Interior design in KLCC, Bukit Bintang and TRX

Picture the day you collect your keys at SO/ KL Residences or The Manor. There is a concierge downstairs, perhaps a housekeeping service on offer, and somewhere a set of terms you haven’t read yet.

We’d ask for those terms before drawing anything, because in towers like these an operator can have a say in what changes, as well as the management. Accor runs the SO/ services, Alorie looks after The Manor, Ascott manages many of the homes at Star Residences Tower 3, and Orion Residence now shares its tower with a hotel, soft-opened on 30 September 2026.

If you take one thing from this page, let it be this: read your management or operator agreement before you order a single cabinet.

The district keeps changing around you. The Exchange TRX opened on 29 November 2023 with a 10-acre city park on its roof, and TRX station is an interchange on the Kajang and Putrajaya lines. TRX even has a postcode of its own, 55188.

The room pictured above is what we’d aim for in a tower: low, soft seating, a timber table, and warm lamplight after dark.

If your home is in one of the older towers around Jalan Stonor and Persiaran KLCC, expect room to spare. Dua Residency has no home under 2,098 sq ft, and The Pearl none under about 3,000.

Closer to Bukit Bintang the plans tighten, so we never carry one tower’s answer into the next. Each row links to that building’s own guide.

Around KLCC Park and Jalan Ampang

Where the lift opens into your own lobby, we’d treat that lobby as the first room.

• 1Park SevenMar 2008One home per floor in each of seven towers, column-free under 3.35 m ceilings.
• 2K ResidenceJul 2008About five homes to a floor, from 1,405 sq ft to about 10,650.
• 3One KLApr 2009All 94 homes are duplexes, the living room rising through both floors.
• 4Quadro Residences2013In the Type 3B plan, the lift lobby sits inside the home, ahead of a dry and a wet kitchen.
• 5The Ritz-Carlton ResidencesOct 2017Typical floors were handed over semi-furnished; the penthouses were not.
• 6Jewel by OxleySep 2025Semi-furnished at handover, with the kitchen cabinets and bathrooms fitted.
• 7SO/ KL ResidencesSep 2025590 residences from level 22, with Accor running the SO/ services.

Completion dates verified 3–4 Oct 2026.

Conlay, Stonor, Kia Peng and Yap Kwan Seng

In a home sold furnished, we’d begin by deciding together what stays.

• 8Stonor ParkAround 2006Two homes to a floor, ceilings marketed at 10 feet.
• 9Dua ResidencyApr 2007No home under 2,098 sq ft, with duplexes and triplex penthouses above.
• 10The Avare2009Two homes a floor; the typical one has four en-suite bedrooms.
• 11The PearlDec 2011A private lift lobby for every home, none under about 3,000 sq ft.
• 12The MewsSep 2017Most of its 256 homes are one-bedrooms; the penthouses add a dry and a wet kitchen.
• 13Star Residences Tower 3May 2022Some homes Ascott manages; others owners keep for themselves.
• 14The ManorJan 2023484 homes as built, and two types that can be set up as dual-key.
• 15The Conlay2025All 491 homes were sold fully furnished, so the first question is what you’d keep.

Bukit Bintang

In a compact plan, we’d draw the storage before the sofa.

• 16Agile Bukit Bintang2023–24Almost every home is a 1+1 or a two-bedroom.
• 17Orion ResidenceAround 2025Sold fully furnished, in a tower that is now also a hotel.
• 18Skylon ResidencesUndatedIn Bukit Ceylon; every kitchen opens to the living room.
• 19Times Square 2Due Oct 2027Walls between some small homes can come down, so two can become one.

TRX

Where the kitchen came fitted, we’d keep it and spend on the rooms you live in.

• 20TRX ResidencesMay 2024Linked from level 8 to the park; the washing machine isn’t included.
• 21Core Residence @ TRXEarly 2024Open kitchens throughout, and a wardrobe already in each bedroom.

Picture the week you move in. The tenancy came with a sofa you didn’t choose, your own things may still be on their way, and the rooms look like a showroom waiting for someone to live in them. Styling is how a home here starts to feel like yours, without a single wall touched.

Towers here are handed over very differently. Every home at The Conlay was sold fully furnished, as at Orion Residence; at Jewel by Oxley and on the typical floors of The Ritz-Carlton Residences, homes came semi-furnished. So the first question is rarely what to buy. It’s what to keep, what to move and what’s missing, and we rework the pieces already there before suggesting anything new.

If you rent. Anything drilled, hacked or built in needs your landlord’s written OK first, and the management’s renovation rules apply after that, as do an operator’s terms where one runs services in your tower. So we lean on what stands, leans or plugs in: rugs, lamps, a sofa, curtains on the tracks already there, art propped on a console. Nothing to undo when the tenancy ends.

To a move-in date. Tell us the day you move in and we plan back from it. Styling itself takes one to two weeks; where new furniture is needed, deliveries usually add four to twelve weeks, so the slowest pieces are ordered first and the rest follow in time for install day.

Pieces that travel. We choose furniture that will suit the next home as well as this one: a sofa that isn’t cut to one wall, rugs and lamps rather than built-ins, so what you buy here goes with you when you move on.

What styling includes. A placement guide and a shopping list, with art, lighting, textiles and accessories shortlisted to suit your budget. Once everything has arrived, your stylist styles each room in person, for proportion, scale and balance. The first conversation can be in person or over video, with your photos and floor plan.

What it costs. Styling is RM1,715 a room and RM2,635 for open-plan living and dining, with no free rooms, estimated and agreed in writing before we begin. A three-bedroom home is 3 × RM1,715 + RM2,635 = RM7,780, up to RM11,210 with two more rooms; a four-bedroom home is RM9,495–12,925. The examples below use homes on this page.

Interior styling

All four are estimates at current per-room rates: RM1,715 a room and RM2,635 for open-plan living and dining. Each upper figure allows extra rooms, two at 1,200 sq ft or more and one below.

In a tower sold furnished, the fee follows what you change. If your home came furnished, as every home at The Conlay did, the real question is what you’d change.

A fitted kitchen you’re happy with adds nothing, because we count only the rooms you give us, and never the square feet.

Make two lists before you call: what you’d keep as it is, and what you can’t live with. The second list is your brief.

Find the layout most like yours, then switch rooms on or off. The sums never leave this page.

All four are estimates at September 2026 per-room rates. Each upper figure allows extra rooms, two at 1,200 sq ft or more and one below.

If you’re comparing a one-bedroom with a 3,000 sq ft home, expect the figures to land far apart: the records run from RM57 to RM318 a sq ft.

Read each record as one data point, never as a rate for its building; the index says the same. Time on site ran from 4 to 20 weeks.

If your tower has an operator in it, add a third name to that list.

So before the first drawing we’d gather three things: the management’s renovation rules, any operator’s terms, and the defect clause in your sale agreement. Call us the week your keys arrive, or before you commit to any furniture.

On commercial title, as at The Ritz-Carlton Residences, the usual 24-month defect period may not apply; your agreement decides.

Who says yes in KLCC, Bukit Bintang and TRX

We’d have every letter we need in hand before the contractors price the drawings.

• Your building’s managementApproves the plan in writing before work starts, and may hold a deposit. At K Residence, one joint body covers both the homes and the Avenue K mall.
• An operator, where there is oneAt SO/, The Manor, Star Residences Tower 3 and Orion, a brand or operator runs services in the building, and its terms can limit what changes. None publishes them, so we ask.
• DBKLIts small-works permit, obtained by your contractor, asks for the written consent of the JMB or management corporation.

We found no published renovation rules for any of these twenty-one towers. Moving plumbing, an outside door or a window needs the authority’s approval as well as the management’s. The full process