Interior designer at Sierra Hijauan
A garden house at the edge of the forest.
Yours should open onto the garden.
Thoughtfully designed around the way you live, and what you’d like to spend.
Who will you be sharing your Sierra Hijauan house with?
Sierra Hijauan is one gated estate with three kinds of house: narrow link villas of two or two and a half floors, semi-Ds of up to three floors and seven bungalows.
We start with which one is yours, because it decides almost every early choice.
We’re Sundays in Bed, a Kuala Lumpur studio that designs and looks after homes. Sierra Hijauan is new ground for us, but we design link villas, semi-Ds and bungalows like these for a fee per room that you’ll have on paper before we begin.
Sierra Hijauan is IJM Land’s gated estate of 310 houses on 32.77 acres in Ukay Perdana, Ampang, at the foot of the Ampang Forest Reserve. It is leasehold to 2114, strata-titled, and was built in eight phases.
- Phase 2BKeys from 201938 semi-Ds and 2 bungalows
- Phases 2C and 2DKeys from 2024125 link villas, 4 semi-Ds and a bungalow
- Phases 2E and 2HKeys from early 202678 link villas, 24 semi-Ds and a bungalow
- Phases 2F and 2G2Keys from mid-202634 semi-Ds and 3 bungalows
Sierra Hijauan homes range from 2,178 sq ft built-up link villas to 5,833 sq ft semi-Ds; about two in three are link villas.
- 2,178–2,585 sq ftLink villas of two or 2½ storeys, most with four bedrooms
- 3,537–5,833 sq ftSemi-Ds of 2½ or three storeys, 4+1 or 5+1 bedrooms
- 4,660–5,399 sq ftThree-storey bungalows, 5+1 or 6+1 bedrooms; one has a lap pool
The layout and kitchens
Most link villas here are 22 ft wide, and if yours is one, the stair, a guest room and the kitchen share one narrow ground floor. Built-in storage will decide how calm your mornings feel.
If yours is a semi-D or bungalow, you have plenty of floor over two and a half or three levels, so the first question is who lives on which floor. In every type, light from the garden side matters more than any view, and we’ll check which way yours faces on the visit.
Before any colours, who in your family needs what from the house?
We begin with the people and the ground floor: who might need the bedroom downstairs, and who cooks.
Those answers shape more of your family’s daily life here than any colour scheme.
If a parent is moving in
Most plans here keep a bedroom beside a bathroom on the ground floor: the guest room in a link villa, bedroom 5 next to the kitchen in an SD4 semi-D (the 3,537 sq ft type). We’ll plan it as their room first.
If frying is part of your week
An SD4 has one open kitchen with an island, tiled only to 1.5 m. Heavy frying calls for extraction ducted outside, a glass screen, or a second kitchen in the drying yard. The SD1 already has a dry kitchen with an island and a separate wet kitchen.
If you’d like a floor above the family
In an SD4 semi-D, the half storey holds one bedroom, bedroom 2, with its own bathroom and balcony, a flight above the family area. It could suit a teenager, a guest suite or a quiet study; we’ll settle which with you before drawing its joinery.
If yours is a link villa
The stair takes a share of a narrow plan. Storage built under and beside it, and a proper cupboard by the porch door, will do more for your ground floor than any extra piece of furniture.
If your house is new
Timber strip upstairs (laminate in the link villas), porcelain below and bathrooms tiled to the ceiling are worth keeping. Your budget can then go where the handover stops: cabinets, wardrobes and cooling.
What would the design of your Sierra Hijauan house come to?
For a new link villa at Sierra Hijauan, the Sundays in Bed design fee is estimated at RM19,745–26,875; for an SD4 semi-D, RM23,310–30,440.
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
4 bedrooms: 4 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
We write the total down before we begin, and you pay it in stages. It isn’t a share of the renovation, so if you choose solid timber over laminate for a link villa’s stair, our fee stays the same.
As a guide, our fee and Curated finishes (Commune, Cellini, Poet Living) put a link villa here at about RM177k–339k in all.
While the keys are still new. Your money tends to go on wardrobes, kitchen cabinets and air-conditioning, which IJM’s handover leaves out or gives only as points, and rarely on the upstairs timber. Pick your house type, then only the rooms you want drawn. Every figure is an estimate until contractors quote.
| Home | Our fee | Curated | Bespoke |
|---|---|---|---|
| Link villa, 4 bedrooms 2,178–2,585 sq ft · 22–24 ft wide | RM19,745–26,875 | RM158k–313k | RM329k–741k |
| SD4 semi-D, 5+1 3,537 sq ft · 2½ storeys | RM23,310–30,440 | RM179k–379k | RM367k–881k |
| SD1 semi-D, with study 4,511 sq ft · two kitchens and a study, so more rooms | RM34,005–41,135 | RM212k–473k | RM421k–1.06M |
| BA1 bungalow, 6+1 5,399 sq ft · pool deck and a lift | RM26,875–34,005 | RM200k–460k | RM405k–1.05M |
The lower figure is a typical layout: the open-plan living and dining with its kitchen, each bedroom, and any study area. The higher one allows for two more rooms you might like designed, such as the upstairs family hall or a wet kitchen in an SD4’s drying yard.
Estimates as of October 2026, not a quotation.
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.
We’ve assumed not every bathroom needs designing. Count only the ones you’d change. Houses from the 2024 and 2026 phases are new, so none is priced; in a 2019 Phase 2B resale, add the ones you’d redo. The SD1’s study area counts as a room.
Each range already counts air-conditioners, wardrobes, kitchen cabinets with a hob and hood, and a washer-dryer. IJM’s specification gives points for cooling and hot water, not units, and lists no cabinetry. If your sale agreement included any, yours comes in lower.
Furnishing to let?
IJM aimed its last phases at investors as well as families. 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
- Link villa, 4 bedrooms
- RM84k–143k
- SD4 semi-D, 5+1
- RM96k–176k
- SD1 semi-D, with study
- RM116k–225k
- BA1 bungalow, 6+1
- RM108k–215k
For every floor of the house. Tell us one figure before we draw anything. We’ll plan the whole house to it, and tell you plainly if a wish would stretch it.
Who will look after the details while you look after your family?
One designer looks after your Sierra Hijauan house from the first call to the day the last room is dressed.
We draw and manage the work. Licensed contractors do the building, and you pick whom to hire after we’ve put their quotes in front of you together.
- The discovery call FreeWhich phase and house type, who will live on each floor, what IJM handed over, and the figure you’d like to spend.
- The site visit RM200, waived if you go ahead with usEvery floor measured, from the porch to the top storey, the light on the garden side noted, and each air-conditioning point checked against your plan.
- The scope, then the designRooms, budget and fee set down in writing. Then layouts, lighting, joinery and finishes, floor by floor, beginning with the ground-floor bedroom and the kitchen.
- Drawings and quotesA full drawing set for contractors to price and build from. We bring their quotes back, go through them line by line with you, and you choose.
- On site, then moving inContractors and deliveries arranged through the estate’s single guarded gate, each stage inspected against the drawings, then the rooms styled for living in.
Between IJM, the strata management, MPAJ and the guardhouse, there is a lot to keep in order. We’ll take care of that, and tell you where things stand as the work goes on. The full process
Keys from a 2024 or 2026 phase?
The defect liability period runs 24 months from your vacant possession. List any defects for IJM Land in writing before a contractor covers them up.
MPAJ, the Ampang Jaya council, approved Sierra Hijauan’s building plans, so your licensed contractor applies to MPAJ for the renovation permit. As a strata estate, its management must approve the works too. Their deposit, hours and rules aren’t published, so we ask for the current ones first.
When you walk up to your own porch, what would you like to feel?
We start with your household.
Over two hundred link villas and a hundred semi-Ds here share a small set of plans, so the people inside are what make each house different, and we shape yours around them from the porch in.
Three generations under one roof live differently from a couple who both work from home, even in the same SD4. We’ll begin with yours: who cooks, who needs the room downstairs, where the bicycles and school bags go. The look grows from those answers.
What comes with a new Sierra Hijauan house
- KeepFloors, bathroomsTimber strip upstairs (laminate in link villas), porcelain below, bathrooms tiled to the ceiling
- AdaptKitchen, top floorAn SD4’s open kitchen, tiled to 1.5 m; its half-storey bedroom to give a job
- AddCooling, storage, hot waterUnits for 6 to 10 air-conditioning points, heaters, wardrobes and kitchen cabinets
From IJM’s brochure specifications for Phases 2C, 2D, 2F and 2G2, which your sale agreement overrides. A 2019 Phase 2B house has had owners before you, so we’ll see it with you first.
What have similar houses cost to renovate elsewhere?
Ampang has no cost index yet, so we point to the nearest guide: published renovation records for older landed houses across town, from other firms’ projects.
In Taman Seputeh, two houses of 3,300–8,600 sq ft came to RM420,000–600,000, after 16 to 20 weeks on site. In Taman Desa, a 5,000 sq ft house came to RM500,000 in 20 weeks.
If your house keeps its handover floors and bathrooms, yours should need less. The records are on our Seputeh renovation cost index.
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Sierra Hijauan: your rooms, approvals, cost and time
Which Sierra Hijauan houses have a bedroom on the ground floor?
Most of them. Link villas in Phases 2C and 2D have a ground-floor guest room with a bathroom beside it; an SD4 puts bedroom 5 and its bathroom next to the kitchen; the SD1 and SD3 have a ground-floor guest room. We check its doors and any step first.
What does IJM hand over in a new house here, and what will I need to add?
Floors, bathrooms tiled to the ceiling with their fittings, a kitchen sink and fencing; the newest phases add an EV charging point. Air-conditioning and water heaters come as points only, and cabinets, wardrobes and appliances aren’t listed. Your sale agreement has the final word.
Do I need MPAJ approval to renovate a house here?
For built work, yes. MPAJ approved Sierra Hijauan’s building plans, so it issues the renovation permit too, and your licensed contractor applies. As a strata estate, the management approves the works as well. We collect both sets of rules before drawing anything.
How much does it cost to renovate and furnish an SD4 semi-D?
Estimated at RM179k–379k with Curated furniture (Commune, Cellini, Poet Living), or RM367k–881k with Bespoke (Space Furniture, BoConcept, Molteni&C), before our fee of about RM23,310–30,440. Air-conditioners, wardrobes and kitchen cabinets are included, since the handover leaves them out.
What can the half storey of an SD4 be used for?
It holds bedroom 2, with its own bathroom and balcony, a flight above the family area. Teenagers like the distance; it also works as a guest suite or a quiet study. Designed as a study, it’s RM3,565 on our fee, like any other room.
When should I start designing my Sierra Hijauan house?
Once you have the keys and have listed any defects for IJM, so the drawings, quotes and MPAJ permit can be ready together. Buying a resale house in Phase 2B? A site visit before you complete shows what needs changing, and what doesn’t.
Link villa, semi-D or bungalow: we’d like to hear about yours.
Send your phase, house type and the sum you’d like to spend across every floor. We’ll talk it through at no charge, and set out an estimated design fee before you agree to anything.
Free · your fee is agreed in writing before we start