Interior designer at Residensi 38 Bangsar
A home up high in Bangsar.
Less like a rental, more like yours.
Thoughtfully designed around the way you live, and what you’d like to spend.
Just collected the keys, and wondering what comes next?
Residensi 38 Bangsar is one new tower, handed over from September 2025, with nine plans, from 580 sq ft studios to dual-key three-bedrooms.
Homes were sold partly or fully furnished, and we help you finish yours for the way you’ll live in it, or let it.
We’re Sundays in Bed, a Kuala Lumpur studio that designs and looks after homes. We haven’t designed a home at Residensi 38 yet, so what follows draws on UDA’s plans, agents’ listings and the questions every new handover raises.
Residensi 38 Bangsar is one leasehold tower of 38 storeys and 278 homes, completed in 2025. UDA built it between Lorong Maarof and Jalan Bangsar Utama 1, beside Dataran Maybank, on the site of its old Kompleks Niaga Utama shops.
Residensi 38 homes range from 580 to 1,442 sq ft built-up:
- 580–720 sq ftStudio-style homes with one bathroom, in three layouts
- 960–1,045 sq ftTwo or three bedrooms, with two bathrooms
- 1,185 sq ftTwo bedrooms, the roomiest two-bedroom plan
- 1,225–1,442 sq ftThree bedrooms and three bathrooms, sold as dual-key
More about these homes
If you have a dual-key home, you have two front doors. Some owners let the smaller part, and others use it as one home. We’ll help you decide before anything is drawn.
Many homes here are let, and rental listings are usually fully furnished. If you plan to let yours, that is what tenants will compare it with. If you plan to live here, you can go further than a rental would.
Will you live here yourself, or let someone else call it home?
Before any plan, we’d like to know who will use the home.
Living in it, letting it, or a dual-key that does a little of each leads to three quite different designs, and we’ll help you choose.
If you’re getting it ready to let
Rental listings here far outnumber homes for sale, so we choose finishes that wear well and replace easily. If you’ll live here yourself, we design around your own habits.
If your home has two front doors
The 1,225 and 1,442 sq ft three-bedrooms are sold as dual-key. Whether you keep it as two, let one side or use it as one home, the answer decides where laundry, cooking and storage go, and we’ll plan that with you.
If you’ve bought your first home on your own
The 960 and 1,045 sq ft plans fit three bedrooms and two bathrooms. Together we’ll work out whether the third room would suit you most as a study, a guest room or a dressing room.
If you’re starting small
In the 580 to 720 sq ft homes, one room does everything: you sleep, work and eat in it. A screen or open shelving to zone it, a bed with storage beneath and cupboards up the wall will make it feel larger.
What came with your keys
One agency lists partly furnished homes here with air-conditioners, kitchen cabinets, a fridge and water heaters. Where yours work, we keep them, and your budget goes on wardrobes, lighting and furniture.
What would our fee come to for your home here?
For a new 965 sq ft two-bedroom at Residensi 38 Bangsar, the Sundays in Bed design fee is estimated at RM12,615–16,180; for a 1,045 sq ft three-bedroom, RM16,180–19,745.
Your final fee depends on the rooms you choose, and is agreed in writing before we begin.
- Each room we design
- RM3,565
- Living and dining
- RM5,485
2 bedrooms: 2 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 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
That sum goes in writing before any drawing starts, and you pay it in stages. It isn’t tied to the contractors’ prices, so upgrading the studio’s sofa or the kitchen worktop doesn’t change it.
With our fee and Curated finishes (Commune, Cellini, Poet Living), a two-bedroom here comes to about RM135k–242k in all.
Spend where you’ll notice it. In a partly furnished home that usually means wardrobes, lighting and a sofa worth sinking into, and rarely the air-conditioners already on the wall. Choose your type below, tick only the rooms that need attention, and treat every number as a guide until quotes arrive.
| Home | Our fee | Curated | Bespoke |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2-bed 965 sq ft | RM12,615–16,180 | RM122k–226k | RM264k–558k |
| 3-bed 1,045 sq ft | RM16,180–19,745 | RM141k–260k | RM300k–631k |
| Dual-key 3-bed 1,442 sq ft | RM16,180–23,310 | RM141k–260k | RM300k–631k |
| Studio Up to 720 sq ft | RM9,050–12,615 | RM103k–193k | RM228k–485k |
Lower figure: the usual layout, meaning the open living, dining and kitchen plus each bedroom. Higher figure: one more room you might want drawn, such as a bathroom, or two of the bathrooms in the 1,442 sq ft dual-key.
The figures are October 2026 guides; only your contractors can quote.
How these figures are worked out
Curated prices furniture from Commune, Cellini or Poet Living; Bespoke, from Space Furniture, BoConcept or Molteni&C.
These are new homes, so bathrooms stay as handed over and aren’t priced. The ranges include air-conditioners, kitchen cabinets and water heaters, which a partly furnished handover already has; keep yours and expect less. The studio row counts its sleeping area as a bedroom.
Furnishing to let?
Many Residensi 38 homes are let, usually fully furnished. 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
- 2-bed
- RM63k–101k
- 3-bed
- RM74k–118k
- Dual-key 3-bed
- RM74k–118k
- Studio
- RM53k–85k
Studio or family home. The first thing we ask about is your budget, for a studio you’ll let or a three-bedroom you’ll live in. Give us the number, and we’ll fit the rooms to it, and speak up early if a wish won’t stretch that far.
Who will look after you now the developer has handed over the keys?
Keys came from September 2025, so most homes here are still inside the defect liability period.
We plan and run the work with you, and contractors you appoint do the building, after we’ve laid their quotes out together.
- The discovery call FreeStudio, compact three-bedroom or dual-key; a home for you or for a tenant; which UDA package you took; and roughly what you hope to spend.
- The site visit RM200, waived if you go ahead with usTape measure, camera and a defect list: we record every room, flag anything UDA should still put right, and mark the pieces worth keeping.
- Scope, then designFee, budget and rooms agreed on paper. Then layouts, light and materials, with every stretch of a studio wall put to work and the dual-key question answered.
- Drawings and quotesDrawings detailed enough that two contractors price the same job. Their quotes come back to us, we compare them line against line with you, and you choose.
- On site, then moving inLift slots and delivery times booked through the management office, each stage inspected against the drawings, then the rooms dressed, for you or a tenant’s first viewing.
UDA’s defect team, the management office, DBKL and a lift you share with your neighbours: a new serviced residence involves more parties than most owners expect. We’ll coordinate all of them, and you’ll know what comes next. How we work, step by step
Your defect list first
Defects reported within 24 months of your vacant possession are UDA’s to put right, so for most owners that window closes around September 2027. Send them to UDA in writing, and let the repairs happen, before any contractor works near them.
Your licensed contractor normally takes out the DBKL permit, and the management office generally signs off the works too. Residensi 38 Bangsar has no published renovation deposit, working hours or lift booking terms, so those are the first things we ask for.
What would make this home feel like a place you chose?
We start from who will live there.
A fully furnished rental is made to suit anyone, so we ask how you cook, rest, work and host.
The same 965 sq ft plan might suit two people working from the dining table, a mother who visits for half the year, or someone who chose it for the walk to the LRT. Tell us about your mornings, your cooking, your guests and your clutter, and we’ll begin there.
What to keep from your furnished package
- KeepCooling, kitchenAir-conditioners, kitchen cabinets, fridge and water heaters from a partly furnished package
- AdaptThe open planCooking and noise carry across it; a stronger hood or a glass screen may help
- AddStorage, lightWardrobes if yours came without, then curtains, lighting and the furniture itself
From agents’ descriptions of partly furnished homes here. UDA hasn’t published a full specification, and your sale agreement has the final word.
What have owners near Residensi 38 Bangsar spent on their homes?
There’s no Residensi 38 Bangsar home of ours to show you yet. The nearest is a Bangsar Hill Park home of about 1,450 sq ft that we designed, recorded at RM150,000–200,000 for renovation and furniture.
For a sense of cost, Bangsar’s published renovation records put the median at RM114 per sq ft over nine fit-outs.
Two Nadi Bangsar apartments of 1,076 to 1,300 sq ft came to RM118,000–120,000 each, with four to five weeks on site; a 1,000 sq ft home at Bangsar Puteri, RM200,000. All are listed in our Bangsar renovation cost index.
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Your first year at Residensi 38 Bangsar
Is a dual-key home at Residensi 38 Bangsar better designed as one home or two?
That depends on whether you’ll let part of it. The 1,225 and 1,442 sq ft three-bedrooms are sold as dual-key. Kept as two, each side needs its own storage; used as one, the smaller side can become a guest suite or a study. We settle this first.
Can a 580 sq ft studio here hold a proper desk and a bed?
Usually, with planning. In one room of 580 to 720 sq ft, we zone it with a screen or open shelving, choose a bed with storage beneath and run cupboards up the wall. The balcony can take a small table, furnished for the weather.
Should I keep the furniture package that came with my unit?
Keep what works. One agency lists partly furnished homes here with air-conditioners, kitchen cabinets, a fridge and water heaters. On the site visit we note which pieces earn their place and design around them, so the budget goes where it shows.
What should I do about defects before renovating?
Report them to UDA in writing first. Keys came from September 2025, and defects are the developer’s to fix for 24 months from your vacant possession. Work near an open defect can muddy the claim, so where possible we start after the repairs.
How much does it cost to renovate and furnish a Residensi 38 Bangsar three-bedroom?
Expect roughly RM141k–260k for a new 1,045 sq ft three-bedroom at Curated (Commune, Cellini or Poet Living), or RM300k–631k at Bespoke (Space Furniture, BoConcept or Molteni&C), covering renovation and furniture before our fee. Treat both as estimates until contractors quote.
How long before a Residensi 38 home is ready to live in or let?
Allow for design and quotes before work starts, then the works themselves. In Bangsar’s published renovation records, a comparable apartment fit-out took four to five weeks on site; larger scopes run longer. You get a timetable once the scope is agreed.
Your home or a tenant’s, we’d be glad to plan it.
Studio, compact three-bedroom or dual-key, for living in or letting: tell us which, with your floor plan and a figure in mind. That first talk is free, and you’ll see your design fee estimated in writing before agreeing to anything.
Free · your fee is agreed in writing before we start