Interior designer at Clearwater Residence
However high Clearwater’s ceilings, home can feel cosy.
In a Clearwater loft, the living room opens up to the floor above. Curtains, lamps and soft rugs planned for that height keep evenings warm and quiet.
A sitting space at the foot of a stair: the kind of corner we’d plan in a Clearwater loft, where the stair is part of the room.
Clearwater Residence interior design for tall ceilings and lofts
Clearwater Residence is a single freehold block in Damansara Heights, built with tall ceilings, two-storey lofts and penthouses with plunge pools.
Sundays in Bed’s interior design helps you live well with that height, and renew whatever the years have worn.
On your first evening in a Clearwater loft, the room you notice most is the one above your head. Voices carry, lamps look small and the ceiling light seems a long way off. So we plan light, fabric and furniture at the height you actually sit, and leave the height itself alone.
We’re Sundays in Bed, a Kuala Lumpur studio that designs and looks after homes. Our studio is here in Damansara Heights. We haven’t designed a Clearwater home yet. You’ll see each room’s fee in writing before anything starts.
Clearwater Residence is one freehold block of 18 storeys on Jalan Changkat Semantan, a short walk from Semantan MRT, completed in 2011. Singapore’s Eco-id designed it for Clearwater Developments as a small, spa-minded building, with a three-floor wellness club built next door.
Clearwater’s 108 units range from 826 to 4,735 sq ft built-up.
- 826–1,316 sq ftStudios and one-bedrooms; 20 are Superpads with a jacuzzi terrace
- 1,459–2,489 sq ft42 two-storey lofts, two or three bedrooms
- 1,703–1,728 sq ft10 two-bedrooms with a study
- 1,784–4,735 sq ft11 penthouses on the top three floors, each with a plunge pool
Ceilings and the layout
The 2011 sales copy advertised ceilings of 3.5 m, 4.2 m in the penthouses, and the lofts rise two floors behind full-height glass. We measure yours on the visit. If a pipe needs hiding, we’ll look for ways that keep that height, because it’s much of what makes living here special.
New owner or long-time one, the building’s age comes first. Each master bathroom was built as a small spa, with a deep tub and a steam shower, and the air-conditioning is concealed in the ceilings. Both are around fifteen years old, so we test each one with you before anything is kept.
Clearwater Residence layouts: where you unwind, who comes to stay
In a Clearwater Residence home, we start with where you’ll unwind and who might stay: the tall living room, the steam shower, the terrace and who sleeps upstairs.
Decide those early, and the rest follows.
If you love a room that rises high
A loft’s living room rises through both floors, so the curtains, a pendant and the art are planned at that scale, with rugs and upholstery to soften the sound.
Hang the pendant low enough to belong to the sitting area, and light the upper wall on its own switch so the height still reads at night. A sofa of ordinary length can look lost against it.
If someone at home shouldn’t climb
One loft described in 2014 had its guest room and study up a glass-railed stair. That suits a quiet study well, but a parent who finds steps hard may need a bedroom on the lower floor. We plan the rooms around who climbs.
If you love a steam after a long day
Each master shower was built to double as a steam room. After fifteen years, the seals, the waterproofing and the steam unit decide whether it stays. We'll have it checked before designing the bathroom around it, or replacing it.
If your terrace has a jacuzzi or a pool
Superpads have a jacuzzi on the terrace and penthouses a plunge pool. Both need shade, drainage and upkeep. Whether yours stays filled, and how the terrace is furnished, is worth deciding before the rooms inside it.
What deserves to stay
The tall ceilings and full-height glass are what the building does well, so we keep both and work around them. Sound 2011 kitchen cabinets or wardrobes can often be refaced and kept, which spares the home a strip-out.
Floor by floor, as the developer stacked them
Levels 5 to 9, the smaller homes. The developer put all 45 one-bedroom homes here, from 5 studios, 15 one-bedrooms and 5 with a spare room to the 20 Superpads, along with the ten two-bedroom homes. Even the smallest is 826 sq ft, so a studio is less about squeezing things in than about giving one large room a clear place to sleep, to work and to eat.
The ten two-bedroom homes, about 1,703 to 1,728 sq ft. Each has a study and a maid’s or utility room besides its two bedrooms, so three rooms are waiting for a role before any furniture is chosen. Decide which one receives guests, and the other two stop drifting into storerooms.
Levels 10 to 13A, the 42 lofts. Every loft spans two floors, from 1,459 to 2,489 sq ft, with two or three bedrooms and a maid’s room. One 1,555 sq ft loft was listed with two bedrooms, a study and a maid’s room, and a three-bedroom loft of about 1,964 sq ft has also been offered. The first question is which floor keeps the main bedroom, because that sets where the quiet hours are spent.
The penthouses. One sold in 2026 was recorded as a four-bedroom of 3,283 sq ft. In each, the plunge pool’s terrace opens off the living room, so the sofa, the dining table and the outdoor seating are drawn as one long room.
From the developer’s 2007 interview with Property Report and later sale listings. Units per floor and which way each type faces aren’t published, so your own plan settles the details.
What interior design costs at Clearwater Residence
At Clearwater Residence, the Sundays in Bed design fee is an estimated RM23,310–30,440 for a 2+1 loft, RM12,615–16,180 for a one-bedroom and RM30,440–37,570 for a penthouse: a fee per room, agreed in writing before we begin.
- Each room we design
- RM3,565
- Living and dining
- RM5,485
Below is the Clearwater design fee, from Superpad to penthouse. A loft’s fee follows its rooms. The double-height living room counts once, at RM5,485 with the dining, however far up it goes, and each bedroom or study is RM3,565.
What the height changes is the spending around the fee: longer curtains, a pendant sized for the volume and lighting at two levels. Those sit in the contractors’ quotes and the furniture, and our fee stays where it was agreed.
2 bedrooms, a study and 2 bathrooms: 5 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
We agree the sum in writing before the first drawing, and you pay it in stages. It is never a share of the contractors’ bills, so stone in the steam shower in place of tile leaves it where it was.
With our fee and Curated finishes (Commune, Cellini, Poet Living), a 2+1 loft here comes to about RM235k–396k in all.
| Home | Our fee | Curated | Bespoke |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2+1 loft About 1,555 sq ft · a 2+1 apartment’s fee is the same | RM23,310–30,440 | RM212k–366k | RM410k–791k |
| 3-bed loft About 1,964 sq ft · three bedrooms | RM23,310–30,440 | RM223k–385k | RM431k–834k |
| One-bedroom About 988 sq ft · or a Superpad | RM12,615–16,180 | RM153k–269k | RM309k–608k |
| Penthouse About 3,283 sq ft · plunge pool | RM30,440–37,570 | RM272k–514k | RM514k–1.08M |
The lower figure is a usual Clearwater brief: living and dining with the kitchen, each bedroom, any study, and every bathroom but one (a one-bedroom’s only bathroom is counted). The higher adds a room, or two from 1,200 sq ft, such as that last bathroom or a closed kitchen.
These are October 2026 guides; only your contractors can quote.
How these figures are worked out
Every Clearwater home is now a resale, so we’ve assumed not every bathroom needs designing and counted one fewer than each plan has, but never fewer than one. The three-bedroom loft and penthouse bathroom counts are assumed. The study is priced; the maid’s room isn’t.
No kitchen plan is published, so each type is priced with an open kitchen, confirmed on the visit. The ranges include new air-conditioners, kitchen cabinets and wardrobes. Clearwater handed over all three in 2011; where yours are sound and kept, expect to spend less.
Furnishing to let?
Many Clearwater homes have been let, and some were once offered as serviced stays of a month or more. If yours will be let, our Essential level, with furniture from Ikea, SSF Home and Harvey Norman, is quick to fit out and stands up to tenants, and the design fee doesn’t change with the level.
Renovation and furniture at Essential, before our fee
- 2+1 loft
- RM118k–184k
- 3-bed loft
- RM124k–193k
- One-bedroom
- RM83k–131k
- Penthouse
- RM152k–259k
Begin with a conversation
Tell us which kind of Clearwater home is yours, loft, Superpad, 2+1 or penthouse, and send one photo taken looking up. That tells us a great deal before we meet.
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 quietly at Clearwater Residence, with neighbours informed
At Clearwater Residence, a small building, neighbours notice the work, so we plan it quietly and keep them informed.
We design and run the project; you choose the contractors from quotes we collect and compare with you.
Each Clearwater home came with its own parking: one bay for a one-bedroom home, two for the two- and three-bedroom homes and three for a penthouse, over three residential levels. On delivery days, we ask management where a van may wait while the joinery is carried up.
The pool, gym and spa were built over three floors of the adjoining Clearwater office tower, not inside the residential block, and launch buyers were given two memberships per home. So the people who hear your works are your neighbours at home, and we keep the noisy days short, grouped together and announced well ahead.
- Which home, and who lives in it FreeLoft, Superpad, 2+1 or penthouse; who lives there or will rent it; what the last owner left behind; and the spend you have in mind.
- Up and down the stairs RM200, waived if you go ahead with usWe measure both floors of a loft, run the steam shower, look over any jacuzzi or plunge pool, check the hidden air-conditioning and note what deserves to stay.
- Height and light, on paperThe rooms, the spend and our fee go into writing first. Then layouts, lighting for the tall ceilings and materials, with the stair and terrace treated as rooms of their own.
- Quotes on one set of drawingsEvery contractor prices the same drawings, so the quotes compare fairly. We read each one through with you, and the appointment is yours.
- Quiet works, then the stylingThe works keep to management’s rules, confirmed before anyone starts, and to the drawings, checked stage by stage. Then the curtains go up, the furniture comes in and the art goes on the walls.
A fifteen-year-old spa bathroom, a ceiling full of hidden air-conditioning and a management office to satisfy: there’s plenty to keep track of, and we’ll do it for you. How a project runs
Before work begins at Clearwater
Clearwater was handed over in the first quarter of 2011, so the developer’s defect period ended years ago, and whatever earlier owners changed now comes with the home. We ask whether they left renovation drawings with management, and look hardest at the bathrooms and terraces, where water finds its way.
Clearwater Developments built the block to drawings by Sim Boon Yang of Eco-id in Singapore. If a question touches the structure, say a wall you’d like to open, we ask management for the original plans before anyone is asked to price it.
Management sees and approves the drawings first; any DBKL permit the works need follows, and your contractor files it.
Nothing public sets out Clearwater’s renovation deposit, the hours crews may keep or how the lifts are booked, so those are our first questions to the management office, ahead of any figure. Any work near a steam shower, jacuzzi or plunge pool also gets its waterproofing checked, below and beside it.
Interior design for a Clearwater Residence home that came furnished
A Clearwater Residence home may come to you with someone else’s sofa and someone else’s taste, since many have been let.
We keep the building’s good bones and choose the rest with you.
Perhaps your loft holds two people who both work from home, one upstairs and one down. Perhaps a parent visits and would rather not climb. Tell us whose desk sits on which floor, who does the cooking and which relatives stay over, and we plan the tall rooms around those answers.
What to keep, adapt and renew at Clearwater
- KeepHeight, glassTall ceilings, full-height sliding glass, the deep master tub if sound
- AdaptBathroom, terraceA steam shower that may need resealing; a jacuzzi or plunge-pool terrace
- RenewServices, storage2011 concealed air-conditioning, kitchen cabinets and wardrobes, if worn
From Clearwater’s 2011 sales specification. Owners since may have changed yours; the site visit shows us what is still original.
The same 2011 specification listed a hot and cold water system and a walk-in wardrobe off the master bedroom, and a 2014 account of one loft described double basins and a freestanding tub in its master bathroom. Where those survive, a water heater and pipework of that age are tested before the tiles around them are touched, and the walk-in wardrobe can usually be refitted inside while its walls stay put.
What might a Clearwater renovation cost?
We haven’t designed a Clearwater home yet, and none of the published records comes from Jalan Changkat Semantan. For a 1,555 sq ft loft or a 3,283 sq ft penthouse, the table above prices renovation and furniture room by room; keep sound 2011 fittings and it costs less.
The neighbourhood’s own page covers what renovations around it have cost and which approvals they need.
Interior design in Damansara Heights
Nearby, with their own pages: Damansara Heights · The Peak · Regent Suites · Windsor Suites · Bukit Tunku
FAQ
Clearwater Residence, from the ceilings to the paperwork
Can the steam shower in a Clearwater master bathroom be kept?
Often, if the enclosure still seals and the waterproofing beneath is sound. At launch, the developer said every Clearwater shower could become a steam room, so unless an earlier owner has redone yours, its steam unit and seals date from the 2011 handover. After fifteen years the steam unit may need servicing or replacing. We run it on the site visit and, if there’s doubt, have a contractor check the waterproofing before we design around it or make it a generous ordinary shower.
What can be done with a Superpad’s jacuzzi terrace?
Shade, outdoor-grade furniture and planting can make it a room you’ll use often. The 20 Superpads are one-bedroom homes on levels 5 to 9, each opening onto its own sky terrace with an outdoor jacuzzi. If you rarely use the jacuzzi, ask management what changes are allowed before planning around it. Good drainage matters either way, so rain doesn’t sit on the terrace.
How do you light and dress a double-height loft living room?
Light it in layers: a pendant sized for the volume, wall lights at a human height and lamps near the seats keep it warm at night. Curtains run the full height on a track that’s easy to reach or motorised, and rugs and upholstery soften the echo. All 42 Clearwater lofts are on levels 10 to 13A, their living rooms rising two floors behind full-height sliding glass, so the curtains are among the largest pieces we specify for the home.
Can the study or maid’s room in a loft or 2+1 change its job?
Yes. In Clearwater’s lofts and its ten two-bedroom homes of about 1,703 to 1,728 sq ft, the study can be given to a baby, an overnight guest or your clothes, and the maid’s room to storage or laundry. Designing either one adds RM3,565 to our fee, and a room left as it is costs nothing extra.
How much does it cost to renovate and furnish a Clearwater loft?
Renovating and furnishing a 1,555 sq ft 2+1 loft comes to an estimated RM212k–366k with Curated furniture from Commune, Cellini or Poet Living, or RM410k–791k with Bespoke pieces from Space Furniture, BoConcept or Molteni&C, before our fee. Keeping the sound 2011 fittings lowers it.
Who needs to approve renovation work at Clearwater Residence?
Clearwater’s management approves the drawings first; after that, DBKL, Kuala Lumpur’s city council, issues whatever permit the works call for, and your contractor makes that application. How much deposit the block holds, which hours crews may work and how a lift is reserved are not written down online, so the management office answers those for us before a quote is drawn up. Works near the steam showers, Superpad jacuzzis or penthouse plunge pools need their waterproofing checked as well.
What interior design services do you offer at Clearwater Residence?
Clearwater Residence is one 18-storey block of 108 homes whose ceilings were advertised at 3.5 m, and our condo interior design covers its lofts, Superpads, two-bedroom homes and penthouses, renovation design included. We draw the plans, compare contractors’ quotes with you and manage the works on site, and contractors do the building. A loft that only needs furnishing can have interior styling or our Procurement Concierge on their own, and Virtual Design covers homes outside Kuala Lumpur and Selangor.
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