Private Family Villa · Samara, Arabian Ranches 2, Dubai · 2026
A family villa in Samara, Arabian Ranches
- Location
- Samara, Arabian Ranches 2, Dubai
- Year
- 2026
- Typology
- residential
- Scope
- Interior design · Bespoke joinery & millwork · Architectural lighting design · Stone & marble selection · Furniture & FF&E · Soft furnishings · Art & accessory curation · Fit-out oversight
- Materials
- Statuario tiles, Bookmatched stone slab, Fumed light oak, Brushed brass, Cream linen and boucle, Smoked walnut accents, Hand-loomed wool rugs
A new family villa in Samara, Arabian Ranches 2. We took the empty Emaar shell and designed the whole interior end to end, the joinery, the stone, the lighting, the furniture, the styling, so the house reads as one continuous warm volume across two floors. The brief asked for 'generous but never loud', and the answer was a quiet palette of cream, fumed oak and brushed brass, with one piece of bespoke craftsmanship at the centre of every room.
One custom moment per room
Every public room has one piece of bespoke craftsmanship at its centre. The living room is held by a custom under-stair bar wrapped in bookmatched stone with concealed warm uplight; the media room by a three-metre fluted oak feature wall with integrated joinery and glass-fronted display; the entry corridor by a geometric stone-and-wood inlay laid into the marble floor between two runs of vertical oak panelling. The repeats are quiet, the moments are loud.
A villa you walk into, not switch on
Every threshold meets a line of light. Linear LED is traced along the ceiling perimeters, layered under the floating media credenza, tucked behind the bookmatched bar slab, and run at the base of the corridor's vertical oak panels. Switches almost never get used, the villa lights itself in one continuous warm-2700K wash from the front door to the upstairs landing.
Cream over wood, with one brass thread
The palette is three things, repeated. Statuario tiles for the floors and surfaces, fumed light oak for the joinery and feature walls, brushed brass for one quiet thread of warmth, the coffee-table leg, the lamp base, the stair-rail post, the bar tap. Everything else, the sofas, the boucle chairs, the sheer curtains, the wool rugs, the ceramics, the flowers, sits within the cream-to-walnut range so the villa reads as one continuous interior.
