The renovation also retained the Garden Home’s original arched openings. Their upgraded dark-framed glazing gives the living spaces and bedrooms a clear architectural identity while the new interior construction remains contemporary and simple in form.

The renovation combines two distinct systems. The curved and pointed arches come from the villa’s original architectural language; new cabinets, mirrors, internal glass screens, linear lighting and mechanical grilles use simpler rectangular geometry.

Dark frames make the retained openings visually clear against pale walls. The same dark tone returns in the kitchen partition, taps, shower controls, door hardware, switches, sockets and lighting tracks, linking rooms without introducing many unrelated materials.

Microcement provides continuity through the principal floors and wet areas. This allows the ground-floor rooms and upper circulation to stay visually connected even where doors, partitions and ceiling changes establish separate functions.

The upgraded villa has a broad entrance and internal hall leading toward the principal living spaces. The main living area has extensive arched glazing, while the dining room is identified by its pointed windows and central pendant.

The kitchen remains visually connected to the dining area through the black steel-framed glass wall. This gives the ground floor depth and borrowed light without turning the kitchen and dining room into one fully exposed room.

The staircase and main circulation remain clearly legible from the internal hall. This allows movement between the floors without requiring every route to pass through the central furniture areas of the living room or kitchen.

The upper floor shifts from the open social spaces below to a more private setting, with bedrooms arranged off a central corridor and supported by generous built-in storage, individual bathrooms and carefully integrated lighting. Original arched openings remain a defining feature, giving each room its own connection to the Garden Home architecture.

The bathrooms extend warm, sand-toned palette into a more private, spa-like setting. Continuous microcement, floating vanities and dark fittings create a rich material contrast, while frameless glass, concealed services, linear drainage and integrated lighting keep each space open, polished and comfortable to use.

The completed villa interior keeps recognizable elements of the original Palm Jumeirah villa, particularly its arched external openings, while replacing much of the visible interior construction and technical fit-out around them.

The same small group of materials and details appears through different room types: sand-toned surfaces, cream joinery, dark frames and fittings, clear glass and warm integrated lighting. This gives the entrance, kitchen, bedrooms and bathrooms a common material relationship without making every room identical.