Interior designer in Mont Kiara

Think about the last few steps before you’re home. In some Mont Kiara towers the lift opens onto a lobby only your household uses. In others it opens onto a corridor you share, and home begins at your own front door.

Both kinds are here. Every home at 10 Mont Kiara and Sunway Vivaldi has a private lift lobby, and so does every home in Tower B at Pavilion Mont’ Kiara. At The MINH, only the two largest types do. Bon Kiara and Residensi Astrea gather their homes around a shared core.

If the lobby is yours, we treat it as the home’s first room, as far as your management allows: a bench for taking shoes off, a lamp left on, a place for the post. If it’s shared, all of that moves inside, and the foyer’s walls have to hold it.

Tonight, notice everything you carry through the door and ask where each thing should land. The answer shapes the first metre of the home.

Who built Mont Kiara? Sunrise Berhad, now UEM Sunrise, which began with Mont Kiara Pines and Mont Kiara Palma in 1993–94.

Once you know the roads, the towers are easy to place. 10 Mont Kiara is on Jalan Kiara 1, Residensi 22 and Bon Kiara share Jalan Kiara 3, Allevia has Jalan Kiara 4 to itself, Astrea is on Jalan Kiara 5, and The MINH sits up Jalan Kiara 7, beside Bukit Kiara.

The photograph above shows a walnut bench with shoes tucked beneath it, beside full-height timber cupboards: the kind of threshold we’d plan whichever way your door opens.

Several of the towers with a guide of their own come from the developer that began Mont Kiara in the 1990s, Sunrise Berhad, now UEM Sunrise, or one of its subsidiaries, among them 10 Mont Kiara, 28 Mont Kiara, Residensi 22, Residensi Astrea, Allevia and The MINH.

Numbers of homes and sizes are approximate, gathered from developers and property listings; your building’s management or your sale agreement has the final word.

Two towers with Mont Kiara in their story, Agile Mont Kiara and Residensi Solaris Parq, are in our Dutamas guide.

Alongside the towers listed below, these Mont Kiara buildings have a guide of their own: Almaspuri, Arte Mont Kiara, Astana, Ceriaan Kiara, Izen Kiara, Kiara 1888, Kiara 9 Residency, La Grande Kiara, Laman Suria, Lanai Kiara, Lumina Kiara, Meridin, Mont Kiara Banyan, Mont Kiara Pelangi, Mont Kiara Sophia, Sunway Mont Residences, Tiffani Kiara and Vista Kiara.

New keys

In a tower a year or two old, we’d agree where everything is stored before anyone picks a finish.

• 1Allevia2025Four homes to each floor, none sharing a party wall; every type pairs an open dry kitchen with a closed one.
• 2Kami Mont Kiara2025A serviced residence of about 168 homes, from about 840 to 1,604 sq ft, where every piece needs its place.

Dates checked 3 and 18 Oct 2026.

Coming soon

While the keys are months away, every change is still a change on paper, the easiest kind to make.

• 3Bon KiaraOct 2026Developer’s date for keys; the contract says March 2027. Every home has a lanai about 27 ft long, closed by glass.
• 4Pavilion Mont’ KiaraJun 2027The developer’s notice says June; a later briefing, Q3. Tower B homes each have a lift lobby; Tower A’s share a corridor.
• 5The MINHSep 2027All four layouts have three bedrooms; only the two largest arrive at a lift lobby of their own.
• 6MAIA @ Mont’KiaraDate to comeFrom UEM Sunrise: about 495 homes of about 1,485 to 2,982 sq ft, some with two master bedrooms.

Dates checked 3 and 18 Oct 2026.

Settled

With a home that’s been lived in, we’d list what still works well and plan around keeping it.

• 7Kiaraville2008About 404 homes, from about 1,593 to 3,935 sq ft, now nearly two decades lived in.
• 8Hijauan Kiara2008About 188 homes of about 2,090 to 5,045 sq ft, two to a floor, each opening from a private lift lobby.
• 9Kiaramas Ayuria2008About 480 homes, from about 1,605 to 4,000 sq ft, the most of any Kiaramas condominium listed here.
• 1010 Mont Kiara2009Four homes a floor, each opening from its own lift lobby; every standard home has four bedrooms plus one.
• 11Seni Mont Kiara2010About 605 homes in four blocks named after painters, from about 2,400 sq ft to penthouses of about 4,000 sq ft, each with its own lift lobby.
• 12Gateway Kiaramas2010About 168 homes across a wide spread of sizes, from about 743 to 3,563 sq ft.
• 13Sunway Vivaldi2011Most homes are duplexes whose living room rises through both floors, and every home has its own lift lobby.
• 1411 Mont Kiara2011Also known as MK11: about 339 homes, from about 2,707 to 6,705 sq ft.
• 1528 Mont Kiara2012MK28: about 460 homes of about 2,535 to 3,000 sq ft in two 40-storey towers, each with its own lift lobby.
• 16Kiaramas Danai2013About 274 homes, all family-size, from about 2,025 to 2,498 sq ft.
• 17Residensi 222017Three in four homes are on a corner and all face north or south, so there’s more window than wall to furnish.
• 18Pavilion Hilltop2018About 621 homes of about 1,200 to 3,671 sq ft; a different development from Pavilion Mont’ Kiara.
• 19Residensi Astrea2023Nine homes share each floor’s core; every type has an open pantry by the dining table and a closed kitchen beyond it.
• 20PentamontAbout 2023About 330 homes, from about 1,379 to 2,125 sq ft.

The first towers

In a home lived in for twenty years or more, we’d check what the last renovation left before planning anything new.

• 21Mont Kiara Pines1993About 508 homes of about 1,208 to 1,428 sq ft; with Mont Kiara Palma, where Mont Kiara began.
• 22Mont Kiara Palma1994About 400 homes, from about 1,208 to 1,390 sq ft, built by Sunrise Berhad, now UEM Sunrise.
• 23Mont Kiara Damai2004About 230 homes of about 2,272 to 5,700 sq ft.
• 24Kiaramas Sutera2004About 315 homes, from about 1,347 to 4,100 sq ft, the earliest of the Kiaramas condominiums listed here.
• 25Mont Kiara Aman2005About 345 homes, from about 1,668 to 4,647 sq ft.
• 26Kiaramas Cendana2006About 184 homes, from about 1,650 to 4,530 sq ft.

Compact homes and serviced residences

In a smaller home every piece has to earn its floor space, so we choose pieces that do two jobs.

• 27Verve Suites2013About 880 to 930 homes, studios to two bedrooms of about 462 to 1,394 sq ft, handed over furnished to one design.
• 28Icon Residence2014A serviced residence of about 260 to 290 homes, from about 673 to 4,719 sq ft.
• 29Arcoris Residences2016A serviced residence of about 697 homes, from about 496 to 4,241 sq ft, within the mixed-use Arcoris development.
• 30OOAK Suites @ Kiara 1632022Serviced suites of about 696 to 1,016 sq ft, part of the Kiara 163 development.

Arriving is the part nobody plans for. The keys come with a home that may be bare, half furnished or full of a previous household’s choices, and a date by which it has to work: the lease begins, the shipment lands, school starts.

Our interior styling begins with what is already there. We rework the pieces you own, or the ones that came with the home, before suggesting anything new, then plan the furniture, lighting, rugs, textiles and art that make the rooms yours. Nothing is hacked or built in.

If you rent, read your tenancy before anything goes on a wall. Anything drilled, mounted or built in needs your landlord’s written OK first, and each tower’s management sets its own rules for deliveries and works. Styling that drills nothing needs no works approval, though the management will still want to know when the sofa is coming up in the lift.

For a move-in date, the long-lead pieces come first. Styling itself takes one to two weeks once everything has arrived; where new furniture is needed, deliveries usually add four to twelve weeks, so the sofa and the dining table are chosen early and the rest fills in around them. The first call can be over video with your floor plan, before you land.

We lean towards pieces that travel: a sofa you’ll still want in five years, a dining table that seats your people, lamps rather than ceiling fittings, rugs and art. When the tenancy ends, they leave with you, and the next home starts half done.

Styling includes a first call, a visit to measure, a placement guide and a shopping list for each room you choose, and a day when your stylist styles the rooms in person once everything has arrived. You buy the furniture yourself, or through our Procurement Concierge, which places the orders and books deliveries around your building’s lift.

The styling fee is RM1,715 for each room we style and RM2,635 for an open-plan living and dining, and styling has no free rooms. For a three-bedroom Mont Kiara condo that is 3 × RM1,715 + RM2,635 = RM7,780, up to RM11,210 with two more rooms; for a four-bedroom home, RM9,495 up to RM12,925. Both are estimated, and the fee is agreed in writing before we begin.

Estimates as of October 2026. The upper figure adds up to two more rooms, such as a study, the +1 room or a dressing room (one more for homes of 1,200 sq ft or less). Furniture is bought separately.

Mont Kiara interior design and renovation design

Room by room, for a settled tower such as 10 Mont Kiara or a new one such as Allevia: what each room is for, where things are stored and how the light falls, drawn before your management is asked to approve anything. In a tower, that includes booking the service lift and loading bay with the management.

Designing before a new Mont Kiara tower hands over

At Bon Kiara and The MINH there’s no management body yet, so the approval comes later, but your drawings can be ready the day it does. Our Mont Kiara work includes homes at The MINH, on Jalan Kiara 7.

Interior styling for a bare or furnished Mont Kiara home

For a home that came bare, half furnished or with someone else’s furniture, we plan the furniture, lighting, rugs and art around what is already there, and your stylist styles the rooms in person once everything has arrived. Nothing is hacked or built in, and you buy the pieces yourself or through our Procurement Concierge.

Kitchens, bathrooms and joinery in Mont Kiara condos

In the newer towers there may be little to redo: Bon Kiara’s wet kitchen is handed over fitted, and Allevia and Residensi Astrea are tiled to the ceiling in their kitchens and bathrooms. Several towers list no wardrobes or vanities in their handover, so that joinery is drawn with the rest of the home. At 10 Mont Kiara and Sunway Vivaldi, unless someone has redone them, the kitchens and bathrooms are as old as the building.

Homes outside Kuala Lumpur and Selangor are designed through Virtual Design.

Interior design Interior styling Condo interior design in Mont Kiara What renovating a Mont Kiara condo costs

If your tower handed over years ago, more of your home is likely to be on the list.

In a new tower, the developer’s kitchen and bathrooms are new too, and keeping them leaves fewer rooms to design.

At 10 Mont Kiara and Sunway Vivaldi, unless someone has redone them, the kitchens, bathrooms and wiring are as old as the building. The brief there is usually a renewal, and every room renewed is a room in the fee.

Before we meet, list the rooms you’d happily leave as they are. The design can then give its full attention to the rooms you live in most.

Start from the layout nearest yours and change the rooms. Nothing you enter leaves your browser.

Rates as of September 2026; estimates as of October 2026, from each tower’s typical layout up to two more rooms. Your final fee follows the rooms you choose, and the pricing page explains how the fee works.

You might expect a bigger home to cost more to renovate, and a smaller one less.

The records other firms have published for Mont Kiara don’t bear that out. Two are for the same tower, 10 Mont Kiara, one filed under its nickname, MK10: both are about 3,600 sq ft, and one came to RM260,000 while the other came to RM1,200,000.

So the size of a home says little on its own. What a renovation includes, room by room, is what sets the figure.

The first date in your renovation waits on someone else’s signature. So call us as soon as there’s a handover date, and your drawings will be ready before the management is asked to approve them.

Who says yes in Mont Kiara

We’d ask each tower’s office for its rules before drawing a wall, then draw inside them.

• Your building’s managementAgrees in writing before work starts, and can ask for a deposit and a completion date. Bon Kiara and The MINH have no management body yet, so their rules arrive after the keys.
• DBKLPublishes a renovation procedure for strata buildings (5 August 2023) and a guideline on enclosing balconies (17 June 2020), worth reading before you change a lanai.
• The developerHolds your defects list for 24 months from vacant possession. At Allevia that runs into 2027; at Bon Kiara it starts with the keys.

Moving plumbing, changing an external door or window, altering a safety feature or rewiring the whole home also needs the authority’s approval under strata by-law 28. We haven’t found published deposit, hours or lift rules for these towers, so we ask each office and plan the schedule around its answer. The full process