makan.design

Sector

Hotel interior design for hospitality brands in Saudi Arabia.

Hotel interior design for properties expanding into new Saudi cities. We design hosting experiences guests remember, from the moment of arrival to the last night of their stay.

The brief we keep hearing

A property that performs every night.

Arrival, lobby, F&B, rooms, spa, back of house. Every zone has a different job, a different dwell time, and a different operational reality behind the wall.

So our hospitality interior design doesn't start with a moodboard. We map the guest journey and the staff journey against each other, then design finishes that hold up to housekeeping cycles, not just to a photograph.

Then we design it, price it, and build it.

  1. Brand standards, local reality

    Operator manuals and global standards translated into Saudi materials, supplier networks, and regulations without losing the brand.

  2. Guest experience, mapped

    Arrival sequence, sightlines, acoustics, and lighting designed around dwell time and around the staff routes that keep it running.

  3. Built to open on time

    Overlapping stages and centralized procurement, because an opening date is a revenue date, not a target.

Who we build for

Chains and independents.

Hotel chains

Expanding into Riyadh, the Eastern Province, or a new secondary city, with an operator brand book that has to be respected line by line, from 5 star hotel interior design to select-service rooms.

We work to the standard and handle the local translation: materials, availability, code, and the contractors who can actually deliver it.

Independent properties

Boutique hotels, resorts, and destination F&B with no brand book, where the identity has to be built from scratch alongside the interior.

This is where our branding and UX practice earns its place in hospitality design: the story, the name, the space, and the guest journey designed as one thing.

Selected work

Hospitality projects.

KAFD commercial tower lobby in Riyadh with a suspended fish installation

Hospitality designRiyadh

KAFD Mixed-Use Tower Lobbies

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How we help

Two steps. You decide at each one.

Every hotel or lobby project starts with makan Blueprint™. After that you choose how much of it we carry, deciding once you've seen the concept and the real number.

makan Blueprint™

Your property conceptualized, scoped, and priced before you commit to a full project.

Start Your Project

You walk away with

  • Space assessment and site documentation
  • Layout options with spatial flow
  • Design concept aligned to your brand
  • Budget snapshot with scope defined

Yours regardless of what you decide next. Credited in full if you proceed.

Our main offerMost clients choose this

Design & Build

Turnkey. We take the project from the approved Blueprint to the day your first guests arrive, and we are the only party accountable for the result.

What we do

  • Detailed design and full technical drawings
  • A cost-engineered, locked bill of quantities for every guest-facing space
  • Procurement and all vendor management
  • Construction, supervised on site by our design team
  • Furniture, lighting, artwork and accessories that finish the guest experience
  • Handover, photography, post-occupancy review

What you do

  • Approve the direction at each stage gate
  • Read a weekly site report
  • Nothing else. No vendors, no coordination, no site management for your operator

Why it costs less overall

No bidding round, no misalignment change orders, and no months of your team coordinating five vendors ahead of opening.

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Alternative route

Interior Design

Design only. Our work ends at documentation and supervision; your contractor builds the hotel.

Explore Interior Design

Right for you if

  • Your contractor is already appointed
  • Your owner or operator requires a competitive tender
  • You have a projects team in-house to manage the build

You receive drawings, specifications, 3D visualizations and a BOQ for your tender, with site supervision so the guest experience is built as designed.

Other sectors

Other sectors we design and build.

Opening a property? Start before the drawings.

We'll test the standard against local reality and price the whole fit-out in 2–3 weeks, so the opening date holds.

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