Interior designer at 7 U-Thant
Twenty-four homes, each with its own lift lobby.
When the doors open, it should already feel like yours.
Thoughtfully designed around the way you live, and what you’d like to spend.
Why do 7 U-Thant’s three living areas change the brief?
Only three homes to a floor, each opening from a private lift lobby, with two kitchens and three living areas in 3,670 to 4,833 sq ft. So the brief is about giving each of those rooms a purpose, then renewing a fit-out from 2010.
We’re Sundays in Bed, a Kuala Lumpur studio that designs homes and manages their renovation. We haven’t yet published a project at 7 U-Thant; we would plan yours room by room, around your household and your budget, with our fee agreed in writing first.
7 U-Thant is Eminent Garden’s freehold block of ten storeys and 24 homes, three to a floor, each entered from its own lift lobby. Atelier ADT Akitek designed it; it was completed in August 2010. Planning rules have kept this part of U-Thant to ten storeys, so the neighbourhood stays low and quiet.
7 U-Thant units range from 3,670 to 4,833 sq ft built-up; every one has a maid’s room, a family room and two kitchens.
- 3,670 sq ftType C: three bedrooms
- 4,489 sq ftType B: four bedrooms, each with a deck
- 4,790–4,833 sq ftType A: four bedrooms, a study and a lanai
Space is never short. Even Type C, the smallest, pairs its living and dining with a separate family room, and decks open off most rooms. What matters is which room greets guests, which one the family really uses, and how they connect.
Then there’s age. Unless someone has replaced them, the bathrooms, wiring and air-conditioners date from 2010, and some homes have since been renovated and let furnished. Nothing gets priced until we’ve walked through yours.
Size and rarity cut both ways. With only 24 homes, there are few neighbours’ renovations to learn from, so the brief begins with the people living there, not with a precedent.
With a private lobby and two kitchens, where should the planning start?
How the household moves through it. With a private lobby, two kitchens and a maid’s wing, routes matter here as much as finishes.
A lobby of your own. The lift doors open onto space no neighbour shares, and the wet kitchen and maid’s room sit close to it. So it’s planned twice: a calm arrival for guests, a service door for groceries.
Two kitchens. The dry kitchen’s island sits in full view of the dining table, so it’s designed like furniture, with lighting to match. The wet kitchen behind takes the wok, the steam and the wear, so it needs tough worktops and serious extraction.
Three living areas. Every type has a living room, a dining room and a separate family room. Decide early which one is formal and which is for the television and the children. Type A adds a study and a lanai: two more choices.
The decks. In Type B every bedroom opens onto its own deck, and the living rooms do in every type. Rain, afternoon sun and a neighbour’s window all arrive through those doors, so curtains, screens and outdoor furniture are planned with the room.
What already works. A plan this generous rarely needs walls moved. We keep the layout and any sound joinery or recent renovation, and direct the budget at bathrooms, lighting and whichever kitchen has worn hardest.
What does it cost to design and furnish a 7 U-Thant Type A, B or C?
For a Type B 4+1 here, the Sundays in Bed design fee is estimated at RM44,700–51,830; for a Type C 3+1, RM37,570–44,700. Your final fee depends on the rooms you choose, and is agreed in writing before we begin.
With our fee and Curated finishes (Commune, Cellini, Poet Living), a Type B 4+1 here comes to about RM385k–670k in all.
Six bathrooms, two kitchens: choose. The master en-suite, the wet kitchen and the lighting usually earn the money here; the powder room seldom does. Choose A, B or C below, and tick only the rooms worth drawing. Contractors’ quotes later replace these estimates.
4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms and the dry and wet kitchens: 11 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 two levels mean
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 | Curated | Bespoke |
|---|---|---|
| Type B, 4+1 4,489 sq ft · six bathrooms Estimated fee RM44,700–51,830 | RM341k–625k | RM622k–1.26M |
| Type C, 3+1 3,670 sq ft · five bathrooms Estimated fee RM37,570–44,700 | RM295k–541k | RM544k–1.1M |
| Type A, 4+1 and study 4,790–4,833 sq ft · study and lanai Estimated fee RM48,265–55,395 | RM358k–688k | RM651k–1.39M |
The lower figure covers the rooms most owners here change: living and dining, both kitchens, each bedroom and all but one bathroom. The higher one leaves room for two more, such as the family room, or the lanai in Type A.
At Curated, furniture comes from Commune, Cellini and Poet Living; at Bespoke, from Space Furniture, BoConcept and Molteni&C.
Keys went out in 2010, so every row is priced as a lived-in home. Each counts one bathroom fewer than its plan prints: the powder room or maid’s bathroom often wants fittings, not drawings.
Type A’s study is costed as a designed room; maid’s rooms are left alone. Included throughout: new air-conditioning, cabinets in both kitchens, hob, hood and wardrobes. Keep any an earlier owner fitted well, and your figure falls.
October 2026 guides, not a quotation; your contractors’ prices replace them.
Furnishing to let? ICC KL, the building’s manager, lets some homes here furnished. A lighter, hard-wearing fit-out at our Essential level, quicker to finish and easy to keep tenant-ready, is one possibility, with furniture from Ikea, SSF Home and Harvey Norman. The design fee is the same at every level.
Renovation and furniture at Essential, before our fee: Type B, 4+1 RM195k–326k · Type C, 3+1 RM168k–280k · Type A, 4+1 and study RM205k–357k.
The fee, room by room. Each bedroom, bathroom, study or kitchen we design is RM3,565, and the open living and dining RM5,485. With two kitchens and up to six bathrooms here, what you leave out matters: an untouched maid’s bathroom adds nothing.
Once the rooms are chosen, that sum is agreed in writing before work begins, then settled in instalments. Because it isn’t tied to what contractors charge, marble in the master en-suite costs our fee nothing extra.
Budget before drawings. Tell us the overall figure for the home at the outset; the design is shaped around it, never the other way round.
How does renewing a 2010 home run, from first call to moving back in?
Your 7 U-Thant home keeps the same designer from that first call to the cushions. We draw and manage; the building itself is done by contractors you appoint, after we’ve gathered their prices and compared them with you.
- A first conversation FreeA, B or C, who lives there (helper included), what a previous owner changed, and roughly what you hope to spend.
- Seeing the home RM200, waived if you go ahead with usEvery room and deck measured, the wet kitchen and all the bathrooms inspected for wear, and a list made of what deserves to stay.
- Scope in writing, then designThe room list, your budget and our fee go into a signed scope. Design follows: plans for all three living areas, lighting, joinery for both kitchens, materials.
- Drawings and quotesA drawing set detailed enough to price room by room. Several contractors quote against it; we compare them with you, and you choose.
- Works, then stylingApprovals cleared with the management, the lift and your lobby protected, every stage inspected as it’s built, and the rooms dressed last of all.
A home handed over in 2010 has an order to it: waterproofing, pipes and wiring first, then ceilings, then joinery and paint. Sequencing it properly falls to us. The full process
DBKL, and the office downstairs. Kuala Lumpur’s council, DBKL, issues the renovation permit; a licensed contractor makes the application on your behalf. Before that, a strata building needs its management to sign off the works.
The building is managed by ICC KL from its ground-floor office. It hasn’t published a renovation deposit, working hours or how the lift is protected and booked, so we ask for the current terms before setting a programme.
With 24 homes on a handful of plans, will mine look like the others?
It shouldn’t. The same plan repeats floor after floor, and some homes are let furnished. Yours should carry your household’s routines and the things you’ve collected, not a rental inventory.
One Type B might hold a posted family for three years; another, three generations with no plans to move. We start with yours: who cooks in the wet kitchen, who claims the family room, who stays for a month at a time.
What an older 7 U-Thant home usually needs
- KeepThe planPrivate lift lobby, two kitchens, three living areas: rarely worth moving a wall
- AdaptBathrooms, wet kitchenFittings, waterproofing and extraction after sixteen years of use
- AddLight, storageLayered lighting for long rooms, and joinery sized to how you live now
From the building’s published floor plans. No 2010 handover specification is public, and owners have altered plenty since; your home gets checked in person.
What large homes have cost nearby
The nearest published renovation records, all other firms’ projects, are KLCC’s, a short drive away; three buildings there have homes near or above 3,000 sq ft.
Park Seven, 3,000 sq ft: RM450,000. Suria Stonor, 2,700–3,300 sq ft: RM600,000–1,000,000. The Pearl Residence, 3,973 sq ft: RM900,000. Per sq ft, those spends run RM150–303, while KLCC’s median sits at RM158.
Homes this size have tended to land nearer the calculator’s Bespoke level than its Curated one. Each building’s figures are on our KLCC renovation cost index.
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What is the difference between Types A, B and C?
Type C: 3,670 sq ft, 3+1, five bathrooms. Type B: 4,489 sq ft, 4+1, six bathrooms, a deck off each bedroom. Types A1 and A2: 4,790 and 4,833 sq ft, adding a study and a lanai. All have a private lift lobby and two kitchens.
What does a Type B cost to renovate and furnish?
Expect roughly RM341k–625k with Curated furniture (Commune, Cellini, Poet Living), or RM622k–1.26M with Bespoke (Space Furniture, BoConcept, Molteni&C), plus a design fee estimated at RM44,700–51,830. Original 2010 bathrooms and wiring, where they remain, swing it most.
Do both kitchens need redoing?
Seldom equally. The dry kitchen is on show, so new fronts, a stone top and lighting often suffice. Wear gathers in the wet kitchen: cabinets, worktops, extraction. They count as separate rooms, so one can be done and the other left.
What can the lanai and study in Type A become?
The lanai beside the living room suits a reading room, a piano corner or a second place to eat. The study off the family room makes a home office, or a guest room with a sofa bed. Light and cooling in both get checked first.
Should all six bathrooms be redone?
Usually not. Waterproofing gets tested in every one, since sixteen years is long enough for leaks to start. The master en-suite and the bedroom bathrooms get the design; the powder room and maid’s bathroom often need only new fittings, a mirror and better light.
Who approves a renovation here?
Two parties. The management office on the ground floor, run by ICC KL, gives written approval for the works. DBKL issues the permit through your licensed contractor. Current deposit, hours and lift arrangements are confirmed before any date is set.
Holding a Type A, B or C at 7 U-Thant?
Send us your type (A, B or C), what has changed since 2010 and a rough budget. The first call is free, and you’ll have our estimated fee on paper well before you sign.
Free · your fee is agreed in writing before we start