Interior designer at Menara Bangsar
How warm could your Menara Bangsar home feel?
Space is rarely short in a Menara Bangsar home; warmth is what it waits for. Once we’ve checked what four decades left behind the walls, we bring in joinery, lamplight and soft textiles.
A walnut sideboard, a record player and lamps at dusk: the kind of collected, lived-in room a Menara Bangsar 3+1 has more than enough floor for.
- Developer
Bandar Raya Developments, on freehold land at 299 Jalan Maarof
- Completed
1985
- Homes
Two towers, Blocks A and B, of 24 storeys each
- Sizes
1,650 to 1,750 sq ft with three bedrooms; penthouses of about 3,300 sq ft
- Facilities
A pool and paddling pool, tennis and squash courts, a gym and sauna, and a jogging track
Menara Bangsar floor plans, for long-time owners and new keys alike
Menara Bangsar is two 24-storey towers from 1985, with three-bedroom homes of 1,650 to 1,750 sq ft, so space is rarely short.
What we look after is the wiring and pipes, and whatever earlier owners changed.
Some homes here have had one family for decades; others have passed through several owners and a run of tenants. Either way, the rooms are generous, the shops and the MRT are close, and what the home needs most is usually hidden in the walls.
We’re Sundays in Bed, a Kuala Lumpur studio that designs and looks after homes. Our studio is a few minutes away, in Damansara Heights. We haven’t yet designed a home at Menara Bangsar, so this guide draws on published records, listings and what we check in any home of this age.
Bandar Raya Developments, the company that went on to build Bangsar Shopping Centre a few minutes’ walk away, finished the two freehold towers at 299 Jalan Maarof in 1985. Blocks A and B are 24 storeys each.
Menara Bangsar units are 1,650 to 1,750 sq ft built-up, and the penthouses about 3,300 sq ft.
- 1,650 sq ftThree bedrooms, three bathrooms
- 1,750 sq ftA 3+1: three bedrooms and a small extra room, three bathrooms
- About 3,300 sq ftPenthouses: a 3+1 with a study, and dry and wet kitchens
Space and kitchens
Three bedrooms in 1,650 sq ft is roomy by today’s measure, and the 3+1 adds a small room besides.
So where the sofa goes is rarely the hard part. We'll help you decide what each room is for, and check that the services behind the walls are sound.
Forty-one years also means several owners. Listings over the years suggest many homes here have spent long stretches let, and describe them renovated, partly furnished or fully furnished. If you've just bought one, you may find a landlord’s kitchen or wardrobes, and we'll help you sort what suits your family from what was built for tenants.
Then there is the road. StarProperty’s review of the building notes peak-hour congestion on Jalan Maarof, so if your rooms face it, we may suggest heavier curtains or better glazing before any new furniture.
The shared facilities belong to the building’s era: a pool with a paddling pool for small children, tennis and squash courts, a sauna next to the gym, a jogging track, barbecue pits, a mini market and a business centre, with covered parking and guards on duty day and night. The towers are older than their famous neighbour, too. Bangsar Shopping Centre’s East Wing opened in 1990, five years after Menara Bangsar was finished.
Menara Bangsar interior design: what your home needs before the finishes
At Menara Bangsar, we start with what is hidden behind your walls, then how you live, because in a building of this age the pipes and wiring come first.
If you've never opened up your walls
A home of this age may still have its original wiring, distribution board and water pipes. We'll check them on our first visit, so no wall has to be opened twice.
If your kitchen is the heart of the house
No plan of the 1,650 and 1,750 sq ft kitchens is published, so we start from yours. A closed kitchen suits heavy cooking; opening it to the dining depends on the structure, the services and management’s approval, which we'll help you ask for.
If one room has always been the odd one out
The 1,750 sq ft plan is listed as a 3+1, and some agents count the extra room as a fourth bedroom. Helper’s room, study, laundry or store: we'll decide together what it's for before any cupboard is drawn.
If you value a quiet night
Traffic builds at peak hours. Where the plan allows, we'll put bedrooms on the quieter side, and give road-facing rooms lined curtains or secondary glazing before anything decorative.
If an earlier owner did some things well
Some homes here have been renovated before. A sound timber floor, solid wardrobes or a recent kitchen can stay as they are, and the design goes where the home has aged.
If yours is one of the penthouses
Agents describe the penthouses at about 3,300 sq ft, twice a typical home, with three bedrooms and a +1, four bathrooms, a study, and a dry kitchen beside a wet one, both fitted with cabinets. They let for RM8,000–9,250 a month, so many have been dressed for tenants. With two kitchens to work with, the dry one can open to the living room as a pantry and breakfast counter, while the wet one keeps the frying behind a door.
What interior design costs at Menara Bangsar
At Menara Bangsar, the Sundays in Bed design fee for a 1,750 sq ft 3+1 is an estimated RM26,875–34,005, and for a 3,300 sq ft penthouse RM37,570–44,700.
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 the Menara Bangsar design fee, plan by plan. If your home spent years let, a landlord’s kitchen and wardrobes may still be in it. Some of that is sound and can stay as it is, and whatever stays is simply left off our list: we count only the rooms we redraw.
The small extra room in the 3+1 is the other choice. Drawn as a study, it becomes one more room, which is the second row in the table below.
3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and the kitchen: 6 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 into our agreement before anything is drawn, and paid in stages. A full rewire, or stone in place of tile, changes what your contractor charges; our figure counts rooms, so it stays put.
With our fee, a Curated 1,750 sq ft 3+1 here comes to about RM259k–432k.
Where a 1985 home has aged. Usually the wiring, the plumbing, the kitchen and the bathrooms, well before any feature wall. Pick the closest plan, choose which rooms to change, and read every figure as a guide until contractors quote.
| Home | Our fee | Curated | Bespoke |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3+1 1,650–1,750 sq ft · three bathrooms | RM26,875–34,005 | RM232k–398k | RM444k–851k |
| 3+1, +1 as a study About 1,750 sq ft · the small room designed as a study | RM30,440–37,570 | RM246k–421k | RM469k–897k |
| Penthouse About 3,300 sq ft · as listed by agents | RM37,570–44,700 | RM290k–538k | RM539k–1.11M |
Each row’s first figure counts the living and dining, the kitchen or kitchens, the bedrooms, all but one bathroom and, where the row says so, the extra room. Its second figure adds two rooms, say that last bathroom, or the +1 fitted out as a laundry.
These are October 2026 guides; only your contractors can quote.
How these figures are worked out
Every row is a resale home from 1985; a 1,650 sq ft three-bedroom prices as the 3+1. Each has three bathrooms, the penthouse four, and few owners redo them all, so we’ve counted one fewer. Count only the ones you’d change.
No plan of the typical kitchens is published, so we’ve priced yours as a closed room of its own; the penthouse’s dry and wet kitchens count as two. We confirm which you have on the visit.
Each range includes fresh air-conditioning, wardrobes, kitchen cabinets and appliances; any of those you keep from an earlier refit drops out of the estimate.
Furnishing to let?
Readying a Menara Bangsar home for the next tenant? Our Essential level, with Ikea, SSF Home and Harvey Norman furniture, is the sensible fit: it is finished sooner and takes years of comings and goings in its stride. Our design fee per room stays the same at any level.
Renovation and furniture at Essential, before our fee
- 3+1
- RM130k–202k
- 3+1, +1 as a study
- RM139k–216k
- Penthouse
- RM165k–277k
Begin with a conversation
Tell us your block and plan, who lives with you and what a past owner or landlord left. We’ll have estimates for your rooms ready for that first conversation.
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 Menara Bangsar interior designer comes to see your home first
At Menara Bangsar, we begin with a visit to see what is behind your walls and what earlier owners changed.
The designer you meet stays to the last styled room; contractors you choose build, from quotes we compare with you.
The first visit at Menara Bangsar is part survey, part detective work. No floor plan, ceiling height or original specification for the 1985 towers has been published, and no source says how many homes share a floor or a lift. So we measure every room, note which walls are original and which an earlier owner moved, open the distribution board, and run the taps to see what the pipes deliver.
Then we take the management office the questions the listings can’t answer: how many lifts serve your block, whether one can be padded and booked for the works, and where debris leaves the building. On a road as busy as Jalan Maarof, delivery times matter as well, and StarProperty’s review singles out the approach from Jalan Semantan as the hard one at commute hours.
Earlier refits leave clues. A 3+1 sold in 2018 was described as renovated and fully furnished, and it changed hands with a tenant in place. We record what each earlier refit did, so sound work stays and the new design starts where the old one stopped.
- A first conversation FreeBlock A or B, which plan, who will live there, what a past owner or landlord changed, and a rough figure for the whole project.
- The site visit RM200, waived if you go ahead with usWe measure every room, open the distribution board, look at the pipes, windows and air-conditioning, and note which rooms face Jalan Maarof.
- The scope, then the designThe rooms, our fee and the overall spend are agreed in writing. The kitchen and the +1 get their jobs first, then each room’s layout, lighting, joinery and materials.
- Drawings and quotesSeveral contractors price the full drawing set. We bring their figures back, go through every line at your table, and the builder is your choice.
- On site, then moving inContractors’ access is agreed with management and deliveries are timed around Jalan Maarof’s rush hours. Each stage is checked against the drawings before the rooms are styled.
A tower of this age brings a management office, DBKL, your contractors and the neighbours above and below into the picture, with Jalan Maarof’s traffic besides. We line up the approvals and the timings, and keep you posted as the work moves. How we work
Renovating a 1985 home
Forty-one years on, no developer warranty covers what has aged behind the plaster, so it joins the scope. Finding it on the first visit beats discovering it mid-renovation.
Your contractor normally obtains DBKL’s permit, and the management approves the works. Menara Bangsar’s renovation terms (deposit, hours, lifts) aren’t published, so the office gives them to us in writing before a single quote is requested.
Renovating at Menara Bangsar, around what your household needs most
Menara Bangsar’s two towers repeat two main plans, floor after floor, and the people inside are what tell one home from the next.
So we begin with your household and plan around it.
Maybe you have teenagers who each want a door to close, or you're a couple home from abroad. Maybe you're after a quiet study a short walk from the MRT. The same 3+1 suits each of you differently, so we ask first about your mornings, who comes to stay and what needs a home of its own.
The mix of people living here has been shifting. In January 2015, PropertyGuru showed 2 homes for sale against 32 for rent; by April 2024, iProperty showed 21 for sale and 16 for rent; and in 2026 sale listings outnumber rentals by two or three to one. More homes are changing hands than being let, and a buyer moving in often begins by deciding which parts of a landlord’s fit-out to keep.
A 1985 Menara Bangsar home: keep, adapt, add
- KeepThe plan, good refitsGenerous rooms, and any floor, wardrobe or kitchen a past owner did well
- AdaptKitchen, the +1A 1980s kitchen brought up to date; the extra room given its real job
- AddServices and quietWiring and plumbing checked or renewed, newer air-conditioning, curtains or glazing on the road side
The 1985 specification isn’t published, and four decades of owners have changed plenty, so we survey your own home before suggesting anything.
What renovations nearby have cost
We don’t yet have a Menara Bangsar project to show you. The nearest guide is what other firms have published about their Bangsar renovations: across the nine with both a cost and a floor area, the middle value is RM114 per sq ft.
Among them, Bayu Angkasa, a 1,400 sq ft three-bedroom, cost RM135,000. At that median, a 1,750 sq ft Menara Bangsar 3+1 would be about RM200,000, below the Curated range above, which assumes new services, joinery and furniture.
Each record, with its size and spend, is on the Bangsar renovation cost page.
FAQ
Owning a 1985 home at Menara Bangsar
Is a 1985 Menara Bangsar home worth rewiring?
Often, if nobody has done it yet. 1980s wiring and distribution boards weren’t planned for today’s air-conditioners, ovens and induction hobs. On the site visit we check what’s there, and whether an earlier owner upgraded it, before writing the scope.
With no 1985 specification on record anywhere, the distribution board does the telling: its age, its breakers, and whether a past owner added circuits when the air-conditioners went in.
What’s the difference between the 1,650 and 1,750 sq ft homes?
Both have three bedrooms and three bathrooms. The 1,750 sq ft plan is usually listed as a 3+1, with a small extra room some agents count as a fourth bedroom. We confirm yours on the visit, kitchen layout included.
Listings wander between 1,600 and 1,800 sq ft, which is agents rounding rather than extra plans; one 1,742 sq ft home in Block A was listed as south-facing, with a balcony. The penthouses of about 3,300 sq ft are a third, separate type.
Can the kitchen be opened up to the dining room?
Sometimes. It depends on which walls carry structure or services, and on management’s approval. Where the cooking is fierce, a glass partition and a stronger hood may serve you better than taking the wall away. We look at yours before suggesting either.
Only the penthouses are described with a dry kitchen beside a wet one. That pairing, a closed wet kitchen for the wok and a counter facing the dining for everything else, is one way to have both in a 1,750 sq ft home.
How do I keep the noise from Jalan Maarof out?
Start with the rooms that face it. Lined curtains, upholstered furniture and rugs soften sound; secondary glazing does more, where management allows it. Where the plan permits, bedrooms go on the quieter side of the home.
StarProperty’s review notes congestion along Jalan Maarof at peak hours and names the Jalan Semantan approach as the worst of it, so when each room is used matters. A bedroom slept in only at night needs less than a study used through the morning rush.
We’ve let the home for years. What changes when we move back in?
Usually storage, the kitchen and the bedrooms. A tenant’s fit-out is built to be hard-wearing and neutral; living there, you’ll want wardrobes sized for your things, a kitchen for how you cook, and lighting you chose. Sound joinery can stay with new doors.
Letting has long shaped these homes: the 3+1 sold in 2018 went with a tenant paying RM4,500 a month, and StarProperty’s review puts rents at about RM3,000 for a basic home and RM6,000 renovated and furnished.
Roughly what does renovating a Menara Bangsar 3+1 come to?
For a 1,750 sq ft 3+1, an estimated RM232k–398k for renovation and furniture at Curated, or RM444k–851k at Bespoke, plus our fee. Sound earlier work that you keep comes off those figures.
For context, StarProperty’s review gives subsale prices of about RM1.3 million for an unrenovated home and RM1.6 million for a renovated one, and Brickz shows a median of RM804 per sq ft across two sales in 2025. Running costs are worth adding in: one 2025 listing gave the maintenance charge on a 1,742 sq ft home as RM997 a month, about 57 sen per sq ft, before any sinking fund the management may levy.
When was Menara Bangsar built, and who developed it?
Menara Bangsar was finished in 1985 by Bandar Raya Developments, the company that went on to build Bangsar Shopping Centre. It is two freehold towers, Blocks A and B, of 24 storeys each, at 299 Jalan Maarof, and it is older than Bangsar Shopping Centre’s East Wing, which opened in 1990.
What facilities does Menara Bangsar have?
Menara Bangsar has a pool with a paddling pool for small children, tennis and squash courts, a gym with a sauna, a jogging track and barbecue pits. There is also a mini market and a business centre, with covered parking and guards on duty day and night.
Can I see photos of a Menara Bangsar home you’ve designed?
Not yet: we haven’t yet designed a home at Menara Bangsar, so this page draws on published records, listings and what we check in any home of this age. For costs, the nearest guide is other firms’ published Bangsar renovations, set out on our Bangsar renovation cost page.
What interior design services do you offer at Menara Bangsar?
Menara Bangsar’s three-bedroom homes of 1,650 and 1,750 sq ft and its penthouses of about 3,300 sq ft date from 1985, and our condo interior design here takes in renovation design. We draw the plans, compare contractors’ quotes with you and manage the works on site, and contractors do the building. Interior styling or furnishing through our Procurement Concierge can come on their own, and homes outside Kuala Lumpur and Selangor are designed through Virtual Design.
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Whatever your Menara Bangsar home needs next, we’d like to see it.
Block A or B, newly bought or lived in since the towers opened: tell us which, its rough size and what you hope to spend. We’ll talk it through at no cost, and you’ll see our estimated fee on paper before you agree to anything.
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