Interior designer at Residensi Astrea
A home made for cooking and gathering.
A full household, at ease in yours.
Thoughtfully designed around the way you live, and what you’d like to spend.
Making your Astrea home work for the whole family?
Residensi Astrea’s homes are three- and four-bedroom family homes, each with an open pantry by the dining table and a closed kitchen behind a door.
We help you decide who uses which room, and when, so the busy mornings run smoothly.
We’re Sundays in Bed, a Kuala Lumpur studio that designs and looks after homes. You choose the rooms you’d like our help with, and we agree the fee with you in writing before we begin.
Residensi Astrea is UEM Sunrise’s single freehold tower on Jalan Kiara 5: 37 storeys and 240 homes, completed in 2023, nine homes to a floor. The Stella Deck and its 45 m pool are on the 8th floor; a sky gym and lounge, on the 36th.
Residensi Astrea units range from 1,364 to 1,859 sq ft built-up; almost all are three-bedrooms.
- 1,364 sq ftThree bedrooms, two bathrooms and a utility room
- 1,656–1,685 sq ftThree bedrooms, three bathrooms, a bath tub in the main bathroom
- 1,828–1,859 sq ftThree bedrooms, three bathrooms, a desk niche and a helper’s toilet; or four bedrooms with a junior suite (three homes only)
Space and storage
Every bedroom and the living room sit on an outside wall, so the rooms are bright and there’s rarely a wall to move. Even the 1,364 sq ft home is about 13 m across. What we’ll work on together is storage, light, and how your family shares the space.
If yours is the 1,364 sq ft home, three bedrooms share two bathrooms. With children getting ready for school, we’ll plan that second bathroom for the morning rush.
Before we talk colours, can we get to know your family?
We start with who cooks, who shares a bathroom, who might move in later, and what you’d like to keep.
Once we know that, the colours and furniture come easily.
If you love having people over
The open pantry is the kitchen your guests will see, so we give it the better stone, the coffee machine and good light. The closed kitchen behind it is for real cooking: the wok, a stronger hood, tops that can take the heat.
If someone helps at home
Every home has a utility room beside the kitchen. In Types C and D it has its own toilet, and we’ll make it a room a live-in helper is comfortable in. In Types A, B and B1, it can be your store, laundry or larder.
For the children’s bathroom
In Types A and A1, it’s also the guest bathroom. We give it a wider vanity, a shelf for each person, and soft light for early mornings.
If family may come to live with you
Type E has a junior suite with its own door and bathroom. For your parents, a grown-up child or a home office, we’ll make it feel like their own space, still part of yours.
What you can keep
Your bedrooms came with engineered timber floors, and the kitchen and bathrooms are tiled to the ceiling. Most of it can stay, so your budget goes on wardrobes, lighting and the pantry.
What would it cost to design your Astrea home with us?
For a three-bedroom at Residensi Astrea, the Sundays in Bed design fee is estimated at RM23,310–30,440; for the four-bedroom Type E, RM26,875–34,005.
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
3 bedrooms and the dry and wet kitchens: 5 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
Happy with a bedroom as it is? Leave it out. Want to keep the developer’s kitchen cabinets? We’ll plan around them. If you ever move them, the handover left no tiles behind, so that wall would need tiling.
We agree the total in writing before we begin, and you pay it in stages. Our fee doesn’t rise or fall with the works, so a dearer stone for the pantry leaves it where it was.
If you choose Curated pieces from Commune, Cellini or Poet Living, a finished 1,364 sq ft Type A comes to roughly RM184k–323k with our fee included.
Start with your type. Pick the Astrea type on your sale agreement, then tick the rooms you’d like us to take on. The fee and the ranges beside it are estimates until your shortlisted contractors send prices.
| Home | Our fee | Curated | Bespoke |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3+1, Types A to D 1,364–1,859 sq ft · two or three bathrooms | RM23,310–30,440 | RM161k–292k | RM330k–684k |
| 4+1, Type E 1,840 sq ft · dual-key, three homes only | RM26,875–34,005 | RM181k–327k | RM367k–758k |
Low end: the likely Astrea brief of living and dining, open pantry, closed kitchen and every bedroom. High end: two rooms more, perhaps the bathroom bedrooms two and three share in a Type A, or a utility room reworked as a larder or study.
These are October 2026 estimates; quotations come later, from contractors.
How these figures are worked out
At Curated, furniture comes from Commune, Cellini and Poet Living; at Bespoke, from Space Furniture, BoConcept and Molteni&C.
Astrea’s keys were handed over in 2023, so the low end assumes the developer’s bathrooms, utility room and the desk niche in Types C and D stay as they are. Bespoke joinery is priced separately in the calculator.
Inside every range: bedroom air-conditioning, a washer-dryer, wardrobes, and kitchen cabinets with a hob and hood. The developer already fitted Astrea’s cabinets, hood, hob and air-conditioners, so an owner who keeps them should expect to spend less. Vanities sit outside the ranges.
Furnishing to let?
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
- 3+1, Types A to D
- RM86k–137k
- 4+1, Type E
- RM97k–154k
What you’d like to spend. Tell us first. We plan every room to fit that figure, and you’ll know our fee, in writing, before we draw a line.
Who’ll look after you while the work is done?
One designer looks after your Astrea home from your first call until you move in.
We plan the work and run the site; licensed contractors build it, and you choose which one after we’ve compared their quotes with you.
- A first conversation FreeWho lives at home, which of your two kitchens does the real cooking, what from the handover you’d keep, and the sum you’re comfortable spending.
- A visit to your home RM200, waived if you go ahead with usWe measure every room, check the ceiling height (Astrea’s isn’t published), note what your windows look out on, and list what the developer fitted.
- Scope first, then designWhen the rooms, your budget and our fee are agreed in writing, we design each one in turn: layout, lighting, joinery and materials, pantry to wardrobes.
- Drawings, then pricesContractors price from our drawings, not from guesswork. We gather several quotes, go through them line by line with you, and the choice is yours.
- The works, then homeWe manage the site and every delivery up the tower, check each stage against the drawings, and finish by styling the rooms.
Knowing what happens next, and when, is our job. You won’t have to chase anyone. The full process
Approvals and photographs
Your licensed contractor usually applies for the DBKL permit, and the building’s management must approve the renovation in writing. We couldn’t find Astrea’s house rules published, so before pricing anything we request the latest copy from management: any deposit, permitted hours and lift bookings.
The tower is only a few years old. Before anything is touched, we photograph every room as handed over, so if a question comes up later about an existing mark or crack, there’s a record.
How will your Astrea home come to feel like yours?
By starting with your life: your mornings, your cooking, the people you love having over.
Maybe Astrea is your first home with the children, or a move to be closer to family. Tell us whose shoes pile up by the door, who fries in the closed kitchen, who comes for the weekend. That’s where we begin, and it’s how the rooms end up feeling like yours.
What your Astrea home came with
- KeepFloors, tilingEngineered timber in the bedrooms; the kitchen and bathrooms tiled to the ceiling
- AdaptPantry, kitchen, utilityCabinets, a hood and a hob already in place; a utility room waiting for its job
- AddWardrobes, vanitiesNeither is in the published specification, and a bath tub only comes in Types B to E
- CheckCeilings, outlookCeiling height isn’t published; skyline, Bukit Kiara or pool deck depends on your stack
Taken from UEM Sunrise’s 2021 brochure; where your sale agreement differs, the agreement wins. We compare the two on the visit.
What have owners nearby spent on their renovations?
We haven’t seen a published Astrea renovation yet, so here is the nearest guide. Other firms’ published renovation records for 25 Mont Kiara condominiums put the median at RM138 a sq ft, or RM260,000 a home.
For homes close to Astrea’s sizes, there’s a 1,600 sq ft home at Seni Mont Kiara, RM220,000, and a 1,770 sq ft home at Concerto North Kiara, RM140,000. At the median rate, a 1,364 sq ft Type A comes to about RM188,000.
Each home had its own scope, so please take these as a rough guide. You can see them all on the Mont Kiara renovation cost index.
Nearby, with their own pages: Allevia · The MINH · Bon Kiara, and the rest of Mont Kiara.
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What does it cost to renovate and furnish an Astrea home?
For a three-bedroom, renovation and furniture run about RM161k–292k at Curated (Commune, Cellini, Poet Living) or RM330k–684k at Bespoke (Space Furniture, BoConcept, Molteni&C), before our fee, estimated at RM23,310–30,440. Mont Kiara’s published records put a whole home at a median RM260,000: the cost index.
Can Astrea’s utility room become a study or a store?
Usually. In Types A, B and B1 it has no toilet, so it suits a store, laundry or study (add air-conditioning for a study). In Types C and D, its own toilet suits a helper. Designed, it adds RM3,565 to the fee.
Should I open Astrea’s closed kitchen into the pantry?
Think twice. The door keeps smoke and smells away from the dining table, and removing the wall needs management’s approval. More often we make the pantry the room you show, and give the closed kitchen a stronger hood.
How should we use the junior suite in a Type E?
Decide who it’s for first. With its own entrance and bathroom, it suits a parent who’d like independence, a grown-up child, or a home office that sees clients. We plan its storage, and a door you can lock or leave open.
Which homes look over Bukit Kiara?
UEM Sunrise says homes look over the Mont Kiara skyline or the green of Bukit Kiara, and over half see the pool deck. Which is yours depends on your stack, so we note it on the visit, before choosing a bed wall or curtains.
A few years after handover, do Astrea’s bathrooms need redoing?
Rarely. They’re tiled to the ceiling, with a tub in the master bath of Types B to E. What they lack is storage: the specification lists a basin, but no vanity or mirror cabinet. Adding those, with better light, is a small job.
Two kitchens, one household. We’d like to hear how yours lives.
Tell us your Astrea type (it’s on the sale agreement), send a handful of photos from your phone, and name a figure that sits easily with you. The call is free, and you’ll see the estimated fee before you commit to anything.
Free · your fee is agreed in writing before we start