Interior designer at Palmyra Bangsar
Sixty homes in a Balinese garden.
Each with room enough to be entirely yours.
Thoughtfully designed around the way you live, and what you’d like to spend.
What does a 22-year-old home in a Balinese garden ask of its designer?
Only sixty households, in homes from 3,051 to 4,389 sq ft, every one with a dry and a wet kitchen, a family area and terraces above a planted garden. The task is giving each room a purpose, and bringing a 2004 home up to date.
Sundays in Bed designs homes in and around Kuala Lumpur. At Palmyra, as anywhere, we draw only the rooms you ask for, with our fee set out in writing first.
BRDB completed Palmyra in 2004 on Jalan Medang Tanduk, in Bukit Bandaraya: 60 homes in seven low-rise blocks on about three acres of freehold land, threaded with a water channel, a waterfall and planted terraces in a Balinese manner.
Palmyra units range from 3,051 to 4,389 sq ft built-up; every one has three bedrooms plus a helper’s room.
- 3,051 sq ftThree bedrooms, with a dressing room off the master
- 3,628–3,658 sq ftThree bedrooms, plus a guest room or study
- 3,898–4,389 sq ftThree bedrooms, a guest room, and a study or a lounge off the master
- 4,228–4,375 sq ftTop-floor duplexes, with a roof garden and pavilion upstairs
Each plan pairs two kitchens: a dry one that opens to the dining room, and a wet one tucked behind it, beside the yard and the helper’s room.
Each also gives you a family area on top of the living and dining rooms. Three places to sit sounds generous, yet many households settle in one and walk past the other two for years.
And these homes are twenty-two years old. Earlier owners renovated some; others may still have their original bathrooms and light fittings. So the brief tends to open with two questions: what is each room for, and what in yours deserves to stay.
Two kitchens, three places to sit: which deserve the budget first at Palmyra?
Who uses which room, and at what hour. Most plans give you two kitchens, three places to sit and a guest room, and settling their roles early makes every later choice easier.
Dry and wet. Several plans join the dry kitchen to the dining through folding doors, with the wet kitchen and yard out of sight. The dry side we design for breakfasts and guests; the wok and bulk storage go to the wet.
Three places to sit. Living room, dining room and family area: we decide at the start which one receives visitors and which takes the television, the homework and the dog, so each earns its floor space.
A room for whoever stays. Every type but the smallest, at 3,051 sq ft, has a guest room or study, and two of the larger types have both. Parents staying for months need good light, a wardrobe within reach and a bathroom next door; a study needs shelving and a door that shuts.
Terraces and roof gardens. Terraces open off the living and dining rooms, and the top-floor duplexes have roof gardens. Management has repaired planter and roof leaks here, so waterproofing stays untouched without its approval, and we check upper ceilings for old stains.
What already works. After two decades, parts of a Palmyra home may have been redone well by a previous owner. On the visit we list what still serves you, keep it, and put the money where time has told, usually bathrooms and lighting.
What does it cost to design and furnish a Palmyra Bangsar Type A or B?
For a Type A or B home here, the Sundays in Bed design fee is estimated at RM41,135–48,265; for the smaller Type B2, RM30,440–37,570. Your final fee depends on the rooms you choose, and is agreed in writing before we begin.
With our fee and Curated finishes (Commune, Cellini, Poet Living), a Type A or B home here comes to about RM363k–635k in all.
Spend where it matters. Skip what doesn’t. At Palmyra money earns most in the bathrooms, the dry kitchen and lighting for big rooms, seldom the helper’s quarters. Choose a type, turn on the rooms you’d like drawn, and treat every number as an estimate.
4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms and the dry and wet kitchens: 10 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 low end is the essentials; the high end adds extras such as a feature wall, LED strips and a kitchen island.
What the two levels mean
Curated. Melamine and laminate, sintered stone, a plaster ceiling. Furniture from Commune, Cellini, Fella Design, Dezign District, Poet Living, Big Brain, Gudang, Crown Livin and Dadswood.
Bespoke. Bespoke laminate, detailed joinery, a ceiling with cornice. 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.
| Home | Curated | Bespoke |
|---|---|---|
| Type A or B 3,628–3,658 sq ft · Blocks A, B, D and F Estimated fee RM41,135–48,265 | RM322k–594k | RM592k–1.21M |
| Type B2 3,051 sq ft · Block C Estimated fee RM30,440–37,570 | RM257k–478k | RM483k–1M |
| Type C1 3,898–4,389 sq ft · Blocks C and G Estimated fee RM37,570–44,700 | RM303k–563k | RM561k–1.16M |
| Duplex, roof garden 4,228–4,375 sq ft · top floors Estimated fee RM48,265–55,395 | RM355k–654k | RM647k–1.32M |
Read the first figure in each row as the usual brief: living and dining, both kitchens, all the bedrooms with the guest room, and every bathroom bar one. The second makes room for two extras, perhaps that remaining bathroom, or a dressing room given proper joinery.
Curated means furniture from Commune, Cellini or Poet Living; Bespoke, from Space Furniture, BoConcept or Molteni&C. These are guides as of October 2026, and a real price comes only from contractors’ quotes.
With Palmyra finished in 2004, each row assumes a resale home. Bathrooms here, leaving out the helper’s, number three to six; few owners redo them all, so we price one fewer and set the helper’s room and bathroom aside.
In the duplex row, the upstairs TV room is priced as a study. Cabinets in both kitchens, wardrobes and air-conditioners are included throughout; keep what an earlier owner did well and your figure falls.
Furnishing to let? iProperty lists Palmyra homes to rent from RM13,000 a month. A lighter, hard-wearing fit-out at our Essential level, quicker to finish and easy to keep tenant-ready, is one possibility, with furniture from Ikea, SSF Home and Harvey Norman. The design fee is the same at every level.
Renovation and furniture at Essential, before our fee: Type A or B RM183k–308k · Type B2 RM146k–244k · Type C1 RM172k–290k · Duplex, roof garden RM203k–341k.
Adding up the fee. Each bedroom, bathroom, kitchen or study we design is RM3,565; the living and dining, taken together, RM5,485. Palmyra’s pair of kitchens therefore counts twice, while a guest bathroom you’re happy with isn’t counted at all.
We put the total in writing before work begins, and you pay it in stages. It is never worked out from the contractors’ bills, so Chengal decking on a terrace instead of tiles moves their figure and leaves ours alone.
Start from your number. Whether yours is a Type B2 or a duplex with a roof garden, the first thing we ask is what you want to spend, and the design is shaped to fit inside it.
How does a renovation run at Palmyra, from first call to the last cushion on the terrace?
You keep one designer throughout, from the first phone call to the cushions on the terrace. Sundays in Bed designs and runs the project; licensed contractors build it, priced through quotes we collect and review alongside you, and you pick the builder.
- A first conversation FreeWhich type and block you own, who will live there, what a previous owner has altered, and roughly what you’d like to spend.
- Measuring up RM200, waived if you go ahead with usEvery room, both kitchens and the terraces are measured. We look over the bathrooms and the distribution board, check ceilings for old roof or planter stains, and note what should stay.
- Agreeing the scopeFirst the rooms, our fee and your budget go into writing. Then the design itself: layouts, lighting, joinery and finishes, with roles settled for the family area and the guest room.
- Tender drawingsSeveral contractors price an identical drawing set. Their quotes come back to us; we compare them with you item by item, and you choose who builds.
- Building and stylingOnce management has approved the works, we cover the lobby and lift, check each stage against the drawings, and end by styling the rooms and terraces.
Sixty households share one management office and one garden, so a renovation here means keeping neighbours, the committee and DBKL in the loop, and the trades on schedule. Carrying all of that is our job. The full process
Who signs off. Two approvals come before any work starts: Palmyra’s management office, through the forms it keeps for residents, and DBKL, whose permit your licensed contractor normally obtains.
Palmyra’s house rules sit behind a residents’ password, so its renovation deposit, permitted working hours and lift arrangements aren’t public. Our first step is to ask the management office for them, in writing.
How do we fit a Palmyra home to your household, not just its floor plan?
We begin with the household, not the plan. Palmyra repeats a handful of layouts, yet a retired couple and three generations under one roof will live in the same Type A in entirely different ways.
Space is rarely the issue in a Palmyra home. Grandparents for the school holidays, a helper, two people working from home, twelve at Sunday lunch: it can hold them all. The design decides how gracefully, with the garden beyond the terrace as the backdrop.
What an older Palmyra Bangsar home usually needs
- KeepThe layoutA pair of kitchens, a family area, terraces and, in most types, a guest room; walls seldom have to move
- AdaptBathrooms, lightingAny original 2004 fittings still in place; keep what a previous owner did well
- AddScaleRugs, sofas and light fittings sized for rooms this generous, and a purpose for the family area
We can find no finishes schedule ever published for Palmyra, and twenty years of owners have altered plenty, so each home is assessed in person.
What renovating nearby has cost
Palmyra isn’t yet among our projects, so the evidence here is published. Bangsar’s cost index carries 11 published renovation records giving both size and spend; the median works out at RM114 per sq ft.
Closest in scale and setting is Serai, also in Bukit Bandaraya: 3,300 sq ft, renovated for RM650,000.
Apply that median to a 3,658 sq ft Type A and the renovation comes to roughly RM417,000, comfortably inside the Curated range above.
Each record is listed by building on the Bangsar renovation cost index.
Nearby, with their own pages: Bangsar · Serai, Bukit Bandaraya · One Eleven Menerung · Bangsar Hill Park
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Palmyra Bangsar questions, answered
What should I ask a designer before renovating at Palmyra?
Three things. Have they planned homes above 3,000 sq ft, where furniture and lighting are half the job? Is their fee written down, room by room, before work starts? Ours is. And can they show real local costs? Bangsar’s are on the cost index.
Roughly what does it cost to renovate and furnish a Palmyra Type A or B?
Allow about RM322k–594k at Curated (Commune, Cellini or Poet Living) or RM592k–1.21M at Bespoke (Space Furniture, BoConcept or Molteni&C) for renovation and furniture. Our design fee, estimated at RM41,135–48,265, is separate. Keeping sound earlier work lowers both.
Do both the dry and the wet kitchen need redoing?
Not necessarily. Guests see the dry kitchen beside the dining room, so that is usually where the budget goes. A working wet kitchen may need only new doors, a stronger hood and smarter storage. Each kitchen we design is one room on the fee.
Can the guest room become a room for my parents?
Often, and it suits that well. We plan grab rails in the nearest bathroom, a level-entry shower, soft night lighting and a wardrobe within easy reach. It is already one of the rooms in the fee estimate above.
I own a top-floor duplex. What should I check first?
The roof. Management replaced the rooftop decking on every block after top-floor owners reported ceiling stains, so we look for old marks before repainting. Roof gardens, planters and the pavilion need their waterproofing left intact; any change there goes through management first.
Do I need to wire my parking bay for an EV charger?
No. Palmyra’s management has already put in the wiring for a private charger at each of the 60 homes’ bays, inspected by Bomba and billed monthly. That part of the budget can go inside the home instead.
Two kitchens and a garden terrace at Palmyra to rethink?
Send us your type and block, a word on who lives there, and anything earlier owners changed. Our first conversation is free, and our estimated fee comes to you in writing before any agreement.
Free · your fee is agreed in writing before we start