Interior design in Damansara Jaya
Your Damansara Jaya home, ready to grow with you.
The terraces and SS22A semi-Ds here date from the 1970s, on freehold land. We design for how you live now, and for how you might in twenty years.
Damansara Jaya at a glance
- Township
- SS22 and SS22A, Petaling Jaya
- Built
- From 1975, on freehold land
- Homes
- Terraces, semi-Ds and bungalows
- New tower
- Stellar Damansara, 88 homes, due December 2026
- Council
- MBPJ
Interior design for a Damansara Jaya house, for the next twenty years
Damansara Jaya, the SS22 and SS22A township in Petaling Jaya built from 1975, has terraces, semi-detached houses and bungalows, with Stellar Damansara rising among them, and Sundays in Bed designs for each.
Interior designer in Petaling Jaya
If you’re renovating a house you mean to keep, the question shifts from what looks right this year to what will still work later.
So we’d start with the things that are hard to change twice. The wiring and pipes in a house built from 1975 are more than four decades old unless someone has replaced them, and a bedroom on the ground floor may one day be the most useful room in the house, for a parent or for you.
On a semi-D, MBPJ lets you build into the side and back setback as long as the walls stay 3.05 m from the boundary. That strip is where a covered dining area, or that ground-floor bedroom, could go.
Before choosing a single finish, write down what you’d like the house to manage in twenty years. It’s a short list, and it changes the drawings more than any tile.
Paramount Garden, then part of the See Hoy Chan group, began building Damansara Jaya in 1975, and the first owners moved into its double-storey terraces in 1978. A study published in 2011 counted 1,538 terraces, 179 semi-detached houses and 42 bungalows. The township is freehold, and SS22A is mainly semi-Ds and bungalows.
Interior design at Stellar Damansara, Damansara Jaya’s new tower
In Damansara Jaya, Sundays in Bed has an owner’s guide to Stellar Damansara, 88 homes in two blocks in SS22A due in December 2026, and works on the township’s older houses as well.
If you’ve bought at Stellar, the plans have later years in mind already: a bedroom with a wider door for a wheelchair, a ramp into its bathroom, railings and a shower seat.
We’d keep that room’s clear width when placing the bed and the wardrobe, and choose handles and switches any hand can use. The 11 ft ceilings take full-height joinery, so storage can rise rather than spread; a deep bulkhead would throw that height away.
The structure is column and beam, so many internal walls can change, but the developer’s specification lists both concrete and block walls, so we check each one on the drawings before planning around it.
Every Stellar home also looks two ways: with no central corridor, the windows face front and back. We’d keep a clear line between the two sides, so the breeze can cross the home as well as the light. Kayu Ara LRT, opened on 29 June 2026, is about 300 m away by the developer’s measure.
Its developer said in 2023 that most launch enquiries came from families already living in PJ and looking for more room. Every plan has the ‘+1’, a utility room with its own bathroom, beside an enclosed wet kitchen and yard. Whether that room is for a helper, a study or storage decides its door, its shelving and where its light switch goes.
Coming soon
With keys due in December, we’d settle the plan now, so contractors can quote on the drawings at handover.
- Stellar DamansaraDec 2026Every home is 2,028 sq ft or more, with a private lift into its own foyer and an island in the dry kitchen.
Date checked 3 Oct 2026.
What interior design costs in Damansara Jaya
In Damansara Jaya, the Sundays in Bed design fee for a five-bedroom semi-detached house with a closed kitchen and three bathrooms redone is an estimated RM37,570–44,700, agreed in writing before we begin.
Adding a room to a semi-D adds one room to the fee. If you’re building a ground-floor bedroom or a covered dining area into a semi-D’s setback, you might expect the fee to grow with the new floor area.
It grows by one room, the room you’ve added. Floor area plays no part in our fee, and a bedroom upstairs that already suits you stays off the list.
The building work is another matter: an extension needs MBPJ’s approval first and deserves its own line in every contractor’s quote.
Pick the kind of house nearest yours, then set the rooms. The sums run in your browser, and nothing is sent.
5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and the kitchen: 9 rooms at RM3,565, plus living and dining at RM5,485.
What Curated and Bespoke include, and why each range is wide
| Home | Rooms in the lower figure | Estimated design fee |
|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached house: five bedrooms, a closed kitchen, three bathrooms redone | 9 rooms, plus living and dining | RM37,570–44,700 |
| Stellar Type A 4+1, about 2,500 sq ft: four bedrooms, the +1, dry and wet kitchens | 7 rooms, plus living and dining | RM30,440–37,570 |
| Stellar Type B 3+1, about 2,028 sq ft: three bedrooms, dry and wet kitchens | 5 rooms, plus living and dining | RM23,310–30,440 |
Estimates at October 2026 rates. Each of these homes is over 1,200 sq ft, so the upper figure allows two more rooms, such as a ground-floor bedroom you might add.
What three published terrace renovations around Damansara Jaya cost
In Damansara Jaya and Damansara Kim, which the records don’t separate, three terrace renovations published by other firms, of 1,400 to 1,600 sq ft, came to RM120,000–500,000 and took 12 to 24 weeks on site.
If you were hoping for one figure, the honest answer is a wide one: the lowest of the three is less than a quarter of the highest.
The records don’t say what each job included, so read them as a span, not a price. The corridor-wide median, from 19 records across the Damansaras, is RM112 a sq ft; there aren’t enough here for one of Damansara Jaya’s own.
The published records behind these figures
| Home | Size | Total | Per sq ft | Weeks on site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraces, Damansara Jaya and Damansara Kim, 3–4 bedrooms, three records | 1,400–1,600 sq ft | RM120k–500k | RM86–312 | 12–24 |
These are other firms’ published projects, updated 1 September 2026, tagged to Damansara Jaya and Damansara Kim together. The pooled set sits on Petaling Jaya and Damansara renovation costs.
Renovating in Damansara Jaya, and what MBPJ must approve first
In Damansara Jaya, the Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) approves additions to a house before work starts, and caps the height of a new front fence.
Our part is the design, the drawings and the site; the building is done by contractors you appoint.
If your plans change the house itself, the approval comes first and the building after, never the other way round.
At the site visit we look at the wiring, the plumbing and any past extensions, and check those extensions against the approved plans before drawing anything new.
Who says yes in Damansara Jaya
We’d ask for the house’s approved plans at the start, since every later submission builds on them.
- MBPJ, for an extensionA registered architect, engineer or draughtsperson draws it, MBPJ takes about 14 working days, the houses next door get a dilapidation report, and work waits for the approval.
- MBPJ, at the frontA new front fence or gate is capped at 1.5 m, with at least 30% of it open.
- MBPJ, for smaller worksRewiring, tiles and built-in cabinets need a minor works permit you can apply for yourself, approved in 24 working hours.
A terrace’s rear kitchen has a standard MBPJ plan if the original walls stay; opening up the back by removing walls needs a full submission. At Stellar, the management, once it is in place, will agree to works in writing first. The full process
FAQ
Damansara Jaya questions, answered
Is Bukit Damansara the same as Damansara Jaya?
No. Bukit Damansara is Damansara Heights, in Kuala Lumpur, with a page of its own and our studio. Damansara Jaya is SS22 and SS22A in Petaling Jaya, under MBPJ.
Can I build into the side of my Damansara Jaya semi-D?
Usually, yes. MBPJ lets a semi-D build within its setback if the walls stay 3.05 m (10 ft) from the side and back boundaries. It counts as an addition, so drawn plans and the neighbours’ dilapidation report apply.
Do you design the homes at Stellar Damansara?
Yes, at the same fee per room, and the design can start before the keys: the statutory notice gives December 2026 for completion. Every home is 2,028 sq ft or more, with 11 ft ceilings, a dry kitchen with an island and an enclosed wet kitchen. Our Stellar Damansara guide has the layouts.
Do you renovate the older houses in Damansara Jaya?
Yes, the terraces and the SS22A semi-Ds and bungalows alike. New homes after handover are our specialty, so for a house of this age we’d begin by walking through it with you. A few are newer: Damansara Residensi’s 14 three-storey semi-Ds, built in 2005 and 2006 by Genting Citra, stand on leasehold land, and Cloverton’s four three-storey bungalows on Jalan SS 22/28 were completed by OCR in 2014.
How much does it cost to hire an interior designer in Damansara Jaya?
In Damansara Jaya it’s worked out room by room: RM3,565 per room you choose to include, with open-plan living and dining counted once at RM5,485. A five-bedroom semi-D with three bathrooms and the kitchen redone comes to an estimated RM37,570–44,700, and a Stellar Damansara Type B 3+1 of about 2,028 sq ft to RM23,310–30,440, agreed in writing before we begin.
What is a normal budget for interior design in Damansara Jaya?
The calculator’s first Damansara Jaya home, a five-bedroom semi-D of about 2,800 sq ft with the kitchen and all three bathrooms done, is estimated at RM296k–534k to renovate and furnish with Curated (Commune, Cellini, Poet Living), or RM554k–1,115k with Bespoke (Space Furniture, BoConcept, Molteni&C), and our design fee sits outside those figures. The three terraces other firms have published here, pooled with neighbouring Damansara Kim, cost RM120,000 to RM500,000 each.
What is the 70/30 rule in interior design?
The rule splits a room between a dominant look, about 70%, and an accent, about 30%, so it feels planned rather than matched. In Damansara Jaya it earns its keep when a semi-D grows: build a covered dining area or a ground-floor bedroom into the setback, carry the house’s 70 into the new room and let only the 30 change, and the addition reads as part of the house rather than a later one.
What is the 3-5-7 rule in interior design?
It’s a styling habit: objects grouped in odd numbers, three, five or seven, look more natural than pairs, because the eye keeps moving across them. In Damansara Jaya we’d keep it light on a terrace sideboard, three pieces at most, and save the fives and sevens for the full-height shelving that Stellar Damansara’s 11 ft ceilings allow.
Can renovation work in Damansara Jaya happen on weekends?
On a Saturday, yes; on a Sunday or public holiday, no. MBPJ’s small-works form, which covers Damansara Jaya, sets the hours at 8am to 6pm and leaves out Sundays and public holidays, and Stellar Damansara has published no rules of its own yet, as its management isn’t in place.
Can I move the walls in a Stellar Damansara home?
More readily than a shear-wall tower allows. The developer, OCR, told The Edge in 2023 that Stellar stands on columns and beams rather than a shared shear wall, so internal walls can change. Its specification lists both reinforced-concrete and block walls, though, so we’d mark which is which on the drawings before planning to take any down, and the management would agree in writing first.
Where can I read reviews before hiring an interior designer in Damansara Jaya?
On Google: the Read every review on Google link at the foot of this page opens them. For a Damansara Jaya house you mean to keep, the first call is on us, so you can talk the plans through before deciding.
Is there a renovation cost calculator for a Damansara Jaya house?
Yes, on this page. Pick the kind of house nearest yours and set the rooms, and it shows an estimated design fee and a renovation and furniture range; the sums run in your browser, and nothing is sent.
What interior design services do you offer in Damansara Jaya?
For a Damansara Jaya terrace, semi-D or bungalow we lead with renovation design, and a condo such as Stellar Damansara gets condo interior design. We draw the plans, compare contractors’ quotes with you and manage the works on site, and contractors do the building. We also style rooms and furnish them through our Procurement Concierge, and homes outside Kuala Lumpur and Selangor are designed through Virtual Design.
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