UAE kitchen renovation
New cabinets, a new worktop, a sink in a new place: we design, make and fit kitchens across the UAE. Send us your wall lengths on WhatsApp and we come back with a price.
The numbers
Kitchen renovation Dubai prices come in two shapes. Almost every company publishes a job total for a kitchen of a given size and scope; one publishes a rate per square foot, and prints two different rates on the same page. We work from the totals, keep the source and the date against every figure, and check each quote we bring you against them.
How much does it cost to renovate a kitchen in Dubai?
A small kitchen refit in Dubai starts at about AED 12,000 for new cabinets, lighting and paint. A 3 x 3 metre kitchen with new worktops and plumbing starts near AED 15,000, a full mid-range kitchen runs AED 45,000 to 120,000, and luxury work with imported joinery reaches AED 300,000. Each figure is a price a UAE company publishes for its own work, collected in September 2026. The kitchen price guide lists every band with the company behind it.
The table groups the published figures by the size and scope each company describes. Read the scope column before the price column. A band that covers cabinets, lighting and paint is a different job from one that includes appliances and a new layout, and the two are regularly quoted as if they were the same thing.
| Kitchen scope | What it covers | Published band in AED |
|---|---|---|
| Cabinet makeover | The existing cabinets refreshed, not replaced | AED 5,000 to 15,000 |
| Small kitchen | Cabinets, lighting, paint | From AED 12,000 |
| 3 x 3 metre kitchen | Cabinets, worktops, plumbing | From AED 15,000 |
| Full kitchen, standard finish | Design, cabinets, appliances | AED 25,000 to 40,000 |
| Full kitchen, mid-range | New cabinetry, worktops, integrated appliances | AED 45,000 to 120,000 |
| Luxury tier | Top-tier finishes, including imported joinery | AED 120,000 to 300,000 |
The fourth and fifth rows overlap, and the overlap is the useful part. MBC Renovation publishes a full kitchen at AED 25,000 to 40,000. Vision Three puts a standard Dubai kitchen with quartz worktops, semi-handleless cabinetry and integrated appliances at AED 55,000 to 90,000. Both describe a full kitchen. The specification is what separates them, and a quote that names no specification cannot be placed on this table at all.
Send us the kitchen size and scope
Five things move a kitchen from one band to another.
Yes, and this is where a kitchen stops being a straightforward refit. In Dubai, Administrative Resolution No. (109) of 2022 lists the maintenance of electrical works and of sewerage and sanitary installations among the basic works that need no Municipality permit, provided a pre-qualified contractor carries them out. Relocating a sink or a drain goes beyond that list. Gas pipework is a trade of its own: Dubai Municipality classifies Central Gas Distribution Networks Contracting, activity 453025, separately from building and décor contracting.
The developer's rules sit on top of the Municipality's. In an Emaar apartment, the Home Modifications factsheet does not permit the removal, relocation or coverage of MEP and fire-fighting systems, and a sink's water and drain lines are MEP. In Town Square, new kitchen counters or a customised island count as a major alteration. Our Dubai kitchen rules set out where each community stands.
A kitchen quote only becomes comparable once it splits the job into the parts that carry the money. One figure with the word kitchen under it cannot be checked against anything.
We ask contractors for that breakdown before a quote reaches you, and we check the total against the published bands. If you want the detail first, every kitchen band is on the cost page with its source and the date we collected it.
Scope
The carcasses stay and the fronts change: new doors, drawer fronts and handles on boxes that are still sound. It is the cheapest way to change how a kitchen looks, and it only works when the boxes behind the doors are in good condition.
from AED 5,000
New cabinets, worktop and sink in the positions the old ones used. Water, drainage and power connect where they already are, which keeps the trades and the approvals simple.
from AED 12,000
Design, cabinetry, worktops and appliances replaced together. Budget from the specification: two kitchens of the same size can sit in different published bands.
from AED 25,000
The sink, hob or extraction moves, or a wall comes out to open the kitchen. This is the job that brings in plumbing, gas and ducting trades, often a developer's major-works approval, and sometimes a Municipality permit.
priced on drawings
Why Corvana
A kitchen is hard to price from the outside, because most of its cost sits in joinery and connections that look alike in a photograph. So we start from the published bands and write one brief that names the cabinet specification, the worktop, the appliance list and anything that moves. The same brief goes to licensed contractors who already work in your emirate, and each of them prices the same kitchen. When the quotes come back, any difference in price sits against a named line, so you can see what each extra dirham buys.
How it works
Wall lengths, ceiling height, and where the sink, hob and extractor sit today. A phone photo of the floor plan is enough to start.
Tell us whether the sink, the gas point or the extraction route changes. That one answer decides the trades, the approvals and a good part of the price.
One written price for your kitchen, with cabinets, worktop, appliances and services as separate lines.
You approve the price and our team makes and fits the kitchen. One contract, at the price you signed.
Where we work
A kitchen is the room where water comes in, waste goes out, a gas or high-load electrical supply feeds the cooking and an extract runs to fresh air. Each emirate draws its approval line through those services at a different point. The same kitchen can be a routine job in one emirate and a permit application in the next.
Dubai Municipality's basic maintenance list covers electrical works and sewerage and sanitary installations, so replacing fittings in place needs no Municipality permit, only a pre-qualified contractor. The developer adds its own layer. Nakheel's 2023 villa design codes listed a kitchen refurbishment without wall layout alterations among the works that needed no NOC, and Dubai Holding's FAQ still exempts like-for-like replacement, while Town Square's homeowner manual treats replacing kitchen counters as major and replacing kitchen cabinets as minor. The Dubai page takes the communities one by one.
Abu Dhabi puts kitchen work under one of two permits, and the layout decides which. A refit that changes no interior space, cuts no opening and touches no structure is a Maintenance Permit that the contractor files, with a service time of 7 working days in Abu Dhabi and 5 in Al Ain and Al Dhafra. Opening the kitchen to the living room is a Building Permit, which only a design consultant can file. New appliances count as well: any increase of more than 10 percent in a home's connected load needs the distribution company's approval. The Abu Dhabi page has the detail.
Of the four emirates we cover, Sharjah is the one where electricity, water and gas answer to a single authority, SEWA, and its building completion certificate lists a gas inspection certificate beside the electrical and water ones. A refit that keeps the layout runs on Sharjah City Municipality's maintenance permit, with a refundable deposit. Structural changes go through an engineering consultancy the Municipality accredits, and the Municipality's engineers set the fee for each modification case by case, with no published table. No Sharjah master developer publishes a homeowner alteration process. Sharjah kitchens explains what to ask for instead.
Ajman publishes its prices. The Municipality's Maintenance Permit costs AED 1,000, takes 2 days and is open to individuals as well as contracting companies. An architectural or structural modification request costs AED 200, also 2 days, with sign-offs from Etihad Water and Electricity, Etisalat and Ajman Sewerage Company. Neither service lists a gas authority among its approvals. The Ajman page lists the documents each one asks for.
When the kitchen is one part of a bigger programme, the same approach runs across our other lines. If the bathroom is being redone at the same time, Corvana Bathroom Renovation works the same way. For a whole villa, start at Corvana Villa Renovation; for a flat, at Corvana Apartment Renovation. Every line we cover is listed at Corvana Renovation.
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Say what stays and what moves. We price cabinets, worktop, appliances and services as separate lines, then make and fit it.
Questions
Size, community, whether the sink or hob moves, and what you want changed. We come back on WhatsApp with a written price.
