Commercial Interior Design in Abuja 2026
Abuja occupies a unique position in Nigeria’s commercial built environment. It is the only major Nigerian city where government, diplomacy, institutional capital, and private sector ambition operate at full intensity simultaneously, and where the design brief for almost every typology carries a weight of protocol, permanence, and civic seriousness that Lagos’s more commercial, more transactional […]
MOD-ii Featured in Business Insider Africa: Rethinking Commercial Interior Design in Lagos
Business Insider Africa has profiled MOD-ii, the Lagos-based commercial interior design firm, and the two founders behind it: Romi Edevbe, a business strategist, and Abdul Garuba, a COREN-registered civil engineer. The feature looks at why they treat design as a business decision rather than a finishing touch. Why commercial interior design matters in Lagos […]
West Africa Interior Design Market Report 2026
Executive Summary West Africa’s commercial and hospitality built environment is in the middle of the most consequential expansion cycle of this generation. Nigeria leads Africa’s hotel construction pipeline with 14,392 rooms in active development. Nigeria’s real estate sector has been confirmed as the third-largest contributor to national GDP following the NBS rebasing exercise, accounting for […]
Retail Interior Design in Nigeria 2026: The Experience Imperative
Physical retail in Nigeria is not dying. It is being forced to justify itself, and the justification, everywhere that retail is succeeding in 2026, is experience. Nigeria’s e-commerce market is growing at approximately 22% annually, approaching $8.5 billion in total value. Every percentage point of that growth represents a transaction that no longer requires a […]
Luxury Interior Design Lagos 2026 | Premium Post-Austerity Design
Luxury design in Lagos has always existed. What is different in 2026 is the confidence with which it is being pursued, and the intelligence with which it is being executed. The naira stabilised at roughly ₦1,363 to ₦1,400 to the US dollar through early 2026, following several years in which currency volatility made premium design […]
Biophilic Office Design Lagos 2026 | Nature-Led Workplaces
Biophilic design, the principle of bringing nature’s patterns, materials, and rhythms into the built environment, is not a trend that arrived in Nigeria from Scandinavia or California and will eventually leave again. It is, in the most fundamental sense, the original design logic of the Nigerian built environment. The traditional Yoruba compound house with its […]
Office Interior Design Lagos 2026 | Decentralised Workspace Experts
The Lagos office has always been more than a place to work. In a city of seventeen and a half million people where commute times can consume three or more hours of a professional’s day, where reliable power and fast connectivity cannot be assumed, and where the physical workspace often functions as the primary social […]
African Interior Design Trends 2026
Every January brings a fresh wave of design trend predictions, and most of them are recycled, generic, and as applicable to Stockholm as to Lagos. These are not aesthetic predictions. They are responses to real conditions: a stabilising currency, a record hotel construction pipeline, an acute skills shortage, and a generation of designers no longer […]
Best Interior Designers in Nigeria 2026: A Client’s Definitive Guide
Choosing an interior designer in Nigeria has never carried higher stakes than it does in 2026. Construction costs have risen sharply over the past fifteen months, skilled professionals are in genuinely short supply, and the gap between a well-qualified design practice and an unqualified one has never been more expensive to get wrong. This guide […]
Sustainable Interior Design in Nigeria 2026
Sustainable interior design in Nigeria has always made environmental sense. In 2026, it makes financial sense too, and that convergence is doing more to drive genuine green design adoption than any amount of awareness campaigning has managed on its own. Three forces are simultaneously reshaping Nigeria’s sustainability design landscape this year. The country’s Energy Transition […]
