Interior designer at Desa Damansara
There’s a lot of home at Desa Damansara.
Rooms this broad want furniture, rugs and light sized to them, or they can feel half-furnished for years. We’ll plan all three around how your household uses the space.
A long headboard wall, a deep rug and a bench at the foot of the bed: pieces sized to a big room, with the trees outside left to do the rest.
- Developer
Tan & Tan, part of the IGB group; freehold, at No. 99 Jalan Setiakasih
- Completed
1988 for Blocks 1 to 9; 2003 for Desa Damansara 2, Blocks 10 to 12
- Homes
262 in twelve blocks, mostly low-rise, 132 of them in Desa Damansara 2
- Sizes
About 1,200 to 5,000 sq ft; most often a three-bedroom of about 2,200 sq ft
- Facilities
A waterfall pool, tennis courts, a gym and a sauna, in planted grounds with 24-hour security
Desa Damansara layouts across two phases, and the scale of the rooms
Desa Damansara, Tan & Tan’s freehold estate in Damansara Heights, was built in two phases, and its homes are large by today’s standards.
We help you renew one, starting with its services and the scale of its rooms.
If you’ve moved here from a newer flat, the first thing you may notice is the size. A three-bedroom here can run to about 2,200 sq ft, and furniture that looked generous in a showroom can float in rooms like these.
We’re Sundays in Bed, a Kuala Lumpur studio that designs and looks after homes. Our studio is here in Damansara Heights. We haven’t worked in Desa Damansara before, so we’d start with your rooms, and put the price of each one on paper for you.
Tan & Tan built the estate at No. 99 Jalan Setiakasih in two phases.
- Desa DamansaraCompleted 1988Blocks 1 to 9 · mostly low-rise · freehold
- Desa Damansara 2Completed 2003Blocks 10 to 12 · 132 homes · freehold
Across both phases, Desa Damansara’s 262 units range from about 1,200 to 5,000 sq ft built-up; the layout listed most often is a three-bedroom of about 2,200 sq ft.
- 1,184–1,216 sq ftTwo bedrooms, some with an extra room
- About 2,200 sq ftThree bedrooms, the layout listed most often
- 2,800 sq ftFour bedrooms
- Up to about 5,000 sq ftPenthouses, the largest homes; listings differ on sizes and rooms
Age, and the trees
Age matters as much as size. A Phase 1 home is nearly 40 years old and a Desa Damansara 2 home more than 20, and many have had several owners. Someone before you may have done good work, or left wiring that struggles with today’s air-conditioners. We’ll find out which.
The estate itself is green, with walkways through planted grounds, a waterfall pool, tennis courts, a gym and a sauna. Lower floors sit close to the trees, which brings shade and calm, and sometimes damp and less privacy, so we plan your curtains and finishes with both in mind.
Renovating a Desa Damansara resale, and where to begin
In a Desa Damansara resale, the order matters: services first, then the kitchen, or both kitchens where there are two, then the scale of the big rooms.
Cushions and colours wait their turn.
If your home has never been rewired
Homes in both phases were wired and plumbed for their first owners. We have the electrical board, pipes and bathroom waterproofing checked before choosing a single tile, so no new wall is opened twice.
If the family cooks every day
Two listings here describe separate dry and wet kitchens, and we confirm yours on the visit. If frying is a daily habit, the wet kitchen deserves real ventilation and storage, and the dry one can open towards the dining and become the room your guests see.
For furniture that fits large rooms
In rooms this size, one generous sofa does more than three small chairs. We plan furniture at the right scale and a rug that anchors it, and we give any spare corner a purpose: reading, homework, a desk.
For the trees at your window
In a mostly low-rise estate, many windows look into planting. That’s lovely by day and exposed at night, so layered curtains, warm lamps and finishes that cope with humidity matter more here than in a tower.
If the last owner cared for the place
A resale home here may come with a newish bathroom, solid timber doors or a kitchen carcass still in good shape. Whatever is sound, we keep, and your money goes only where the home lets you down.
Sizes, and which phase they sit in
Phase 1, Blocks 1 to 9, finished in 1988. Of the estate’s 262 homes, 132 are in Desa Damansara 2, which leaves about 130 in the first phase. Sales recorded between 2009 and 2017 imply at least eight sizes across the estate, from about 1,185 to 2,200 sq ft, so two neighbours’ three-bedroom homes may not share a plan. We draw yours from a measured survey, never from a brochure.
Desa Damansara 2, Blocks 10 to 12, finished in 2003. Tan & Tan gives its 132 homes as 1,615 to 5,016 sq ft, and calls the phase the last link in the estate. One portal lists a Type C there of 1,900 sq ft with three bedrooms plus one and four bathrooms, and a 2,200 sq ft corner home was offered with two covered parking bays.
The two-bedrooms, about 1,184 to 1,216 sq ft. The smallest homes, some sold as two bedrooms plus one; a 2014 listing gave a 1,200 sq ft home two bathrooms. No kitchen plan for them has been published, so the visit shows whether yours is open or closed, and whether a wall can move.
The four-bedrooms, about 2,800 sq ft. A 2014 listing gave one four bathrooms, and one portal files this size among the penthouses. With four bedrooms each wanting a wardrobe, storage is likely to be the largest piece of joinery in the brief.
The penthouses. StarProperty’s profile lists penthouses of 2,800, 3,600 and 5,000 sq ft, and listings disagree on how many bedrooms each has, so we work from your title plan and a tape measure.
From Tan & Tan’s project page, StarProperty’s profile, PropertyGuru’s archived sales list and individual listings. Which block holds which type isn’t published.
What interior design costs at Desa Damansara
Desa Damansara’s three-bedrooms of about 2,200 sq ft carry an estimated Sundays in Bed design fee of RM30,440–37,570; a penthouse of about 5,000 sq ft, RM44,700–51,830.
A fee per room, agreed in writing before we begin.
- Each room we design
- RM3,565
- Living and dining
- RM5,485
This is how the Desa Damansara design fee is counted. If both kitchens are still in your home, start with an honest look at a week’s cooking. A wet kitchen used for frying every evening needs real extraction and room for the big pots; a dry kitchen that mostly makes coffee can open towards the dining table and become the one guests see.
That choice also moves our fee. Each kitchen we design counts as one room, at RM3,565, as does each bedroom and bathroom, and the living and dining together are RM5,485. So a three-bedroom’s lower estimate, RM30,440, covers both kitchens, three bedrooms and two bathrooms. A wet kitchen you’re happy with simply stays off the list.
3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and the dry and wet kitchens: 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
You’ll have the total in writing before the first drawing, paid in stages after that. Picking a nicer tile for the wet kitchen floor lifts the builder’s bill, never ours. How our fees work
At the Curated level, a three-bedroom here would land near RM285k–494k, design fee and all.
| Home | Our fee | Curated | Bespoke |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-bed About 2,200 sq ft · the layout listed most often | RM30,440–37,570 | RM255k–457k | RM480k–959k |
| 2-bed About 1,200 sq ft | RM19,745–26,875 | RM188k–324k | RM368k–714k |
| 4-bed About 2,800 sq ft | RM37,570–44,700 | RM300k–537k | RM558k–1.11M |
| Penthouse About 5,000 sq ft · the largest homes | RM44,700–51,830 | RM351k–684k | RM643k–1.39M |
The lower figure is a usual brief here: living and dining, both kitchens where there are two, every bedroom and all but one bathroom. The higher one allows two more rooms, such as that last bathroom or, in a larger home, a family room.
Guides as of October 2026. Quotes come from contractors once the drawings exist.
How these figures are worked out
All Desa Damansara homes now sell as resales, so each is priced as an older home, with one bathroom fewer than it has, because a spare bathroom often needs only a refresh. Count only the ones you’d change.
Two listings describe a dry and a wet kitchen, one in a three-bedroom and one in a four-bedroom, so both are priced, as two rooms, in those sizes and the penthouses. No plan for the 1,200 sq ft homes was found, so we’ve priced a single closed kitchen there and check yours on the visit.
New air-conditioning, appliances, kitchen cabinets and wardrobes are inside the ranges. Where a previous owner’s still work, they can stay.
Furnishing to let?
For tenants, a Desa Damansara home does well at our Essential level, with furniture from Ikea, SSF Home and Harvey Norman: quicker to finish, and able to take the wear of renting. The design fee is unchanged by the level.
Renovation and furniture at Essential, before our fee
- 3-bed
- RM144k–234k
- 2-bed
- RM105k–162k
- 4-bed
- RM171k–277k
- Penthouse
- RM200k–353k
Begin with a conversation
Tell us which phase and block you’re in and how the rooms are used today. We’ll bring the sums for a home this size to that first call.
Or begin with a figure
Answer a few questions about your space, and you’ll have an estimate to consider in your own time.
Your Desa Damansara interior designer, once the work begins
At Desa Damansara, the same designer stays with you until the last room is done.
We draw the home and oversee the works; the builder is a contractor you pick once we’ve compared the quotes with you.
Desa Damansara sits on the hill off Jalan Setiakasih, its twelve blocks linked by walkways through planted grounds, with covered parking and 24-hour security. Expect crews to be signed in at the guardhouse, and materials may travel some way from where a lorry can stop to your block’s lift, so we follow that route on the first visit and size deliveries to it.
Some owners let, but listings for sale have long outnumbered those for rent: PropertyGuru’s 2022 page showed 25 to buy against 7 to rent, and iProperty’s 2026 search counts 62 against 14. Many neighbours are likely to be living here, some at home through the day, so the noisiest work is agreed with management and kept to as few days as we can.
- Which phase, which block FreeWhich phase and block, the size of your home, who lives there, and what the previous owner left behind.
- A visit to both kitchens RM200, waived if you go ahead with usWe measure, open the electrical board, look for damp at the lower walls and around older windows, check both kitchens and note what’s worth keeping.
- The scope set downRooms and our fee are written down first. Then layouts, lighting and materials, with furniture sized to large rooms and a clear role for the wet kitchen.
- Quotes on one set of plansBuilders price from the same plans, any rewiring the visit turned up included, so their figures line up. The builder you choose is your decision.
- Works, then the big rooms furnishedWe agree working days with management, keep the noisy work to the hours allowed, inspect each stage against the drawings, then bring in the furniture and lamps.
Every home that changes hands here is a resale, so the first visit goes on what earlier owners left behind, before a line is drawn.
A flat in a 1988 block and one in a 2003 block were built fifteen years apart, so the wiring, pipes and waterproofing behind their walls can differ just as much. On our first visit, we look behind yours.
An older home often has a surprise or two once the tiles come up, and a renovation here goes through management and DBKL along the way. You won’t have to keep the sequence in your head. How a project runs
Sign-off from management and DBKL
Tan & Tan, part of the IGB group, handed over the first phase in 1988 and Desa Damansara 2 in 2003, so there is no developer’s defect period left to lean on; what the original builders and later owners did is now yours to check. Management will usually want the works approved in writing first, and any permit comes from DBKL, Kuala Lumpur’s city council, applied for by your contractor.
The deposit, permitted hours and arrangements for lorries inside the grounds aren’t published, and the two phases may be run separately, so we confirm the current terms with the right office before anyone prices.
Interior design at Desa Damansara, when someone else chose the finishes
In a Desa Damansara home that has had earlier owners, we decide together what to keep, then what to add, and shape the rest around your household’s habits.
A large older home has room for what you love: maybe a dining table everyone fits round, a grandparent’s cabinet, books still boxed from the last move. We start from those, and plan the rooms to hold them.
One ground-floor home of 2,917 sq ft was listed with a garden, four outdoor terraces and two large living areas. A plan like that asks which living room is for guests and which for the family, and each terrace becomes a room of its own. With SMK Sri Hartamas about 0.5 km away and SK Bukit Damansara about 0.9 km, by one property site’s measure, a household with children may also want a homework table that isn’t the dining table.
Keeping, changing and adding at Desa Damansara
- KeepSound work, the spaceSolid doors, a recently redone bathroom, generous room sizes
- AdaptThe two kitchensA dry kitchen opened to the dining or refitted; a wet kitchen given proper ventilation
- AddServices, lightRewiring where the board is old, fresh waterproofing, lighting for the evenings under the trees
Neither phase has a published specification, so this list reflects what homes of their age tend to need; the visit confirms yours.
What might a Desa Damansara renovation cost?
No published renovation record yet comes from Tan & Tan’s estate on Jalan Setiakasih. Whether yours is a 2,200 sq ft family home or a 5,000 sq ft penthouse, the room-by-room table above gives a closer figure for renovating and furnishing it, and everything sound that stays takes something off.
Deciding together what is sound, room by room, is the first thing we do on the visit.
Our own fee is set down on paper before work starts, and the contractors’ bills never move it.
What renovations elsewhere in the neighbourhood have cost, and the approvals they needed, is on its own page.
FAQ
Renovating a 1988 or 2003 Desa Damansara home
Are Desa Damansara and Desa Damansara 2 the same development?
Yes, in two phases. Tan & Tan finished Blocks 1 to 9 in 1988, and Desa Damansara 2, Blocks 10 to 12, in 2003: 262 homes in all. Portals often list them apart, and sizes differ, so we first confirm which phase yours is in. Tan & Tan, an IGB group company, gives Desa Damansara 2’s homes as 1,615 to 5,016 sq ft, a range that starts above the first phase’s smallest two-bedrooms of about 1,200 sq ft.
My home dates from 1988. What gets checked before the design?
The electrical board and its capacity, water pipes, bathroom waterproofing, and windows for leaks. On lower floors near the planting, we also look for damp. Finding these early means each wall is opened once, and the budget goes to what you’ll see. Brickz logged 13 sales here between March 2025 and January 2026, so homes change hands often, and an earlier owner’s repairs may sit behind newer tiles.
Should I keep both the dry and the wet kitchen?
If you cook often, both earn their place. A wet kitchen keeps heavy cooking and smells out of the living rooms. The dry kitchen is the one to rethink: opened to the dining, or refitted as a pantry. Each kitchen we design counts as one room in our fee. Listings show the pair in Desa Damansara 2’s 2,200 sq ft three-bedrooms and in one larger ground-floor home; for the smaller two-bedrooms no kitchen plan has been made public, so the site visit settles it.
What would the design fee be for a 2,200 sq ft three-bedroom here?
Estimated at RM30,440–37,570 for living and dining, both kitchens, three bedrooms and two bathrooms. It depends on the rooms you choose, and is agreed in writing before we begin. Renovation and furniture come on top: about RM255k–457k at Curated, RM480k–959k at Bespoke.
Who approves a renovation at Desa Damansara?
The estate’s management comes first, normally with written approval before work starts, then DBKL for any permit, which your contractor applies for. With two phases built fifteen years apart, we check which office covers your block, and ask it what deposit it holds, which hours crews may keep and how lorries reach the blocks, all before any quotes are gathered.
Is a large three-bedroom here hard to furnish well?
Rooms of this size swallow small furniture, and a sofa bought for a newer flat can look stranded. We size pieces to the room, use rugs to make zones, and suggest a few larger pieces in place of many small ones. Listings put the usual three-bedroom here at about 2,185 to 2,217 sq ft, and two from 2015 gave it three bathrooms.
What are the floor plans at Desa Damansara?
Desa Damansara’s homes run from about 1,200 to 5,000 sq ft: two-bedrooms of about 1,184 to 1,216 sq ft, three-bedrooms of about 2,200 sq ft, four-bedrooms of about 2,800 sq ft and penthouses of up to about 5,000 sq ft. Which block holds which type isn’t published, and no kitchen plan has been made public for the two-bedrooms, so we draw from a measured survey.
What is the design fee for a Desa Damansara two-bedroom, four-bedroom or penthouse?
At Desa Damansara, the Sundays in Bed design fee is an estimated RM19,745–26,875 for a two-bedroom of about 1,200 sq ft, RM37,570–44,700 for a four-bedroom of about 2,800 sq ft and RM44,700–51,830 for a penthouse of about 5,000 sq ft. Each is a fee per room, agreed in writing before we begin.
What facilities does Desa Damansara have?
Desa Damansara’s twelve blocks are linked by walkways through planted grounds, with a waterfall pool, tennis courts, a gym and a sauna. There is covered parking and 24-hour security, and crews sign in at the guardhouse.
Can I see a Desa Damansara home you’ve designed?
Not yet: we haven’t worked in Desa Damansara before. The living room pictured on this page is one we designed at DC Residensi, elsewhere in Damansara Heights, where long, low pieces hold a wide wall, the scale a large Desa Damansara room needs.
What interior design services do you offer at Desa Damansara?
Across Desa Damansara and Desa Damansara 2, from a 2,200 sq ft home to a 5,000 sq ft penthouse, 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. Interior styling and furnishing through our Procurement Concierge are there when the bones are sound, and Virtual Design serves homes outside Kuala Lumpur and Selangor.
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