Interior fit-out and joinery, Doha

Finished as carefully as it was drawn.

Qirmiz takes offices, hotels, shops and private villas from bare shell to handover. One project lead, our own joinery workshop, and a programme you can plan your opening around.

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An empty hotel lounge with deep maroon velvet sofas, a fluted walnut wall with brass reveals and a travertine floor lit by low afternoon sun through linen curtains

Hotel lounge, Corniche640 m², 18 weeks

  • 01One project lead from first survey to handover
  • 02Joinery made in our Birkat Al Awamer workshop
  • 03A written site report every Thursday

Services

Six trades under one roof, one person answerable for all of them.

  1. 01

    Office fit-out

    Reception, workspace, meeting rooms and the ceilings, partitions and services behind them. We work around landlord rules and building management in the towers of West Bay and Lusail.

    Typical programme10 to 16 weeks

  2. 02

    Hospitality fit-out

    Lounges, restaurants, guest floors and majlis suites built to operator standards, with back-of-house that survives a full service.

    Typical programme12 to 20 weeks

  3. 03

    Retail fit-out

    Shopfronts and interiors for mall units and street retail, planned backwards from your opening date and the mall's handover window.

    Typical programme6 to 10 weeks

  4. 04

    Villa fit-out

    Majlis, family living, kitchens and suites for private homes. Discreet teams, protected floors, and one point of contact for the family.

    Typical programme16 to 28 weeks

  5. 05

    Joinery

    Wall panelling, doors, wardrobes, reception desks and screens, made and finished in our own workshop and installed by the same joiners.

    Typical programme6 to 12 weeks

  6. 06

    MEP coordination

    Lighting, power, air conditioning and fire services coordinated into one set of drawings before anything is cut, so the ceiling closes once.

    Runs alongsideevery fit-out we take on

Work

Same room. Fourteen weeks apart.

Drag the handle to see a West Bay office floor as we received it and as we handed it over.

The same office floor before fit-out: a bare concrete slab with chalk setting-out lines, exposed ducts, cable trays and sprinkler pipes, a stack of plasterboard, a ladder and a yellow work light by tall windows
A finished office reception with a walnut and travertine desk, a wall of glossy maroon panels with thin brass joints, an oak slatted ceiling and two cream armchairs beside floor-to-ceiling windows over a hazy city
Office floor, West Bay 1,150 m², shell to handover in 14 weeks. Reception desk in walnut and travertine, lacquered maroon wall panels with brass joints, oak slatted ceiling.
A closer view of the Corniche hotel lounge: a long maroon velvet banquette and a round travertine side table with a ceramic cup, in front of walnut panelling with slim brass reveals, low sun falling across the wood and the travertine floor

Hotel lounge, Corniche

640 m²18 weeks

Fluted walnut wall, travertine floor, upholstered banquettes.

A calm villa majlis with low built-in seating in champagne linen and maroon bolsters, limewash walls, an arched niche lined in fluted walnut, a carved timber lattice screen and a brass coffee pot on a walnut tray

Private villa majlis, Al Waab

210 m²22 weeks

Limewash walls, walnut niche, carved timber screen.

Projects shown are fictional, made for this concept.

Process

From first survey to the keys in your hand.

Six stages and one project lead, so you always know which week you are in and what happens next.

  1. Week 0 to 1

    01

    Survey and brief

    We measure the space, photograph every service, and write your brief back to you in one page.

  2. Weeks 1 to 4

    02

    Design and drawings

    Our designers, or yours. Either way we produce coordinated shop drawings and a fixed scope.

  3. Weeks 3 to 5

    03

    Samples and approvals

    Physical samples on your table, landlord and authority submissions handled by us.

  4. Weeks 4 to 10

    04

    Workshop and procurement

    Joinery goes into production in our workshop while long-lead items are ordered and tracked.

  5. Weeks 5 to 13

    05

    Site works

    Partitions, MEP first fix, ceilings, finishes and joinery install, with a hold point before anything is closed up.

  6. Week 14

    06

    Snagging and handover

    We walk every room with you, close the snag list, hand over drawings and manuals, and stay on call for twelve months.

Finish samples laid out on charcoal linen by a window: a block of travertine, walnut and oak pieces, a bar of brushed brass, folded maroon velvet, cream boucle and a dark green marble tile

Materials and finishes

Chosen by hand, in daylight.

Every project starts with a sample board. These are the finishes we come back to, and how we look after them in a Doha climate.

American walnut

Where we use it
Reception desks, wall panelling and doors.
Why
Stable once conditioned, and it darkens beautifully with light and age.
Care in Doha
We condition every veneer in the workshop for 72 hours before pressing, so it settles to the humidity it will live in.

Timelines and pricing

How long it takes, and roughly what it costs.

Pick a project type and slide to your floor area. A guide, not a quote. We give a fixed price after the survey.

Programme

12 to 14 weeks

Indicative rate

QAR 1,450 to 2,600 per m²

Indicative fit-out total

QAR 1,670,000 to 2,990,000

A guide, not a quote. Excludes loose furniture, artwork and authority fees. We give a fixed price after the survey.

Typical sizes, programmes and indicative rates
Project typeTypical sizeProgrammeIndicative rate
Office fit-out300 to 2,000 m²10 to 16 weeksQAR 1,450 to 2,600 per m²
Hospitality fit-out200 to 1,500 m²12 to 20 weeksQAR 2,800 to 4,800 per m²
Retail fit-out80 to 600 m²6 to 10 weeksQAR 1,900 to 3,400 per m²
Villa fit-out250 to 1,200 m²16 to 28 weeksQAR 2,200 to 4,200 per m²

Safety and quality

Quality is a habit, not a certificate on the wall.

  1. Toolbox talk on site every morning, in the crew's own language.
  2. Permits for hot works and work at height, signed before the work starts.
  3. Finished floors covered with protection board until the final clean.
  4. A full-size mock-up of every repeated detail before production.
  5. Hold points: no ceiling closes until MEP is tested and photographed.
  6. Thursday site report with photographs and the next week's plan.
  7. Snag list closed, with you, before we ask for the final payment.
A Qatari site manager in a white thobe and hard hat and an engineer in a navy coverall and hi-vis vest point at a floor plan on a trestle table in a villa under fit-out, with a scaffold tower behind

Weekly drawing review on a villa in Al Waab: the plan on the table is the one the joiners will work from.

Licences and classification

Listed here on a live site.

The workshop

The workshop is half an hour from your site.

Our joiners make the panelling, doors and desks they later install. When a wall needs a 3 mm shadow gap, the person who cut it is the person who fixes it.

  • 72 hVeneer conditioned 72 hours before pressing
  • 1:1Every panel numbered to its drawing
  • RHFinishing booth with controlled humidity
A joiner in a navy shirt, canvas apron and safety glasses runs his hand along a walnut veneered panel on a workbench in a bright workshop with clamps and veneer sheets behind

Careers

Build things you will want to visit later.

We hire site engineers, joiners and coordinators who take pride in the last millimetre. Fair rotas, decent accommodation, and a workshop that buys the right tools before you have to ask.

Or write to careers@qirmiz.example

  • Fit-out site engineer

    Doha, full time

  • Joinery foreman

    Birkat Al Awamer workshop

  • MEP coordinator

    West Bay studio

  • Quantity surveyor

    West Bay studio

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