Interior design in Damansara Heights (Bukit Damansara)

Damansara Heights, Bukit Damansara on the street signs, sits about 5 km west of Kuala Lumpur's city centre. It was a rubber estate until the early 1970s, when Syarikat Perumahan Pegawai Kerajaan, part of I&P Group, developed it as housing for government officers. Those first bungalow plots on the hills are why it looks the way it does today, and why its owners have their own association, the Bukit Damansara House Owners Association. The newer homes are condominiums and low-rise blocks on the same hills: Aira Residence, completed in 2020; the three towers of Pavilion Damansara Heights, where Crown Residences handed over in March 2025; and The Peak, completed in December 2025. It's also our own neighbourhood: the studio is based in Bukit Damansara.

A home here needs a design that matches it: rooms scaled for large plots and high ceilings, materials chosen to last decades rather than one trend cycle, and a finish that doesn't look out of place next to the address. A Damansara Heights living and dining room isn't a bigger condo living room. It needs furniture, lighting and proportion planned for real distance and real ceiling height. That's why we price an open-plan space as its own room type, not as extra floor area.

The newest developments on the hill, and what each means for a design brief: Pavilion Damansara Heights · Aira Residence · The Peak · DC Residensi

Pavilion Damansara Heights: Crown Residences, Regent Suites and Windsor Suites

The Pavilion Group launched the 9.27-acre first phase of Pavilion Damansara Heights in 2017, with three residential towers of very different sizes.

Crown Residences has 165 homes over 50 storeys, at 2,303 and 2,803 sq ft, with one 10,058 sq ft penthouse. It handed over in March 2025. Its floor plates are closer to a house than a flat, and so is the brief.

Regent Suites has 581 homes over 57 storeys, from 605 to 1,878 sq ft. We have designed two homes here (below); more on our Regent Suites page.

Windsor Suites has 568 homes over 57 storeys, from 614 to 1,831 sq ft.

Outside the penthouses, Regent and Windsor homes top out at about 1,900 sq ft, so the work is making a compact plan feel generous: joinery that does two jobs, and lighting set room by room.

Aira Residence

Aira Residence is Selangor Properties' freehold development on 3 acres: a new tower of 105 homes, completed in 2020, beside 64 homes in a refurbished 1970s tower that was once the SPB Tower, 169 homes in all. In the new tower, homes start at 2,679 sq ft; the garden units run from 5,856 to 7,201 sq ft, and the penthouses reach 7,730 sq ft. At that size the brief is a bungalow's, inside a tower: formal rooms apart from family ones, finishes that carry across a large floor plate, and furniture proportioned for distance. One Aira renovation in other firms' published records ran 20 weeks on site.

The Peak

The Peak is E&O and Mitsui Fudosan's freehold, strata-titled low-rise: 54 homes in 18 three-storey blocks on 3.94 acres. Each home takes a whole floor, from 3,455 to 4,500 sq ft, with its own private lift lobby. It was completed in December 2025, so owners are in their first year with keys and well inside the 24-month defect liability period. Most buyers bought it as their main home, and very few as an investment. A full-floor home at this size is closer to a bungalow than a condo: real separation between family and guest zones, and a layout that matters as much as the finishes.

DC Residensi, Damansara City

DC Residensi is GuocoLand's freehold residential part of Damansara City, on Jalan Damanlela: 370 homes in two 28-storey towers, from about 900 sq ft up to large penthouses. It's a completed, lived-in building, so renovation runs under the management's rules, with neighbours on every side. We plan the noisy work into the permitted hours and book lifts well ahead.

Also in Damansara Heights: Damansara Fifty6, Zephyr Point, The Cedar, 10six, D28 Damansara, Chempenai Park, Peninsular Residence, Villa Setia, Twins @ Damansara Heights, 10 Semantan Suites, Desa Damansara 2, Indah Damansara, Lagenda Damansara, Prima Damansara, Aman Beringin, Clearwater Residences, Damansara Villa, Sri Murni and Khaya Residences.

Each standard room is RM3,565 and the open-plan space RM5,485, whatever the size of the plot. In a new condo the bathrooms usually come finished, so we count only the ones you want redone, at RM3,565 each.

With Interior Design, the foyer and utility yard are designed free, up to two, when your home has a bedroom and a living and dining space. The renovation is a separate number: across 8 published records from other firms, the median Damansara Heights renovation spend was RM440,000. Programme length, not floor area, is what moves a big renovation here. The records are on our Kenny Hills and Damansara Heights renovation-cost page, and the full rate card is on our Interior Design page. A site visit anywhere in the Klang Valley is RM200, waived if you go ahead with us.

Houses. Damansara Heights is in Kuala Lumpur, so City Hall (DBKL) approves building work. Since September 2022, owners can apply directly for minor works that don't affect the original structure, such as small partitions, without appointing an architect or engineer, and approval can be immediate. Approved renovation plans are valid for one year. DBKL publishes renovation guidelines for terraced and semi-detached houses, and its guideline for minor works permits on residential houses was updated in December 2025.

Condos and strata low-rise. Under Malaysia's strata by-laws, the management's written approval comes before any work. The management can ask for a deposit and set a completion date, and moving plumbing, external doors or windows, or rewiring the whole home needs the authority's approval too. None of the developments above publishes its house rules on working hours or lift bookings, so we get them from the management office before we draw.

Guarded streets. DBKL is reviewing its guarded-neighbourhood schemes: renewal needs 80% of residents' consent. If your street has a guard post, ask the residents' committee how contractors are let in before work starts.

New keys. At The Peak and Crown Residences, the developer's defect liability period runs 24 months from vacant possession. Report defects in writing before any work touches the same spot.

We have designed two homes at Regent Suites, Pavilion Damansara Heights:

• Justin's living room: deep forest green, maroon and walnut, classic cornices and wainscoting redrawn with cleaner lines, and a real olive tree in the corner that catches the light. The whole home came to about RM145,000 including furniture.
• Wei Shern's bedroom: colour-drenched in taupe, with layered lighting that softens as the evening goes on, and hand-tinted timber strips that hide the wallpaper joins and bring an awkward ceiling back into proportion. The whole home came to about RM85,000 including furniture.