Interior designer at Jimbaran, Gaia Gardens
Jimbaran, as only your family would live it.
Who sleeps where, how the cooking is done and which rooms stay cool: settle those first, and the rest of the house falls into place around your family.
Timber shutters, a linen bed and a table to write at: the kind of ground-floor guest room we’d plan behind the dining in a Jimbaran house, with a softly lit path to the bathroom across the hall.
- Developer
S P Setia, as Phase 2C2 of its Setia Eco Templer township, beside Templer Park
- Completed
Every house shown complete, with its CCC, on 1 April 2026
- Homes
70 two-storey houses: 38 link villas and 32 semi-detached
- Sizes
2,230 to 2,780 sq ft built-up, all with four bedrooms
- Tenure
Leasehold, to 4 October 2116
Inside a Jimbaran house at Gaia Gardens, from floor plans to handover
Every house at Jimbaran, Gaia Gardens has four bedrooms, one of them on the ground floor, and the brochure lists finished floors and tiled bathrooms but no kitchen cabinets, wardrobes or air-conditioners.
Our interior design plans that joinery and cooling around who sleeps where.
There’s a moment most new houses at Jimbaran share. The keys are in hand, the floors are down and the bathrooms gleam, but the kitchen is a tiled wall waiting for cabinets, and the bedrooms have nowhere yet for clothes. What gets built first, and for whom, is the real brief.
We’re Sundays in Bed. We haven’t worked at Jimbaran before, so we get to know your house with you. The rooms we help with are your choice, and each one’s fee is put in writing before anything starts.
Jimbaran is Phase 2C2 of Setia Eco Templer, S P Setia’s 194-acre gated township off Jalan Ipoh–Rawang, beside Templer Park. Its 70 two-storey houses, 38 link villas and 32 semi-detached, make up the second of four parts of Gaia Gardens, a 41-acre Balinese-themed precinct below Bukit Takun. The developer’s progress gallery showed every house complete, with its CCC, on 1 April 2026. Tenure is leasehold, to 4 October 2116.
The homes at Jimbaran measure 2,230 to 2,780 sq ft built-up, all with four bedrooms.
- 2,230 sq ftMid-row link villa on a 20 × 80 ft lot: three bathrooms and a family area upstairs
- 2,320–2,540 sq ftEnd and corner link villas: three bathrooms; corners add a side lanai
- 2,780 sq ftSemi-detached on a 32 × 80 ft lot: four bathrooms, a side lanai and timber floors upstairs
What the brochure lists, and what it leaves out
The semi-Ds have timber on the stair, the bedrooms and the corridor, and a composite timber strip ceiling in places; the link villas have laminate on the stair, the bedrooms and the family area. Both have porcelain downstairs and in the bathrooms, with the kitchen walls tiled to the ceiling on two sides in the semi-D and to 1,500 mm in the link villa.
Neither specification lists kitchen cabinets, a hob, a hood, wardrobes or air-conditioning units, only the points for them. That is where the drawing, and most of the spending, goes, chosen to sit well with floors that are staying.
Gaia Gardens and the township around it
Gaia Gardens greets you with a Balinese gate-and-garden entry that the brochure calls Angkul Garden. The Edge reported in 2022 that its residents share the township’s lakes, creeks, pocket gardens, jogging track and playgrounds, and a clubhouse with a pool and a gym.
The township is gated, with patrolling guards, round-the-clock CCTV and anti-climb fencing with fibre-optic sensors, and the developer lists an alarm system for each home. We mark the alarm’s keypad and sensors on our drawings before the wardrobes and curtain pelmets, so nothing has to be cut around later.
Living at the forest edge
With the Templer Park and Kanching rainforest reserves alongside, damp and insects may matter more here than in the city. We don’t assume it: on the visit we look at which way your windows face and how the house has weathered its first months, then choose fabrics, finishes and screens to suit.
Jimbaran interior design: the decisions that come before colour
In a Jimbaran house, the order matters: the room downstairs, the kitchen and the cooling are settled first, and colour and furniture after, so the drawings rarely need redoing.
If a grandparent will take the room downstairs
Behind the dining, next to the kitchen, sits the fourth bedroom, with the downstairs bathroom across the hall rather than en-suite. It needs a wardrobe within easy reach, good light and a clear, softly lit path to that bathroom at night.
If frying is a nightly habit
Both plans open a single kitchen onto the dining, with an outdoor yard behind, and neither draws a separate wet kitchen. If you fry most evenings, a sliding glass screen, a stronger hood or a burner out in the yard will matter more than the cabinet fronts.
If you love a sheltered corner outside
Semi-Ds and corner link villas have a tiled side lanai off the dining. It makes a sheltered sitting room if its furniture can take monsoon rain and afternoon glare. Enclosing it adds floor area, which needs Majlis Perbandaran Selayang’s approval first.
If the whole family likes cool rooms
The semi-D is wired for six air-conditioners and the link villa for five, both on a three-phase supply, with fan points as well. We decide which rooms get units, and where each one sits, before ceilings and wardrobes are drawn.
If you want to walk the house room by room
Downstairs, the living and dining run into one open kitchen, with the yard behind it and the guest room tucked beside the kitchen. That makes the dining table the hinge of the ground floor: everyone passes it, so we light it well and keep the path to the guest room clear of chairs.
Upstairs, three bedrooms share the floor, and in a link villa a family area sits among them, which we give cupboards with doors so schoolbags and toys can disappear. Corner houses and semi-Ds gain the side lanai below, which we treat as a room of its own rather than a corridor to the garden.
If you’d like the inside to agree with the timber
In a semi-D, the timber floors upstairs and the strip ceiling set a warm palette, so new joinery takes its tone from them instead of competing. In a link villa with laminate, we match the laminate’s colour in the wardrobes, so the bedrooms read as one finish rather than two.
If the yard is where the washing happens
With one open kitchen and no separate wet kitchen on the plans, the yard behind does the hard work: the washing machine, a deep sink, the drying lines and the cleaning things. We plan it with the kitchen, with a door that closes its noise away and shelves for everything that would otherwise end up on the counter.
If you’re happy with the floors
Timber or laminate upstairs, porcelain below and, in the semi-Ds, a centralised solar water heater all arrive new. Ripping those out to start again rarely pays; wardrobes, kitchen fronts and lighting are where the spending shows.
What interior design costs at Jimbaran, Gaia Gardens
At Jimbaran, Gaia Gardens, our design fee for the whole house, guest room included, is estimated at RM19,745–26,875, or RM16,180–23,310 for the three bedrooms upstairs with the living and dining, each room priced on its own and agreed in writing before we begin.
- Each room in the house
- RM3,565
- Living, dining and kitchen
- RM5,485
A Jimbaran design fee is mostly spent on what the house was handed over without. The kitchen, the wardrobes and the placing of every air-conditioner take most of the drawing, while the floors and bathrooms stay as they came.
Leave the guest room out until a parent moves in, and the fee is one room lighter; add it later, and nothing already drawn has to change.
4 bedrooms: 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
The total is written down before any drawing starts and paid in stages. It isn’t tied to what contractors charge, so solid teak wardrobes in place of laminate raise your spend while our fee stays put.
For a whole Jimbaran house, our fee together with Curated finishes, the furniture chosen from Commune, Cellini and Poet Living, comes to about RM177k–339k.
Mark the rooms below that you’d like drawn. Until contractors price the drawings for your lot, none of these figures is a quotation.
| Home | Our fee | Curated | Bespoke |
|---|---|---|---|
| The whole house Link villa or semi-D · all four bedrooms | RM19,745–26,875 | RM158k–313k | RM329k–741k |
| Upstairs and living Link villa or semi-D · three upstairs bedrooms | RM16,180–23,310 | RM139k–274k | RM293k–660k |
The lower figure prices a usual Jimbaran brief, the open living, dining and kitchen with the bedrooms in that row. Floor area barely moves it, so link villas and semi-Ds share the rows. The upper one adds two rooms, the master bathroom and Bath 2, say.
All figures date from October 2026.
How these figures are worked out
Every Jimbaran bathroom is handed over new, so the rows price none of them; count one in only if you’d change it.
Inside each range sit kitchen cabinets, hob and hood, wardrobes, a washer-dryer and an air-conditioner per bedroom. The brochure provides wiring points for these and nothing more, so each one is in the ranges from the start.
Furnishing to let?
If you mean to let your Jimbaran house rather than live in it, our Essential level, with Ikea, SSF Home and Harvey Norman pieces, is quicker to finish and sturdier in a tenant’s hands. Whichever level you pick, our fee doesn’t move.
Renovation and furniture at Essential, before our fee
- The whole house
- RM84k–143k
- Upstairs and living
- RM73k–124k
Begin with a conversation
Tell us your lot and house type, and what the kitchen has to do for your family. We’ll bring the brochure plan, marked up, to the 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 Jimbaran interior designer, from the keys to a finished house
At Jimbaran, the developer’s progress gallery showed every house complete with its CCC on 1 April 2026, so keys are with owners or close.
One designer looks after your house from the first call until it is dressed, and the building is done by contractors you pick from quotes we gather and go through together.
From Kuala Lumpur, Setia Eco Templer is reached by MRR2, the NSE, the Guthrie Corridor Expressway or LATAR, through its own interchange, and every lorry still has to pass the township’s guards. We group deliveries where we can, so a cabinet maker, an air-conditioning crew and a furniture van aren’t all waiting at the gate on the same morning.
Setia Eco Templer’s deposit, permitted hours and contractor passes for renovations are not public. Getting them in writing is the first thing we do, so no contractor prices the job on assumptions.
- A call about your lot FreeWhich house and lot, who the guest room is for, what the sale agreement promises, and the spend you have in mind.
- A visit, upstairs and down RM200, waived if you go ahead with usA tape on every room upstairs and down, a look at the lanai, yard and which way the windows face, and a check of the handover against the brochure.
- Rooms and fee first, then the plansFirst a written note of the rooms, our fee and the spend. Then the plans: furniture layouts, lighting, wardrobes, the kitchen and where each air-conditioner sits.
- Drawings priced by contractorsConstruction drawings full enough for every contractor to price the same job. The quotes come to us first; we set them out line by line with you, and you choose.
- Works, then the moveTrades and lorries booked through the guarded entrance, each stage checked against the drawings, then rooms dressed, lanai and all, for the day you move.
Defects for the developer, a permit from MPS and the township’s rules for contractors all arrive in the first months after the keys. We take them in turn and bring you only the decisions that are yours to make. The full process
Keys from 2026?
Your 24-month defect liability period starts at vacant possession, so keys collected in April 2026 would be covered to about April 2028. Write to Setia Eco Templer listing every crack, hollow tile and leak, and keep a copy, before any contractor drills.
Majlis Perbandaran Selayang (MPS) is the approving authority named on the developer’s advertising notice. Your contractor files the renovation application, and enclosing the lanai or extending at the back needs approved plans as well.
Jimbaran renovation costs, and how your family makes this house its own
At Jimbaran, we start with your household, and shape each room around the people who live in it and the way your days run.
Maybe a grandmother takes the guest room, or the upstairs family area becomes where the children do their homework. We start with your mornings, school runs, cooking and visitors, and talk colour and style after that.
What your Jimbaran house arrives with
- KeepFloors, bathroomsTimber upstairs in a semi-D, laminate in a link villa, and bathrooms tiled floor to ceiling
- AdaptKitchen, lanaiThe open kitchen and its yard; the side lanai of a semi-D or corner villa
- AddJoinery, coolingCabinets, wardrobes and the air-conditioning units the brochure doesn’t list
Taken from the 2023 sales brochure. Where your sale agreement differs, the agreement wins; we compare your house with both when we visit.
What two landed renovations have cost, as a guide for yours
No cost index covers Rawang yet, and no Jimbaran house is ours. The nearest published records come from Petaling Jaya and the Damansara townships, all other firms’ jobs, so read them for scale only.
Closest in size to a Jimbaran house, a 2,325 sq ft four-bedroom home at AETAS Damansara came to RM280,000 over six weeks on site. A five-bedroom semi-D of 2,900 sq ft in Damansara was renovated for RM230,000, and an 1,800 sq ft terrace in Petaling Jaya for RM220,000.
Petaling Jaya renovation cost index
New Selangor houses with guides of their own:
FAQ
Jimbaran in practice: parents, cooling, cost and timing
Is Jimbaran the same as Rimbaran?
No. Both belong to Gaia Gardens in Setia Eco Templer, but Rimbaran was the first part, launched in 2022, and Jimbaran the second. Jimbaran’s semi-Ds are 2,780 sq ft and its link villas 2,230 to 2,540 sq ft, so tell us which phase yours is in before we compare plans.
Can the ground-floor guest room work for my parents?
Usually, yes. In every Jimbaran house it sits behind the dining, beside the kitchen, with the downstairs bathroom across the hall rather than en-suite. We plan a wardrobe within reach, low night lighting along the way to the bathroom and, if needed, grab rails; designing the room adds RM3,565 to our fee.
What is Bali-style interior design, and should a Jimbaran house follow it?
Bali style leans on natural materials and shade: dark timber, rattan and woven fibres, stone underfoot and rooms that open to a garden. At Jimbaran, Gaia Gardens, the gates and gardens already carry it, and the semi-Ds’ timber strip ceiling nods to it indoors. We’d continue it quietly in timber, rattan and linen, because a full resort look rarely suits a family home for long.
How much does it cost to hire an interior designer for a Jimbaran house?
Our design fee for a whole Jimbaran house, guest room included, is estimated at RM19,745–26,875, or RM16,180–23,310 without the guest room, and it is agreed in writing before we begin. Renovation and furniture come on top: roughly RM158k–313k if you furnish at our Curated level (Commune, Cellini, Poet Living) and RM329k–741k at Bespoke (Space Furniture, BoConcept, Molteni&C). The brochure lists no kitchen cabinets, wardrobes or air-conditioners, so all three sit inside those ranges.
How many air-conditioners can a Jimbaran house take?
The brochure gives the semi-D six air-conditioning points and the link villa five, on a three-phase supply. Before adding units or an EV charger, we have an electrician check the load, and we place each unit away from the beds and the lanai doors.
The keys have just arrived. When do we start designing?
Once the defect inspection is done. Wardrobes and kitchen joinery take longest to make, so at Jimbaran we draw them first and work back from your move-in date, which we set together on the first call.
What are the house types and sizes at Jimbaran, Gaia Gardens?
Jimbaran has two types, link villas and semi-detached houses, all with four bedrooms, from 2,230 to 2,780 sq ft built-up. A mid-row link villa is 2,230 sq ft on a 20 × 80 ft lot, end and corner villas run from 2,320 to 2,540 sq ft, and the 2,780 sq ft semi-detached on a 32 × 80 ft lot has four bathrooms, a side lanai and timber floors upstairs.
Who developed Jimbaran, and when were the houses completed?
Jimbaran was built by S P Setia as Phase 2C2 of Setia Eco Templer, its 194-acre gated township beside Templer Park, and the developer’s progress gallery showed every house complete, with its CCC, on 1 April 2026. It is the second of four parts of Gaia Gardens, and the tenure is leasehold, to 4 October 2116.
What facilities and security do Jimbaran residents have at Gaia Gardens?
The Edge reported in 2022 that Gaia Gardens residents share the township’s lakes, creeks, pocket gardens, jogging track and playgrounds, and a clubhouse with a pool and a gym. The township is gated, with patrolling guards, round-the-clock CCTV and anti-climb fencing, and the developer lists an alarm system for each home.
Can I see photos of a Jimbaran house you’ve designed?
Not yet: we haven’t worked at Jimbaran before, so there are no Jimbaran rooms of ours to show. We get to know your house with you, starting from the brochure plan for your lot.
What interior design services do you offer at Jimbaran, Gaia Gardens?
At Jimbaran, Gaia Gardens, we design the inside of new link villas and semi-Ds, renovation design included, starting with the kitchen, wardrobes and cooling the handover leaves out. We draw the plans, compare contractors’ quotes with you and manage the works on site, and contractors do the building. Where a house needs styling more than building, our interior styling and Procurement Concierge take it on, and Virtual Design serves families outside Kuala Lumpur and Selangor.
Link villa or semi-D, tell us about your Jimbaran house.
Tell us which house and lot, and send the brochure plan if it’s handy. That first conversation is free, and the estimated design fee reaches you in writing before you commit.
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