Burj Al Wasl carries out interior fit-out, joinery, smart home installation and garden upgrades for Alaya and Alaya Gardens owners in Tilal Al Ghaf. Handover began in 2026 and is running now. The work worth doing is the work that is far cheaper before furniture arrives: snagging rectification, any layout change, and every cable that would otherwise mean opening a finished wall.
Alaya and Alaya Gardens are the grand villa neighbourhoods of Tilal Al Ghaf, developed by Majid Al Futtaim. Four to six bedroom villas across distinct architectural collections, on plots substantially larger than the townhouse neighbourhoods. Off-plan resale listings report units sold with developer-installed private pools and integrated landscaping, which changes what an owner here actually needs from a contractor.
Reported yes, and this is the important difference between Alaya and the older Tilal Al Ghaf neighbourhoods. Property portals list Alaya off-plan units as sold with developer-installed private swimming pools and integrated landscaping. That is a reported position rather than a clause we can quote from a contract, so check your own sales agreement, but it means the honest pitch here is not "we will build your garden".
What owners in this position typically want instead is refinement on top of what was delivered: shade structures the developer package does not include, outdoor kitchens, planting that suits how the family actually uses the garden, lighting that makes it usable after dark, and privacy treatment on the boundaries. All of it sits on top of finished work, which makes sequencing and care more important than scale.
Anything that generates dust or opens a wall. That is the whole rule and it is worth taking seriously, because the same job costs materially more and takes longer once the house is occupied. Specifically: tile removal or replacement, any wall coming out or going in, ceiling reframing, electrical chasing for lighting circuits or automation, and any plumbing route that runs through a floor.
Fine dust from cutting and demolition penetrates air conditioning ducting even through plastic sheeting, so a job that would have been a clean four weeks in an empty villa becomes a longer job that also means cleaning the ducts afterwards. Phased work in an occupied home, living upstairs while the ground floor is worked on, typically extends the programme by roughly a third to a half because of daily setup, daily clean-down and restricted noisy-work hours.
Non-structural and finishing defects in Dubai are covered by a contractual Defects Liability Period, typically one year from handover. Structural defects are covered for ten years by law under Article 880 of the UAE Civil Code and Article 40 of Law No. 6 of 2019. The practical consequence for an Alaya owner taking keys now is a hard deadline: anything not documented in writing inside that first year generally stops being the developer's problem and starts being yours.
So the sequence that protects you is snagging list first, in writing, submitted and acknowledged, and only then the improvement work. Mixing the two makes it far harder to establish later which defect was there at handover and which arrived with a contractor. We keep them separate on purpose and document the condition before we start.
Alaya villas are delivered across distinct architectural collections with different facade and material languages, so the interior work that reads as expensive here is the work that continues the architecture rather than arguing with it. In practice that means joinery: fitted wardrobes and dressing rooms, a kitchen that matches the villa's material palette rather than a showroom's, wall panelling, and built-in storage designed around the rooms as they actually are.
The second thing worth doing early is the closed-kitchen question. Grand villas are usually delivered open-plan, and families who cook seriously often want a closed preparation kitchen alongside the show kitchen. That is a layout change, which means it is structural approval territory and it is dramatically simpler before anyone moves in.
Interior work that does not touch structure or main services generally needs a Majid Al Futtaim community No Objection Certificate, submitted through the Belong by MAF app. Majid Al Futtaim does not issue paper NOCs, so the portal is the route. Structural work, layout changes and permanent outdoor structures add a building permit from the Dubai Development Authority, and DEWA comes in separately wherever electrical load increases.
Guides that name Dubai Municipality as the Tilal Al Ghaf permit authority are working from an older position. DDA is the better-evidenced route for this master zone and filing with the wrong authority is reported as one of the more common causes of delay. Confirm the current route with community management before submitting, and see our Tilal Al Ghaf approvals checklist for the document list per modification type.
See our interior fit-out and landscaping and exterior works services, the handover to move-in sequence, the smart home guide for Tilal Al Ghaf villas, or the Tilal Al Ghaf overview covering every neighbourhood we work in.
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