Interior Design Company in Masaar by Arada
where 50,000 trees set the brief.

Masaar by Arada is built around 50,000 trees, cycling trails, and green corridors that run through every neighbourhood. When Arada planned the community, the landscape was not an amenity it was the product. Every villa and townhouse in Masaar has a direct visual relationship with that forest character.

As an interior design company in Masaar, the first thing we establish is the property’s relationship with the greenery around it. Which rooms face the forest corridor? Where does the morning light arrive through the trees? How does the garden transition relate to the interior floor?

The answers to those questions shape every material decision. Natural stone in warm buff tones. Matte timber in organic brown ranges. Linen and cotton textiles rather than synthetic weaves. These choices are not stylistic preferences — they are the correct response to an interior that looks out onto 50,000 trees.

Interior design consultants who import a glass-and-chrome aesthetic from a Dubai Marina project into a Masaar villa are ignoring the most important brief document in the project: the view from the living room window.

Masaar is a master community, not a single development. Its residential portfolio spans six distinct sub-communities Jouri, Sendian, Inayah, Kaya, Riverbend, and Ixora each with its own villa or townhouse typology, garden configuration, and visual relationship with Masaar’s forest corridors.

Jouri and Sendian offer the most compact townhouse typologies three to four-storey units with private garden patches and communal green access. Interior briefs here prioritise vertical space planning: staircase design, ceiling height optimisation, and multi-level living flow.

Riverbend villas offer the largest footprints in the community standalone villas with generous private garden areas and direct access to cycling trails. The brief here allows for a more expansive approach: double-volume ceilings, larger FF&E selections, and more extensive indoor-outdoor threshold planning.

Interior design firms in Masaar that apply a uniform template across sub-communities produce interiors that feel generic in each context. We calibrate every brief to the specific sub-community typology.

Masaar is an Arada master-planned community. Structural modifications and significant fitout works require formal submission to Arada’s community management before works can begin. Understanding what triggers a submission requirement and what the submission package needs to contain is essential groundwork for any Masaar renovation.

External modifications are the most regulated category: garden structures, boundary elements, facade changes, and pool installations all require formal approval. Internal structural works require Sharjah municipality permissions in addition to Arada community management approval.

As an interior design agency operating in Masaar, we prepare all community submission documentation as part of our full-service projects. Scope-of-works letters, material specifications, and drawings as required. We submit early at least six weeks before planned works start to avoid stop-work notices that cost far more in delays than the submission process.

Masaar villas open onto private gardens and shared forest-adjacent green corridors. The spatial transition between inside and outside is the most impactful design decision in any Masaar interior more impactful than the choice of sofa, the kitchen finish, or the bathroom tile.

The most common mistake is treating the sliding door as the design boundary. When the interior floor finish stops at the glass and the terrace uses a completely different material, the eye reads inside and outside as two disconnected environments. Each loses perceived scale.

The correct approach is a continuous or complementary material that carries from inside to terrace with a deliberate transition rather than an accidental stop. We have used large-format sandstone inside that steps to a bush-hammered version of the same stone on the terrace same colour family, different texture, seamless visual connection.

Furniture placement also matters. Garden-facing living rooms benefit from furniture scaled to preserve the sight line to the garden from a seated position. Oversized sofas that block the garden view waste the most valuable feature of the property.

Masaar sits in Sharjah emirate, which has its own municipality, regulatory framework, and cultural context distinct from Dubai. For interior design projects that involve structural modifications, permits, or municipality submissions, the Sharjah context introduces requirements that Dubai-focused designers may not be familiar with.

Sharjah municipality has its own approval processes for renovation and fitout work parallel to, but different from, Dubai Municipality. Projects that include partition removal, structural changes, or significant MEP modifications require Sharjah municipality coordination alongside any Arada community submissions.

Beyond regulatory differences, Sharjah’s residential character is different from Dubai’s. The buyer profile in Masaar leans toward families, long-term residents, and UAE nationals who prioritise community quality and green space over urban proximity. The interior brief typically reflects that family-grade durability, generous storage, and a design that supports multi-generational use.

Our interior design services in Masaar address both the regulatory context and the cultural brief. We have delivered projects across both Sharjah and Dubai and understand where the two frameworks converge and where they diverge.