Aces Design Studio has spent 25 years designing homes across Gżira and Malta, from limestone townhouses near The Strand to new-build apartments overlooking Manoel Island. We design homes for how Malta actually is, not how a generic template assumes it to be.
Gzira sits between Msida, Sliema, and Ta’ Xbiex, and that location shapes what “home interior design” actually needs to mean here. The town has two very different types of housing stock, and each one comes with its own design problems.
A home interior design plan that works for a stone townhouse rarely works for a compact seafront studio, and vice versa.
We start every project by figuring out which category your home falls into, because that decision affects material choice, storage strategy, and layout before a single mood board gets made.
In smaller Gżira apartments, the entrance often has to do several jobs at once: shoe storage, coat space, and a first impression, all in a couple of square metres. A minimal entrance design usually works best here, a single slim console or wall-mounted unit. A mirror to open up the space visually, and closed storage rather than open shelving that shows clutter the moment you walk in.
Full home libraries are less common in compact Gżira apartments, but a dedicated reading corner or a wall of shelving in a living room or study nook is a frequent request. For modern homes, floor-to-ceiling shelving with integrated lighting makes a small collection of books look intentional rather than an afterthought, and it works equally well as a room divider in an open-plan layout.
Open-plan kitchen and living layouts are the most requested configuration in newer Gżira apartments, largely because it makes a compact footprint feel larger. The trade-off is ventilation and noise, so we plan extraction and material choices around that from the design stage, not as a fix afterward.
Our Team and Approach
See real completed work on our Projects page, including apartment and penthouse interiors across Malta.
This is the part most interior design content skips, and it’s the part that actually
determines whether a home interior design holds up in five years or starts showing problems in five months
Malta’s winter humidity regularly sits between 60% and 85%, and porous limestone absorbs and holds that moisture. In Gżira specifically, being close to the coast adds salt-laden sea air into the mix, which affects properties within about two kilometres of the water, including most of the town. Left unaddressed, this shows up as damp patches, bubbling paint, and mould behind furniture placed against exterior walls.
We plan around this from the start:
Traditional Maltese townhouses were built with thick walls and deep window reveals, which look striking but limit
how much daylight actually reaches the interior. For these properties, we lean on pale, reflective finishes, mirroredsurfaces positioned
to bounce light deeper into a room, and lighting layers that don’t rely on a single central fixture.
A large share of Gżira’s newer apartment stock is compact by design, studios in the 30 to 45 square metre range are common, especially near the seafront. For these, home interior design is really space planning first and decoration second: multi-use furniture, built-in storage that uses full wall height, and layouts that avoid wasted circulation space.
Whether you’re renovating a limestone townhouse near The Strand or fitting out a new apartment overlooking Manoel
Island, get in touch for a free consultation and see how we’d approach your home.
Aces Design Studio is a Gżira-based interior decoration design agency with over 25 years of experience. We create beautiful, functional spaces for residential and commercial clients across Malta, from concept right through to completion.
