Interior designer at Desa Bangsar Ria
A Desa Bangsar Ria home, cared for from the inside out.
Wiring, pipes and waterproofing come first in a flat this age. Then we plan its generous rooms around the way your household lives now.
Wardrobes to the ceiling and a desk by the window: the sort of study we’d make of the small fourth room in a Desa Bangsar Ria 3+1, if no helper needs it.
- Developer
A UOA Group company, Desa Bangsar Ria Sdn Bhd
- Completed
1993
- Homes
43 in one freehold block of ten storeys on Jalan Kapas
- Sizes
797 to 2,917 sq ft; most for sale are 3+1s and 4+1s of about 1,800 to 2,100 sq ft
- Facilities
A pool, a sauna, a squash court, a half-sized basketball court and a gym
Desa Bangsar Ria layouts after three decades of owners
Desa Bangsar Ria has big rooms, few neighbours, and services that may be as old as the building.
We start behind the walls, then help your household fill the generous space well.
A flat that has stood for three decades rarely tells you everything at the first viewing. The rooms look generous and the balcony is wide, but the cable in the walls and the seal under the shower tray are what decide how well it ages from here.
We’re Sundays in Bed, a Kuala Lumpur studio that designs and looks after homes. Our studio is a few minutes away, in Damansara Heights. We haven’t yet designed a home in this block. Our fee is counted room by room and written down before any drawing begins.
Desa Bangsar Ria is one freehold block of ten storeys and 43 homes on Jalan Kapas, built by a UOA Group company and completed in 1993. Bangsar Shopping Centre is about 500 m down the road.
Published sizes at Desa Bangsar Ria run from 797 to 2,917 sq ft built-up, and most homes that come up for sale are 3+1s and 4+1s of about 1,800 to 2,100 sq ft.
- About 1,808 sq ftThree bedrooms, a maid’s room and up to four bathrooms
- About 2,070–2,100 sq ftFour bedrooms plus one
- About 2,900–3,000 sq ftA penthouse, as listed: four bedrooms plus one. Listings show some homes here, a penthouse among them, with a store room at car-park level
Space and the layout
A flat that has lasted thirty-three years may have passed through several owners, each changing something. However alike the layouts began, no two homes here are quite the same now. We’ll learn what yours has become.
One portal snippet gives the block nine floors, another 18 units. StarProperty, KL Property Talk and durianproperty agree on ten storeys and 43 homes, and those are the figures we work from.
Shared facilities take some of the load: the block has a pool, a sauna, a squash court, a half-sized basketball court and a gym, so no bedroom needs to be given over to exercise.
KL Property Talk adds a multipurpose hall and a children’s playground to that list. If a big birthday lunch can be held downstairs, under the management’s rules, the dining table upstairs can be chosen for the family you cook for every week, not for the busiest day of the year.
StarProperty’s project page lists covered parking with one or two bays for each home, and 24-hour security with an intercom. Where a store room sits beside your bays, it can take the bicycles, the golf bags and the spare tiles worth keeping from the works for later repairs.
Some things may never have been changed at all. Wiring, the distribution board, pipes and bathroom waterproofing could all be original. We look at those first, because a new kitchen fitted onto tired plumbing puts your money at risk.
The rooms themselves are generous. Three bedrooms in 1,808 sq ft leave a wide living and dining area, so what we watch for is furniture that looks lost. We’ll size it to your rooms.
Renovating at Desa Bangsar Ria: hidden work before the pretty things
Desa Bangsar Ria is 33 years old, so the parts you can’t see come first, then how your household uses each room.
Finishes come last, and by then they’re easy to choose.
If your home hasn’t been rewired in years
A building of this age may still run on its original wiring and pipes. Before any tile is chosen, an electrician checks the board and the load, and a plumber the supply and waste. Then the drawings follow what they find.
A board sized for 1993 was never asked to run split air-conditioners in every bedroom, an induction hob and an oven at once, and a 4+1 here may now need all three. If the survey finds the supply too small for that, an upgrade needs the management’s consent as well as TNB’s, so we raise it before the kitchen is drawn.
For the bathrooms you use most
A 3+1 here can have four bathrooms, and the two that matter most are yours and the one visitors borrow, and we re-waterproof whatever we open, because a leak in a mid-rise block reaches the neighbour below.
Listings give the 1,808 sq ft 3+1 three bathrooms or four, and propertylink gives the 4+1 four, so we count yours on the visit. The maid’s bathroom, and a guest bath that still drains well, often need only new fittings and a fresh seal, which keeps the money for the two you use daily.
For your kitchen
Whether it’s enclosed or already open, we’ll see on the visit. Opening it to the dining depends on what the wall carries. Where the cooking is fierce, glass between kitchen and dining lets the light through and keeps the smoke back.
We couldn’t find a single published floor plan for Desa Bangsar Ria, so on the visit we measure and draw your kitchen as it stands, with its yard or utility corner if it has one, before suggesting where a wall might go.
If you have a helper, or don’t
The 3+1’s fourth room was planned for a helper. Without one, it can hold the laundry, the suitcases or a desk; with one, it needs proper air and light. We settle its purpose with you before we draw anything.
If an earlier refit left something good
Some homes here come with a store room at car-park level, and some carry built-in cabinetry from an earlier refit. Where either is sound, it stays, and the money moves to the bathrooms and the kitchen.
What interior design costs at Desa Bangsar Ria
At Desa Bangsar Ria, the Sundays in Bed design fee is an estimated RM30,440–37,570 for the 3+1 and RM34,005–41,135 for the 4+1.
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 the Desa Bangsar Ria design fee, and the rooms it covers. A 3+1 here can have four bathrooms, and few households want every one redrawn, so the fee counts only those you’d change.
The small fourth room is the other choice to make early. Left as it is, it adds nothing to our fee; drawn as a study, a laundry or a better room for a helper, it counts as one more.
3 bedrooms, 3 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 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
That sum is on paper before any drawing starts, and instalments follow as the work goes on. Rewiring all 2,077 sq ft or choosing marble over tiles goes to the contractors, and our fee stays the same.
Taken to Curated, a 3+1 here comes to about RM281k–466k once our fee is added.
What comes first in a flat this age. The services, the kitchen and the bathrooms you use, well before any feature wall. Pick your type, then switch off any room you’d rather leave as it is.
| Home | Our fee | Curated | Bespoke |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3+1 About 1,808 sq ft | RM30,440–37,570 | RM251k–429k | RM474k–901k |
| 4+1 About 2,077 sq ft | RM34,005–41,135 | RM279k–501k | RM524k–1.05M |
The lower figure is what most owners here would hand us: the living and dining, the kitchen, the bedrooms and three bathrooms. The upper one allows two more, perhaps the fourth bathroom, or the small fourth room made into a study.
All of it reflects October 2026 prices, and a firm number only ever comes from a contractor’s quotation.
How these figures are worked out
Three of the four bathrooms are priced, and the small fourth room is priced as left alone; switch on what you’d really change.
The penthouses, about 2,917 sq ft with a 4+1’s rooms, sit close to that row.
The ranges assume a resale home needing new air-conditioners, kitchen cabinets, a hob and hood, and wardrobes. If an earlier refit left any of those in good order, they can stay, and those lines fall away.
Rewiring and new pipework vary most between homes; contractors price them once they’ve seen yours.
Furnishing to let?
Getting a flat here ready for tenants? Our Essential level suits it, with Ikea, SSF Home and Harvey Norman furniture, finishes that cope with a change of occupant and a shorter programme. The fee for each room we design doesn’t change with the level.
Renovation and furniture at Essential, before our fee
- 3+1
- RM142k–220k
- 4+1
- RM158k–256k
Begin with a conversation
Tell us your type, who lives with you and what the last refit left behind. On the first call you’ll get a fee estimate, and a list of what to check before anything is chosen.
Or begin with a figure
Answer a few questions about your space, and you’ll have an estimate to consider in your own time.
Desa Bangsar Ria interior design, from the wiring check to styled rooms
At Desa Bangsar Ria, we start by finding out what three decades and several owners have left in your walls.
The same designer then sees you through to the styled rooms, while contractors you choose do the building.
- The discovery call Free3+1, 4+1 or penthouse; the household; the previous owner’s alterations; a rough spending figure.
- The site visit RM200, waived if you go ahead with usA tape on every wall, a torch in the distribution board and under each sink, a look at the bathroom floors and the car-park store, and a list of keepers.
- The scope, then the designOur fee, your figure and the rooms are agreed in writing. Then the drawings, in the order the services check sets: cables and pipes first, then layouts, lighting and finishes.
- Drawings and quotesEvery bidder prices the identical set of drawings, so a low quote can’t hide a missing item. You choose the builder after we’ve read each quotation together.
- On site, then moving inOnce management agrees, the electrician and plumber go in ahead of the carpenters and painters, and we check each trade against the drawings before a single lamp is unpacked.
In a block this small, every neighbour hears the drilling. We look after the notices, sensible timings and a clean corridor, so you can stay on good terms with them. We send the guardhouse, staffed round the clock, the contractors’ names and the delivery dates before the first day, so nobody waits at the gate with a lorry of stone.The full process
Buying a resale home here?
Desa Bangsar Ria was finished in 1993, so there’s no developer defect period left to call on: you inherit whatever the last owner did. A services check before you plan the works is worth having.
Two approvals usually come before work: DBKL’s permit, which your contractor applies for, and the management’s. We couldn’t find this block’s deposit, working hours or lift arrangements published anywhere, so we ask the office for them first.
StarProperty lists the service charge at RM0.41 a sq ft, about RM740 a month for a 1,808 sq ft 3+1, and notes that it runs higher than at most older Bangsar blocks because so few homes share the upkeep. Ask the office for today’s figure. With costs split so few ways, a scuffed entrance on moving day is noticed, so we protect the floors and walls between the car park and your door.
The company that built the block, Desa Bangsar Ria Sdn Bhd, still appears in UOA Ltd’s 2025 annual report as a 60%-held subsidiary. It is worth asking the office whether drawings from 1993 are on file: they would show which walls carry load before anyone opens up a kitchen.
Interior design ideas to make an older Desa Bangsar Ria home yours
A Desa Bangsar Ria home can, with rooms this generous.
It may need new services where they’re due, and we write your household’s habits into the plan from the start.
Perhaps the flat has been yours since the nineties and you’d simply like it looked after. Maybe it’s newly yours, and you’d like it to start feeling that way. Either way, we fit the rooms to today’s household: grandparents at weekends, a teenager’s desk, a cook who needs a proper hob.
What an older Desa Bangsar Ria home usually needs
- KeepSpace, balconiesWide living rooms, large balconies, a store downstairs where one came with the flat, built-ins still in good order
- AdaptKitchen, the +1Open, screened with glass or left enclosed for frying; the small fourth room turned laundry, study or helper’s quarters
- AddServices, lightFresh cabling or pipes if the survey asks, several layers of lamps, cooling matched to rooms this size
UOA’s 1993 specification isn’t online, and owners since have altered a great deal, so recommendations wait until we’ve stood in your flat.
irumah calls the 1,808 sq ft 3+1 the most popular layout here, which is why it leads the figures on this page. If yours is the 4+1, add a bedroom and its bathroom to each sum; if it is the penthouse, we price it from its own survey.
What have other Bangsar renovations cost?
We don’t have a project of our own in this block, so the fairest guide is what other firms have published about Bangsar homes. Closest in size is one at Araville, 2,100 sq ft, recorded at RM240,000 and twelve weeks of works.
Nine Bangsar renovations published by other firms give both a spend and a size, and their middle value is RM114 per sq ft. For a 3+1 of 1,808 sq ft, that rate points to about RM206,000.
Our Curated range sits higher because it prices a new kitchen, wardrobes and cooling in every room. Every entry is on the Bangsar renovation cost page.
FAQ
Desa Bangsar Ria: rooms, approvals and cost
Is a 1993 flat on Jalan Kapas worth renovating properly?
Usually, if the hidden work is done well. Homes here are large and freehold, and only 43 exist. Rewire and replumb where the survey says so, re-waterproof the bathrooms you open, and new finishes have a sound base. The site visit checks this.
As Desa Bangsar Ria is freehold, there is no lease shortening year by year, so new wiring, pipes and waterproofing serve a title with no end date.
Can I open up the kitchen in my Desa Bangsar Ria home?
Often. It depends on whether the wall is structural and what runs inside it. After the site visit we suggest a full opening, a glass screen, or keeping it enclosed for heavy cooking. Structural changes need management’s approval and an engineer’s view first.
In a ten-storey block of stacked homes, the wall between kitchen and dining may carry pipes from the flats above. If it does, a glass screen, or a wide opening framed around them, is the honest answer.
What can the maid’s room in a 3+1 become?
A study, a laundry with storage, a walk-in wardrobe, or a better room for your helper. It is a small room, so one clear job suits it, and good air and light matter whichever you choose. Two listings here mention a store room at car-park level; if your home has one, suitcases and festive boxes can live down there, which leaves the maid’s room free for daily use.
If your children are at SJK or SMK Bukit Bandaraya, both within 1 km according to StarProperty, the +1 can become a quiet room for homework, away from the television. It then needs its own lamp, a window that opens and an air-conditioner sized for a small room.
How much does it cost to renovate and furnish a Desa Bangsar Ria 4+1?
Our estimate for works and furniture in a 2,077 sq ft 4+1 is RM279k–501k at Curated or RM524k–1.05M at Bespoke, with our fee on top. Other firms’ published Bangsar records run lower: Araville, 2,100 sq ft, RM240,000.
We price the 4+1 at 2,077 sq ft because both sales Brickz recorded here in 2024 were that size. The figure moves most with how many of its four bathrooms you rebuild, and whether the kitchen stays where it is.
How should we furnish a large balcony here?
For KL weather: outdoor fabrics that dry quickly, teak or powder-coated aluminium, and a blind or screen for the hottest hours. If yours is big enough for a table for four, it earns a place on the floor plan like any other room.
A balcony here has had 33 years of monsoon rain. Before we choose a single chair, we check that the floor still falls towards its drain and that the seal around the sliding door frame is sound, so a storm runs off instead of creeping under the living-room door.
Does the building’s management need to approve my renovation?
Expect so. Most KL condominiums take a deposit and limit contractors’ hours; this one’s current terms aren’t public, so we get them in writing before booking any trade. Your contractor handles the DBKL application.
In a block of 43 homes, we put the request to the office in one clear letter: the drawings, the contractors’ names, the noisy weeks and where materials will wait, asking for the deposit and the permitted hours in reply.
How old is Desa Bangsar Ria, and who built it?
Desa Bangsar Ria was completed in 1993 by a UOA Group company, so it is 33 years old. That company, Desa Bangsar Ria Sdn Bhd, still appears in UOA Ltd’s 2025 annual report as a 60%-held subsidiary. The block is freehold, so there is no lease shortening year by year.
What are the layouts and sizes at Desa Bangsar Ria?
At Desa Bangsar Ria, published sizes run from 797 to 2,917 sq ft built-up, and most homes for sale are 3+1s of about 1,808 sq ft or 4+1s of about 2,070–2,100 sq ft, with penthouses of about 2,900–3,000 sq ft. We couldn’t find a single published floor plan, so on the visit we measure and draw your home as it stands.
Where is Desa Bangsar Ria, and what facilities does it have?
Desa Bangsar Ria is on Jalan Kapas, and Bangsar Shopping Centre is about 500 m down the road. The block has a pool, a sauna, a squash court, a half-sized basketball court and a gym, and StarProperty lists covered parking with one or two bays for each home and 24-hour security with an intercom.
Can I see photos of a Desa Bangsar Ria home you’ve designed?
Not yet: we haven’t yet designed a home at Desa Bangsar Ria, so there are no photos of one to show. However alike the layouts began, no two homes here are quite the same now, so we learn what yours has become on the visit.
What interior design services do you offer at Desa Bangsar Ria?
Desa Bangsar Ria is one freehold block of 43 homes finished in 1993, and our condo interior design for its three- and four-bedroom homes of 1,808 to 2,077 sq ft starts with renovation design. We draw the plans, compare contractors’ quotes with you and manage the works on site, and contractors do the building. Should you want only styling, or furnishing through our Procurement Concierge, either is on offer, and Virtual Design serves homes outside Kuala Lumpur and Selangor.
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