Mchoro Mawe
Watamu coastal villa — open frameless glass to the Indian Ocean

Bespoke craftsmanship · Nairobi

Spaces where life settles in.

Mchoro Mawe transforms offices and homes. We blend hand drawing, hyper-realistic 3D renders, and craft. Every cut is decided before it is made.

What we make

Four disciplines, one hand.

Hand-drawn floor plan with measurements over a partial render

Office Partitioning

Frameless and framed glass divisions, acoustic specifications, sliding systems and operable walls — finished to the millimetre.

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Kilimani co-working hub — frameless glass meeting rooms

Frameless Glass

Tempered and laminated glass installations — sliding, fixed, structural — with hand-finished hardware and silicon-precise joints.

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Lavington mixed-use lobby — curved gypsum ceiling

Gypsum Ceilings

Plane, dropped, coffered and curved ceilings with integrated lighting cuts — drawn first, sectioned, then built.

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Mvule and mukwa hardwood samples in the studio workshop

Custom Joinery & Finishes

Wardrobes, kitchens, libraries and built-in cabinetry produced in our Nairobi workshop with hand-applied finishes.

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Decided before it is made

The 3D render is the proof.

We build the room twice. Once in render, once in plaster, glass and joinery. Drag to compare.

Karen Residence library — completed, books on the shelves, real shadow
Karen Residence library — hyper-realistic 3D render before joinery installation
RenderBuilt
What you see is what we make.
How we work

The studio's hand.

01

We listen.

Site visit, brief, walk-through. We learn the room before we draw it.

02

We render.

Hand drawings into hyper-realistic 3D so you see the finish before any cut is made.

03

We agree the cut.

Materials, dimensions, joinery details — signed off in writing.

04

We build.

Our workshop and on-site team execute against the agreed render.

A note from the studio

We started Mchoro Mawe with a single conviction: a room is too expensive a thing to guess at. So we draw it first. Then we render it. Then we walk you through it on a screen, lit, with your furniture and your light.

Only then do we cut a single piece of glass, mix a single bag of plaster, or run a single panel through the workshop saw. By the time we arrive on your site, every decision is already made.

That is what we do. That is the entire offer.

— Mchoro Mawe Designs · Nairobi

From clients
Mchoro Mawe built our reception in walnut and you can still run a hand across it eighteen months later and feel that it was made by people who care about the cut.
Boutique hotel operator · Riverside Drive, Nairobi
The studio understood how we already lived in the house before they touched a pencil to a drawing. The renovation feels like our habits, not a designer's opinion.
The K. family · Karen, Nairobi
They drew the entire fit-out before any contractor arrived. Eleven weeks later we walked into exactly the room we had signed off in 3D. There were no surprises and there were no variations.
Patricia Mwangi · Head of Real Estate · East African Financial Services

Your next space is one site visit away.