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Mchoro Mawe Designs — bespoke interior design, architecture & construction · Nairobi

Karen Residence

Karen, Nairobi · 2025 · Custom Joinery & Finishes + Frameless Glass

A six-bedroom family home on a one-acre Karen plot. The clients had lived in the house for fifteen years and wanted the renovation to feel like their habits, not a designer's taste.

We spent a week sketching with the family before we drew anything in software. The result: a built-in mvule library wrapping the study, a dining room that opens through frameless glass to the garden, a barrel-vaulted gypsum ceiling in the corridor between living and bedrooms.

Three months from first site visit to handover. The kitchen alone took eight weeks of workshop time.

“A house drawn around the way the family already lived.”

From render to space

The room you signed off is the room you walk into.

Karen Residence library — completed, books on the shelves, real shadow
Karen Residence library — hyper-realistic 3D render before joinery installation
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From render to space.
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