Design & Luxury Furniture News — interior design

Most furniture guides tell you to start with a sofa or a colour palette. We think that's the wrong place to begin. After furnishing hundreds of homes across Dubai, we've found the people happiest with their finished spaces are the ones who got the sequence right first — move-in timeline, room function, anchor pieces, budget split — before they got the style right. This is the guide we wish more people read before they started shopping.

Armchair or side chair — it's one of those decisions that seems small until you're sitting at your dining table every day wondering if you made the right call. We break down the real differences between the two so you can choose what actually works for your home.

Console tables and entryway tables are often used interchangeably — but they're not quite the same thing. This guide breaks down the key differences in function, placement, and style, so you can choose the right piece for your home with confidence.

Every family has a different way of living — and this project was a reminder of exactly that. We sat down with a Dubai family who wanted their living room to feel warm, functional, and genuinely theirs. Here's how we made it happen, from the first conversation to the final styling.