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Residential Transformation
A whole property taken from where it is to where it should be — layout, finishes, joinery, furniture and grounds, handled as one programme rather than six separate trades.
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Accra, Ghana · Part of Group Manko
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The space you own is not the space you could have.
Manko Living transforms property. Renovation, interiors, bespoke furniture, landscaping and commercial fit-out — designed and delivered by one coordinated team, under one point of responsibility.
Residential
Whole-home transformation for owners and diaspora clients.
Commercial
Restaurant, retail and office fit-outs delivered to an opening date.
Hospitality
Hotels, guesthouses and short-let properties repositioned.
Contract
Furniture packages at volume for developers and operators.
The Difference
We are not a renovation contractor. We are a property transformation studio.
Most property work in this market is fragmented. One person handles the building work, another the cabinets, a third the furniture, someone else the garden. Each arrives with a different standard, a different programme and a different idea of what finished looks like. The owner becomes the project manager by default — and the result reads like a set of separate decisions, because it is.
Manko Living exists to remove that. We take a property from concept through execution as one continuous piece of work: the layout, the finishes, the joinery, the loose furniture, the lighting, the outdoor space. One team. One drawing set. One programme. One person answerable for the outcome.
That is the whole proposition, and it is the reason the finished spaces hold together.
InteriorsRooms that resolve
DetailJoinery and finish
The Promise
One coordinated team for the physical transformation of a property.
- Single responsibility
- One contract, one programme, one point of contact. Where specialist trades are required they sit under our coordination, not yours.
- Design and build
- We design what we build and build what we designed, so the drawing and the delivered room are the same object.
- Own workshop
- Bespoke furniture and joinery are made rather than sourced, which is how a piece ends up fitting a wall to the millimetre. [VERIFY] workshop location, capacity and in-house team
- Documented scope
- What is included, what is excluded and what is provisional is written down before works begin, and changes are priced before they happen.
What We Do
Six disciplines, run as one.
Most clients arrive needing two or three of these. They rarely need them in isolation, and they almost never need them from different companies.
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Interiors & Renovations
Reconfiguring how a space works and then finishing it properly: walls, floors, lighting, cabinetry, surfaces and the hundred details that separate finished from nearly finished.
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Custom Furniture
Pieces designed and built for the room they will stand in — dining tables, wardrobes, beds, seating, kitchen and library joinery — made to the dimensions the space actually has.
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Outdoor & Landscaping
Terraces, courtyards, gardens, poolsides and outdoor kitchens treated as rooms: planned for shade, drainage, planting and the way people actually sit outside.
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Commercial Fit-Outs
Restaurant, retail and office environments built to open on a date. Front of house that earns its rent, back of house that works, and a programme that respects the lease.
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Hospitality
Hotels, guesthouses and short-let properties transformed for occupancy and rate — rooms, public areas and the furniture package, specified for guests rather than for owners.
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Selected Transformations
What a transformation looks like.
Three shapes the work usually takes. Each one is a full journey — brief, concept, execution, result — not a single trade called in to finish someone else’s job.
The whole-home transformation
A property reworked end to end: layout opened up, services brought up to standard, joinery built in, furniture made to fit and the grounds finished to match the house.
The fit-out with an opening date
A restaurant, store or office taken from shell or tired trading space to opening, sequenced around the lease, the licences and the day the doors have to open.
The outdoor room
An unused yard turned into the part of the property people actually use — shade, surface, planting, lighting and furniture that survives the climate.
[VERIFY] client case studies The photography in this section is reference imagery, selected to communicate standard and intent — it does not depict completed Manko Living installations. Our own furniture range and fitted kitchen are documented, with real dimensions, further down this page and on Projects. Named client case studies are still in preparation; the template they will use is already built.
Before & After
The distance travelled is the product.
Anyone can photograph a finished room. What matters is what it was when we arrived, what was structurally possible, and what it cost to close that gap.
Every project we document will be shown this way: the honest starting condition beside the finished result, with the scope that connects them written underneath.
Starting condition
Finished
Illustrative only — these are two different spaces, shown to demonstrate the comparison tool. Replace with a genuine paired set from one completed project before launch. [VERIFY]
Craftsmanship
Made, not ordered.
A room is only as good as the things standing in it. We design furniture and joinery for the specific dimensions of a specific space, and make it — which is why our pieces meet the wall properly and imported ones rarely do.
WorkshopBy hand where it counts
MakingBuilt to the drawing
BenchTools and toleranceMaterials chosen for this climate, not a European catalogue.
Humidity, harmattan dust, strong sun and heavy rain are not edge cases here — they are the operating conditions. Timber has to be properly dried and finished, fabrics have to survive light, outdoor materials have to survive both seasons. Specification is where a project quietly succeeds or quietly fails.
We work to a defined palette of materials and finishes, and we show clients physical samples before anything is ordered or cut.
[VERIFY] material palette Indicative categories only. The finish library, supplier list and lead times per material are to be confirmed and published here.
Ours
The pieces we make.
Nine designs of our own, drawn and built in our workshop. Every dimension published against them comes from the production build sheet — and every one can be re-cut to suit your room.
Boule Cloud Sofa — Bouclé
86″ × 40″ × 30″. Bouclé over high-density foam on a solid timber frame, with warm-white LED underglow set into the base.
Boule Cloud Sofa — Modular
86″ × 40″ × 30″. Deep tufted seats, a concealed storage arm, and a USB charging point set into the arm face.
The 8ft × 10ft Fitted Kitchen
Cabinet boxes, shaker doors, drawers, countertop, backsplash and under-cabinet lighting, set out for a room this exact size.
Commercial, Hospitality & Developer
For buyers who count in units, floors and opening dates.
Developers, hotel groups, operators and property managers do not buy a room. They buy a repeatable specification, a delivery programme and a supplier who can hold both across a whole building.
Per unitFurniture packages specified and quoted per unit against a schedule, not per room by negotiation.
To programmeFit-out sequenced against handover and opening dates, with the critical path agreed up front.
One specificationA single approved specification repeated across floors, blocks or sites so quality does not drift.
Commercial capability statements, delivered volumes and reference clients are to be published here once confirmed. [VERIFY]
Process
Brief. Concept. Execution. Result.
Four stages, in this order, every time. The purpose of the sequence is that nobody is surprised — not by the design, not by the programme, and not by the cost.
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Brief
A site consultation, measured survey and a conversation about how you actually live in or trade from the space. We establish constraints early: structure, services, tenure, budget and the date that matters.
You receive
A written brief and scope, an honest view of what is and is not possible, and a clear statement of anything requiring licensed professional input.
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Concept
Layout options, a material and finish palette, furniture and joinery design, and a costed scope. You see the room before it exists, and you approve the specification before anyone lifts a tool.
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Drawings and visuals, physical material samples, a furniture schedule and a priced scope with exclusions stated plainly.
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Execution
Works, joinery manufacture, furniture production and landscaping run to a single programme under our site coordination. Progress is reported on a fixed rhythm, with photographs, so remote owners are never guessing.
You receive
A named point of contact, scheduled progress reporting, and any variation priced and approved in writing before it is carried out.
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Result
Snagging, final finishing, furniture installation, styling and handover. We walk the space with you, list what is outstanding, and close it — before the project is called complete, not after.
You receive
A completed snag list, care and maintenance guidance for the finishes installed, and documented handover. [VERIFY] warranty or defects-liability terms — none are claimed until confirmed
Remote clientsDecisions made at distance
Owners Abroad
If you own property here and live somewhere else.
Distance is the hardest condition to build under. It is also the most common one we are asked to work in.
- Scheduled photographic and written progress reporting, on a fixed day, whether or not there is good news.
- Material and finish decisions presented as documented options, so you are choosing rather than guessing.
- Written variation approval before any change is made, so the final figure is not a surprise.
- A single named contact in a time zone you can reach, rather than a rotating cast of trades.
Clients
We will quote clients when clients have said something.
This space is reserved for verified client testimonials with full attribution — name, property or business, and project. It is deliberately empty. No invented, composite or anonymous quotes will be published here.
[VERIFY] collect and attribute real testimonials at project handover
Begin
Tell us about the space.
Start with a consultation. We will visit the property, understand what it needs to do, and tell you honestly what the work involves — including when the answer is that you do not need us.
Consultations begin with a site visit and a conversation about how the space needs to work. Scope, drawings and cost follow from that — never before it.