Interior design in Damansara Utama (Uptown)
Damansara Utama’s terraces, rethought from the porch to the kitchen.
Older terraces, semi-Ds and bungalows around the Uptown shops. 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 share of your build, and paid in stages as the project progresses.
- An older terrace
Our design fee for four bedrooms, two of the three bathrooms, the kitchen and the open-plan living and dining is RM30,440.
- The building work
Done by contractors, chosen from quotes we gather and compare with you. We design, draw and manage the project; we don’t build it.
- When to call
Before you ask contractors to quote, so every quote is priced on the same drawings. If you’re buying, before you sign, so you know what the house needs.
What should you plan first in an older Damansara Utama terrace?
Decide which rooms you’re changing, then plan the hidden work and the ground floor: the wiring, the pipes and the route from the car porch to the kitchen. In a house of this age, those decide what the finishes can be.
Most of Damansara Utama is freehold landed housing, built by See Hoy Chan. Close to 3,000 terraces, semi-Ds and bungalows sit around the Uptown shops. A typical intermediate terrace sits on a 22 by 70 or 75 ft lot, with about 1,650 sq ft built up.
In these houses, we design the rooms you’re changing, at the same fee per room. A full renovation of an older home is worth walking through on the call first, since the scope varies from house to house.
What’s behind the walls. A house this age may need new wiring before new lights, and new pipes before new tiles. MBPJ’s minor works permit covers rewiring, retiling and built-in cabinets. Plan all three together and open the walls once.
The car porch. It’s the real front door: shoes, the gate, the deliveries. On a two-storey intermediate terrace, MBPJ allows the porch roof to become an upstairs balcony. It must sit 14 ft back from the front boundary.
The kitchen. The original kitchen is usually closed off at the back. Opening it to the dining room is a common first change. If you fry often, keep a wet kitchen behind a door. MBPJ has a standard plan for a terrace’s rear kitchen extension, if the original walls stay.
The living room. Find the west side before you place the sofa. In a house, unlike a condo, you can shade it from outside. A roof over the front has a standard MBPJ plan too.
Up the stair. A double-storey terrace puts every bedroom upstairs. If parents stay, or you mean to stay into your seventies, plan a downstairs room that can take a bed, beside a bathroom without a step.
The neighbours. In a terrace row, MBPJ asks for a dilapidation report on the houses next door before anything is added to the structure.
Eating out, eating in. If you walk to Uptown for dinner more often than you cook, a smaller kitchen and a bigger dining table may suit you.
If yours is a condo, such as Uptown Residences, our Damansara condo page is the better start.
How much does it cost to renovate a home in Damansara Utama?
For an older four-bedroom Damansara Utama terrace of about 1,650 sq ft, with two of its three bathrooms redone, new floors and a closed kitchen, renovation and furniture come to about RM141k–219k at Essential finishes (Ikea, SSF Home, Harvey Norman), before the Sundays in Bed design fee of RM30,440.
Start from 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.
4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and the kitchen: 7 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 and laminate, sintered stone, a plaster ceiling. Furniture from Commune, Cellini, Fella Design, Dezign District, Poet Living, Big Brain, Gudang, Crown Livin and Dadswood.
Bespoke. Bespoke laminate, detailed joinery, a ceiling with cornice. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Older terrace 4 bedrooms, 2 of 3 bathrooms redone, about 1,650 sq ft, new floors | RM141k–219k | RM250k–428k |
| Older semi-D 5 bedrooms, 3 of 4 bathrooms redone, 2,001–3,000 sq ft, new floors | RM168k–274k | RM296k–534k |
| Resale condo 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms redone, about 2,000 sq ft | RM124k–193k | RM223k–385k |
At Essential, furniture comes from Ikea, SSF Home and Harvey Norman; at Curated, from Commune, Cellini and Poet Living.
Priced for a house kept to its layout, with new floors and the bathrooms you choose redone. The ranges cover carpentry, ceilings and paint, lighting and wiring, plumbing and tiling, air-conditioning, kitchen appliances and loose furniture. They leave out a television, structural work, the roof and any extension.
Other firms’ published renovations in Damansara Utama and its neighbours are on our Petaling Jaya and Damansara renovation-cost page. These ranges come from typical costs for each part of the job, not from those projects. Estimates as of September 2026, not a quotation. Your contractors’ quotes are the real number.
How much does an interior designer cost in Damansara Utama?
For an older four-bedroom Damansara Utama terrace with three bathrooms, two of them redesigned, the Sundays in Bed interior design fee is RM30,440: 7 rooms at RM3,565 (the four bedrooms, two bathrooms and the kitchen) and the open-plan living and dining at RM5,485, fixed in writing before we begin.
| Home | Interior design | Interior styling |
|---|---|---|
| Older terrace 4 bedrooms, 2 of its 3 bathrooms, the kitchen, living and dining | RM30,440 | RM14,640 |
| Terrace, kept bathrooms 4 bedrooms, the kitchen, living and dining | RM23,310 | RM11,210 |
| Older semi-D 5 bedrooms, 3 of its 4 bathrooms, the kitchen, living and dining | RM37,570 | RM18,070 |
| Condo 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and an open kitchen, living and dining | RM23,310 | RM11,210 |
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 or rebuilt: carpentry, wiring, lighting, a kitchen. Interior styling is for rooms that stay as they are, and covers the furniture, art and finishing layer.
Only the rooms you change are counted. Keep the bathrooms and they drop out of the fee. A 1,650 sq ft terrace and a larger one cost the same to design if the rooms are the same.
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.
Why not a percentage? Older houses tend to reveal more work once opened up. A fee tied to the build would rise with every surprise. Ours is fixed per room before we begin, so it doesn’t.
What about “free design”? It’s usually folded into the build price. Ours is a separate fee, so the same drawings can go to more than one contractor and the quotes can be compared on the same work.
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 house, how you live, your budget and when you’d like to start. Bring photos of each room.
- The site visit RM200, waived if you go ahead with usWe measure and photograph every room, and look at the wiring, the plumbing and any past extensions.
- The designLayout, lighting, built-ins and materials, room by room, with one designer from the first call to handover.
- The drawingsWhat your contractors quote from and build to, so the price and the work both match the design.
- The quotesWe set contractors’ quotes side by side against the drawings and show you where they differ. You choose.
- The house as builtAnything added to a house needs MBPJ’s approval first, so we check past extensions against the approved plans before we draw.
- The permitYou or your contractor apply for MBPJ’s minor works permit; additions need plans from a registered architect, engineer or draughtsperson. We help gather the documents.
- On site, then moving inWe coordinate the works and deliveries and check what’s built against the drawings. Landed renovations published by other firms in KL and PJ ran a median 19 weeks on site.
Which council, and what it covers. Damansara Utama (SS21) and Damansara Kim (SS20) are under the Petaling Jaya City Council, MBPJ.
MBPJ’s minor works permit covers new tiles, painting, rewiring and built-in cabinets. It is approved in 24 working hours.
Its standard plans cover common terrace additions, such as a rear kitchen or a front roof. Anything else added to the structure needs plans from a registered architect, engineer or draughtsperson, approved in about 14 working days.
Do you cover my part of Damansara Utama?
Yes. Sundays in Bed designs homes in person across Kuala Lumpur and Selangor, and all of Damansara Utama is inside that area. A site visit anywhere in it is RM200, waived if you go ahead with us.
New homes nearby
Damansara Utama itself has little land left to build on. The nearest new block is Stellar Damansara, between SMK Damansara Jaya and Sungai Kayu Ara, a short drive from Uptown. It is due in December 2026. Its homes of 2,000 sq ft and more have 11 ft ceilings, so they plan more like a house than a typical condo.
Newer towers nearby are covered on our Kota Damansara and Damansara Perdana pages.
Neighbourhoods we cover
Damansara Utama (SS21) · Uptown · Damansara Kim (SS20) · Kayu Ara · Damansara Jaya · Bandar Utama
Nearby, with their own pages: TTDI · Ara Damansara · Damansara Heights · the Damansara corridor · Petaling Jaya, and the rest of Selangor.
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Damansara Utama questions, answered
Do you work on older Damansara Utama terraces?
Yes, at the same fee per room as a new home. so a full renovation of an older terrace or semi-D is worth walking through on the call first, since the scope varies from house to house.
Can you redesign just one room, like a closed-off kitchen?
Yes. Each room is priced and designed on its own, so the kitchen alone is RM3,565 for interior design. The foyer and utility yard are designed free when your home has a bedroom and a living and dining space.
Do I need MBPJ approval to open up the kitchen or extend?
New tiles, rewiring and built-in cabinets need MBPJ’s minor works permit, approved in 24 working hours. A rear kitchen extension on a terrace can use MBPJ’s standard plan if the original walls stay. Taking walls down or adding to the structure needs plans from a registered architect, engineer or draughtsperson, approved in about 14 working days.
Do you design condos around Uptown too?
Yes, at the same fee per room. For a condo, we submit your renovation plan to the management and book the service lift for deliveries. The two homes in our portfolio are condos at Regent Suites, Damansara Heights.
Is the design fee a percentage of my renovation budget?
No. It’s 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.
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.
Bring a few photos of the house as it is.
A free discovery call about your Damansara Utama home. Pick a time, then bring the floor plan if you have it. You’ll know your design fee before you commit to anything.