Interior designer at DC Residensi
Step inside a DC Residensi home we designed.
Old encyclopaedias fill a dining wall, sheers soften the tall glass, and a bedroom kept the developer’s wardrobe. Here’s what we changed, and what we left as it was.
A living and dining room we designed at DC Residensi, Damansara Heights, with dark shelving drawn around the owners’ books.
- Developer
GuocoLand, freehold, part of Damansara City on Jalan Damanlela
- Completed
Around 2016; launched in 2013 as DC Residency
- Homes
Two towers of 28 storeys, 185 homes each, nine to a typical floor
- Sizes
904 to 2,982 sq ft, with duplex penthouses on the top two floors
- Facilities
A 50-metre salt-water infinity pool, an aqua gym and a private cinema on podium levels 6 and 6A
Interior design at DC Residensi (DC Residency), keeping what you love
DC Residensi homes were sold with Poggenpohl kitchens, Miele appliances, walnut parquet and floor-to-ceiling glass, and much of it may still serve you well.
Our interior design starts by deciding with you what to keep and what to renew.
We’ve designed at DC Residensi, and every photograph on this page was taken there: a living and dining room, a kitchen and yard, a bedroom and a study. What we kept, and what we changed, is the most useful thing we can show you.
We’re Sundays in Bed, a Kuala Lumpur studio that designs and looks after homes. Our studio is here in Damansara Heights. Each room we take on carries its own fee, agreed in writing before we begin.
DC Residensi is the residential part of Damansara City, GuocoLand’s freehold development on Jalan Damanlela, shared with two office towers, the Sofitel and DC Mall. It was launched in 2013 as DC Residency, which is why many owners still call it that.
- Tower AAround 201628 storeys · 185 homes · nine to a typical floor
- Tower BAround 201628 storeys · 185 homes · nine to a typical floor
DC Residensi units range from 904 to 2,982 sq ft built-up, with duplex penthouses on the top two floors.
- 904–1,187 sq ftOne bedroom, or a 1+1 with a flexible extra room
- 1,668–1,862 sq ftTwo bedrooms and a study; a 2+1+1 adds a helper’s room
- 2,077–2,079 sq ftThree en-suite bedrooms, a helper’s room, and a dry kitchen with a wet one behind (3+1)
- 2,701–2,982 sq ftExecutive three-bedrooms, opening onto a private lift lobby
Ceilings
Residents have their own entrance into DC Mall, and a covered walkway runs about 400 m to Pusat Bandar Damansara MRT.
In the simplex homes the ceilings are about 11 ft by one agent’s measure, so curtains and joinery run taller than usual. We’ll measure yours when we visit.
DC Residensi floor plans, and where to begin in a home this well made
In a DC Residensi home, we begin with whatever no longer fits how you live.
Finished this well, a home usually needs a few careful changes more than a strip-out.
If you cook for friends
The 2+1+1, 3+1 and Executive plans pair a dry kitchen on show with a wet kitchen behind. Before we replace any Poggenpohl cabinetry, we check whether new fronts, a worktop and better lighting would do.
For the tall windows
Floor-to-ceiling windows bring in light, afternoon heat and, in some rooms, the office towers or the Sofitel next door. We plan layered sheers and dim-out curtains, hung from the ceiling, before we choose any furniture.
If the sun has been at your floors
Marble and walnut parquet came with the home. Where the timber has faded, it can usually be sanded and re-oiled, and we choose rugs, joinery and fabrics to sit with the walnut.
For the spare room
In a 1+1 the extra room is small and flexible: a study, nursery or dressing room. In the larger homes, the helper’s quarter by the wet kitchen can become a store or laundry if nobody lives in.
For the way you walk in
Selected homes have a lift lobby of their own, and sources point to the Executive types. We treat that lobby as a room: a console, a seat for shoes, some art. In other homes a shared corridor leads to your door, so the foyer inside does that work.
Plan by plan, from S1 to E2
S1 and S2, 904 sq ft. One bedroom with a balcony, the simplest plan in the towers.
A1 to A3, 1,148 to 1,187 sq ft. The 1+1s; one listing adds a powder room, so a guest never needs the bedroom’s bathroom.
B1, 1,668 sq ft, and B2 and B3, about 1,860 sq ft. B1 is a 2+1. B2 and B3 are the 2+1+1s, with an en-suite master, a guest bath, a powder room, a study and a helper’s quarter beside the wet kitchen.
C1, about 2,078 sq ft. A 3+1 with three en-suite bedrooms, a powder room and the two kitchens.
E1, about 2,703 sq ft, and E2, 2,982 sq ft. The Executive homes. Agents give E1 a family room, a walk-in closet and a private lift lobby; E2 has three bathrooms and a powder room, two utility rooms and a balcony. A family room and two utility rooms are three spaces still waiting for a job, and we settle those before any joinery.
From PropertyGuru’s type list and agents’ plan notes (jadeland, klresidence). The duplex penthouses on levels 27 and 28 are left off: sources give sizes from 3,074 to 4,855 sq ft and don’t agree.
What interior design costs at DC Residensi
At DC Residensi, the Sundays in Bed design fee is estimated at RM26,875–34,005 for a 2+1+1 and RM30,440–37,570 for a 3+1.
The rooms you pick set it: a fee per room, agreed in writing before we begin.
- Each room we design
- RM3,565
- Living and dining
- RM5,485
Below is the DC Residensi design fee, and the rooms worth keeping. In a home sold this well finished, the first question is what to leave alone. In the DC Residensi rooms we designed, a developer’s wardrobe stayed in the bedroom, and the work went into joinery for the books, layered lighting and arranging what the owners already had.
The fee follows the same logic: a kitchen or bathroom you keep isn’t counted, and nor is a helper’s quarter left as it is.
2 bedrooms, a study, 1 bathroom and the dry and wet kitchens: 6 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
Our fee goes on paper first, and you pay it as the work moves through its stages. Marble over porcelain in a bathroom is a choice for your budget and the contractor, and our fee is untouched.
Add Curated furniture and finishes (Commune, Cellini, Poet Living) to our fee, and a 2+1+1 here totals roughly RM249k–416k.
Each figure here is a guide until contractors put in their quotes.
| Home | Our fee | Curated | Bespoke |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2+1+1 1,855–1,862 sq ft | RM26,875–34,005 | RM222k–382k | RM426k–817k |
| 1+1 1,148–1,187 sq ft | RM16,180–19,745 | RM167k–292k | RM334k–654k |
| 3+1 2,077 sq ft | RM30,440–37,570 | RM255k–457k | RM480k–959k |
| Executive 2,701–2,705 sq ft | RM34,005–41,135 | RM269k–483k | RM505k–1.01M |
Lower figures cover the living and dining, bedrooms, any study or family room, the bathrooms (one fewer than the plan has in the larger homes), and the kitchens. Higher figures add one more room, perhaps the last bathroom or the helper’s quarter; from 1,200 sq ft, two more.
All figures are October 2026 guides, and your contractors’ quotes set the real ones.
How these figures are worked out
Both towers were completed around 2016. Not every one of their Catalano and Gessi bathrooms will need redoing, so the 2+1+1, 3+1 and Executive rows each design one bathroom fewer than the plan has.
We’ve assumed one bathroom and an open kitchen in the 1+1, and three bathrooms in the Executive. In the 1+1 and 2+1+1 rows the extra room is priced as a study; in the Executive, its family room is.
Each range allows for new kitchen cabinets, wardrobes and air-conditioning. Keeping the Poggenpohl cabinetry and Miele appliances from handover takes that part out of the figure.
Furnishing to let?
Plenty of DC Residensi homes are offered for rent. If yours will be, our Essential level, with furniture from Ikea, SSF Home and Harvey Norman, is quick to finish and holds up from one tenancy to the next, and our design fee is the same at every level.
Renovation and furniture at Essential, before our fee
- 2+1+1
- RM126k–196k
- 1+1
- RM92k–144k
- 3+1
- RM144k–234k
- Executive
- RM153k–248k
Begin with a conversation
Tell us which tower and type is yours, and whether you’re moving in or a tenant is moving out. We’ll bring more photographs of our work here.
Or begin with a figure
Answer a few questions about your space, and you’ll have an estimate to consider in your own time.
A DC Residensi interior designer, on your behalf with management
DC Residensi is a serviced residence, so its management approves the works and sets the terms; we handle that with you.
We design and run the job, and you appoint the contractors who build it, once we’ve gone through their quotes together.
Nine homes share each typical floor from level 7 to level 26, five share level 27, and the duplex penthouses take the top two floors. One agent counts four passenger lifts and a service lift in each tower, besides the Executive homes’ private lifts, so we ask management which lift our contractor may use and book it before the first delivery.
The facilities sit below the homes, on podium levels 6 and 6A: a 50-metre salt-water infinity pool, an aqua gym, a private cinema, private dining rooms and reading cocoons. Agents describe four tiers of security access, so every worker is registered with the management office before they arrive.
- A first call FreeTower A or B, which type, whether a tenant is moving out, what came with the home at handover, and roughly what you’d spend.
- Seeing the home RM200, waived if you go ahead with usA site visit to measure, confirm the ceiling height, look over the walnut floor and the kitchen, and see which way the windows face.
- The scope in writing, then the designFirst we agree the rooms, the fee and the budget on paper. Layouts, lighting, curtains and materials follow, and any new joinery is drawn to sit alongside the Poggenpohl kitchen.
- Drawings, then quotesContractors price from a complete set of drawings. We take you through each quote line by line, and you decide who builds.
- The works, then the stylingWe book lifts and deliveries through management, check every stage against the drawings, and style the rooms before you move in.
A tenant moving out, management’s paperwork, DBKL and your neighbours on the floor rarely line up on their own. We’ll line them up for you and tell you when each one needs a word from you. How we work, step by step
Before any builder walks in
If a tenant is leaving, photograph the home’s condition and settle the deposit before any contractor walks in, so wear from the tenancy isn’t mistaken for renovation damage.
Expect management to ask for the drawings before it approves the works; any DBKL permit is then applied for by your contractor. None of the towers’ renovation terms, from the deposit to working hours and service-lift bookings, is published; management gives us the current set before we price anything.
Renovating a DC Residensi home you’ve let, so it feels like yours again
A DC Residensi home can be shaped around whoever lives in it now.
Homes here were sold partly furnished, some later fully furnished in one of two developer styles, and many have been let since.
Maybe yours is a 1+1 for a couple who travel for work, or an Executive home where the grandparents come to stay. Even a floor apart, those homes need very different rooms. We begin with you: who lives there, how you cook and entertain, what you own.
What a DC Residensi home of around ten years needs
- KeepKitchen, baths, floorsPoggenpohl, Miele, Catalano and Gessi, marble and walnut parquet, serviced where worn
- AdaptThe extra roomsA helper’s quarter turned store or study; a +1 given one clear job
- AddCurtains, light, furnitureLayered curtains for the tall glass, lamps, and furniture chosen around how you live
From the 2013–2016 sales specification. An earlier owner may have changed yours; the site visit tells us.
Inside the rooms we designed here
The owners came with books: old National Geographics, well-loved encyclopaedias and things brought back from travel. So the dining wall became dark built-in shelving, lit along each shelf, with a brass rail to keep every row in place. The sitting area was left quiet, with wall space for paintings still to come.
Music mattered too. The wiring for the sound system is hidden away, and the lighting is layered, so the room is bright and easy by day and low and warm at night.
What have homes close to yours cost to renovate?
We don’t publish a cost for our DC Residensi work. Our other finished work nearby is at Regent Suites: a two-bedroom that came to about RM85,000 and a three-bedroom to about RM145,000, furniture included.
A full renovation usually redoes the kitchen and bathrooms, which many ten-year-old DC Residensi homes can keep, so yours may cost less than a full one; the table above prices a 1,857 sq ft 2+1+1 room by room.
Renovation costs and approvals for the wider neighbourhood have a page of their own.
Interior design in Damansara Heights
Close by, each with its own page: Damansara Heights · Regent Suites · Clearwater · The Peak · Bukit Tunku
FAQ
Before you change anything at DC Residensi
Is DC Residensi the same building as DC Residency?
Yes. GuocoLand launched the two towers in 2013 as DC Residency by Clermont, with hotel-style services, and the name later became DC Residensi. Agents and owners use both. It is the residential part of Damansara City, on Jalan Damanlela beside DC Mall, and the rooms photographed on this page are ones we designed there.
Should I replace the Poggenpohl kitchen?
If the cabinets are sound, probably not all of it. New fronts, a new worktop, better lighting and a serviced Miele oven can refresh it without a strip-out. We look at the hinges, the cabinets and how you cook before suggesting anything bigger.
A tenant is leaving my DC Residensi home. What comes first?
A record of its condition before the tenancy ends, so the deposit is settled fairly. Then we look at what tenants wear first: the parquet, the paint, sofas and mattresses. The kitchen and bathrooms often need only a deep clean and new seals. Tenancies turn over steadily here: iProperty showed some 70 DC Residensi homes for rent in 2026.
Could the helper’s quarter in a 2+1+1 or 3+1 work as a study?
In most cases, yes, provided nobody lives in. Beside the wet kitchen, it also suits a store or laundry. We check its air-conditioning and ventilation first. As a designed room it adds RM3,565 to our fee; left alone, it adds nothing.
What would a DC Residensi 3+1 cost to renovate and furnish?
Renovation and furniture for a 2,077 sq ft 3+1 come to an estimated RM255k–457k at Curated (Commune, Cellini or Poet Living), or RM480k–959k at Bespoke (Space Furniture, BoConcept or Molteni&C), before our fee. Keeping the original Poggenpohl kitchen lowers it.
How early should I call before moving in?
As early as you can, ideally as soon as you know when the tenancy ends. Drawings, quotes and management’s sign-off can then be ready for contractors to begin soon after the home is vacated.
Can I see photos of a DC Residensi (DC Residency) home you’ve designed?
Yes. Every photograph on this page was taken in a DC Residensi home we designed: a living and dining room, a kitchen and yard, a bedroom and a study. The kitchen, the bedroom and the study each have their own page in our portfolio.
What are the floor plans at DC Residensi?
DC Residensi’s plans run from S1 and S2, one-bedrooms of 904 sq ft, through the A1 to A3 1+1s of 1,148 to 1,187 sq ft and the B types (a 2+1 of 1,668 sq ft and 2+1+1s of about 1,860 sq ft), to the C1, a 3+1 of about 2,078 sq ft, and the Executive E1 and E2 of about 2,703 and 2,982 sq ft. The duplex penthouses on levels 27 and 28 are left off because sources don’t agree on their sizes.
What facilities does DC Residensi have?
DC Residensi’s facilities are on podium levels 6 and 6A: a 50-metre salt-water infinity pool, an aqua gym, a private cinema, private dining rooms and reading cocoons. Residents also have their own entrance into DC Mall, and a covered walkway runs about 400 m to Pusat Bandar Damansara MRT.
What interior design services do you offer at DC Residensi?
For DC Residensi’s homes, such as a 1,857 sq ft 2+1+1, we offer condo interior design, renovation design included. We draw the plans, compare contractors’ quotes with you and manage the works on site, and contractors do the building. Where a ten-year-old home mainly needs furnishing, interior styling and our Procurement Concierge cover it, and homes outside Kuala Lumpur and Selangor have Virtual Design.
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