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Residential Design

Homes designed around your household.

Apartments, maisonettes and villas planned room by room — for the family that lives there, not for a magazine spread.

Kenya Practice

Designing across the country

Free Site Visit

Anywhere in Nairobi

3D Visuals

See it before you build it

Workmanship Guarantee

On all installations

Principal bedroom suite in Runda, Nairobi

Homes

Apartments, maisonettes and villas

The discipline

Every household runs differently

A family with three school-age children needs different storage, different surfaces and a different entrance sequence to a couple who work from home and entertain at weekends. Yet both are often handed the same generic layout.

We design around your household: prayer space, guest hosting, homework zones, helper access, laundry flow, shoe storage at the door. These are the details that decide whether a home feels effortless or permanently slightly wrong.

  • Whole-home design or one room at a time
  • New-build handover fit-outs and older-home refurbishment
  • Storage planned around real possessions
  • Family-durable finishes that still look considered

Property types

Homes we design

From a compact one-bedroom to a multi-level family villa.

Apartments

Making compact plans feel generous — better circulation, built-in storage, layered lighting and finishes that suit rental or owner-occupied use.

Maisonettes & Townhouses

Multi-level homes where the staircase, landing and ground-floor flow are usually the biggest opportunity for improvement.

Villas & Large Homes

Full-property schemes coordinating living wings, guest areas, staff quarters, terraces and the exterior into one language.

New-Build Fit-Outs

Taking a developer shell or bare handover and turning it into a finished home — joinery, finishes, lighting and furniture.

Renovation & Remodel

Reworking older homes: opening up kitchens, upgrading bathrooms, replacing dated joinery and correcting bad earlier work.

Single-Room Projects

A principal bedroom, a study, a nursery or an entrance hall done properly, often as the first step toward a whole-home scheme.

Details that matter

What we plan in a family home

The practical layer beneath the aesthetics.

  • Entrance storage for shoes, bags and coats
  • Kitchen flow for more than one cook
  • Pantry and bulk-shopping storage
  • Laundry, drying and ironing sequence
  • Homework and study zones
  • Children’s storage that adapts as they grow
  • Prayer space and quiet rooms
  • Guest hosting and overflow seating
  • Helper access routes and service areas
  • Bathroom storage and ventilation
  • Wardrobe capacity based on real inventory
  • Wi-Fi, TV, charging and socket positions

A home does not need to impress visitors. It needs to make sense at six in the morning with everyone trying to leave at once.

Zamzam Decor — Residential Design

How it runs

How a home project runs

Phased so you can often stay in the property while work proceeds.

01

Home Visit

We walk the whole property with you, room by room, and record what works, what does not and what you want to keep.

Free in Nairobi

02

Household Brief

A short questionnaire on routines, storage, guests and growth plans that shapes every layout decision.

Week 1

03

Room-by-Room Concept

Layouts, palettes and joinery proposals for each space, prioritised so the highest-impact rooms come first.

Week 1 – 3

04

Phased Quotation

Priced by room or phase, so you can approve the whole scheme and build it in the order your budget allows.

Week 3

05

Build in Phases

Work zoned and dust-screened room by room, with the kitchen and bathrooms scheduled to minimise disruption.

Week 4 onwards

06

Styling & Handover

Furniture placed, finishes cleaned, care notes issued and a follow-up visit booked a few weeks after you settle in.

Final phase

Frequently Asked

Residential design questions

Still have a question? Call +254 799 007 610 and speak to a designer directly.

In most cases yes. We zone the work, screen it for dust, protect circulation routes and schedule the noisiest operations into agreed hours. Kitchen and bathroom phases are the ones most likely to need a short period elsewhere.

Start your project

Let us start with one room

Book a free home visit anywhere in Nairobi. We will give you an honest view of what to prioritise and what it should cost.