Interior designer at Ceriaan Kiara
Ceriaan Kiara’s wide rooms, furnished for the way you live.
With only six homes to each floor, Ceriaan’s plans are deep and the living rooms are generous. Whatever your home came with, we work from there, adding the sofa, lamps, rugs and art that make it feel like you, all of it free-standing and ready to move when you do. No renovation needed. Just a home that feels like you.
Timber doors, a stone splashback and a line of warm light under the cabinets. Where a Ceriaan kitchen opens onto the living room, its evening light matters as much as the lamps by the sofa.
- Developer
YNH Property, through its subsidiary Kar Sin; first sold as Radiant Kiara
- Completed
December 2009
- Homes
238, in two blocks of 25 and 26 storeys, six to a floor, with two penthouses on top of each
- Address
Jalan Kiara 3, Mont Kiara, freehold, on about three acres
- Facilities
Pool, jacuzzi and sauna, a putting green, a reflexology path, a pergola walk and an open piazza
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Making Ceriaan Kiara feel like home: layouts and first rooms
Ceriaan Kiara gives you more floor than most homes in Mont Kiara, and the trick is not to rush to fill it.
Begin with the rooms you use every evening, the living area and the main bedroom, and let the rest follow once you know how the light moves through the day.
YNH Property built Ceriaan Kiara on Jalan Kiara 3 under an earlier name, Radiant Kiara, and sold it on the idea of a bungalow in the sky: two towers, six homes to a landing, and a pair of penthouses crowning each. With so few neighbours per floor, the homes run deep.
Three main plans make up most of the building:
- 1,828 sq ftThree bedrooms plus one, three bathrooms (Type A)
- 2,036 sq ftThree bedrooms plus one, three bathrooms (Type B)
- 2,208 sq ftFour bedrooms, four bathrooms (Type C)
Sizes as MyRumahBaru and StarProperty list the developer’s types. The penthouses and the garden homes on the facilities floor differ, so we measure your plan rather than rely on a brochure.
Open-plan rooms, and where the sofa goes
Some Ceriaan plans run the kitchen, dining and living into one long room. That is lovely on a Sunday and harder on a weekday, when cooking and the television compete for the same air. A rug sized to the seating, not to the room, marks out the living end; a pendant hung low over the table claims the dining end.
The +1 room is usually small and close to the kitchen. In a family home it often ends up holding luggage and the vacuum; with a good chair and a lamp it can be a quiet room for calls. We look at its window before suggesting either.
On the facilities floor, some homes come with a private garden. Treat it as a room of its own: outdoor chairs that can take the rain, two generous planters and a light that reaches the far corner.
Styling a rented Ceriaan Kiara home
A Ceriaan Kiara tenancy usually leaves the walls and built-ins as they are, and everything else open to you.
Furniture, plug-in lighting, textiles, plants and art can all change; drilling and carpentry need the landlord’s written agreement.
Fully furnished, part furnished or bare
Ceriaan homes are let in every state. A fully furnished one often has sound pieces in the wrong mood: a dark sofa, a glass dining table, bare walls. Before buying anything we try the cheapest change first, which is usually moving what is there and adding lamps and a rug.
A bare home is easier in one way. You choose every piece, so we plan all the rooms together and buy in an order that lets you live there from the first week.
Reading the alterations clause
Most agreements separate loose items, which are yours to bring and take away, from anything that changes the unit. A curtain rod, a television bracket or a shelf screwed into plaster falls on the second side. Ask in writing and keep the reply with the agreement.
If the answer is no, there are good workarounds: a tension rod in a window recess, a television on a low console, art propped on the sideboard, a folding screen to break up the long open-plan room.
Arriving with a shipment, or with two suitcases
If your furniture is coming by sea, we plan around the container and fill the gaps rather than doubling up. If you are arriving light, the bed, linen and a dining table come first, so the home works on the first night.
Pieces that suit the next home as well
A Ceriaan living room is large, and the next one may not be. A modular sofa that splits in two, a round table with a leaf, and lamps rather than ceiling lights make the move kinder when it comes.
Readying a Ceriaan home for a new tenant
Landlords call us between lets too. Fresh soft furnishings, a calmer palette and lamps in the right places help the photographs and the viewings, and none of it needs a contractor. If the kitchen or bathrooms need work as well, the note on furnishing to let further down has the figures.
Styling a Ceriaan Kiara home, step by step
One stylist looks after your Ceriaan Kiara home throughout.
We agree the rooms and the fee first, you approve each purchase, and we return to set everything out once the deliveries are in.
Placing and dressing the rooms takes about a week, closer to two for a four-bedroom Type C. New furniture usually needs four to twelve weeks to arrive, so the sofa and the dining table are ordered first.
Before the first van is booked, we ask Ceriaan Kiara’s management for its delivery hours and how the service lift is reserved.
- A first conversation, on video if you are still abroad FreeWho is moving in, what is coming in the shipment, which rooms matter most and the date you want to move in.
- A measuring visit RM200, deducted if you go ahead with usEach room measured, the light at each window noted, and every loose piece already in the home photographed.
- The fee in writing, then a plan for each roomWe confirm the rooms and the fee in writing. Then you receive a layout and a shopping list for every room, longest lead times first.
- OrderingYou buy from the list at your own pace, and we keep a running note of what has been ordered, what has shipped and what has arrived.
- Install dayWe place the furniture, hang or lean the art, set the lamps, dress the beds and take the packaging away.
Settling into Mont Kiara brings school forms, a new bank and a dozen new apps. The furniture can be the one thing you hand over: we keep the list, chase the dates and tell you when the home is ready.
What styling costs at Ceriaan Kiara
We estimate styling a Ceriaan Kiara home at RM7,780–11,210 for a Type A or B 3+1 and RM9,495–12,925 for the four-bedroom Type C.
Each room is RM1,715 and the open-plan living and dining RM2,635, and the fee is agreed in writing before we begin.
The lower figure covers the bedrooms with the living and dining. The upper figure adds two rooms, at Ceriaan often the +1 room as a study and a dressing room, or the private garden of a facilities-floor home. Every room carries the same fee whatever its size.
| Ceriaan plan | Rooms in the lower figure | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type A or B 3+1 1,828–2,036 sq ft | Three bedrooms, living and dining | RM7,780 | RM11,210 |
| Type C four-bedroom 2,208 sq ft | Four bedrooms, living and dining | RM9,495 | RM12,925 |
How the figures add up: three bedrooms at RM1,715 plus RM2,635 for the living and dining make RM7,780; two more rooms bring it to RM11,210. Four bedrooms plus the living and dining make RM9,495, or RM12,925 with two more rooms.
Estimates as of October 2026. Furniture is bought separately, from a shortlist matched to the budget you give us.
What the styling fee includes
A call to talk through your photos and plan, a measuring visit, a furniture layout and a shopping list for each room you have chosen, from the large pieces down to the cushions, and a styling day once everything has arrived.
Want more than styling at Ceriaan Kiara?
Often the furniture is the whole job.
Sometimes, though, the furniture is fine and it is the kitchen, the bathrooms or the wardrobes that keep catching your eye.
Perhaps the open kitchen needs more storage than the handover cabinets give, or the bathrooms are simply ready for a change. That is where interior design comes in.
We help you choose what to keep and what to change, room by room, and plan the work so it is done once and done well.
Styling changes what is in the home. Interior design changes the home itself.
Interior design at Ceriaan Kiara, for a longer stay
Ceriaan Kiara’s plans are generous and work well as drawn, so interior design here is rarely about moving walls.
It is about the surfaces and storage you touch every day: the kitchen, the bathrooms and the wardrobes.
With six homes to a floor, many Ceriaan layouts are deep, bedrooms down one side and living space down the other. That depth is where good joinery earns its place: a run of storage along the corridor, a proper desk in the +1 room, a kitchen that holds a family’s pantry.
What a Ceriaan Kiara renovation usually involves
- KeepLayoutThree-bedroom-plus-one and four-bedroom plans that seldom need a wall moved
- RethinkOpen kitchenWhere it opens onto the dining area, a taller pantry wall and a stronger extractor make the open plan easier to live with
- RenewBathrooms, wardrobesThree or four bathrooms in each home, so we usually start with the main one
- CheckGarden homesFacilities-floor homes with a private garden need drainage and waterproofing checked before any paving or planting
We confirm what your home was handed over with on the visit, room by room.
Renovation rules at Ceriaan Kiara
We could not find Ceriaan Kiara’s renovation rules published. Before quoting, we ask its management for the current guidelines, the deposit and the permitted working hours. We have not yet designed a home in this building, so on the first call we show you homes we have designed elsewhere in Kuala Lumpur.
Before any works at Ceriaan Kiara
Tenants need their landlord’s written consent first. After that, management’s written approval, and for some works a council permit, which the contractor applies for.
Moving a sink, taking down a wall or anything that touches the structure usually needs all three, so we raise it early. Styling with nothing drilled needs none of them.
What interior design costs at Ceriaan Kiara
Our design fee at Ceriaan Kiara is estimated at RM16,180–23,310 for a 3+1 and RM19,745–26,875 for the four-bedroom Type C, with the kitchen counted within the open-plan living and dining.
It is for the design service only; building work and furniture are separate budgets.
- Each room we design
- RM3,565
- Living and dining
- RM5,485
The design fee pays for our design work. Renovation and furniture are their own budgets, shown below.
For a 3+1, the first figure counts the three bedrooms at RM3,565 each and the open-plan kitchen, living and dining at RM5,485: RM16,180. The Type C adds its fourth bedroom: RM19,745. The second figure allows two more rooms, perhaps the main bathroom and the +1 room, for RM23,310 and RM26,875.
When you take interior design, any room that only needs styling is charged at half the styling rate.
3 bedrooms: 3 rooms at RM3,565, plus the open-plan living and dining at RM5,485. The foyer and any yard or service area 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.
Reading the Ceriaan estimate
We have counted the kitchen within the living and dining, because some Ceriaan plans draw it open. If yours is closed, add RM3,565; the visit settles it. Our fee is paid in stages and does not move when you choose a dearer stone or timber.
For an 1,828 sq ft Type A, our fee plus renovation and furniture at Curated (Commune, Cellini, Poet Living) comes to roughly RM201k–339k.
| Ceriaan plan | Design fee | Curated | Bespoke |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type A or B 3+1 1,828–2,036 sq ft | RM16,180–23,310 | RM185k–323k | RM371k–734k |
| Type C four-bedroom 2,208 sq ft | RM19,745–26,875 | RM213k–395k | RM420k–882k |
Curated means furniture from Commune, Cellini and Poet Living; Bespoke, from Space Furniture, BoConcept and Molteni&C. Both columns cover works and furniture, before our fee.
Estimates for October 2026, to be confirmed by a quotation.
Behind the renovation figures
Ceriaan is priced as an older home, so new flooring is in the figures. Bathrooms are not in the first figure; add the ones you would redo in the calculator. Wardrobes, kitchen cabinets, bedroom air-conditioners and the main appliances are included; keep the existing ones and those come off.
Furnishing to let?
Preparing a Ceriaan home for a new let? If furniture is all it needs, styling may be enough. If it needs works too, our Essential level (Ikea, SSF Home, Harvey Norman) goes in quickly and stands up well to a change of tenants. Our design fee is the same at every level.
Works and furniture at Essential, before our fee
- Type A 3+1
- RM102k–158k
- Type C four-bedroom
- RM118k–194k
Start with a conversation
Tell us which Ceriaan plan you have and what you would change, and we will take it from there on a free call.
Or start with an estimate
Answer a few questions about your Ceriaan home and read the figures whenever it suits you.
FAQ
Ceriaan Kiara styling and interior design questions
My Ceriaan Kiara home came fully furnished. Can styling still help?
Yes. In a furnished Ceriaan Kiara home we begin by rearranging what is already there, then add lamps, a rug, cushions and art where a room falls flat. A few well-chosen pieces often change the mood more than a new sofa would.
Do I need my landlord’s permission to style a Ceriaan Kiara home?
Not for free-standing furniture, lighting you plug in, textiles or art that leans. Anything drilled, built in or wired at Ceriaan Kiara needs your landlord’s written consent, then management’s approval.
How much does styling a Ceriaan Kiara home cost?
An estimated RM7,780–11,210 for a Type A or B 3+1 and RM9,495–12,925 for a four-bedroom Type C. Bedrooms are RM1,715 each and the living and dining RM2,635; the upper figure allows two extra rooms. Furniture is paid for separately, and the fee is agreed in writing.
What is included when you style a Ceriaan Kiara home?
A first call, a measuring visit, a layout and shopping list for each room, and an install day. You can style a single room at Ceriaan Kiara or the whole home, and you buy from our list at your own pace.
How long does it take to style a Ceriaan Kiara home?
About a week to set the rooms once everything has arrived, and four to twelve weeks for new furniture to be delivered. We can start on video before you land in Kuala Lumpur, so the slow pieces are ordered early.
How do you style an open-plan Ceriaan Kiara living room?
By giving each part its own anchor. In an open-plan Ceriaan Kiara room, a rug sized to the sofa marks the living area, a pendant over the table marks the dining end, and a console or open shelf can screen the kitchen without building anything.
What layouts does Ceriaan Kiara have?
Three main types: Type A of about 1,828 sq ft and Type B of about 2,036 sq ft, both three bedrooms plus one with three bathrooms, and Type C of about 2,208 sq ft with four bedrooms and four bathrooms. Each of the two towers also has two penthouses.
Should I choose styling or interior design for my Ceriaan Kiara home?
Styling if the rooms work and simply need to feel like yours. Interior design if the kitchen, bathrooms or wardrobes at Ceriaan Kiara need changing. Many people start with styling and add design later, room by room.
What is the interior design fee at Ceriaan Kiara?
An estimated RM16,180–23,310 for a 3+1 and RM19,745–26,875 for a Type C, agreed in writing, with the open kitchen counted in the living and dining. Works and furniture are separate: roughly RM185k–323k at Curated (Commune, Cellini, Poet Living) for a 1,828 sq ft Type A.
Does Ceriaan Kiara have renovation rules?
Yes, its management sets them, though they are not published online. We ask for the current rules, deposit and working hours before quoting, and tenants need the landlord’s written consent first.
Which services do you offer at Ceriaan Kiara?
Styling, room by room, for tenants, landlords and owners at Ceriaan Kiara, and full interior design for kitchens, bathrooms and joinery. We design, compare contractors’ quotes with you and oversee the site; contractors carry out the works. Virtual Design serves homes outside Kuala Lumpur and Selangor.
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