Interior designer at ForestHill Damansara
Your ForestHill home, serene by the water.
Glass doors lead from the living room to a deck and a reflective pool, and a lift joins all three floors. We plan each floor around who uses it, keeping whatever has aged well.
Screen, piano and play kept to one wall of joinery: the kind of use we’d give an upper-floor family area in a ForestHill house, so the room has a job of its own.
Renovating a ForestHill Damansara house after its first decade
ForestHill Damansara, a gated enclave of 75 three-storey houses beside a lake in Damansara Perdana, was finished about a decade ago.
Interior design here usually means renewing a lived-in house around its home lift, its two kitchens and the pool deck.
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A house this size rarely needs everything redone at once. After a decade, some rooms have worn and others are just right, and it is usually the kitchens, the bathrooms and the cooling that show their age first.
Sundays in Bed plans houses like these room by room, then stays for the building work. ForestHill would be new to us, so this guide reads from Ehsan Bina’s own plans, and you choose the rooms we take on, each priced in writing at the start.
Ehsan Bina, a CIDB G7 contractor and developer founded in 1989, launched the enclave in January 2013, and The Edge reported 90% of its first 58 houses sold that launch weekend. Sources give completion as 2015 or 2016. It sits off Jalan PJU 8/13, next to Flora Damansara, on leasehold land.
ForestHill Residences, the two condominium towers the same developer later built on the adjoining site, is a separate building; this guide covers only the houses.
ForestHill Damansara houses run from 4,740 sq ft to more than 7,000 sq ft built-up, with four bedrooms or more in each, across the 75 lots of the developer’s site plan.
- 4,740 sq ftZL-C, seven houses: four bedrooms and a double-height living room
- 5,300–5,325 sq ftZL-B, six houses with a garden balcony; ZL-D, twenty with a family area
- 5,485 sq ftZL-A, 28 houses, the commonest: two master suites on the top floor
- 5,952 sq ft and upTen bungalows at the row ends and the lake edge, and four semi-Ds with no published plans
What every house shares
Every type has three storeys, a lift beside the stair serving each floor, a three-car porch and, at heart, the same ground floor: living and dining as one room, opening to a side terrace and to a timber deck with the reflective pool.
The dry kitchen faces the dining with a breakfast counter or island; behind it sit the wet kitchen, the yard, and a helper’s room that has a bathroom of its own. In the ZL-A, the ZL-C and the B-B, a store tucks under or beside the stair.
What your type changes
The ZL-A’s top floor holds two master bedrooms, each with a wardrobe room and its own bathroom, so two couples, or parents and a grown child, can each have a suite. In the ZL-A, the ZL-C and the B-A bungalows, the master bathroom has a freestanding bath, twin basins, a separate WC and a shower.
The ZL-C opens its living room to a void, overlooked by the family area above. Sound and light travel between the two, so we treat them as one tall space: curtains that run the full height, soft furnishings to quieten it, and light from the walls as well as the ceiling.
The B-B adds a ground-floor guest room, bathroom included, and a long pool down the side of the house.
Zero-lot, and one shared wall
The 61 villas are zero-lot houses on lots of about 43 by 80 ft, so each shares one long wall with a neighbour. The windows, the terrace and the pool face the open side, and the narrow side setback is where privacy needs thought, with screening planting outside and sheers within.
Lot numbers run to 80 but skip 4, 14, 24 and so on, which is why there are 75 houses. The semi-Ds stand on lots 22, 23, 76 and 77, and with no published plan for them, we measure before anything else.
ForestHill Damansara floor plans: who takes which floor
In a ForestHill house, we first agree who takes which floor, and what each kitchen and the pool deck are for.
The rest of the plan grows from those answers.
If more than one generation lives here
No zero-lot plan puts a bedroom downstairs, but the lift reaches every level, so a parent can take the quieter floor and still be a short ride from the kitchen. The ZL-A’s two top-floor suites suit generations sharing; when Ehsan Bina launched the enclave in 2013, it named multigenerational families and retirees among its intended buyers.
If the dry kitchen is where everyone gathers
The dry kitchen faces the dining table, so its cabinets are part of the room’s look, and the breakfast counter is where the day starts. Behind it, the wet kitchen handles the wok, the steam and the laundry, so extraction and worktops that shrug off heat come first there.
If the deck is your favourite room
Glass doors lead from the living room onto the deck and the reflective pool, bringing glare, damp air and a view worth framing. Layered curtains, fabrics that cope with humidity and a deck furnished like a room let the two spaces work as one, and the pool’s upkeep belongs in the brief too.
If the family area has no job yet
Each plan has a family area on an upper floor, and the B-A bungalows have two. Left alone, it becomes the room nobody sits in. A study, a children’s den or a prayer room gives it a purpose, and we choose the furniture only once its job is clear.
If the house has grown up with your family
After a decade, the stair, the lift and where the walls stand seldom gain from moving. We keep them, ask for the lift’s service record, replace what has worn, and put the design into the rooms your household uses every day.
What interior design costs at ForestHill Damansara
To design a five-bedroom ZL-A at ForestHill Damansara, Sundays in Bed’s fee is estimated at RM44,700–51,830, and for a four-bedroom ZL-D at RM41,135–48,265; the design fee follows the rooms you choose and is agreed in writing before we begin.
- Each room we design
- RM3,565
- Living and dining
- RM5,485
A ForestHill house can mean a dozen rooms to design or only a few, and the fee is simply their sum. You might begin with both kitchens and the master suites, and leave the upper family area until you know what it will be for.
5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms and the dry and wet kitchens: 11 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
The figure goes into a letter we both sign before the first drawing, and it is invoiced in stages. Contractors’ charges don’t move it, so re-laying the pool deck in stone changes their bill, and our fee stays put.
With Curated finishes and furniture from Commune, Cellini or Poet Living, a five-bedroom ZL-A here comes to about RM385k–716k, our fee included.
Pick the ZL-A or the ZL-D below and untick the rooms you’d keep; the ranges become prices when contractors quote on your drawings.
| Home | Our fee | Curated | Bespoke |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZL-A, five bedrooms 5,485 sq ft | RM44,700–51,830 | RM341k–664k | RM624k–1.35M |
| ZL-D, four bedrooms 5,325 sq ft | RM41,135–48,265 | RM315k–607k | RM578k–1.24M |
In each row, the first figure covers both kitchens, every bedroom, four bathrooms and the open living and dining; the second allows two more, perhaps the first-floor family area as a study, and the powder room.
Figures are October 2026 estimates.
How these figures are worked out
With five to seven bathrooms and a powder room in each house, the ranges price four bathrooms, so add or remove them to match the ones you’d redo.
Both kitchens are priced with new cabinets, and the house with bedroom air-conditioners, wardrobes, a washer-dryer, and a hob and hood. After a decade some of that may be worth keeping, and keeping it lowers the figure.
Furnishing to let?
A 2023 article on the enclave described ForestHill as primarily owner-occupied. If yours is to be let, we would furnish it at our Essential level, from Ikea, SSF Home and Harvey Norman, which wears well with tenants; our fee per room stays as it is.
Renovation and furniture at Essential, before our fee
- ZL-A, five bedrooms
- RM194k–343k
- ZL-D, four bedrooms
- RM179k–313k
Begin with a conversation
Your lot number and the rooms that have worn since the house was new are enough; we’ll have priced those rooms before our 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 ForestHill Damansara interior designer, from survey to finish
A ForestHill renovation starts with a careful survey of what a decade has worn.
One designer runs the project with you, and the building is done by contractors you pick once we’ve compared their quotes together.
Everything for the works comes in along one entry road with two security checkpoints on the developer’s site plan, so passes and delivery days are agreed with the guards before the first truck. Inside, the stair and the home lift serve all three floors; we cover the lift car and the stair treads for the duration, and long panels go up the stair, since no lift size has been published.
- Your lot, your floors FreeYour lot and type, who uses each floor, and which rooms have worn since the house was new.
- A survey of every floor RM200, waived if you go ahead with usAll three floors measured, the wet kitchen’s extraction, the bathrooms, the lift and the pool deck checked, and a note made of what is worth keeping.
- The rooms in scope, signed firstThe rooms and our fee go into a signed agreement. Plans follow floor by floor, with lighting, joinery for both kitchens and the wardrobe rooms, and the deck’s materials last.
- Prices against the same drawingsSeveral contractors price your construction drawings, the same set they will build from. You see their quotes side by side with us, and you choose who builds.
- Through the checkpoints, then homePasses agreed at the gate, the lift and stair covered, every stage inspected, and the house styled last, out to the deck.
Three storeys put electricians, carpenters, plumbers and deliveries on one stair, often on the same day. We set the order in which they come so the stair stays clear, and send you a note each week on where things stand. The full process
Permits and site access
ForestHill answers to MBPJ, Petaling Jaya’s city council, as all of Damansara Perdana does. Where your works need its permit, your contractor normally applies, and we tell you at the start whether yours will.
The enclave’s deposit, permitted working hours and contractor access haven’t been published, nor has the name of the body that manages it, so we ask at the guardhouse and the management office before we book a contractor.
ForestHill Damansara interior design around your family’s habits
In a ForestHill house, we design around your family’s meals, guests and routines.
Twenty-eight houses here share the ZL-A plan alone, so your household’s habits are what set yours apart.
Maybe your family gathers at the dry kitchen’s counter, or you’d rather it stayed calm and closed. Maybe every bedroom is in use, or two are kept ready for grown children and their families. Whichever it is, that is where we begin, and the look follows.
A decade on: keep, adapt, add
- KeepPlan, liftThe stair, the home lift and the room layout, which rarely gain from moving
- AdaptKitchens, denA dry kitchen on show, a wet kitchen behind, and an upper family area given a use
- AddLight, fabricLighting, layered curtains, fabrics that suit the pool’s damp air, and fittings for the wardrobe rooms
From the developer’s floor plans. A previous owner may have altered yours, so we look first.
Beyond your own gate, the developer placed a clubhouse at the lake edge, with a gym, a multipurpose hall, an infinity pool and a wading pool, and a jogging path that follows a lakeside promenade. With laps and parties catered for at the clubhouse, the reflective pool at home can stay quiet, and no bedroom has to become a gym.
What renovating larger homes nearby has cost
No ForestHill house has been designed by us yet, and few published renovation records cover houses of this size. The closest are other firms’ projects elsewhere in Petaling Jaya.
In SS2, two six-bedroom bungalows were renovated for RM245,000–250,000, or RM88–167 per sq ft. In Damansara Perdana itself, an Armanee Terrace II home of 2,987 sq ft took 16 weeks and RM400,000, about RM134 per sq ft.
Across the Damansara townships, the median sits at RM112 per sq ft. Every ForestHill house is at least one and a half times the size of these homes, and scopes differ, so treat the rates as a sense of scale.
Petaling Jaya and Damansara renovation costs
Nearby, with their own pages: D’Tessera Residences · D’Terra Residences · Livista Residence, and the rest of Damansara Perdana.
FAQ
Buying, renovating and living at ForestHill Damansara
Is ForestHill Damansara the same as ForestHill Residences?
No. ForestHill Damansara is the gated enclave of 75 three-storey houses beside the lake; ForestHill Residences is the later two-tower condominium Ehsan Bina built on the adjoining site. Their plans and rules are separate, so tell us which one is yours.
What does an interior designer cost for a ForestHill house?
For a five-bedroom ZL-A at ForestHill Damansara, the design fee we’d estimate is RM44,700–51,830, and for a four-bedroom ZL-D, RM41,135–48,265. Each room we design is RM3,565 and the open living and dining RM5,485, with the total agreed in writing before we begin; renovation and furniture come on top.
How old are the houses at ForestHill Damansara?
About ten years old. Ehsan Bina launched ForestHill Damansara in January 2013, and sources give completion as 2015 or 2016. At that age we look first at the kitchens, the bathrooms, the air-conditioning and the water heaters, and at the lift’s and the pool’s upkeep; if you are buying, a visit arranged through the seller lets the drawings be ready soon after completion.
Can the helper’s room in a ForestHill house become something else?
Often. In every ForestHill plan it sits on the ground floor next to the yard and has a bathroom of its own. If no one lives in, it makes a good store, laundry or guest room, though it may need cooling added, which we check on the site visit.
Which bedroom suits parents who’d rather not climb the stairs?
In a ForestHill villa, any floor the lift reaches: the first floor is one stop up, beside the family area, and no zero-lot plan puts a bedroom downstairs. The B-B bungalows also have a guest room on the ground floor, bathroom included, and grab rails and a level shower can follow where needed.
What helps with glare and damp air by the reflective pool?
Layered curtains on the glass doors, a sheer by day and a lined one for the evening, take the edge off the glare in a ForestHill living room. On the pool side, choose what copes with humidity: performance upholstery, sealed timber, and stone or porcelain underfoot.
What interior design services do you offer at ForestHill Damansara?
For ForestHill Damansara’s three-storey villas and bungalows, from 4,740 sq ft upward, we offer interior design with renovation design, planned floor by floor around the lift. We draw the plans, compare contractors’ quotes with you and manage the works on site, and contractors do the building. For a house that only needs furnishing, interior styling or our Procurement Concierge can do it, and for a home beyond Kuala Lumpur and Selangor, we work through Virtual Design.
Seventy-five houses by the lake. We’d like to see yours.
Send your lot number, whether it’s a ZL-A, a ZL-D or a lake villa, and the rooms you’d change first. The first conversation costs nothing, and we put the estimated design fee in writing before anything is signed.
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