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HOLZ

The Journey

8–10 weeks, from the confirmation point.And the count starts where you decide.

The 8–10 weeks is the making and the fitting, not the drawing. What comes before it takes as long as your approvals take, and the studio does not count that against a date it has to hold.

Where the count begins

One date governs the work, and it begins at a point you can put a finger on. Three things have to be true together, and until all three are, nothing is counted:

  1. 01

    The design is approved

    Drawn, revised and settled: the layout, the materials and every dimension signed off as the thing you actually want.

  2. 02

    The contract is signed

    The specification you approved becomes the document the work is held to. Nothing is manufactured against an understanding.

  3. 03

    The down payment is received

    Materials are ordered against it. Until it arrives nothing has been committed to on your behalf, so there is nothing yet to count from.

What sits outside the count

The conversation, the survey, the drawings and their revisions all happen before that point, and none of them are inside the 8–10 weeks. That phase runs on your approvals. A client who takes a month over a layout has taken a month, and a studio that folded that month into its published figure would be quoting your own decisions back to you as its delivery time. So the design phase runs at your pace, and the published figure is the one the studio alone controls.

Concept study: the finished walnut kitchen in morning light, the dark veined stone island, reeded-glass uppers, backlit onyx.
Concept study, drawn to HOLZ specification.

Before the count

At your pace, on your approvals.

  1. 01

    Before the count

    The Conversation

    One unhurried conversation, beginning with the three-minute discovery and continuing at your site or by video. Your space, how you actually cook, what the kitchen must solve.

    You leave knowing whether HOLZ is right for the work, and what happens next.

  2. 02

    Before the count

    The Survey

    Measured wall by wall: service points, levels, tolerances. If you have drawings or a floor plan, send them ahead; a photo of a sketch is enough to begin.

    You receive: a verified survey your kitchen will be drawn against.

  3. 03

    Ends at day zero

    The Specification

    The kitchen is drawn and specified openly: every front, stone, mechanism and light named, line by line.

    You receive: drawings and a complete written specification in AED, the document you confirm. This is the moment the calendar becomes real.

Day zero: the confirmation point

the approved design, the signed contract and the down payment, together.

The count begins here.

The committed window

8–10 weeks. The studio's to hold.

  1. 04

    Inside the count

    Manufacture

    Production runs against the specification, and progress reaches you at every meaningful step.

    You receive: progress you can see, and one studio to call if anything needs deciding.

  2. 05

    Inside the count

    The Fitting

    Installation to the survey and the specification. Junctions, reveals and alignments checked against the drawings.

    You receive: a fitted kitchen that matches its drawings, checked, adjusted and cleaned.

  3. 06

    Closes the count

    Handover, and after

    A walkthrough of every mechanism and material, care guidance for the surfaces you chose, and the specification archived, so any future question has a written answer.

    You receive: your kitchen, its documents, and a studio that still answers.

Before the first conversation

None of this is required, but each item you bring makes the first hour more useful:

  • Rough measurements of the space (or a floor plan, in any format)
  • Photos of the room as it is today
  • Positions of water, drainage, gas and power, as far as you know them
  • Appliances you want to keep, and those you want gone
  • Two or three kitchens you admire, from anywhere
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