Turnkey interior design and renovation in Batumi under one contract

What turnkey design and renovation under one contract includes

One contract covers the full design project, all the work to it, mid-range rough-work and finishing materials, buying and delivering them, cleaning, and handing over the apartment with the handover file. After that, all that’s left is to bring in the furniture and appliances, and choosing and ordering them to the project specification can be added as a separate line through apartment furnishing.

This format sits between two neighbouring ones. If you already have a project, it is built from the finished sheets: that is how a renovation to a finished project works. If you don’t need a project and it is enough to choose the finishes within one grade, a turnkey renovation to a materials schedule will do. Here, one team runs the project and the building work from day one, and that changes the order of work.

How the designer and the foreman work together

The foreman comes to the very first measured survey. While the designer takes measurements and asks you who will live in the apartment, the foreman looks at what will affect the drawings: the floor levels at the entrance and the balcony, the position of the risers, the electrical capacity allocated to the apartment, and a place for the air conditioner condensate drains.

From then on, the foreman reads each stage of the project before it goes to you for approval. A bathroom moved away from the riser is checked for the drain fall and the floor rise, a kitchen island for its water and drain outlets, underfloor heating for the thickness of all the layers and the threshold at the entrance. A poor decision goes back to the designer while it is still on paper, and you don’t have to approve something that will later have to be redrawn.

On site, the roles change. The foreman runs the crew and the schedule, and the designer comes to the key stages and answers the questions the drawing didn’t settle. How many such visits there are and what is checked on them is described on the page about designer supervision on site.

An estimate from the materials list: the budget is visible at every stage of the project

We check the budget as the project goes along, as in any of our apartment design projects: after the layout and again after the concept. The difference is who does the pricing. Here, the outline estimate is drawn up by the foreman who will run the building work, using the same rates that will later go into the contract. If concealed doors in every room and floor-to-ceiling tiles in the bathroom take you over budget, you find out before the drawings and decide what to drop.

The detailed estimate is based on the materials list with product codes and quantities, which is issued together with the working drawings. Each of its lines goes into the estimate with a price, so an expensive item can be replaced without redrawing the project: the designer finds an alternative of the same size and look, and the foreman checks that it fits the same detail.

You approve the detailed estimate before the crew starts. From then on, the price of each renovation stage is written into the contract and doesn’t go up unless the scope of work changes.

Timing for the whole job: from the measured survey to the keys

For a 1+1 of about 45 m² starting from white frame, with a made-to-measure kitchen, the whole job usually takes 4–5 months. Doing the project and the renovation one after the other takes longer: about two months for the project and another three to four for the renovation with made-to-measure furniture. With one team, demolition and partitions start during the concept stage, and long-lead items are ordered straight after the estimate, which saves several weeks.

What most often drags out the timeline is pauses in approvals, so we put the dates by which we need your answers at each project stage into the schedule straight away. For owners abroad this is especially noticeable: a question answered a week late pushes back both the drawings and the crew’s start.

One contract and one manager: who is responsible for what

The contract sets out the project stages and the renovation stages, each with its own price and timing. First you pay an advance for the first project stage, then, before the renovation starts, an advance for materials and the first stage of work, and after that you pay once each stage is accepted. You accept project stages from the files in the shared folder, and renovation stages on site or by video. We don’t take prepayment for the whole job.

There is one manager for the whole job. They run the shared chat that includes the designer and the foreman, send a photo and video report from the site once a week, and gather the questions that need your answer into one message. You don’t need to forward the crew’s messages to the designer and back.

There is also only one contractor under the contract. If the work on site departs from the project, you won’t have to work out who is to blame, the designer or the crew. How a drawing error found on site is corrected is written into the contract before work starts.

How much turnkey design and renovation costs in Batumi

Turnkey design and renovation under one contract costs from 1,040 ₾ per m² of the apartment’s floor area, with the usual range up to 1,390 ₾. The price includes the full design project with the layout, 3D renders, working drawings and materials list, the labour, mid-range rough-work and finishing materials, and buying and delivering them. Furniture and appliances are not included in this price.

For comparison, ordered separately, a turnkey renovation with the same materials costs from 900 ₾ per m², and a full design project from 145 ₾ per m². Designer supervision is a separate line, from 48 ₾ per m²: when the project and the building work are with one team, the main visits are sometimes enough. With premium materials the benchmark is different: a renovation like that on its own, without a project, costs from 1,680 ₾ per m².

Apartments with relocated wet areas, a start from black frame and made-to-measure furniture in several rooms are closer to the upper end: the furniture itself is priced separately, but it needs precise recesses and separate drawings. White frame where the developer’s outlets match the layout, and materials in stock in Batumi, are closer to the lower end. The final cost is set after the measured survey and once the estimate from the materials list is agreed.

When you don’t need this format

Not every apartment needs one team for both the project and the building work. If the apartment is standard, the walls stay where they are and you are buying ready-made furniture, a full project may be more than you need: many such apartments only need a furniture layout and an electrical plan. And if you want to give the renovation to your own crew or compare offers from several contractors, it is easier to order the project separately: any of them can price an estimate from the sheets and the materials list.

Where the line falls is covered in the comparison of renovation with and without a designer. If you are unsure, send us the apartment floor plan: it shows how many decisions will have to be made.