Doha / Beauty and decor retail
Three local rules shape the order: the screen a women's salon must have, the developer's packing rule on The Pearl, and the raised stands at a licensed market.
This guide is for owners and fit-out leads of Doha women's salons and beauty brands that offer services, whose shopfront must already be screened. It also helps decor and lifestyle shops on The Pearl and Gewan Islands, and Doha stores with a stall booked at a seasonal market.
A Doha salon or shop orders from our studio in Dafen Art Village, Shenzhen, China, from one canvas up. Every piece is painted by hand on linen to the subject your brand chooses, and you see daylight photos of each finished panel before it ships to Qatar.
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01 / Measure the screen
In Qatar, a licensed salon that offers women's services must screen its shopfront. Minister of Economy and Commerce Decision No. 161 of 2017, Article 3(7), asks for a barrier on the shopfront or obscured glass. The aim is that nobody outside can see in.
That screen has to be there whatever you hang inside. If you want art in that window, we can paint panels measured to your glazing. The decision does not mention paintings, so please confirm with your licensing contact that a painted panel works as your screen.
A salon front with three glass panes. Illustrative sizes only.
02 / One image rule, window and walls
Minister of Municipality Decision No. 38 of 2025 lists requirements for women's salons in its Annex 3. Item 12 says no image or advertisement that offends public morals may be posted inside or outside the shop.
So a women-only room is not a reason to choose a figure subject the street would refuse. We suggest settling the subject of every canvas in the brief, for the waiting area and the back wall as much as the window.
A calm field of color can carry your brand palette with no figure at all. See our custom abstract paintings.
Petals and leaves can pick up the colors of your packaging or your salon finishes. See our custom floral paintings.
Distance, sky and open air give a small waiting area a sense of space.
A figure can stay in the brief when the clothing and pose stay modest. Agree the reference image before painting starts.
The same rule guides your final check. Before anything ships, you approve daylight photos of every finished canvas, so look at each subject against item 12 at that point. You can see how we paint each canvas.
Does your salon also run spa rooms? Our art guide for spas and wellness covers that wider brief.
Two catalog paintings, not salon commissions. Both subjects fit a modest brief.
03 / Plan the island delivery day
United Development Company (UDC), the master developer, publishes Community Rules for The Pearl and Gewan Islands. Version 01-2025 applies to retail and commercial areas on the two islands.
| Island rule | What it changes in your order |
|---|---|
Rule 3.05: packing and crating leave the island the same day they are brought in. | Delivery day becomes hanging day. Name who carries the packing off the island that day. Your shop, as the community user, answers for it, and a breach brings an immediate penalty. |
Rule 9.01: no cardboard, styrofoam or other retail waste down the island chutes. | Packing cannot wait for the waste system later. It leaves the island that day with whoever you name, such as your own team. |
Rule 3.07: bulk deliveries Sunday to Thursday 08:00 to 22:00, Friday and Saturday 10:00 to 22:00. | The rules do not define a bulk delivery. We suggest booking the final leg inside these hours anyway. |
Rule 3.08: delivery vehicles park only in parking bays and loading areas. | Unloading happens there, not on the road. Rule 3.03 asks for goods to move by trolley where possible, so tell us the route from the bay to your door. |
Rule 2.04: contractors and handymen enter only with a UDC-approved entry permit. | Name your hanging team early, so its permit is in place before delivery day. |
We confirm in the quote how each piece is packed. A packing list shows which artwork codes and sizes are in each case, so your team can check the delivery before the packing leaves.
04 / Lift the stall display off the floor
Qatar's Ministry of Commerce and Industry publishes guidelines for organizing consumer exhibitions, in a 2025 edition. They cover organized seasonal markets and exhibitions in places such as hotel halls and exhibition halls, each licensed for 7 days at most. A pop-up inside your own leased shop is not necessarily covered.
The guide asks the organizer to provide shelving and display platforms raised off the ground. Products may not be placed on the floor. There is an exception for craft products, but the guide does not define them. So plan floor display only if the organizer confirms it in writing.
Exhibitors must be based in Qatar or the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and a shop needs a valid commercial registration. Your shop exhibits under its own commercial registration, so we deliver to your Doha store, and the quote states whether we can arrive before opening day. Our studio is not the exhibitor.
On the stall
Back at your Doha shop
Planning a resale range as well? Our guide for furniture and decor retailers covers it.
05 / Name your setting
Each setting asks for different measurements and dates. Tell us which one applies to your order, or more than one if your brand has a salon and a market stall.
06 / Where the rules stop
Qatar's Law No. 8 of 1979 counts drawings as publications, and displaying imported ones in a shop window counts as distribution that needs written consent. The law does not mention paintings, so settle this before you fix a window or sale date. Ask the Ministry of Culture's Department of Publications and Artistic Works which approval, if any, applies to imported paintings for display or resale.
Decision No. 161 of 2017 ties the screen to salon-type premises offering women's services, so a Doha shop licensed only to sell cosmetics may not need one. Ask your licensing contact which category your premises falls in. The answer decides whether you plan a window panel measured to the glass or an ordinary display canvas sized to your wall.
On a Friday, a shop on The Pearl stops all work for 90 minutes from the first call to Friday prayer. That stop comes from Minister of Commerce and Industry Decision No. 80 of 2025, which covers shops across Qatar. UDC's 10:00 to 22:00 Friday delivery window still applies, so plan the unpacking and hanging outside that stop. Your landlord's access rules still apply.
Yes, one panel can be your first order, so you can view it against your Doha salon glass from the street and from inside before ordering the rest. Send that pane's visible glass size and tell us which face looks out.
UDC's Community Rules cover only The Pearl and Gewan Islands, so a Doha mall shop follows its mall's receiving rules instead. A truck on Doha city roads also keeps to the city truck hours, which our Doha office art guide explains. Ask your mall for its receiving rules before the delivery is booked.
Doha salon glass
Tell us its visible glass width and height, and which face looks out. A photo of the shopfront from the street helps us see the frames and fixings around each pane. Ordering for The Pearl or a market stall too? Add it to the same message.
Our fastest way to discuss your schedule and price. The written quote follows by email for your records.
WhatsApp: usually an immediate reply.
Email: usually within 12 hours. Monday–Sunday.
support@palettemomento.comOr share your brief through our quote form.