Interior design in Bangsar and Bukit Bandaraya
Bangsar and Bukit Bandaraya’s older houses, renewed with their character intact.
For Bangsar and Bukit Bandaraya’s landed houses and new condos, one fixed fee per room, agreed before we begin and paid in stages. We gather and compare contractors’ quotes for you.
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Price your home- The fee
RM3,565 per standard room and RM5,485 for the open-plan living and dining. Fixed in writing before we begin, never a percentage of your build, and paid in stages as the project progresses.
- An older terrace
Four bedrooms, two of the three bathrooms, the kitchen and the open-plan living and dining come to RM30,440. Rooms you leave as they are aren’t counted.
- The building work
Done by contractors, from quotes we gather and compare with you. We design, draw and manage the project; we don’t build it.
- When to call
Before you sign with a contractor, and before you buy if you can. In an older Bangsar house, the approved plans and the structure decide what the design can do.
What should you plan first in an older Bangsar house?
Find out what the house already is before you decide what it becomes: the approved plans, the structure, the wiring and the roof. In an older Bangsar home, those set the limits of the design.
Bangsar is a landed neighbourhood first. Bangsar Park, the first part of Bangsar built for housing, dates from 1969, and Bangsar Baru followed in 1974 with 1,125 houses. Its new keys are condo keys, but its streets are houses, so this chapter walks through one.
The approved plans. An older house may have been extended more than once. Ask for the approved plans and compare them with what stands. An extension that was never approved is far easier to deal with before the design than halfway through the works.
The structure. A crack that keeps returning, a beam you’d like gone, a wall between the kitchen and the dining: a structural engineer looks first. We’ll tell you early when something needs that opinion, before any design decision locks in.
What nobody sees. In a house of forty or fifty years, check the wiring, the pipes and the roof before any finish. It’s money you won’t see afterwards, and it has to go in first.
The kitchen at the back. Older plans often shut the kitchen away. Open a dry kitchen to the dining if you like, but keep the wok in a wet kitchen with a door and a ducted hood.
Light under old trees. Bangsar’s mature gardens can leave some rooms wanting more light, not less. On the west side, shade from outside, with a canopy or planting, before you reach for curtains.
What to keep. Bangsar owners tend to want a home with character, not a showroom. Terrazzo, timber stairs and old window frames are often worth restoring, and warmer, more collected furniture suits them.
A room for parents. A ground-floor bedroom beside a step-free bathroom can matter more than a bigger master suite.
A few rooms at a time. An older Bangsar home is often designed in stages. A full renovation of an older home is worth walking through on the call first, since the scope varies from house to house.
If yours is a condo. New homes after handover are our specialty, and the same fee per room applies. Condo interior design in Bangsar covers the buildings, and our condo guide the management’s rules.
How much does it cost to renovate a home in Bangsar?
For an older four-bedroom Bangsar terrace of 2,001–3,000 sq ft, with new floors and two of its three bathrooms redone, renovation and furniture come to about RM142k–232k at Essential finishes (Ikea, SSF Home, Harvey Norman), before the Sundays in Bed design fee.
Choose your kind of home, then set the rooms. The design fee is exact. The three ranges are what renovation and furniture typically cost at each finish level, until your contractors quote. It all runs in your browser and sends nothing.
4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and the kitchen: 7 rooms at RM3,565, plus the open-plan living and dining at RM5,485. The foyer and utility yard are designed free.
Within each level, the low end is the essentials; the high end adds extras such as a feature wall, LED strips and a kitchen island.
What the three levels mean
Essential. Melamine carpentry, quartz tops, a simple plaster ceiling. Furniture from Ikea, SSF Home, Harvey Norman, Fortytwo.my, Heesz, Kinsen Home, Neo Livin, Ruma Home, Joy Studio and Mumu Living.
Curated. Melamine and laminate, sintered stone, a plaster ceiling. Furniture from Commune, Cellini, Fella Design, Dezign District, Poet Living, Big Brain, Gudang, Crown Livin and Dadswood.
Bespoke. Bespoke laminate, detailed joinery, a ceiling with cornice. Furniture from Space Furniture, Tekni, BoConcept, King Living, Ambient Living, Stanzo, Forest Furniture, Roche Bobois, XTRA, Urban Edge, Molteni&C, Nostaloft, Flexform, Janine and Chesters Collection.
| Home | Essential | Curated |
|---|---|---|
| Older terrace 4 bedrooms, 2,001–3,000 sq ft; 2 of its 3 bathrooms redone, new floors | RM142k–232k | RM252k–456k |
| Older semi-D 5 bedrooms and a study, 3,001–4,500 sq ft; 3 of its 4 bathrooms redone, new floors | RM177k–303k | RM312k–591k |
| New condo 3 bedrooms; floors and bathrooms kept | RM74k–118k | RM141k–260k |
| Resale condo 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms redone, new floors | RM124k–193k | RM223k–385k |
At Essential, furniture comes from Ikea, SSF Home and Harvey Norman; at Curated, from Commune, Cellini and Poet Living.
Priced for a home kept to its layout; a new condo keeps its developer floors. The ranges cover carpentry, ceilings and paint, lighting and wiring, air-conditioning, kitchen appliances and loose furniture, but not a television, and not structural work or rewiring a whole older house.
What Bangsar renovations have actually cost, address by address, is on our Bangsar renovation cost index. The ranges here come from typical costs for each part of the job. Estimates as of September 2026, not a quotation: your contractors’ quotes are the real number.
How much does an interior designer cost in Bangsar?
For an older four-bedroom Bangsar terrace with two of its three bathrooms redesigned, the Sundays in Bed interior design fee is RM30,440: 7 rooms at RM3,565 and the open-plan living and dining at RM5,485, fixed in writing before we begin.
| Home | Interior design | Interior styling |
|---|---|---|
| Older terrace 4 bedrooms, 2 of its 3 bathrooms, the kitchen, living and dining | RM30,440 | RM14,640 |
| Older semi-D 5 bedrooms, a study, 3 of its 4 bathrooms, the kitchen, living and dining | RM41,135 | RM19,785 |
| New condo 3 bedrooms, and an open kitchen with the living and dining; bathrooms kept | RM16,180 | RM7,780 |
| Resale condo 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and an open kitchen with the living and dining | RM23,310 | RM11,210 |
Rates as of September 2026. A dry kitchen and a wet kitchen count as two rooms.
We’ve assumed not every bathroom needs designing. Count only the ones you’d change.
Design or styling? Interior design is for when something is being built: carpentry, lighting, a kitchen. Interior styling is for rooms that stay as they are; it’s the furniture, art and finishing layer. In an older Bangsar house with good bones, styling alone is often enough for some rooms.
The fee follows the rooms, not the floor area. A large semi-D costs the same to design as a smaller house with the same rooms, and rooms you leave alone aren’t counted.
With interior design, the foyer and utility yard are designed free when your home has a bedroom and a living and dining space. A site visit is RM200, waived if you go ahead with us. The fee is paid in stages as the project progresses.
Why not a percentage? When design is charged as a share of the build, the fee grows every time you choose the better stone. Ours is fixed per room, so it doesn’t.
What about “free design”? It’s usually paid for inside the build price. Ours is a separate, fixed fee, so you can take the same drawings to more than one contractor and compare their quotes like for like.
What happens between the first call and moving in?
We design, draw and manage the project; contractors build it. You choose them from quotes we gather and compare, and your rooms and fee are agreed in writing before work begins.
- The discovery call FreeYour house, how you live, your budget and when you’d like to move in.
- The site visit RM200, waived if you go ahead with usWe measure and photograph every room, and look at what the house is telling us.
- The designLayout, lighting, built-ins and materials, room by room, with one designer from the first call to handover.
- The drawingsWhat your contractor builds from, so the quote and the work match the design.
- The quotesWe gather and compare contractors’ quotes and show you where your budget works hardest. You choose.
- Plans and structureIn an older house, the approved plans are checked against what stands, and an engineer looks at anything structural. In a new condo, report defects to the developer in writing first: the defect liability period runs 24 months from vacant possession.
- The permitYour licensed contractor obtains DBKL’s renovation permit, or your architect or engineer submits the plans for structural work. We help gather the documents.
- On site, then moving inWe coordinate the works and deliveries and check what’s built against the drawings. Landed renovations published by other firms in KL and PJ ran a median 19 weeks on site.
Which council, and what it needs. All of Bangsar is under Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL). A renovation needs a permit from DBKL, obtained by your licensed contractor. Since September 2022, minor work that doesn’t touch the structure, such as a small partition, can be applied for without an architect or engineer making the submission.
Anything structural, an extension or a new façade needs plans from a qualified professional, and in an older house that conversation comes first. In a condo, the JMB or MC must approve your renovation in writing before work starts, and can set a deposit, working hours and a completion date.
Do you cover my part of Bangsar?
Yes. Sundays in Bed designs homes in person across Kuala Lumpur and Selangor, and all of Bangsar is inside that area. A site visit anywhere in it is RM200, waived if you go ahead with us.
New developments we’re following
These are the new homes completing in Bangsar now and over the next two years. If yours is one of them, we’ve already done the reading.
- Verdura, Bangsar Hill ParkCompleted 2025Lorong Maarof · Blocks D and E, 406 homes each
- Residensi 38 BangsarCompleted Sept 2025By Bangsar LRT · 281 homes, from studios to three bedrooms
- The LanternDue Dec 2026Jalan Kemuja · 180 freehold homes
- One Eleven MenerungDue 2026–27Jalan Menerung · 111 freehold homes in one 23-storey tower, singles and duplexes
- Talisa, Bangsar Hill ParkDue 2028Lorong Maarof · Blocks B and C, 802 homes
Every new home on this list is a condo, and most run from about 500 to 1,500 sq ft, so storage and light do more work than floor area. One of the homes on our Bangsar renovation cost index, at Bangsar Hill Park, is a Sundays in Bed project.
Neighbourhoods we cover
Bangsar Baru · Bangsar Park · Bukit Bandaraya · Bangsar Utama · Bukit Bangsar · Taman SA · Lucky Garden · Pantai Hills · Off Jalan Bangsar
Nearby, with their own pages: Bangsar South · Damansara Heights · Seputeh & Taman Desa · Petaling Jaya · KLCC, and the rest of Kuala Lumpur.
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Really thankful to have had such a smooth experience with Sundays In Bed from start to completion. Angelica & her team are professional, sincere & easy to work with.
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Along the way, iterations and last minute changes were handled with grace and positivity which made the whole design and construction process actually enjoyable.
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Bangsar questions, answered
Can you work on an older Bangsar bungalow, not just a condo?
Yes. With an older landed home we look at the structure first, and we’ll tell you early if something needs a structural engineer’s opinion before we design around it. A full renovation is worth walking through on the call first, since the scope varies from house to house.
Do I need a DBKL permit to renovate my Bangsar house?
For most work, yes, and your licensed contractor obtains it. Since September 2022, minor work that doesn’t touch the structure can be applied for without an architect or engineer. Anything structural, an extension or a new façade needs plans from a qualified professional. We plan and sequence the works around the approval.
Who approves renovation work in a Bangsar condo?
Your building’s management body, the JMB or MC. It must approve in writing before work starts, and can set a deposit, working hours and a completion date. We submit your renovation plan and plan around those conditions. Condo interior design in Bangsar covers the buildings.
Is styling enough for an older home, or do I need the full design service?
It depends on the room. If the layout and finishes are sound and it needs furniture, art and lighting, styling is often the right fit. We’ll tell you honestly on the discovery call if a room needs the fuller service instead.
Is Bangsar South covered on this page?
No, it has its own page. Bangsar South, around Kerinchi, is mostly newer towers; Bangsar proper is Bangsar Baru, Bangsar Park and Bukit Bandaraya, with older landed streets and low-density towers. See interior design in Bangsar South.
Do you do the building work yourselves?
No. We design, draw and manage the project. The works are carried out by contractors, chosen from quotes we gather and compare with you, so the renovation cost is a separate number from our design fee.
Let’s talk about your Bangsar home.
A free discovery call. Pick a time, then bring your floor plan, the approved plans if you have them, and a few photos. You’ll know your design fee before you commit to anything.