The Gardens: low-rise apartments beside Discovery Gardens

Low-rise apartment blocks beside Discovery Gardens
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The Gardens at a glance
Item	Detail
Developer	Nakheel
Property types	Low-rise apartment blocks
Current position	Adjacent to Discovery Gardens

The Gardens shares its building logic with Discovery Gardens, and shares most of its constraints.

The Gardens is a Nakheel low-rise apartment community beside Discovery Gardens, with similar building stock: shared stair and lift cores, limited service access, . Interiors advice for one largely applies to the other, so this page covers what is specific to The Gardens and refers to the neighbouring guide for the rest.

Access is the practical constraint

Low-rise blocks with shared cores and limited service access make logistics the dominant issue in any renovation. Before you commit to a design, answer three questions in writing:

What is the largest item that fits in the lift, and what has to come up the stair?
When may noisy work happen, and what does the building require by way of protection and deposit?
Where does debris go, and who removes it?

Watch out

A kitchen worktop, a large-format tile or a wardrobe door that will not fit the lift is a common and entirely avoidable disaster. Measure the lift car and the stair turn before you order, not after the delivery arrives.

What to specify

The durability specification in the Discovery Gardens guide applies directly here: porcelain tile throughout, paint rather than wallpaper, standardised sanitaryware, and nothing that requires a specialist to repair. For a let unit in this community, the priority is a specification that lets you turn the apartment over between tenancies in days rather than weeks.

Age-related checks

What to inspect in an established low-rise block
Item	What to look for
Electrical distribution	Original board capacity against modern loads; presence of an RCD; aluminium versus copper wiring in older runs
Plumbing	Pipe material and any history of leaks in the stack; water pressure at the top floor versus the bottom
Waterproofing	Balcony and courtyard membrane age; staining on ceilings below wet areas
Glazing	Single versus double glazing, seal failure showing as misting, and whether the frames are thermally broken
Air conditioning	Age and service history of the units; whether condensate drains are clear and correctly graded
Common areas	The state of the core and the lift is a reasonable proxy for how the owners association maintains the building

None of these are visible in photographs of a freshly painted apartment, and all of them determine what your renovation actually costs. An inspection that covers services is worth more here than one that covers finishes.

Cost expectations

Published ranges put a basic design-only service at roughly AED 100 to 200 per square foot, before construction and a one-bedroom renovation from about AED 30,000 to 80,000. Access restrictions in low-rise blocks add preliminaries — protection, manual handling, out-of-hours working — so a quotation that ignores them is optimistic.

Ask any contractor to state explicitly whether their price assumes lift access or manual carry. The difference is real and it is the most common source of variation between two quotes for the same work in this building type.

Sources for this page

Simple apartment bedroom with blackout curtain and neutral walls

Small apartment kitchen with replaced doors and new worktop