Interior design in Cheras
Cheras homes, with room for the wok and a houseful.
For Cheras condos and terrace houses, 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.
- A new condo
Two bedrooms with the open kitchen, living and dining come to RM12,615; three bedrooms, RM16,180. Bathrooms you keep as handed over 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
As soon as you have a date for your keys, so the design is ready at handover and work can start once your defects are reported.
What should you plan first in a Cheras condo or terrace?
In a condo, start with storage and the management’s renovation rules. In a terrace, plan the ground floor as one route, from the car porch through the dry and wet kitchens to the yard. Choose finishes after that.
Cheras is two kinds of home. Most of what is completing now is high-rise, much of it near the MRT Kajang Line. Around it sit established landed townships, from Taman Midah, begun in 1968, to Bandar Mahkota Cheras, mostly two-storey terraces. Start with whichever is yours.
In a condo: the door and the shoes. Give shoes and parcels a bench and a shoe cabinet with vents just inside the door. Closed boxes grow mould in this humidity.
The management’s rules and the service lift. Working hours, a renovation deposit, where the air-conditioning units go, and booked lift slots for deliveries. Ask for the rulebook with your keys. We draw the design inside it. Measure the lift before you choose the sofa.
The glass and the yard. A west-facing unit takes the afternoon sun through glass you can’t shade from outside, so plan sheers and blackout early. The washer usually lives in the yard by the kitchen. Give both moisture-resistant cabinets, and keep the wok’s smoke behind a door.
Storage. With three bedrooms in about 1,100 sq ft, storage is built in or it doesn’t exist. Plan full-height wardrobes, a bed with drawers and a TV wall that hides the router.
In a terrace: the car porch is your front door. Grilles and the auto-gate go in first, so design them with the house. Add a sensor light and a shoe cabinet that breathes.
Dry kitchen, wet kitchen, yard. The wok stays in the wet kitchen: a door, a ducted hood, and aluminium or moisture-resistant cabinets. The dry kitchen is the one guests see, so give it the living room’s floor.
The open house. Chinese New Year, Raya or Deepavali can bring a houseful. Plan for it: the porch set for guests, a powder room they can find, a store for folding chairs.
If your house is older. Many older terraces have been extended; ask for the approved plans. A full renovation of an older home is worth walking through on the call first, since the scope varies from house to house.
How much does it cost to renovate a home in Cheras?
For a new two-bedroom Cheras condo that keeps its developer floors and bathrooms, renovation and furniture come to about RM63k–101k at Essential finishes (Ikea, SSF Home, Harvey Norman), before the Sundays in Bed design fee of RM12,615.
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.
2 bedrooms: 2 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 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.
| Home | Essential | Curated |
|---|---|---|
| New 2-bedroom condo 2 bedrooms; floors and bathrooms kept | RM63k–101k | RM122k–226k |
| New 3-bedroom condo 3 bedrooms, about 1,100 sq ft; floors and bathrooms kept | RM74k–118k | RM141k–260k |
| Resale condo 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a closed kitchen redone, new floors | RM130k–202k | RM232k–398k |
| New terrace 4 bedrooms, a dry and a wet kitchen, 2,001–3,000 sq ft; floors and bathrooms kept | RM96k–163k | RM177k–345k |
| Older terrace 4 bedrooms, a dry and a wet kitchen, 2 of its 3 bathrooms redone, new floors | RM153k–238k | RM271k–462k |
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 home 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.
No renovation costs have been published for Cheras homes yet. These ranges come from typical costs for each part of the job, not from Cheras projects. Estimates as of September 2026, not a quotation: your contractors’ quotes are the real number.
For Kuala Lumpur as a whole, see what renovating in KL costs.
How much does an interior designer cost in Cheras?
For a new two-bedroom condo in Cheras, the Sundays in Bed interior design fee is RM12,615; for a three-bedroom, RM16,180, fixed in writing before we begin.
| Home | Interior design | Interior styling |
|---|---|---|
| New 2-bedroom condo 2 bedrooms, and the open kitchen, living and dining; bathrooms kept | RM12,615 | RM6,065 |
| New 3-bedroom condo 3 bedrooms, and the open kitchen, living and dining; bathrooms kept | RM16,180 | RM7,780 |
| Resale condo 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, the kitchen, living and dining | RM26,875 | RM12,925 |
| New terrace 4 bedrooms, a dry and a wet kitchen, living and dining; bathrooms kept | RM26,875 | RM12,925 |
| Older terrace 4 bedrooms, 2 of its 3 bathrooms, a dry and a wet kitchen, living and dining | RM34,005 | RM16,355 |
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.
The fee follows the rooms, not the floor area. A 2,700 sq ft terrace costs the same to design as a smaller one with the same rooms.
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 folded into a build quote, or charged as a share of it, 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 home, how you live, your budget and your key date.
- Keys and defectsReport defects to the developer in writing before any work touches them. The defect liability period runs 24 months from vacant possession.
- The site visit RM200, waived if you go ahead with usWe measure and photograph every room, and for a condo, the service lift your deliveries will use.
- 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.
- The approvalsIn a condo, your plan and the renovation deposit go to the management first. The council permit is obtained by your licensed contractor; we help gather the documents.
- On site, then moving inWe coordinate the works and deliveries and check what’s built against the drawings. Condo renovations published by other firms in KL and PJ ran a median 12 weeks on site; landed ones, a median 19.
Which council, and what it costs. Cheras straddles the state line, so it has three councils. The Kuala Lumpur side, including Taman Connaught, Taman Midah, Alam Damai and Bandar Tun Razak, is under DBKL.
Most of the Selangor side is under the Kajang Municipal Council (MPKj). Pandan Indah and the north of Cheras Hartamas are under MPAJ.
MPKj’s small works permit covers new floor finishes, grilles, new doors and windows or an awning. It is RM135 in fees plus a RM200 deposit, which you lose if the work strays from the approved sketch. A skip or building materials left outside add RM100 a month each.
On the DBKL side, your licensed contractor obtains the renovation permit. For a condo, it needs the written consent of the Joint Management Body or Management Corporation. On the Selangor side, the state sets site hours for its councils: Monday to Saturday, 8am to 6pm.
Do you cover my part of Cheras?
Yes. Sundays in Bed designs homes in person across Kuala Lumpur and Selangor, and all of Cheras, on both sides of the state line, 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 homes completing around Cheras now and over the next two years. If yours is one of them, we’ve already done the reading.
- Emerald HillsCompletedAlam Damai, KL · 1,378 condos and 181 terraces of 2,484–3,281 sq ft
- The CourtyardBeing builtBandar Damai Perdana, Selangor · 62 two-storey superlinks with 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms
- Levia ResidenceDue early 2027Pandan Perdana · 778 units of 938–1,364 sq ft, in two towers
- The Connaught OneDue late 2027Taman Connaught, beside the MRT · 1,334 serviced apartments, studio to four bedrooms
- Desa Tiara ResidencesDue 2028Bandar Mahkota Cheras · 350 freehold units of 1,080–1,359 sq ft
- Sunway Velocity 3Due end-2028Maluri, linked to the MRT and LRT · serviced residences of 721–1,076 sq ft
Most are condos of roughly 900 to 1,400 sq ft, where storage and the kitchen decide the plan. The Courtyard and Emerald Hills’ terraces are the landed exceptions: bigger houses, four bathrooms at The Courtyard, and a ground floor worth planning as one route. Tell us which is yours.
Neighbourhoods we cover
Taman Connaught · Taman Midah · Taman Mutiara · Taman Maluri · Cochrane · Alam Damai · Bandar Tun Razak · Bandar Sri Permaisuri · Taman Segar · Batu 9 Cheras · Taman Suntex · Cheras Perdana · Bandar Mahkota Cheras · Bandar Tun Hussein Onn · Bandar Damai Perdana · Balakong · Cheras Hartamas · Pandan Indah
Nearby, with their own pages: Ampang · KLCC, Bukit Bintang and TRX · Seputeh · Bukit Jalil · Puchong, and the rest of Kuala Lumpur and Selangor.
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Cheras questions, answered
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.
Can we do some rooms first and the rest later?
Yes. Each space is priced and designed on its own, so starting with the living and dining, or the bedrooms, doesn’t commit you to the rest.
Which council approves renovation work in Cheras?
It depends on your address. DBKL covers the Kuala Lumpur side, such as Taman Connaught and Alam Damai. The Kajang Municipal Council (MPKj) covers most of the Selangor side, such as Batu 9 and Bandar Mahkota Cheras. MPAJ covers Pandan Indah and the north of Cheras Hartamas. In a condo, the management approves the plan first.
Do you design terrace houses as well as condos?
Yes, at the same fee per room. For a new four-bedroom terrace with a dry and a wet kitchen and the living and dining, keeping its bathrooms as handed over, the fee is RM26,875. A full renovation of an older home is worth walking through on the call first, since the scope varies from house to house.
Should I start before I get my keys?
Yes, ideally five to six months before you want to move in, or as soon as you have a date for your keys. The design can then be ready at handover, and work starts once your defects are reported.
Is the design fee a percentage of my renovation budget?
No. It’s a fixed fee per room: RM3,565 per standard room and RM5,485 for the open-plan living and dining, agreed in writing before we begin and paid in stages as the project progresses, so it doesn’t rise when you choose a better finish.
Let’s talk about your Cheras home.
A free discovery call. Pick a time, then bring your floor plan, a few photos and your key date. You’ll know your design fee before you commit to anything.