Interior Design in Motor City for Villas and Apartments

A city within a city

Union Properties calls MotorCity a city within a city, bringing together residential, business, sports and leisure uses. Among its destinations it lists the Dubai Autodrome, Uptown MotorCity, Green Community MotorCity, the Avenue District and several places to shop. It describes Green Community as family villas, townhouses and bungalows within a green and secure community, and Uptown as apartments and villas.

Motor City homes therefore come with very different needs. A family in a Green Community house may want the ground floor reorganised around the garden, while an Uptown apartment owner is more likely to want storage, lighting and a kitchen that does more within a fixed footprint.

Villas, townhouses and bungalows in Green Community

With a garden on the doorstep, the most useful question is how the household moves between inside and out. Where do wet towels, bicycles and football boots end up? Can the person cooking see the children playing? Is there somewhere shaded to eat outdoors in the cooler part of the year? The answers shape the ground floor plan more than any colour scheme.

Bungalows raise a different set of questions. With everything on one level, zoning takes the place of stairs: bedrooms grouped away from the living rooms, a quiet end for a study, and circulation that does not run through the middle of every space. Changes that often help in a family house include:

• A kitchen opened towards the family room where the structure allows
• A utility or boot room for sports kit and outdoor gear
• A principal suite with a proper dressing area
• A study placed away from the busiest rooms
• Tougher floors and finishes beside the garden doors

Apartments in Uptown Motor City

An apartment interior is shaped by its building: the columns and risers stay put, and the building's managers decide when trades may come and go and how materials reach the floor. Inside those limits there is plenty of room for change: fitted storage, a reworked kitchen, better lighting and bathrooms refreshed with new finishes.

Our apartment interior design service covers exactly this kind of home. For a sense of how we treat apartments, the Imperial Avenue Apartment in Downtown Dubai was a design and build project of 5,500 sq ft, completed in 2023, in a quiet luxury style: warm neutrals, bouclé, polished marble and softly lit arched wall features.

Choosing how much of the project we handle

Buy the design on its own and you get everything a builder needs to quote and build, from the concept and renders to a finishes schedule and construction drawings; the builder is then your appointment. On a design and build basis, our own team goes on to buy, build, supervise and snag, which gives you one point of contact from first sketch to the day you move back in.

Villa owners with larger changes in mind will find the scope set out on our villa renovation page, from a single floor reworked to a whole house replanned.

Approvals, and staying at home during the works

Who signs off depends on what you own and what you change. For a house, sign off may sit with the master developer or community management and the relevant authority, while a flat also needs its building management on board before a single wall is touched. Replacing finishes and furniture draws little attention compared with removing walls, altering MEP or building outdoor structures. Before pricing, we confirm the route for each address; what we then draw and submit is listed on the authority approvals page.

If you intend to stay in the home while work goes on, we phase it room by room where the scope permits, with dust screens and working hours agreed in advance. Where living in would not be practical, we tell you before the programme is fixed.

Materials for busy family homes

Family houses take daily wear, and interiors in them need to cope. We specify stain resistant worktops, performance fabrics for sofas and dining chairs, washable paints and hard wearing floors in hallways, kitchens and family rooms. Joinery corners can be rounded for small children, and storage can sit low enough for them to tidy their own things away.

Durable does not have to mean utilitarian. A restrained palette of warm neutrals and natural textures tends to age well, and it stays pleasant to live with long after a fashionable colour has dated.

Budget and how to start

Projects start from AED 150,000. Above that, expect the figure to track floor area, cabinetry made to measure, the grade of stone, timber and hardware, any rerouted services or structural work, and the depth of the furniture package. A working figure shared at the start keeps the design honest.

Tell us your sector, the type of home and your plans through the estimate page. We also cover neighbouring Dubai Sports City.