Concept Design Build
The practice
Interior design, bespoke joinery, interior build, commercial interiors and project concierge — five disciplines run by one practice from Nairobi, so a decision made in the drawing survives the walk to site.
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Spaces delivered
01 — Why we exist
A typical interior passes through three or four companies. A designer draws it, a joinery shop interprets the drawing, a contractor sequences the trades, and somebody on site makes a small decision at four in the afternoon that nobody sees until the room is finished. Intent thins out at every handover.
PROWORKX Concepts exists because those gaps are where quality is lost. We design the space, make the joinery in our own workshop and run the installation ourselves, so the tolerance on the drawing is the tolerance on the wall.
It also means there is nobody to point at. One practice carries the drawing, the programme and the finish standard from first survey to handover — and answers for the result afterwards.
02 — What we believe
Five positions arrived at by building the work rather than by writing a manifesto. They decide more of a finished project than any mood board does.
Most interiors that feel unresolved are not badly designed, they are over-specified. A dominant material sets the temperature, a supporting one gives contrast in tone or texture, and an accent lives in hardware and metalwork only. The moment an accent appears on a surface, it has quietly become a fourth material.
Not when the fittings are chosen — weeks earlier, when the circuits are run. How independently a room can be controlled matters more than how many downlights it has, and circuits are the cheapest thing to get right and the most expensive to retrofit.
Partitions taken to slab, sealed doors and an absorbent ceiling treatment are not upgrades. They are the difference between a room people use and one they quietly avoid, and the one thing that cannot be added later without returning to a finished ceiling.
We survey the opening as built, not as drawn, and record every service, level and out-of-square wall. Every carcass, door, drawer and hardware item is drawn and signed off before a sheet is cut.
You should not have to coordinate your own project or discover a variation after it has been built. One person carries the programme, the budget and the finish standard — and nothing is instructed without a written variation and a price you have approved first.
03 — Materials & making
The workshop is not a supplier we manage. It is ours — which is why a problem found in fabrication is solved on a bench rather than in your house, and why the person tightening the last hinge is the person who cut the carcass.
What stays with us
04 — Our method
Every project runs the same six stages, whether it is one room or a whole floor. What changes is the depth of each — never the sequence.
Your brief, lifestyle, requirements and project objectives.
Scope, spatial priorities and a focused design direction.
Concepts, layouts, materials and the complete visual language.
Finishes, fittings, hardware and technical details.
Fabrication, installation and coordinated implementation.
Review, refinement and a finished space ready to inhabit.
05 — How we engage
Not every project needs the whole practice. Take the part you are short of — the drawings, the delivery, or an experienced eye on somebody else’s site.
We take the space from survey to a documented design. Your own contractor prices the work and builds from the package we issue.
Learn moreThe same studio draws it and builds it. One programme, one price, and nobody to point at when a detail does not match the drawing.
Learn moreRepresentation on a project somebody else is delivering. We hold the standard, the reporting and the coordination; you keep the contract.
Learn more06 — In their words
The part of a project you cannot see in a photograph is what it was like to run.
“They were the only people who told us what would not work. The kitchen we ended up with is not the one we asked for, and it is considerably better.”
“Twenty-two weeks of works across a floor of ninety people and we did not lose a single trading day. The reporting was good enough that our board stopped asking for updates.”
“I was in London for the whole build. I saw the site every week in photographs and I never once felt out of control of it.”
07 — Questions
Begin a project
Tell us about the space, the constraint and your timing. One person reads every enquiry, and you will hear back from someone who would work on the project.
