Interior designer at Residensi Astrea
At Residensi Astrea, we plan around your busiest mornings.
When everyone’s getting ready at once, the shared bathroom sets the pace. We’ll plan it, and every room, around how your household starts the day.
Oak shelves lit from beneath and a stone counter: a pantry corner that’s easy to keep. In every Astrea plan the pantry sits by the dining table, always on show.
- Developer
UEM Sunrise, freehold, on Jalan Kiara 5
- Completed
2023
- Homes
240 in one 37-storey tower, nine to a floor
- Sizes
1,364 to 1,859 sq ft built-up, all with at least three bedrooms
- Facilities
A pool deck on the 8th floor; a sky gym and lounge on the 36th
Residensi Astrea floor plans, and who shares what in your home
Residensi Astrea’s plans were drawn for families, each with an open pantry and a closed kitchen, so interior design here starts with who uses which room, and at what hour.
If you’ve lived here since the tower was new, or have just bought from someone who did, you’ll know the plan by heart. What’s left to settle is about people: who sleeps where, who cooks, and who reaches the bathroom first.
Residensi Astrea is UEM Sunrise’s single freehold tower on Jalan Kiara 5 in Mont Kiara: 37 storeys and 240 homes on 2.4 acres, completed in 2023, with nine homes on every floor gathered round a single core. The pool deck is on the 8th floor, and a sky gym and lounge are on the 36th.
There are no two-bedrooms, duplexes or penthouses. Every plan, from 1,364 to 1,859 sq ft built-up, has at least three bedrooms.
- 1,364 sq ftTypes A and A1, the plan most floors repeat: two bathrooms between three bedrooms, plus 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)
The bathroom everyone shares
In Type A, three bedrooms share two bathrooms. The main bedroom has its own, with a shower. The second, off the corridor, serves the other two bedrooms and every guest.
So we plan that one for a queue: a vanity as wide as the wall allows, a drawer or shelf for each person, and light at the mirror that’s kind at seven in the morning. Changing the mirror? The brochure specification leaves the wall behind it untiled, so whatever replaces it should cover the same patch, or the wall is tiled first.
Every bedroom and the living room sit on an outside wall, along about 13 m of frontage, so the rooms are bright and walls are rarely worth moving.
Astrea interior design ideas for the rooms that work hardest
In a Residensi Astrea home, the pantry, the shared bathroom and the utility room do the most work.
We give them our attention first, well before anyone chooses a colour.
When friends come for dinner
The pantry sits beside the dining table, so it’s the kitchen your guests will see. We’d give it the better stone, the coffee machine and soft light under the shelves, and leave the frying, the wok and the strong hood to the closed kitchen behind its door.
When the utility room has no job yet
Every plan has a utility room by the kitchen. In Types A, B and B1 there’s no toilet beside it, so it makes a good laundry, larder or store, and with air-conditioning a small study. In Types C and D a toilet comes with it, and a live-in helper could have a room of their own there, made properly comfortable.
Bedrooms with plenty of window
With so much glass on the outside wall, the first bedroom question is where the wardrobe can stand. We’d settle that, then the bed, then curtains for whatever your windows face, which we note on the visit.
If a parent may move in
Only three homes in the tower are Type E, where a junior suite with a separate door and a bathroom of its own sits beside the main home. Whether it’s for a parent, a grown son or daughter, or clients visiting a home office, we’d plan it to live on its own and as part of the household, with a door that can stay open or be locked.
What’s worth keeping
Per the brochure, bedrooms were handed over with engineered timber, and kitchen and bathroom walls tiled right up to the ceiling. About three years in, little of that needs replacing, so the spend can go where the specification is silent: wardrobes, vanities, lighting and the pantry.
The Residensi Astrea design fee, and the utility room question
At Residensi Astrea, the Sundays in Bed design fee is an estimated RM23,310–30,440 for a 3+1 and RM26,875–34,005 for the 4+1 Type E: a fee per room, 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 living and dining at RM5,485.
What Curated and Bespoke include, and why each range is wide
How the fee works here
If your utility room is still holding suitcases, decide its job before we price anything. Kept as a store, it stays off our list; designed as a larder, laundry or small study, it adds one room, RM3,565.
The same goes for the developer’s kitchen cabinets. Keep them and we’ll plan around them; move them and the wall behind will need tiling, since the brochure specification leaves it bare.
Furnish a 1,364 sq ft Type A at Curated, from Commune, Cellini or Poet Living, and the finished home is roughly RM184k–323k with our fee in it. The fee itself is put in writing before we begin and paid in stages; the general method is on our pricing page.
| 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 |
The lower figure is a likely first brief: living and dining, the pantry, the closed kitchen and each bedroom. The upper adds two rooms, such as the shared bathroom in a Type A or the utility room.
October 2026 estimates; the firm figures arrive later, in contractors’ quotations.
How these figures are worked out
Because Astrea handed over in 2023, the lower end assumes its 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 each range sit wardrobes, a washer-dryer, air-conditioning for the bedrooms and kitchen cabinets with hob and hood. Since the brochure lists Astrea’s cabinets, hood, hob and air-conditioning at handover, keeping them brings the figure down. Vanities are priced on top.
Furnishing to let?
For a home being readied for tenants, our Essential level, with furniture from Ikea, SSF Home and Harvey Norman, is quicker to finish and simple to keep in good order between lets. The design fee doesn’t change with the level.
Essential: renovation and furniture, our fee not included
- 3+1, Types A to D
- RM86k–137k
- 4+1, Type E
- RM97k–154k
Begin with a conversation
Before we talk. Note the rooms you’d hand us and the ones that already suit you. We’ll agree the list and our fee in writing before any drawing starts.
Or begin with a figure
Answer a few questions about your space, and you’ll have an estimate to consider in your own time.
Renovating at Residensi Astrea: how works fit around your neighbours
At Residensi Astrea, every floor’s homes share one lobby and its lifts, so we plan the works around your neighbours as well as your rooms.
Licensed contractors you pick do the building, and one designer sees it through.
- A call about who lives here FreeWho lives with you, which kitchen does the real cooking, and what from the handover you’d like to keep.
- A visit with the tape measure RM200, waived if you go ahead with usWe measure each room and the ceiling height, which Astrea’s brochure doesn’t give, note what your windows face and photograph what the developer fitted.
- The rooms, agreedOnce the rooms and our fee are agreed in writing, we design them one by one, from the pantry shelves to the wardrobe walls.
- Quotes on the same drawingsEach contractor prices the same set of drawings. We read the quotes through with you, and the choice of builder is yours.
- The works, then the stylingWe coordinate deliveries with management, check each stage against the drawings, and end by styling the rooms.
You’ll always know what comes next, and roughly when. How we work, step by step
Approvals and photographs
Management approves an Astrea renovation in writing before work starts, and your licensed contractor normally handles the DBKL permit. Astrea’s house rules aren’t published, so we ask management for the current copy, with any deposit, working hours and lift arrangements, before anything is priced.
Before a tool comes out, we photograph each room as it stands, so an existing mark or crack is on record if a question comes up later.
Interior design for what your Residensi Astrea home still needs
Residensi Astrea’s handover brochure lists floors, tiling and a fitted kitchen, so what usually remains is storage, light and furniture.
We’d start with wardrobes, vanities and the pantry.
Perhaps you’ve lived here a while and the rooms still feel half unpacked. That usually comes down to storage with nowhere to go, so that’s where we’d look first, then the light, then the pieces you sit on.
What your Astrea home came with
- KeepFloors, tilingTimber underfoot in the bedrooms, and tile to full height in the kitchen and bathrooms
- AdaptPantry, kitchen, utilityCabinets, a hood and a hob listed in the brochure; a utility room waiting for its job
- AddWardrobes, vanitiesThe published specification has neither, and only Types B to E have a tub
- CheckCeilings, outlookCeiling height isn’t published, and what your windows face depends on your stack
From UEM Sunrise’s 2021 brochure. Your sale agreement overrides it, and we check one against the other on the visit.
What renovations nearby have cost
We haven’t seen a published Astrea renovation yet, so here is the nearest guide. Across 25 Mont Kiara renovations published by other firms, the median is RM138 a sq ft, about RM260,000 a home.
Two are close to Astrea’s sizes: RM220,000 for 1,600 sq ft at Seni Mont Kiara, and RM140,000 for 1,770 sq ft at Concerto North Kiara. At the median rate, a 1,364 sq ft Type A comes to about RM188,000.
Scope differs from home to home, so treat these as a rough guide; all of them are on the Mont Kiara renovation cost index.
FAQ
Residensi Astrea, from the pantry to the bathrooms
What does it cost to renovate and furnish an Astrea home?
For the three-bedroom plans, an estimated RM161k–292k with Curated furniture from Commune, Cellini and Poet Living, or RM330k–684k with Bespoke pieces from Space Furniture, BoConcept and Molteni&C, before our fee of an estimated RM23,310–30,440. Other firms’ published Mont Kiara renovations have a median of RM260,000 a home: 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.
Does a Residensi Astrea home come with wardrobes?
Not according to UEM Sunrise’s 2021 brochure, which lists kitchen cabinets, a hood, a hob and air-conditioning, but no wardrobes, vanities, oven, washer or shoe cabinet. Your sale agreement is what counts, so we compare the two on the visit. If wardrobes are still to come, we’d design them before the loose furniture, since they decide which wall the bed goes on.
Which homes look over Bukit Kiara?
UEM Sunrise’s launch material spoke of views over the Mont Kiara skyline or the green of Bukit Kiara. The developer doesn’t publish which stacks face which way, so we note your outlook 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.
Do you also take on other Mont Kiara homes?
Yes, across Mont Kiara’s towers, from 10 Mont Kiara and Residensi 22 to Allevia, Bon Kiara and The MINH, at the same fee per room. Our Mont Kiara page sets eight towers side by side, each with an estimated design fee.
Residensi Astrea handed over in 2023. Is the developer still responsible for defects?
Most likely not any more. The developer’s defect period runs 24 months from vacant possession, so for a 2023 handover it ended during 2025. Anything you find now, a cracked tile or a door that sticks, goes on our site-visit list and into the contractors’ scope, so it’s priced at the start rather than discovered halfway through.
What are the floor plans at Residensi Astrea?
Residensi Astrea’s plans run from 1,364 to 1,859 sq ft built-up, every one with at least three bedrooms; there are no two-bedrooms, duplexes or penthouses. Types A and A1, at 1,364 sq ft, have three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a utility room; the 1,656–1,685 sq ft and 1,828–1,859 sq ft plans have three bathrooms, and three homes are four-bedroom Type E with a junior suite.
When was Residensi Astrea completed, and who developed it?
Residensi Astrea was completed in 2023 by UEM Sunrise, as a single freehold tower of 37 storeys and 240 homes on 2.4 acres on Jalan Kiara 5, Mont Kiara. Its pool deck is on the 8th floor, and a sky gym and lounge are on the 36th.
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 tell us who shares which room. There’s no charge for the call, and you’ll have the estimated fee in writing before deciding anything.
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