Interior designer at Damai Residence
At Damai Residence, the day falls quietly away.
Guests step in beside the dining table, the sofa waits by the balcony, and a long passage leads past two bedrooms to the master suite. We plan that walk so the day falls away as you go.
Heavy drapes hang over sheers in this bedroom, one we designed in Seputeh, at Setia Sky Seputeh. In Damai Residence’s west-facing A1 and A3 homes, layers like these take the edge off the afternoon sun.
- Developer
Tan & Tan Developments, a subsidiary of IGB Corp
- Completed
2017
- Homes
31 in one 20-storey freehold tower, two to a floor
- Sizes
1,938 sq ft for the thirty standard 3+1s; a 3,961 sq ft penthouse
- Facilities
Exercise facilities, a management office and security
On this page
The Damai Residence floor plan, 22.9 metres deep, for thirty homes
Damai Residence is a 20-storey freehold tower of 31 homes off Jalan Ampang, completed in 2017.
Thirty share one 1,938 sq ft plan about 22.9 metres deep, with the lift lobby opening at the dining end and the master suite at the far one.
Step through the door from your private lift lobby at Damai Residence and you are already beside the dining table, with the living room and balcony a few paces on. Turn the other way and a passage runs past two bedrooms and their bathrooms to the master suite, the room furthest from the front door.
We haven’t designed in this tower so far. This guide reads from Tan & Tan’s e-brochure, its floor plans and its specification schedule, and each point is tested in your own rooms on the visit. The fee for whichever rooms you hand us is settled on paper first.
Tan & Tan Developments, a subsidiary of IGB Corp, built the tower on a 0.514-acre freehold plot at Lorong Damai 13, Seksyen 88A, a turn off Jalan Ampang. Its brochure offers little beyond the homes themselves: exercise facilities, a management office and security.
- 1,938 sq ftTypes A1 to A4, thirty homes: three bedrooms, a utility room and four bathrooms, one plan mirrored east and west
- 3,961 sq ftThe penthouse, a single home across a whole floor; its plan is shared only on request
Which type is yours
Two standard homes share each floor from Level 3A to 18, and the brochure numbers Level 3A where Level 4 would be. A1 and A2 sit on Levels 3A, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, 16 and 17; A3 and A4 on 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15 and 18.
A1 and A3 face west, A2 and A4 east. The brochure draws all four as one plan, mirrored, and doesn’t say what else sets A1 apart from A3.
Each home is 28 ft 7 in wide and 75 ft 2 in deep, about 8.7 by 22.9 metres, so it is more than two and a half times as long as it is wide. The Edge, reporting the launch in January 2015, gave the ceilings as 3 metres.
From Tan & Tan’s e-brochure (plans, summary and specification) and The Edge, January 2015. The penthouse’s rooms wait until we see its plan.
Interior design along a Damai Residence home, stretch by stretch
At Damai Residence we take the plan stretch by stretch, from the dining table by the front door to the master suite at the far end, and settle what each part is for before a finish is chosen.
If the front door opens onto the dining table
There is no hallway between the lift lobby and the dining, so the entrance has to be made. A shallow cabinet for shoes and keys, a console and a lamp, or a short screen of joinery gives guests a moment before the room opens up. Anything you would like to put in the lift lobby itself, which may be common property, needs management’s say-so first.
If the passage feels like a hotel corridor
From the balcony to the master bath, the home runs almost 23 metres. Wall lights at a steady rhythm, shallow shelves or a run of art on one side, and something worth looking at where the walk finishes stop it reading as a corridor. With 3 metre ceilings, the lights can sit higher than usual.
If the master suite is your retreat
The master bedroom sits furthest from the lift, with a walk-in wardrobe and a bathroom with a long bath and twin basins. We plan it for the close of the day: blackout layers behind the sheers, a chair to read in, and lights that dim from the bed.
If your home faces west
A1 and A3 face west, so the long side of the home takes the afternoon sun. Blinds behind sheers, drapes that close fully, and rugs and upholstery that resist fading come before any colour. A2 and A4 face east and take the morning instead.
If no helper lives in
The utility room by the yard, with Bath 3 beside it, is laid out for a live-in helper. Without one it might hold suitcases and linen, the ironing, or a prayer mat. The specification lists three water-heater points for four bathrooms, so that bath may have no heater; we check.
If the 2017 fittings still work
Standard homes came semi-furnished: kitchen cabinets with a hob, hood and oven, built-in wardrobes, air-conditioners, storage water heaters and timber floors in the bedrooms. Where the carcasses are sound, new doors and handles or a sanded floor often do enough. The three-phase supply leaves room for an induction hob or another air-conditioner, once an electrician has checked the board.
What interior design costs at Damai Residence
Our design fee at Damai Residence, for one of the thirty standard 3+1s, is RM34,005–41,135; for the penthouse it is RM51,830–58,960.
Both are estimates. It is a fee per room, agreed in writing before we begin.
- Each room we design
- RM3,565
- Living and dining
- RM5,485
Here is what we’d charge to design your Damai Residence home. With thirty homes on one plan, the count barely changes from floor to floor. The living and dining, open to each other, are priced together at RM5,485; the lifestyle kitchen, the closed kitchen, three bedrooms and any bathroom you’d like redrawn are RM3,565 apiece.
Leave the utility room out, and it adds nothing.
3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and the dry and wet kitchens: 8 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.
Paying the fee, and what leaves it alone
The fee is written into our agreement before the first drawing and falls due in stages. What you spend with contractors sits outside it, so stone in place of tile around the master bath changes their quotation and leaves ours as it was.
Curated renovation and furniture for a standard 3+1, with pieces by Big Brain, Dadswood or Cellini, plus our fee, lands at about RM306k–504k.
Spend where nine years show. In a 2017 home that is usually the bathrooms, the lifestyle kitchen guests see and the lighting down the long plan, while sound wardrobes can often stay. Choose A1–A4 or the penthouse in the calculator, then switch off any room that can wait.
| Home | Our fee | Curated | Bespoke |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard 3+1 1,938 sq ft · Types A1–A4 | RM34,005–41,135 | RM272k–463k | RM507k–958k |
| Penthouse, 6+1 3,961 sq ft · a whole floor | RM51,830–58,960 | RM393k–733k | RM717k–1.48M |
For a standard home, the first figure has us drawing the living and dining, both kitchens, all three bedrooms and every bathroom but one. Two further rooms make up the second, perhaps the fourth bathroom beside the utility room, or the utility room itself as a study.
October 2026 estimates. Builders’ prices for your drawings will replace them.
What sits behind the ranges
At Curated we furnish from local makers like Gudang, Commune and Poet Living; at Bespoke, from Stanzo, Space Furniture or Molteni&C.
With the tower completed in 2017, both rows price a resale home. The 3+1 designs three of its four bathrooms and the penthouse five of its six, so count only the ones you would change.
No penthouse plan has been published, so its row assumes the dry and closed kitchens of the standard plan; we confirm the layout when we visit.
Each range budgets for replacing four things: the kitchen cabinets, the wardrobes, the air-conditioners and the water heaters. Each standard home was handed over with all four, so where yours still serve and stay, the total drops noticeably.
Furnishing to let?
If you would rather let a Damai Residence home than live in it, Essential keeps the work simpler: tougher, plainer finishes, a shorter stay on site, and furniture from SSF Home, Ikea or Harvey Norman. The level you pick leaves our design fee unchanged.
Essential at Damai Residence, our fee aside
- Standard 3+1
- RM154k–240k
- Penthouse, 6+1
- RM225k–381k
Begin with a conversation
Your type, A1 to A4 or the penthouse, and the part of the long plan you would change first are plenty for a first call.
Or begin with a figure
Answer a few questions about your space, and you’ll have an estimate to consider in your own time.
Your Damai Residence interior designer, and a careful order of work
Your Damai Residence project keeps one designer from the first visit to the day the beds are made.
We produce the drawings and supervise the site; contractors carry out the building, chosen by you once we have compared their prices together.
Damai Residence is gated, with card access, and its exercise area sits on a mezzanine above a car park of one ground and three raised levels. Trades and deliveries go through the management office. The lift and your lobby are padded before work starts, and since a single neighbour shares your floor, that household hears from us ahead of the loud days.
- Which home, and whose FreeA1 to A4 or the penthouse, the west side or the east, who shares the home, and whether a helper uses the utility room.
- A visit to the home RM200, waived if you go ahead with usWe measure the plan from balcony to master bath, open the wardrobes and kitchen cabinets, run the air-conditioners and water heaters, and look closely at the bedroom floors.
- Agreeing the briefFirst the rooms we’ll design and our fee for them go on paper. Then come layouts, lighting along the passage, joinery that uses the 3 m height, and materials.
- Drawings, quotes, a choiceContractors price our drawings item by item. We lay their quotations next to each other and explain where they part company; the builder is your call.
- Building, inspecting, stylingThe management office clears trades and deliveries first. Each stage is inspected as it is built, and the final visit is the styling: beds made, lamps lit, art hung.
Nine years after handover, the sequence matters: pipes and wiring, then tiles, then joinery and the timber floors. We keep every trade to it, so nothing newly tiled has to be broken open again for a pipe.
Who signs off the works
Lorong Damai sits within Kuala Lumpur City Hall’s area: DBKL issues any permit your works need, on an application your contractor files. The management office will expect to approve condominium works before they start.
None of Damai Residence’s renovation terms are public: no deposit, contractor hours or lift arrangements. We ask the management office for them in writing and set the programme around the answer.
Renovating one Damai Residence plan thirty different ways
Thirty Damai Residence homes share a plan.
Yours becomes different through the people in it and how their day travels along those 23 metres.
Perhaps you work from home and want the second bedroom as a study. Perhaps a parent is moving in and needs the bedroom nearest a bathroom, or you entertain and want the long table to seat twelve. Tan & Tan left the facilities spare, an exercise area and little else, so the home itself may need a reading corner, a guest bed or space for a rowing machine.
Nine years on: what stays, what changes
- KeepThe bonesThe private lift lobby, lifestyle and closed kitchens, 3 m ceilings and the walk-in wardrobe
- AdaptThe 2017 fit-outWardrobes refaced; bedroom timber sanded, or replaced where water has reached it
- AddShade and lightSun control in A1 and A3, and wall lights down the passage
From Tan & Tan’s brochure and specification. Owners may have altered a good deal since 2017, so nothing here replaces seeing yours.
Published costs for similar homes, two or three kilometres away
No one has published renovation costs for Damai Residence or elsewhere in Ampang Hilir. The nearest records sit on our KLCC cost index, compiled from other firms’ projects about two or three kilometres west, its median sitting at RM158 per sq ft.
Two come close to this plan in size. Four Seasons Place has two, between 1,570 and 2,500 sq ft, recorded at about RM300,000, or RM120 to RM191 per sq ft; The Mews has a 2,066 sq ft home at RM400,000, which works out at RM194 per sq ft. They are other firms’ scopes in another area, so we read them as context and price yours from its own rooms.
Ampang Hilir and Ampang, then U-Thant Residence, also by Tan & Tan, and Sastra U-Thant, both off Jalan Ampang:
FAQ
What to weigh up in a Damai Residence home
Is the utility room at Damai Residence worth designing?
It depends on who uses it. In every standard Damai Residence home it sits by the yard with its own bathroom, laid out for a live-in helper; without one, it makes a good store, laundry or prayer room. Bringing it into the design costs RM3,565, the same as any bedroom.
How much does a 3+1 at Damai Residence cost to renovate and furnish?
A standard Damai Residence 3+1 of 1,938 sq ft runs to about RM272k–463k at Curated, furnished by makers like Commune, Gudang or Poet Living, and RM507k–958k at Bespoke, with Roche Bobois, BoConcept or Molteni&C. Add our design fee, an estimated RM34,005–41,135. Keeping sound 2017 wardrobes and cabinets brings the total down.
Which Damai Residence homes face west, and what helps?
Types A1 and A3 face west, so their long side takes the afternoon sun; A2 and A4 face east. In the west-facing homes, a blind behind a sheer, drapes that close fully and fabrics that resist fading do the most. We also keep dark, heat-holding finishes away from that glass.
Should I keep the original kitchen at Damai Residence?
Often in part. The closed kitchen’s 2017 carcasses may still be sound, and new doors, a worktop and a stronger hood can do most of the work. The lifestyle kitchen counter faces the dining and the front door, so at Damai Residence that is usually where the money goes.
How do you keep a long Damai Residence home from feeling like a corridor?
With light, rhythm and somewhere to arrive. The standard Damai Residence plan runs nearly 23 metres, so we space wall lights along the passage, add shallow shelves or art on one side and give the master-suite door something to frame. The 3 m ceilings let full-height doors and joinery carry the eye along.
Who approves a renovation at Damai Residence?
DBKL is the council for Damai Residence, a freehold tower completed in 2017, and your contractor applies for any permit the works need. The management office will expect to approve them too. Its deposit, contractor hours and lift arrangements haven’t been published, and we ask for them on paper before any start date is set.
Who developed Damai Residence, and when was it completed?
Tan & Tan Developments, a subsidiary of IGB Corp, built Damai Residence, completed in 2017. It is a 20-storey freehold tower of 31 homes on a 0.514-acre plot.
Where is Damai Residence?
Damai Residence is at Lorong Damai 13, Seksyen 88A, a turn off Jalan Ampang, in Ampang Hilir. Lorong Damai sits within Kuala Lumpur City Hall’s area, so DBKL issues any renovation permit.
What is the floor plan at Damai Residence?
Thirty of the 31 Damai Residence homes share one 1,938 sq ft plan: three bedrooms, a utility room and four bathrooms, about 8.7 by 22.9 metres, mirrored east and west as Types A1 to A4. A1 and A3 face west, A2 and A4 east, and the penthouse, a single home across a whole floor of 3,961 sq ft, has its plan shared only on request.
Can I see photos of a Damai Residence home you’ve designed?
Not yet: we haven’t designed in Damai Residence so far, so this page reads from Tan & Tan’s e-brochure, floor plans and specification. The bedroom pictured on this page is one we designed at Setia Sky Seputeh.
What interior design services do you offer at Damai Residence?
Our condo interior design at Damai Residence covers the thirty 1,938 sq ft homes on one long plan and the whole-floor penthouse, 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 and furnishing through our Procurement Concierge are available on their own, and Virtual Design serves homes outside Kuala Lumpur and Selangor.
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Tell us your type, A1 to A4 or the penthouse, and whether yours faces west or east. There’s no charge to talk it through, and our estimated fee arrives in writing before you decide.
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