Bespoke joinery and wardrobes in Marrakech

The rooms of a riad, a villa or an older apartment rarely have perfectly straight walls, regular heights or true right angles. Off-the-shelf furniture leaves gaps, wastes space and collides with a niche, a cornice or a decorative feature. Bespoke joinery answers these constraints: each unit is drawn for the real space, with its corners, its sloping roofs and its curved walls.

It also lets you choose the timber, the finish, the ironmongery and the interior layout. You decide how many hanging rails, drawers, shelves, mirrors and built-in lights you want. The piece is tuned to the rest of the decoration rather than added on top of it. To think about the whole picture, our guide to interior decoration in Marrakech gives pointers on materials and colours.

Made-to-measure is not reserved for large projects. A simple cupboard under the stairs, a guest-room wardrobe or a bathroom vanity unit all benefit from the same methods: an accurate survey, approved drawings, careful manufacture. In a second home it also means efficient storage between stays, with closed doors that keep dust off your clothes.

We work for owners who live in Marrakech as well as for those who follow their project from abroad. Joinery is part of a coordinated project: it is planned together with the electrics, the painting, the air conditioning and the floors, so that each trade arrives at the right moment.

Joinery is not limited to wardrobes. In a Moroccan interior, timber shapes doors, interior windows, pierced screens (claustras) that filter the light, bookcases framing a niche and panelling around a stairwell.

• Bespoke interior doors: solid, glazed, panelled or slatted, sized for your opening, with suitable frames.
• Claustras and pierced panels: geometric or plain patterns, to divide a space while letting light and air through.
• Bookcases and built-in furniture: bespoke shelving, TV units, storage benches.
• Kitchen, bathroom or study fittings: fronts, worktops, vanity units.
• Repair and restoration of original doors and woodwork, where the whole deserves to be kept.

Timber wall features go well with the plasters and finishes around them. For a harmonious result we coordinate them with the decoration and finishes in the rest of the house, in particular the colours chosen for painting in Marrakech.

Our teams carry out the joinery from manufacture to fitting. Drawings and cutting lists are prepared after an accurate survey on site, then sent to you for approval. Manufacture only begins once you have agreed in writing: dimensions, openings, finishes, ironmongery and lighting are all fixed before a single board is cut.

The manufacturing and fitting programme depends on the project, the material and the finish: it is confirmed once the drawings are fixed, and then appears in the quote.

A single point of contact coordinates the joinery with the other trades. You receive photos every week on WhatsApp and approve the key stages remotely. The statutory guarantees that apply to the works and the manufacturers’ guarantees are set out in your quote and handed over at completion.

• Included: survey, drawings, manufacture, fitting, adjustments, agreed finishes, end-of-works cleaning.
• To allow for depending on the project: power supply and built-in lighting (see our page on electrics in Marrakech), interior painting or wallpaper, adaptations to the receiving wall.
• Any change requested after the drawings are approved is confirmed in writing before it is carried out.

For a wider project, see riad renovation or our work in Gueliz. You can also request your quote by describing the rooms concerned.