Emirates Hills villa, the bespoke joinery (doors, wardrobes, panelling) is opening up and lifting, service or replace?

Good instinct not to rip it out, on a villa like this the joinery is bespoke and expensive to reproduce, and almost everything you are describing is serviceable by a skilled carpenter rather than a replacement job. Opened joints get re-glued and cramped back up; lifting veneer or edge-lipping is re-bonded and, where a patch is damaged, re-veneered to match; and heavy doors that have dropped and rub are re-hung, the hinges adjusted or upgraded, and the door eased so it swings clean again, none of that means a new door or a new wardrobe. Most of this comes from the Dubai cycle of very dry AC air then humidity, plus years of use, which moves timber and stresses glue lines, so it is normal wear on good joinery, not a fault in the original work. What genuinely needs replacing is a piece that is water-damaged, warped through, or where the veneer has delaminated badly across a whole panel, that is beyond a sensible repair. Because the value here is in matching the original craftsmanship, the job is really about finding someone who can colour, grain and profile-match, not just fit new. A joinery team that knows Emirates Hills and this level of bespoke work will restore and match rather than replace wholesale, which is exactly what protects the quality you paid for. Keep replacement for the genuinely damaged pieces, service the rest.