We refurbish and fit out offices, studios and consulting rooms in Málaga and on the Costa del Sol: partitions, suspended ceilings, lighting, floors, kitchenettes, toilets and finishes. Electrics are carried out by authorised partner installers under our coordination. We build to your layout or your designer’s drawings, with an itemised, free quote.
What does an office refurbishment cover?
Office jobs range from repainting and new lighting in a single room to rebuilding a whole floor around a new way of working. Typical elements are:
- Partitions for meeting rooms, private offices and quiet booths, in plasterboard with acoustic insulation where privacy matters.
- Suspended ceilings that hide cabling and ducts, with access hatches and space for lighting.
- Lighting designed for screens and desks rather than for show, installed by authorised partner installers.
- Power and data points placed where desks will actually go.
- Floors that cope with chairs rolling across them all day.
- A small kitchen area and toilets, refurbished or built new.
Furniture, IT networks and air conditioning are supplied by specialists. We coordinate with them so ceilings, walls and openings are ready when they arrive.
How should an office layout be planned?
Start from how people work, not from the floor plan. How many people sit at desks each day? How often are there calls, meetings or clients on site? Who needs a closed door? The answers decide the balance between open space and enclosed rooms, and it is easier to settle that on paper than after the partitions are built.
Natural light should reach the desks, not the corridor. Meeting rooms often work best in the core of the floor, where windows matter less. Noisy equipment — printers, a coffee machine — belongs away from the quiet zones. Our guide on office layout develops these points, with the trade-offs explained.
How do you deal with noise between rooms?
Sound travels through the weakest point. A well-insulated partition loses most of its value if it stops at the suspended ceiling and leaves a gap above, or if a door has a large gap underneath. For meeting rooms and private offices, we build partitions with insulation in the cavity and, where the design calls for it, run them up to the slab or close the void above the ceiling.
We follow the acoustic specification your designer or technician sets. If there is none, we explain at the visit what can be done within the space and the budget, without promising performance figures we cannot measure.
Can the office stay in use during the works?
Sometimes, by working in phases: one zone at a time, with screens, a clear route for staff and noisy work grouped into evenings or weekends where the building allows it. This needs good communication with whoever runs the office day to day, and a realistic view of how much disruption the team can absorb.
For a full floor refurbishment, moving out temporarily is often faster and cheaper overall. We discuss both options before quoting so the plan matches what the business can live with. The same reasoning appears in our guide on planning works around trading.
What about the building and the paperwork?
Many offices are in mixed-use buildings with an owners’ community, a building manager or both, each with rules on working hours, use of lifts and noise. Some office buildings require contractors to submit documents before access is granted; we provide ours once we know what is needed.
Whether the works need a declaración responsable, a licence or a project depends on their scope and on the town hall (to be verified case by case). Paperwork is the responsibility of the business or the owner, usually through their technician; we build to the approved scope. The guide on licences for commercial works sets out the framework.
What drives the cost of an office fit-out?
The number of enclosed rooms and the acoustic standard are often the biggest variables, followed by the ceiling and lighting specification, the amount of power and data, the floor finish, the kitchen and toilets, and the hours we can work. A single open floor with new lighting and paint is a very different job from a floor divided into a dozen rooms.
The itemised quote shows each element separately. The article on fit-out cost factors explains the reasoning in more detail.
Which details make an office pleasant to work in?
The details people notice after a few weeks are rarely the ones they chose from a catalogue. They are things like glare on screens from a badly placed light, a socket that ends up behind a cabinet, a meeting room where every word carries into the corridor, or a kitchenette with nowhere to put a cup down. Most of them are decided while the ceiling and partitions are being built, not afterwards.
- Light: even, glare-free general lighting over the desks, with warmer, softer light in meeting and break areas.
- Power: sockets where desks, screens and printers will really stand, plus a few spares for the layout to change.
- Storage: built-in cupboards or plasterboard niches planned with the partitions, so files and equipment do not end up in the corridor.
- Durable surfaces: wall finishes that tolerate chairs and trolleys, and door frames that can take knocks.
We raise these points at the visit and in the quote, so they are decisions rather than afterthoughts.
How do we start an office project?
Send us a floor plan if you have one, photos of each area, the approximate floor area and a short description of how many people will use the space and how. If a designer is involved, share their drawings. We reply with a first assessment, then visit to measure and prepare an itemised quote. For a bare unit with no existing fit-out, the page on shell unit fit-out is also worth reading.
Official sources
Bauman Raymond Attila · Reforma Locales Málaga · Avenida Antonio Belón 3, Marbella. Last reviewed: 05/11/2026.
