Interior design in Batumi for your own home or a rental

Where a design project starts

Interior design in Batumi starts with a measured survey and a conversation about who will live in the apartment. An apartment for your own family and one for short-term rental need different layouts and materials, so we need the answer before the first sketch.

During the survey we record the walls, windows and ceiling heights, the risers (vertical water and drain pipes) and the ventilation shafts. The risers and shafts serve the whole building and cannot be moved, and they decide where the bathroom and kitchen can go. At the first meeting we also ask about your renovation budget: a design you cannot afford to build is of no use to you.

The easiest time to start is while the apartment is still in frame condition and the partitions can go up exactly where the design puts them. For a house or villa, start even earlier, while the house itself is being designed.

What a design project includes

A full project is made up of the layout, the visual concept and the working drawings. The images show how the apartment will look, and the drawings tell the crew what to build and where.

• A measured plan marking the risers, windows and heights
• Two or three layout options with the furniture in place
• A mood board with colours, textures and reference images, which we use to agree on the look before any 3D work
• 3D renders showing the materials that will actually be ordered
• A plan of the partitions to be taken down and built
• Electrical and lighting plans with socket heights and lighting circuits
• A plumbing layout: water and drain outlets and the place for the water heater
• Tile layouts, wall elevations for the bathroom and kitchen, ceiling and floor plans
• A materials list with product codes and quantities, plus a furniture and lighting specification

We price the renovation straight from the materials list, so you know the cost of the work before it starts. Any crew can build from the drawings, because every dimension is on them. For a studio meant for short-term rental, a layout and an electrical plan are sometimes enough, and we'll tell you at the first meeting if that is the case.

Designing an apartment for rental

Guests choose a short-term rental by its photos. In every room we plan a good photo angle from the doorway, several lighting scenes and a calm base that lets the textiles stand out. The accents are easy to change, so worn cushions and curtains can be replaced in a day.

An apartment like this also has to be quick to clean between guests. We keep open shelves and small decor to a minimum and choose a wall-hung toilet and vanity unit so the floor underneath can be mopped. We also leave room for suitcases and a closed cupboard for linen. Floors are SPC vinyl or porcelain tiles, and the walls get washable paint.

A long-term rental has different priorities. A tenant spends months in the apartment and needs a proper kitchen, a place to work and wardrobes that hold clothes for every season. The "minimalism or cosiness" debate has a simple answer: a short-term rental has to look good in photos, and a long-term one has to be comfortable to live in.

We don't promise a higher nightly rate, because that depends on the area, the season and how the apartment is managed. What you can see in advance is what the materials will cost and how often they will need replacing.

Materials for Batumi's humid climate

Humidity here is usually 70–80%, and higher in winter, so the choice of materials allows for it from the first sheets of the project. We don't lay solid wood or laminate in wet areas or by the balcony door. We don't hang wallpaper on external walls, and we leave a gap between those walls and the furniture, because mould grows behind a wardrobe pushed right up against a cold wall.

We order furniture made from moisture-resistant board with banding on all its edges, and choose water-resistant cabinet fronts for the sink area and the bathroom. For exposed metal by the sea we use stainless steel or aluminium, since salt speeds up corrosion. We pick textiles with removable, washable covers.

Air conditioners, extractor fans and fresh-air inlets go into the drawings from the start, together with their pipe routes and drains. If the condensate drain of an air conditioner is forgotten, its pipe later ends up running over the finished walls.

Layout changes: what is allowed and what is not

Under the rules in force in autumn 2026, renovating and finishing an apartment, including moving partitions, needs no permit as long as the load-bearing structure is not touched. Load-bearing walls, floor slabs and columns can only be altered with a structural design and a permit. An opening in a load-bearing wall first needs calculations under the Georgian seismic building code.

Some limits come from the building's services. A bathroom far from the riser needs its drain pipe laid on a slope, which means a raised floor and a step at the door. We try to keep the kitchen next to the riser, and we advise against a bathroom above the neighbours' living space: a leak from it would be expensive for them and for you.

Before drawing a layout change, we study the building plan and, if they exist, the structural drawings. They show which walls are load-bearing, so the layout doesn't have to be redone after the first attempt at demolition.

Interior design in Batumi when you are far away

The whole project can be done remotely, with you taking part by video and through a shared folder. This is how it works:

1. The first meeting is a video call where we discuss the brief and the budget. We pick a time that allows for the difference in time zones.
2. We do the measured survey ourselves. We take the keys against a signed handover form, film the apartment and hand the keys back with a signed form as well.
3. We upload the layouts, the mood board and the 3D renders to the shared folder, and you leave comments directly on the sheets.
4. We photograph samples of tiles, paint and fabric side by side in daylight, because a screen distorts colour.
5. We talk through open questions on short calls, and you sign off completed stages remotely.

One project manager runs the whole project and is available by phone and on WhatsApp during working hours. We can also do the renovation, and then you get a photo and video report from the site every week and a video call with the foreman on request.

Designer supervision and procurement

A drawing doesn't answer every question that comes up on site. Sometimes a riser is not where the developer's plan shows it, or a ventilation duct gets in the way of the planned ceiling. Then the interior designer comes to the site, decides on the spot and corrects the sheet, and the foreman carries on from the revised drawing.

For procurement, we select and order everything on the materials list. Deliveries are fitted into the renovation schedule: the kitchen should arrive after the tiling and the doors after the painting, otherwise they have to be stored in the apartment among the dust.

Design and a turnkey renovation are easier to order from one team. The designer and the foreman go through the drawings together before work starts, the estimate is priced directly from the materials list, and you won't have to work out who is to blame when the work on site differs from the design.

Timing, revisions and the contract

The stage times on this page are for a one-bedroom (1+1) apartment. A studio goes faster and a house or villa takes longer, and how quickly you approve each stage makes a noticeable difference.

The number of revision rounds in each stage is written into the contract before work begins. You send your comments as one list per round, and we reply with a summary of what we have changed. When you are happy with a stage, you sign the acceptance certificate and we move on to the next one.

We draw up the contract in English, Georgian or Russian, your choice. You pay stage by stage, and we don't take prepayment for the whole project. The contract also sets out how a drawing error found during the renovation is put right and who is responsible for it.