Huma Zareef: British-Trained Interior Designer in Qatar

Huma Zareef is the founder of Huma Zareef Interiors, a Doha interior design studio creating personal spaces for homes, hosting and everyday life. With a master’s degree in fashion design and a separate master’s degree in interior design, she brings two complementary creative disciplines to the way a room is composed.

Her work connects colour, texture and proportion with practical room planning. The result begins with understanding how you live: the people you welcome, the privacy you value and the details that make a space feel your own.

Master’s degrees in fashion design and interior design

Fashion and interiors share a visual language. Both depend on the balance between materials, colour, pattern, scale and the way something feels in use. Huma’s fashion background informs her approach to interior colour schemes, helping her consider how fabrics and finishes work together rather than choosing each item in isolation.

In a room, that might mean balancing textured upholstery with smooth stone, using a soft accent colour across a carefully edited palette, or choosing a pattern that supports the proportions of the space. Her interior design studies bring this material sensitivity into the planning of rooms, furniture and movement.

Interior design education at the University of Huddersfield

Huma studied interior design at the University of Huddersfield in the United Kingdom. That British design education forms part of the foundation of her practice, alongside her background in fashion.

The university’s interior design teaching connects creative exploration with practical design skills, including space, materials and the communication of ideas. You can explore interior design at the University of Huddersfield for background on its approach to the discipline.

Designing for Qatar’s homes, hospitality and family life

A home in Qatar deserves a design shaped around its household. Huma’s approach considers the relationship between welcoming guests and protecting family privacy, the role of the majlis, and how formal hosting spaces connect with rooms used every day.

Traditional influences can sit comfortably alongside contemporary furniture and finishes. The aim is to understand which customs, colours and details matter to you, then give them a natural place in the design. Every family has its own preferences; the conversation starts with yours.

Our Formal Majlis Living Suite in Lusail explores seating and conversation, while the formal dining suite concept considers the atmosphere of a connected hosting space. These features show the design thinking and clearly identify the imagery as visualisations.

A personal eye for colour, texture and proportion

Huma’s design language brings together calm palettes, tactile materials and details with a purpose. A room should feel composed without becoming impersonal. Colour can create a connection between spaces; texture can add warmth; well-proportioned furniture can make an elegant room comfortable to use.

The Al Dafna bedroom concept and its separate bathroom and powder room concepts offer a closer look at this approach to a connected blush palette.

From a family home to a creator workspace

The studio’s design enquiries include apartments, villas, majlis spaces, individual rooms and creator workspaces and home offices. A computer area for filming or gaming needs the same care as any other room: a useful layout, suitable furniture, considered storage and a background that belongs within the home.

Qatar is the focus of our Middle East studio website. For projects in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait or elsewhere in the region, we review the location and support required before confirming a suitable design arrangement.

Personal design, with a clear starting point

Huma’s approach begins with how you use your space. That understanding shapes the colours, materials and details developed for your home.

Explore our design process or view our projects and concepts to see how that thinking develops into a room.