Interior designer at Emerald Hills
Your Emerald Hills home, tower or terrace, made yours.
Up in a tower or in a garden terrace, your home needs its own plan. We start with the people inside: who needs the +1, the second key or a bedroom on the ground floor.
A round table with a lazy Susan at its centre: the kind of dining corner we’d plan where grandparents and grandchildren eat together, as some Emerald Hills dual-key homes were meant for.
- Developer
GuocoLand, part of the Hong Leong group, on about 47.4 acres of freehold land
- Completed
South Towers and Garden Terraces 2022, North Towers 2025
- Homes
1,559 in four towers and 181 two- and three-storey garden terraces
- Sizes
From 840 sq ft in the towers to 3,281 sq ft in the terraces
- Facilities
A 2.3-acre lake with a 1.7 km walking and cycling loop, a clubhouse, e-lockers and EV charging
Emerald Hills floor plans, from tower 2+1s to garden terraces
Emerald Hills in Alam Damai, Cheras, sets tower homes and terrace houses around one central lake, so interior design here starts with which kind of home is yours: storage and flexible rooms in a tower, the stair and the bathrooms in a terrace.
Two neighbours at Emerald Hills can share a gate, a lake and a clubhouse and still need very different things from a designer. One has an 893 sq ft 2+1 with a small study waiting for a purpose. The other has a three-storey terrace, a staircase to light and five or six bathrooms to choose between.
Sundays in Bed is a Kuala Lumpur design studio, and an Emerald Hills home would be our first here. The way we work doesn’t change from estate to estate: you choose the rooms, each room’s fee is agreed in writing first, and we look after the works.
GuocoLand, part of the Hong Leong group, built Emerald Hills, often listed as Emerald Hill, on about 47.4 acres of freehold land on high ground in Alam Damai, between Taman Connaught and Taman Len Seng. Twenty-one acres are open space, laid around a 2.3-acre lake that began as a retention pond, with a 1.7 km loop for walking and cycling.
- South TowersJul–Sep 2022Blocks A and B · 296 homes each · 840–1,195 sq ft
- North TowersCompleted 2025Blocks C and D · 393 homes each · twelve to a floor, four lifts
- Garden TerracesJul–Sep 2022181 two- and three-storey houses · lots of 22 by 75 ft
That makes 1,559 homes, from 840 sq ft in the towers to 3,281 sq ft in the terraces. In 2021, GuocoLand reported the first phase and the terraces almost all sold, mostly to local buyers moving in themselves.
- 840–893 sq ftTwo bedrooms, a 2+1 with a study, or a dual-key
- 1,195–1,400 sq ftA 3+1 with a study, dual-key homes, and the North Towers’ largest
- 2,484 sq ftA two-storey garden terrace with four bedrooms
- 3,281 sq ftA three-storey garden terrace, five bedrooms plus one
Six tower plans, from 840 to 1,400 sq ft
Sales material and agents list the tower plans by letter. Type C is an 840 sq ft two-bedroom with two bathrooms; Type B the 893 sq ft 2+1; Type A the 1,195 sq ft 3+1.
The dual-key plans are Type D at 844 sq ft and, in Tower C, Type E at 1,246 sq ft, and the North Towers’ largest homes reach about 1,400 sq ft with up to four bedrooms.
Across that range the design question shifts. At 840 sq ft it is where everything is kept; at 1,400 it is whether the fourth bedroom needs to be a bedroom at all, or a study that can take a guest.
If your home is in the North Towers
GuocoLand’s own description of the North Towers says every living room and bedroom faces outwards, with twelve homes and four lifts to each floor. Tower C, launched in April 2021, brought the estate’s first dual-key homes, which GuocoLand described as meant for multi-generational living and extra rental yield.
How the two keys divide isn’t published, and sources disagree on the bedroom count, so we see yours before we plan a second kitchen or decide where a wall needs more sound insulation.
If yours is a Garden Terrace
GDP Architects, who designed the terraces, describe high-pitched roofs, tall ceilings, wide windows and brick-veneer fronts, with the back lanes landscaped as tree-lined linear parks. The rear rooms of a terrace here look onto trees, which is worth keeping in mind before anyone suggests frosted glass.
Listings give the two-storey type four bedrooms and four bathrooms in 2,484 sq ft, and the three-storey type five bedrooms, a sixth room and six bathrooms in 3,281 sq ft.
Kitchens, lockers and parking
GuocoLand doesn’t publish its kitchen layouts, and agents’ notes on finishes were written before completion, so the first thing we do on a visit is stand in your kitchen and list what was really handed over.
StarProperty’s 2023 feature gives each condo two or three covered parking bays, and the estate has e-lockers and EV charging. With parcels waiting downstairs, the foyer inside your own door can be planned for shoes, school bags and a seat.
Emerald Hills interior design: who needs which room, now and later
At Emerald Hills, we give the +1, the foyer, the stair and any second key a clear job first, based on who will use them, and choose finishes after that.
If you bought for the extra room
Type A, the 1,195 sq ft 3+1, and Type B, the 893 sq ft 2+1, were sold with the +1 described as a study. It may turn into an office, a nursery, a guest room or a store, and we settle which before drawing a single shelf, because that choice decides its light, its sockets and its door.
If two households share one home
In a dual-key home, the second half might go to your parents, an adult son or daughter, or someone renting it. We work out who uses which side, where a second pantry or small kitchen goes, and how much sound the dividing wall should stop, then draw both halves together.
If everything lands by the door
Twelve front doors open onto each North Tower corridor, so arriving happens at your own threshold. We give the little space inside it a bench, closed shoe storage and a hook for every school bag before any wall gets a feature.
If a parent lives with you
In a three-storey terrace the staircase is the spine of the house. We light it softly for night-time trips, consider a bedroom on the ground floor for a parent, and help you decide which of the bathrooms are worth redoing.
If your keys came in 2025
North Tower homes were handed over in 2025, so floors and fittings are new and the defect period is still running. We keep what works and spend where your household needs something the developer didn’t give it.
If the afternoon sun reaches the sofa
Every room facing outwards means plenty of glass, and on the sunny side that becomes a curtain question. Lined curtains or heat-blocking blinds behind sheers usually solve it. No plan shows which stacks face west, so we note the sun on your windows when we visit.
If you run or cycle the lake loop
The 1.7 km loop round the lake invites a run before work or a ride with the children at the weekend. Bicycles, helmets and wet trainers need a home too: a wall rack in the yard or the porch, and a ventilated shoe cabinet by the door, plan in easily at the start and are awkward to add later.
If a garden opens off the living room
The terraces face gardens at the front, and some homes are described as having private gardens of their own. A room that opens onto one wants a floor that forgives wet feet, a screen door for the evenings and a ceiling fan for the hours the doors stay open.
What interior design costs at Emerald Hills
At Emerald Hills, the Sundays in Bed design fee is an estimated RM19,745–23,310 for a 1,195 sq ft 3+1 in the towers and RM37,570–44,700 for a two-storey garden terrace of 2,484 sq ft.
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 what designing an Emerald Hills home with us costs, room by room. A tower 2+1 and a three-storey terrace share the estate but sit far apart in rooms, so start from whichever is closest to yours and tick only the rooms you want drawn.
3 bedrooms and a study: 4 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 total sits in a signed letter from the start and is billed in stages. Whatever the contractors charge, it stays put: timber treads for a terrace staircase in place of vinyl raise the build cost and leave our fee alone.
Add Curated furniture (Commune, Cellini, Poet Living) and our fee, and a tower 3+1 here lands at about RM171k–302k.
In a tower the money tends to go to the +1 and the foyer; in a terrace, to the stair, the kitchen and a parent’s room. Read every figure as a guide until contractors put prices to the drawings.
| Home | Our fee | Curated | Bespoke |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3+1 1,195 sq ft | RM19,745–23,310 | RM152k–278k | RM319k–668k |
| 2+1 893 sq ft | RM16,180–19,745 | RM133k–245k | RM284k–595k |
| 2-storey terrace 2,484 sq ft | RM37,570–44,700 | RM291k–521k | RM541k–1.08M |
| 3-storey terrace 3,281 sq ft | RM48,265–55,395 | RM356k–659k | RM650k–1.33M |
For a tower home, the lower figure counts the living and dining, every bedroom and the study; for a terrace, every bathroom but one and both kitchens as well. The higher figure leaves room for one more, perhaps the main bathroom, or two in a terrace, such as its last bathroom and a landing.
Prices as estimated in October 2026.
Behind the Emerald Hills figures
The tower rows assume the +1 becomes a study and that a 2025 North Tower home keeps its bathrooms; a 2022 South Tower home may want one redone.
The terrace rows count one bathroom fewer than the house has, plus a dry and a wet kitchen, and every range allows for cabinets, wardrobes and air-conditioning. Anything you already have in good order shrinks the work.
Furnishing to let?
GuocoLand described the dual-key homes as planned partly for rental yield. If one half, or the whole home, is going to a tenant, we’d suggest our Essential level: a sturdy fit-out that is quick to finish, with furniture from Harvey Norman, Ikea or SSF Home. Our design fee is the same at Essential as at any other level.
Renovation and furniture at Essential, before our fee
- 3+1
- RM80k–128k
- 2+1
- RM70k–111k
- 2-storey terrace
- RM166k–269k
- 3-storey terrace
- RM204k–343k
Begin with a conversation
Tell us your tower or terrace, your type and who is moving in, and we’ll arrive knowing which rooms to look at first.
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 Emerald Hills interior designer, and how works run behind the gate
At Emerald Hills, one designer stays with your tower home or terrace from the first call until the rooms are dressed.
We draw and oversee the works, and contractors you choose build them, once we’ve compared their quotes with you.
- Tower or terrace, and who’s moving in FreeSouth Tower, North Tower or a terrace; your type; the household moving in; and what GuocoLand handed over.
- A morning in your home RM200, waived if you go ahead with usWe measure every room, note where the late sun reaches, stand in the kitchen as built, and list the handover items worth keeping.
- A purpose for every roomFirst we agree the rooms and our fee in writing. After that come plans, lighting and materials, with a settled job for the +1, the second key or a parent’s room.
- One drawing set, several pricesContractors price and build from the same drawings. We set their quotes out side by side for you, and you decide who does the work.
- Gate passes, works, then the finishing touchesGate passes, lift or lane access and deliveries are agreed with management, each stage is checked against our drawings, and last of all we dress the rooms.
Behind the guardhouse, a renovation involves the management, DBKL, several trades and whoever lives beside you or across the corridor. We keep each of them in step and tell you how things stand as the weeks go by. The full process
Handed over in 2025? Start with defects
North Tower owners are still inside the 24-month defect liability period that runs from vacant possession, so faults are GuocoLand’s to put right. Send them your list in writing before any contractor touches the home.
Although Cheras spills into Selangor, Alam Damai sits on the Kuala Lumpur side, under DBKL, whose permit form for a condominium needs the management body’s consent in writing. Emerald Hills hasn’t published its deposit, working hours or gate rules for contractors, so we collect those first.
Interior design for the household in your Emerald Hills home
At Emerald Hills, one floor plan can hold very different households, so we start with yours and how your week runs, then shape each room around the people in it.
Perhaps your 3+1 holds two people who both work from home, while the same plan a few floors up houses grandparents, a toddler and a dog. Perhaps your terrace is about to take in a parent. We start with who lives in yours, then decide what each room has to do.
Light to keep, rooms to adapt, storage to add
- KeepLight, heightOutward-facing rooms in the North Towers; the terraces’ tall ceilings and wide windows
- Adapt+1, second keyA +1 sold as a study, and dual-key halves meant for two households
- AddStorage, curtainsFoyer storage off a shared corridor, and curtains for the sunniest glass
Based on GuocoLand’s descriptions and its architect’s. With no public handover list, what your home actually has is something we look at in person.
Renovation costs from other estates, as a rough guide
This would be our first Emerald Hills home, and there is no Cheras section on our cost index yet, so we measure yours before putting a figure to it. The nearest comparison in kind, though not in distance, is Desa ParkCity, another estate of condominiums and houses built around a lake.
There, other firms have published three South Brooks condominiums of 1,001–1,537 sq ft renovated for RM100,000–150,000. For houses, three TTDI terraces of 2,350–4,840 sq ft came to RM300,000–316,000.
All of these are other estates and other firms’ work, and a newer Emerald Hills home that keeps its handover finishes may well need less. You can read each record on the Desa ParkCity renovation cost index and on the TTDI and Bandar Utama one.
FAQ
Emerald Hills, tower by tower and terrace by terrace
Do you design Emerald Hills’ Garden Terraces differently from its tower homes?
Yes, because at Emerald Hills the two briefs barely overlap. A tower 2+1 is mostly storage, the +1 and the foyer; a three-storey terrace is the stair, a parent’s room, the dry and wet kitchens and which bathrooms to redo.
Either way the fee is per room and agreed in writing before we begin, so a terrace simply has more rooms to count.
How should a dual-key home at Emerald Hills be planned?
Start by deciding who lives behind each door of an Emerald Hills dual-key: your parents, an adult child or a tenant. That answer settles where a second pantry goes, how the shared door locks and how much sound insulation the dividing wall needs.
GuocoLand doesn’t publish how the two keys split, so we see your plan first and then draw both halves together.
What can the +1 in an Emerald Hills 2+1 or 3+1 become?
At Emerald Hills, the +1 that GuocoLand sold as a study can become a place to work, a baby’s room, a spare room for visitors or a shelved storeroom. Our estimate already counts it as one room at RM3,565; leave it as handed over and that comes off your fee.
What might renovating and furnishing an Emerald Hills home cost?
For a 1,195 sq ft tower 3+1 at Emerald Hills, renovation and furniture come to an estimated RM152k–278k at Curated, where the furniture is from Commune, Cellini or Poet Living, and RM319k–668k at Bespoke, where it is from Space Furniture, BoConcept or Molteni&C. Our design fee is on top.
A two-storey terrace comes to roughly RM291k–521k at Curated, and the 3,281 sq ft three-storey type RM356k–659k. Contractors’ quotes settle the real figure.
My Emerald Hills North Tower home was handed over in 2025. When should I start?
Send GuocoLand your defect list in writing first: at Emerald Hills the North Towers were handed over in 2025, so the 24 months from vacant possession are still running. Design needn’t wait, though. A free call and a site visit now mean the drawings and quotes are ready once the repairs are done.
Every Emerald Hills room faces outwards. What about the afternoon sun?
GuocoLand describes every living room and bedroom in the Emerald Hills North Towers as facing outwards, so the sunny side needs lined curtains or heat-blocking blinds, with sheers for the day. Which stacks face west isn’t published, so we check your windows on the visit before choosing fabric.
Is Emerald Hills in Cheras a gated community?
Yes. Emerald Hills is a freehold, gated and guarded estate of about 47.4 acres in Alam Damai, with 21 acres of open space around a 2.3-acre central lake and a 1.7 km jogging and cycling loop.
Visitors and contractors come in through the guardhouse, so before a renovation starts we arrange a gate pass for every trade with the management office.
What are the floor plans at Emerald Hills?
Emerald Hills has six tower plans from 840 to 1,400 sq ft and two garden terrace types. In the towers, Type C is an 840 sq ft two-bedroom, Type B the 893 sq ft 2+1 and Type A the 1,195 sq ft 3+1, with dual-key Types D (844 sq ft) and E (1,246 sq ft); the terraces are 2,484 sq ft over two storeys and 3,281 sq ft over three.
What is different about Emerald Hills Tower C?
Tower C, launched in April 2021, brought Emerald Hills its first dual-key homes, which GuocoLand described as meant for multi-generational living and extra rental yield. It is one of the two North Towers, handed over in 2025, where every living room and bedroom faces outwards and twelve homes share four lifts on each floor.
How big are the Garden Terraces at Emerald Hills?
The 181 Garden Terraces at Emerald Hills sit on lots of 22 by 75 ft: the two-storey type has four bedrooms and four bathrooms in 2,484 sq ft, and the three-storey type five bedrooms, a sixth room and six bathrooms in 3,281 sq ft. GDP Architects designed them with high-pitched roofs, tall ceilings and wide windows.
What is the interior design fee for an Emerald Hills home?
At Emerald Hills, the Sundays in Bed design fee is an estimated RM16,180–19,745 for an 893 sq ft 2+1 and RM19,745–23,310 for a 1,195 sq ft 3+1 in the towers, RM37,570–44,700 for a two-storey terrace and RM48,265–55,395 for a three-storey one. It is a fee per room, agreed in writing before we begin.
What interior design services do you offer at Emerald Hills?
At Emerald Hills, we offer condo interior design for homes in the four towers and renovation design for the Garden Terraces. We draw the plans, compare contractors’ quotes with you and manage the works on site, and contractors do the building. If you’d rather we only dress the rooms, there is interior styling; our Procurement Concierge buys and delivers the furniture, and Virtual Design is how we work with homes outside Kuala Lumpur and Selangor.
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Tell us which Emerald Hills home is yours.
South Tower, North Tower or a Garden Terrace: name your type and share a plan if you have one. The first call is free, and your estimated design fee comes to you in writing well before anything is agreed.
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