Interior designer at Agile Mont Kiara
Years in, an Agile Mont Kiara home can feel new again.
Perhaps the study became a nursery, or parents now stay for months. We keep what still works from the handover and plan around who lives here today.
An oak chest with a stone top: storage that stands as furniture. The sales specification lists a wardrobe in the master bedroom only, so the other bedrooms often need somewhere to put things.
- Developer
Agile with PJ Development, to designs by DP Architects
- Completed
2019, all eleven towers; now also called Residensi Duta Kiara
- Homes
813, freehold, in towers of 44, 18 and 8 storeys
- Sizes
1,215 to 5,090 sq ft, none with a single bedroom
- Facilities
A deck of pools and gardens on about six acres, and a Sky Club on the 29th floor
Agile Mont Kiara layouts across three zones, for how you live now
Agile Mont Kiara, now also called Residensi Duta Kiara, is an eleven-tower freehold development completed in 2019.
Our interior design starts with what still works there, and what your household needs now.
Several years of living leave their marks: a door that sticks, a scuffed corner, a spare room that became something else. We’re Sundays in Bed, and our studio is in Bukit Damansara.
By the sales material, Agile Mont Kiara’s eleven towers fall into three zones.
- High zoneCompleted 2019Towers H to K · 44 storeys · 672 homes
- Mid zoneCompleted 2019Towers F and G · 18 storeys · 70 homes
- Low zoneCompleted 2019Towers A to E · 8 storeys · 71 homes
Completed homes run from 1,215 to 5,090 sq ft, and none has a single bedroom.
- 1,215 sq ftTwo bedrooms plus one, the smallest type
- 1,377–1,603 sq ftThree bedrooms plus one, in the 44-storey towers
- 2,065–2,174 sq ftDual key: three bedrooms plus two, part of the home behind its own lock
- 2,766–5,090 sq ftFour bedrooms plus one, in the low-rise towers
The zones differ in more than height. In Towers H to K, four homes share each floor, and the agents’ FAQ counts Tower H by type: 41 Type A, 43 Type B, 43 Type C and 42 Type D. Towers F and G have two homes to a floor, and the eight-storey blocks one or two. Fewer homes on a floor means fewer doors to knock on before the noisy days of a renovation.
The sizes above are the completed strata areas. Each type was sold at a launch size about 30 to 55 sq ft smaller: Type B was marketed at 1,345 sq ft and completed at 1,377, Type F at 2,723 and completed at 2,766. A launch brochure’s room dimensions may be a little out, so we measure every room before any joinery is drawn.
Who built it, and what came with it
It was Agile’s first project abroad, built with PJ Development to designs by Singapore’s DP Architects. About six of its ten acres are an environment deck of pools and gardens, and a semi-open sky club sits on the 29th floor.
By an agent’s copy of the sales specification, homes came semi-furnished: ducted air-conditioning in the living room, split units in the bedrooms, centralised hot water, a gas hob in the wet kitchen and a wardrobe in the master bedroom only.
Six or seven years on, we’ll look first at what still works, what has tired, and what a tenant or earlier owner changed. That’s where we begin.
The shared spaces have been kept up: by 2024 the pool decks had been replaced and the car park had EV chargers. Your home can catch up with them.
The Edge’s 2024 report lists the rest of that work: glass canopies over the pool pergolas, ceiling fans in the common areas, motion sensors in the mailbox room, racks in the parcel room, a rainwater harvesting tank, composting of garden trimmings, and LED lights on timers in the lift lobbies and gardens. A management corporation that keeps a list like this is likely to expect an orderly renovation too, so we go to the office with drawings, a programme and the names of your contractors.
DP Architects describe the towers as standing on that green deck, above three levels of basement car park. StarProperty gives every home two bays, and the launch FAQ three for selected high-floor homes, close to 2,000 bays in all. A contractor’s van still needs a place to stop, so before the first delivery we ask management where a crew may park and unload.
Agile Mont Kiara interior design, from the fittings you still love
In an Agile Mont Kiara home, we start with which 2019 fittings still earn their place, and what each extra room is for.
Those two answers guide every drawing.
If your living room is cooled by ducts
The living and dining were cooled by a ducted system, the bedrooms by split units. Ducts decide where a ceiling has to drop, so we check the system’s age and service history before drawing any lighting.
DP Architects also planned each home to ventilate naturally, with air moving from one end of the unit to the other. When a new wall, a full-height wardrobe or a solid door would cross that line, we test it against the breeze first, because on a mild evening open windows can still cool the room without the ducts running.
If most of the cooking happens out of sight
The handover put the gas hob and hood in the wet kitchen and cabinets in the dry one. The front can then become a breakfast counter.
If someone needs a corner of their own
Types D and E are dual-key, with part of the home behind a second key. It might be for your parents, a grown-up child or a tenant, and that answer decides the lock, the storage and the furniture.
If your windows face the garden
Six acres of pools and gardens lie on the deck below. Where your windows face them, we can let sheers and colours lean on the green; where they face the road, privacy and quiet come first.
The architects’ project note sets the high-rise towers along the highway and tucks the low-rise blocks beside the hilly side of the site, for more privacy. So in Towers H to K, a bedroom facing the road may want lined curtains and the bed on an inner wall; in the low blocks by the slope, lighter sheers may be enough.
If you’ve kept the handover fittings
By the sales specification, the handover included a master wardrobe and kitchen cabinets. Where yours are still sound, we’ll refresh the doors, handles and lighting instead of replacing them, and put the design into what you touch every day.
The same specification lists a refrigerator, a washing machine, a video intercom and a bathtub in every type except Type A. By now, the fridge and washer are the first things we test. The intercom handset usually sits by the front door, so a console or shoe cabinet is drawn around it, and a tub nobody soaks in can give way to a larger shower.
What interior design costs at Agile Mont Kiara
At Agile Mont Kiara, the Sundays in Bed design fee is an estimated RM30,440–37,570 for a Type B 3+1 and RM37,570–44,700 for a dual-key Type D.
It is a fee per room, agreed in writing before we begin.
- Each room we design
- RM3,565
- Living and dining
- RM5,485
This is how an Agile Mont Kiara design fee is counted. Start with the bathrooms, because they move this fee most. Few homes completed in 2019 need every bathroom redesigned, so each estimate below counts one fewer than the home has: two of three in a Type B, three of four in a C or D, four of five in an F.
The dry and wet kitchens count as two rooms, since each is drawn on its own.
3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and the dry and wet kitchens: 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 lower figure covers the essentials; the upper figure adds extras such as a feature wall, LED strips and a kitchen island.
What the two levels mean
Curated. Melamine or laminate carpentry, quartz or sintered stone tops, the existing ceiling kept or a new plaster ceiling. Furniture from Commune, Cellini, Fella Design, Dezign District, Poet Living, Big Brain, Gudang, Crown Livin and Dadswood.
Bespoke. Detailed joinery, sintered stone tops, a plaster ceiling with detailing. 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.
How the fee works
The total is agreed in writing first and paid in stages. Swapping the ducted unit for a newer system raises the contractor’s bill and leaves our fee alone. How our fees work
A 1,377 sq ft 3+1 at Curated lands close to RM283k–470k, our fee included.
After a few years of living, the design usually goes to the air-conditioning, the bathrooms used most and wardrobes for the bedrooms that never had them, and seldom to tiles still in good order.
Choose your type and tick only the rooms you’d like drawn. Our fee and both the Curated and Bespoke ranges are estimates until builders price your home.
| Home | Our fee | Curated | Bespoke |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3+1, Type B 1,377 sq ft · Towers H to K | RM30,440–37,570 | RM253k–432k | RM477k–908k |
| 3+1, Type C 1,603 sq ft · Towers H to K | RM34,005–41,135 | RM272k–463k | RM507k–958k |
| Dual key, Type D 2,065 sq ft · Towers H to K | RM37,570–44,700 | RM300k–537k | RM558k–1.11M |
| 4+1, Type F 2,766 sq ft · Towers A to E | RM41,135–48,265 | RM319k–568k | RM588k–1.16M |
Each lower figure covers the usual set: living and dining, both kitchens, the bedrooms and all but one bathroom. As every home here tops 1,200 sq ft, the higher one allows two more, say that last bathroom and the +1 room.
These are October 2026 guides; quotations come only from your contractors.
How these figures are worked out
The ranges assume new air-conditioning, wardrobes in every bedroom, kitchen cabinets and appliances. By the sales specification, the handover included a master wardrobe, kitchen cabinets and a gas hob; keep what still works and yours comes in lower.
Bathroom counts come from listings and vary between units, and the +1 is treated as a utility room.
Furnishing to let?
Getting a home here ready for a new tenant is its own brief. Our Essential level, with furniture from Ikea, SSF Home and Harvey Norman, is quicker to finish and takes the wear of a let, and our fee stays the same whichever level you choose.
Renovation and furniture at Essential, before our fee
- 3+1, Type B
- RM143k–222k
- 3+1, Type C
- RM154k–240k
- Dual key, Type D
- RM171k–277k
- 4+1, Type F
- RM182k–295k
Begin with a conversation
Share your tower, your type and what has changed at home since the keys, and we’ll have the estimate ready to talk over.
Or begin with a figure
Answer a few questions about your space, and you’ll have an estimate to consider in your own time.
Renovating at Agile Mont Kiara, with the approvals taken care of
At Agile Mont Kiara, works need the management corporation’s written approval and a DBKL permit, which your contractor normally applies for.
We handle both, and oversee the work that contractors you choose carry out.
- Your tower, your type FreeYour tower and type, whether the home is for you or for tenants, what the original handover left, and what later owners changed.
- A walk through, ducts and all RM200, waived if you go ahead with usWe measure each room, run the ducted air-conditioning and the hot water, open the kitchen cabinets and note what can stay.
- Rooms agreed, then designedFee and rooms are agreed in writing. Then come layouts, lighting and materials, with both kitchens and any dual-key suite given a clear job.
- Quotes read side by sideBuilders price one set of drawings, room by room. We go through their quotes with you, and the choice of builder is yours.
- Works, then the rooms styledService lift and deliveries are booked through management, each stage is checked on site, and the rooms are styled before anyone moves back in.
DBKL, the management corporation and its property manager, the guardhouse and the residents above and below: a works programme here has many hands on it. We’ll keep them in step for you. The full process
The council permit and the management’s approval
Jalan Duta Kiara is DBKL territory, so the contractor you choose usually applies to the city council for the permit. The management corporation, which appointed Henry Butcher as property manager in May 2023, must approve the works in writing; we confirm with the office who manages the building today.
The deposit, permitted hours and lift bookings aren’t published for Residensi Duta Kiara, so we get the office’s current terms in writing before any contractor prices the job.
Interior designer at Agile Mont Kiara, for the people who live there
Most Agile Mont Kiara homes were handed over with much the same fittings, so the people inside are what make yours different.
We start with them.
Maybe your Type C holds a family with two school-age children, or a couple whose parents stay for months. Tell us who cooks at the back, who needs a desk and where the suitcases go, and we’ll fit the home to your days.
Keep, adapt, add: an Agile home from 2019
- KeepPlan, kitchensGenerous three-bedroom layouts and separate wet and dry kitchens
- AdaptCooling, hot waterA ducted living-room system and centralised water heating, both from 2019
- AddWardrobes, lightWardrobes beyond the master bedroom, and lighting beyond the original points
- CheckFloors, past worksOwners report tiled floors where the sales gallery showed marble, and a home that has been let may show a tenant’s wear
From the developer’s semi-furnished specification, as agents quote it, and owners’ accounts. Your sale agreement and the home itself are what count, so we check both on the visit.
DP Architects’ deck holds a swimming pool, a children’s pool, an outdoor golf range and multi-purpose courts, and their 29th-floor Sky Club runs about 100 m; StarProperty adds a sky gym, an aqua gym and a gym for older residents. If golf clubs, rackets and pool bags go down most days, they need a tall cupboard by the door or in the utility room, not the back of a bedroom wardrobe.
What have other Agile Mont Kiara owners spent on their renovations?
Other firms have published three renovations under the name Agile, on homes of about 1,350 to 2,163 sq ft; their sizes match Types B and E here, which is why we take them to be this development. Owners there spent RM150,000–350,000 (RM69–164 per sq ft), and their builders were on site for 5 to 12 weeks.
Their scopes differ. Our ranges include new air-conditioning, wardrobes in every bedroom and the furniture, so they sit higher.
You can read all three on the Mont Kiara renovation cost index, whose wider median sits at RM138 per sq ft. We haven’t worked on a home in these towers, so published records are the fairest guide here.
Because we stay through the works, the management office and DBKL deal with one person: your designer.
Neighbours with pages of their own: Solaris Parq · Solasta · Bon Kiara, and the rest of Dutamas.
FAQ
Six things Agile Mont Kiara owners weigh up
Is Residensi Duta Kiara the same development as Agile Mont Kiara?
Yes. The 813 homes on Jalan Duta Kiara were launched and sold as Agile Mont Kiara, and the development now goes by Residensi Duta Kiara, the name The Edge used in 2024. Listings still use both, so search for either when comparing units.
Your sale agreement names a third: the developer, Agile PJD Development Sdn Bhd, which launched the project in January 2016. By The Edge’s 2024 report, it was completed in November 2019 and keys reached owners in 2020.
What does it cost to renovate and furnish a Type C 3+1 here?
For the 1,603 sq ft Type C, expect roughly RM272k–463k at Curated (Commune, Cellini, Poet Living) or RM507k–958k at Bespoke (Space Furniture, BoConcept, Molteni&C), before our fee. Three published Agile renovations came to RM150,000–350,000: see the Mont Kiara cost index.
Can the ducted air-conditioning in the living room be replaced with split units?
Usually, but weigh it first. The ducted system sits in the ceiling, so replacing it means new wall units, outdoor ledge space and a reworked ceiling. If it still cools well, a service and new grilles may do. We check it on the site visit.
How should the second part of a dual-key Type D or E be furnished?
In an Agile Mont Kiara dual-key home, decide who the second part is for first. Parents want an easy bathroom and a proper bed; a grown-up child, a desk and storage; a tenant, hard-wearing pieces and a good lock. We plan both parts together, so they still read as one home.
Type D is 2,065 sq ft and sits in Towers H to K; Type E is 2,163 sq ft in Towers F and G and 2,174 sq ft in the low blocks. What the second part holds isn’t published, so we work from your own sale plan and our visit, and size the lock, the storage and the furniture to what is there.
Is the gas hob in the wet kitchen worth keeping?
If it lights cleanly and the hood still draws, often yes. The handover put gas in the wet kitchen, which suits heavy cooking. Many owners keep it there and fit the dry kitchen with an induction hob, or simply a counter for breakfast and baking.
When can contractors work at Residensi Duta Kiara?
The management office sets the working hours, the deposit and lift bookings, and none of them has been published. We ask for the current rules before quotes are gathered, so your contractors price them in from the start. Your contractor also obtains the DBKL permit.
What is the interior design fee for an Agile Mont Kiara home?
At Agile Mont Kiara, the Sundays in Bed design fee is an estimated RM30,440–37,570 for a Type B 3+1 and RM37,570–44,700 for a dual-key Type D. It is a fee per room, agreed in writing before we begin, and each estimate counts one bathroom fewer than the home has.
What are the floor plan sizes at Agile Mont Kiara?
Completed homes at Agile Mont Kiara run from 1,215 to 5,090 sq ft, and none has a single bedroom. The 2+1 is 1,215 sq ft, the 3+1s in the 44-storey towers 1,377–1,603 sq ft, the dual-key 3+2s 2,065–2,174 sq ft, and the 4+1s in the low-rise towers 2,766–5,090 sq ft; each type was sold at a launch size about 30 to 55 sq ft smaller.
What facilities does Agile Mont Kiara have?
Agile Mont Kiara’s deck holds a swimming pool, a children’s pool, an outdoor golf range and multi-purpose courts, and DP Architects’ Sky Club on the 29th floor runs about 100 m. StarProperty adds a sky gym, an aqua gym and a gym for older residents.
Can I see photos of an Agile Mont Kiara home you’ve designed?
Not yet: we haven’t worked on a home in these towers. The fairest guide for now is the three Agile renovations other firms have published on the Mont Kiara renovation cost index, on homes of about 1,350 to 2,163 sq ft.
What interior design services do you offer at Agile Mont Kiara?
Across Agile Mont Kiara’s eleven towers and 813 homes, finished in 2019, our condo interior design takes in the three- and four-bedroom and dual-key plans, renovation design included. We draw the plans, compare contractors’ quotes with you and manage the works on site, and contractors do the building. Interior styling, or furnishing through our Procurement Concierge, can also be booked by itself, and Virtual Design covers homes outside Kuala Lumpur and Selangor.
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