Interior designer at Sri Bukit Persekutuan
Sri Bukit Persekutuan: a home with a house’s ease.
Highbank’s two low blocks sit behind one gate on Federal Hill, beside the Lake Gardens. We’ll help its generous rooms feel settled, from the terrace to the kitchens.
Shutters, linen and timber in a bedroom that opens to green. The developer describes Federal Hill’s forest around the estate, so fabrics here are chosen for the humidity as well as the light.
- Developer
Tan & Tan Developments
- Completed
2006
- Land
18 freehold acres on Federal Hill, beside the Lake Gardens
- Homes
Highbank’s 80 flats in two five-storey blocks, among 148 homes behind one gate
- Sizes
From 2,573 sq ft; most for sale have three bedrooms and a flexible room
Highbank floor plans at Sri Bukit Persekutuan, twenty years on
Sri Bukit Persekutuan’s Highbank has eighty large homes in two low blocks, in a gated estate wrapped in Federal Hill’s forest.
Sundays in Bed’s interior design gives big rooms a purpose and keeps what twenty years have been kind to.
One gate, guards at the entrance, low blocks, and often a terrace over the green: a Highbank home at Sri Bukit Persekutuan is closer to a house than most flats are. Even the smallest runs to 2,573 sq ft, so the question is how a plan of that size should be lived in.
Sundays in Bed draws homes in Kuala Lumpur and then stays to see the works through. Our studio is a few minutes away, in Damansara Heights. Here at Sri Bukit Persekutuan we haven’t yet completed a home, so what follows rests on Tan & Tan’s published details, the homes for sale today, and what we check in any twenty-year-old flat.
Tan & Tan Developments finished the estate in 2006, on 18 freehold acres beside the Lake Gardens. Highbank, the condominium, shares its gate and guards with terraces, villas and semi-detached houses: 148 homes in all.
Highbank homes start at 2,573 sq ft built-up; most for sale have three bedrooms and a flexible room.
- 2,573 sq ftThree bedrooms and a flexible room
- 2,756 sq ft3+1 with a study, listed for sale more often than any other
- About 3,600 sq ftFour bedrooms and a flexible room, reported but rarely listed
Room to spare, resales, and the forest
Even the smallest Highbank home is 2,573 sq ft, so there’s room to spare. If the children have grown and come home at weekends, or you’re settling into more space than you’ve ever had, the question becomes what each room is for. We’ll help you answer it.
Twenty years of resales count too. Many flats for sale today come partially furnished, so yours may carry an earlier owner’s kitchen, ceilings or wardrobes. We walk the home with you first, and sort what still serves you from what has had its day.
Then there is the forest. The developer describes Federal Hill’s secondary forest wrapping the estate, and listings mention terraces over greenery. If your terrace looks out on green, light, humidity and the view from your sofa all follow from that, and we’ll plan around them.
The estate’s clubhouse already has a gym, a sauna, a swimming pool and a wading pool, beside a jogging track, a playground and a barbecue area. With all that inside the gate, the spare room rarely needs to be a home gym, and it can be the guest room, library or sewing room it has been waiting to be.
Where your days happen: Sri Bukit Persekutuan interior design
At Sri Bukit Persekutuan, we start with who lives with you today: how you come in, how you cook and who the helper’s room is for.
Then the terrace, and what the last owner got right.
If groceries and guests arrive differently
One agent’s listing describes a dual entrance. Where the second door serves the kitchens and helper’s quarters, we plan the foyer for welcoming people and the back route for groceries, laundry and deliveries, so each can do its own job.
If you cook a lot
One agent describes separate dry and wet kitchens in the 2,756 sq ft homes. After two decades the wet side usually wants new cabinets, extraction and worktops first. The dry side can become where family and guests gather, and we’ll plan it for them.
If a helper shares your home
The same listing places a helper’s room, with a bathroom of its own, next to a laundry area. If nobody lives in, that suite can become a utility room, pantry or proper storage. If someone does, we’ll give them a window, a fan and a good bed before any finish.
If your terrace faces the trees
Listings describe terraces facing Federal Hill’s greenery. Where yours does, we’ll choose curtains for soft light more than privacy, fabrics for the humidity, and give the terrace furniture, shade and lamps like any room indoors.
If the last owner got some things right
After twenty years, yours may already have been refitted. A solid timber floor, well-made wardrobes or a recent kitchen can stay just as they are. The money goes where the flat has aged, and we leave alone whatever still works for you.
The three Highbank plans, as listings describe them
About 2,573 sq ft, 3+1. The developer’s smallest size, and often a corner home in today’s listings. One iProperty listing of a 2,570 sq ft corner home ticks a bathtub, a cooker hood and a balcony, and calls its privacy assured. If the tub is the only one in the home, we usually keep it for the children or grandchildren and give the other bathrooms walk-in showers.
About 2,756 sq ft, 3+1 and a study. iRumah names a three-bedroom of roughly 2,800 sq ft as the most common Highbank layout. RL Han Properties’ video tour of one counts three bathrooms plus two and a flexible room it calls a study, TV room or playroom. That room is the one most worth deciding first, because it changes as a family does: a playroom now, a teenager’s den later, a study after that.
About 3,600 sq ft, 4+1. Reported by iRumah and in one agent’s snippet, though rarely seen for sale. With a fourth bedroom on top of the flexible room, the brief is less about squeezing space and more about giving every room a reason to be used.
Almost every listing describes a 3+1 with four bathrooms; the room details come from single agents, so we check them against your own home on the visit.
What interior design costs at Sri Bukit Persekutuan
At Sri Bukit Persekutuan, the Sundays in Bed design fee for a 2,756 sq ft 3+1 is estimated at RM37,570–44,700. It is a fee per room, agreed in writing before we begin.
- Each room we design
- RM3,565
- Living and dining
- RM5,485
Below is the Sri Bukit Persekutuan design fee, for a house-sized flat. In a house you’d never furnish every room on the same day. Treat a Highbank flat the same way: list the rooms by how often they’re used, from the kitchen you cook in nightly to the guest room that waits for the school holidays, and design in that order.
Our fee counts rooms, and both kitchens are on it. Three bathrooms are priced, one fewer than listings show, because few owners redo all four; in the 2,756 sq ft plan the study counts as a room too.
3 bedrooms, a study, 3 bathrooms and the dry and wet kitchens: 9 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 lower figure covers the essentials; the upper figure 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
The fee is signed for before the first line is drawn and paid in stages. Stone instead of tile in the wet kitchen moves the contractor’s price; ours stays put. How our fees work
A 2,756 sq ft 3+1 here, with Curated furniture from Commune, Cellini or Poet Living and our fee added, comes to about RM326k–558k.
On Federal Hill the years tend to show in the wet kitchen, the bathrooms and the lighting; a sound floor can stay.
| Home | Our fee | Curated | Bespoke |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3+1 About 2,756 sq ft · the most common type | RM37,570–44,700 | RM288k–514k | RM536k–1.06M |
| 3+1, smaller About 2,573 sq ft | RM34,005–41,135 | RM274k–488k | RM510k–1.01M |
| 4+1 About 3,600 sq ft | RM37,570–44,700 | RM303k–563k | RM561k–1.16M |
Each lower fee assumes the usual Highbank brief: living and dining, both kitchens, all bedrooms, three bathrooms, and the study in row one. Each higher fee leaves room for two extras, perhaps that fourth bathroom or a helper’s room reworked as a laundry.
Treat both as October 2026 guides until real quotes land.
How these figures are worked out
Highbank was finished in 2006, so each row is a lived-in resale flat. Listings show four bathrooms; few owners redo all four, so we count three. Both kitchens count: an agent’s listing describes them for the 2,756 sq ft homes, and we assume the same for the other two.
We have allowed for replacing the cooling, kitchen joinery, appliances and wardrobes. If a previous owner’s still work, they stay where they are.
Furnishing to let?
Letting rather than living here? Our Essential level, with Ikea, SSF Home and Harvey Norman furniture, is quicker to finish and kinder to a tenant’s wear and tear; the design fee is the same whichever level you pick.
Renovation and furniture at Essential, before our fee
- 3+1
- RM164k–266k
- 3+1, smaller
- RM155k–252k
- 4+1
- RM172k–290k
Begin with a conversation
Tell us about the terrace, the kitchens and who lives with you. We’ll bring the figures to the first call.
Or begin with a figure
Answer a few questions about your space, and you’ll have an estimate to consider in your own time.
Your Sri Bukit Persekutuan interior designer, from first call to finish
At Sri Bukit Persekutuan, whoever answers your first call stays until the rooms are styled.
Highbank homes are twenty years old, so we begin with what earlier owners left; a contractor you pick builds, once we’ve talked their prices through.
Highbank is two blocks of five storeys, so the lift runs are short, but nothing published says whether either block has a service lift. We ask the office which lift carries cabinets and stone, and how its walls are protected, before a delivery is booked.
The gate and guards are shared by all 148 homes on the estate: Highbank’s 80 flats, 38 Westbank terraces, 24 Meadowbank villas and six semi-detached houses. Every contractor’s van passes the same guardhouse, so we send the office the names and plate numbers ahead of each stage.
Lorries reach Persiaran Persekutuan by Jalan Travers or Jalan Damansara. iProperty’s project notes say Travers jams at peak hours, so we plan the heavy deliveries for the middle of the day.
- A call about the household FreeYour block and layout, the people sharing it, any refit a past owner made, and what the terrace is used for.
- Through the gate with a tape RM200, waived if you go ahead with usA tape across each room, a look inside cupboards and the distribution board, the age of pipes, wiring and cooling noted, and time on the terrace.
- The scope, in writingA written scope comes before any sketch: which rooms, and what fee. Layouts, lighting, materials and joinery follow, with both kitchens resolved together.
- Prices from several buildersDetailed drawings go out to several contractors. Their prices come back to us, we sit down with you to weigh each line, and the final pick is yours.
- Through the guardhouseManagement paperwork, trades and deliveries through the guardhouse are ours to run. We inspect every stage, then style the finished rooms.
A guarded estate, a management office, DBKL and neighbours above and below: even a low block has many hands in a renovation. Holding those threads together is our job, so your days can carry on as usual. How we work
A home from 2006
Highbank’s defect period with Tan & Tan lapsed many years ago, so hidden problems, from tired pipes to old wiring, become part of the scope. We look for them on the site visit rather than halfway through the build.
Minor works in Kuala Lumpur need a DBKL permit, usually applied for by a contractor, and the estate’s management signs off the plans. We couldn’t find Highbank’s deposit, permitted hours or delivery rules in print, so we collect them from the office before any contractor quotes.
The original drawings are harder to come by than you’d expect. Tan & Tan’s project page offers a brochure, but no file sits behind the button, so we work from the management office’s plans, your sale documents, and our own tape.
Renovating a Sri Bukit Persekutuan home after twenty years of resales
At Sri Bukit Persekutuan, eighty Highbank homes share a few layouts, and after twenty years of resales, what makes yours your own again is how it fits the people living in it now.
Maybe it’s a couple whose children visit at weekends, a family with a teenager eyeing the study, or someone home again from abroad who works from the terrace. The same 3+1 can suit each of you, in different ways.
Our first questions are about your mornings, your guests and where things are kept. In a home this size, those answers are what make a big room feel lived in.
What a 2006 Highbank flat usually needs
- KeepThe plan, good refitsGenerous rooms, the terrace, and any floor or joinery an earlier owner did well
- AdaptKitchens, service suiteDry and wet kitchens after twenty years’ wear; a helper’s room given its real job
- AddLight and comfortLayered lighting for big rooms, fabrics that cope with humidity, newer air-conditioning where needed
We couldn’t find Tan & Tan’s original specification, and twenty years of resales have changed plenty, so we’ll look at your own flat with you before suggesting anything.
What have other Bangsar owners spent on renovating?
No Highbank home carries our work yet, and this page won’t suggest one does. Bangsar’s published renovation records are the closest guide. Across the nine that give both figures, the median is RM114 per sq ft.
Larger condominiums in that set include Araville, 2,100 sq ft for RM240,000, and RM650,000 spent on 3,300 sq ft at Serai Bangsar, which may cover only part of a home. At the median, a 2,756 sq ft Highbank flat would come to about RM314,000, near the bottom of our Curated band.
You can see each one, with its size and spend, in the Bangsar renovation cost page.
FAQ
Renewing a twenty-year-old Highbank home
Are the flats at Sri Bukit Persekutuan really over 2,500 sq ft?
Yes. The developer gives Highbank’s homes as 2,573 to 9,408 sq ft. Listings today sit at about 2,573 and 2,756 sq ft; a 4+1 of about 3,600 is also reported. Smaller figures online don’t match the developer’s range. iRumah gives the most common layout as a three-bedroom of roughly 2,800 sq ft, in two blocks of only five storeys.
Is it worth keeping two kitchens?
Usually, yes. Heavy cooking stays in the wet kitchen, while the dry kitchen opens to family life. What changes is the fit-out: twenty-year-old cabinets, worktops and hoods are often the first things worth replacing. One agent describes both kitchens in a 2,756 sq ft home; for the 2,573 sq ft and 4+1 plans, we confirm the arrangement on the visit.
What can a helper’s room and laundry become?
Without a live-in helper, it can be a laundry with drying space, a pantry, a luggage store or a small office. With its own bathroom, it could even host a guest. Drawing it adds a single room to our fee. The flexible +1 that most Highbank listings mention is a separate room again, so a family can have both a study and a laundry.
How do I deal with humidity next to the forest?
Plan for it. Ventilated wardrobes, mould-resistant paint in bathrooms and the wet kitchen, outdoor-rated terrace fabrics and air-conditioning with a dry mode all help. On the site visit we also check window seals and screens; twenty-year-old frames vary. Where a terrace door opens towards the trees of Federal Hill, a fly screen fitted to it lets the evening air in without the insects.
Do I need permission to renovate a Highbank home?
Yes, from two places. Management approves the plans and sets the rules for contractors, and DBKL issues the permit for minor works, usually through your contractor. Highbank hasn’t published its deposit or working hours, so we get both from the office early. Federal Hill lies in the Federal Territory, so the council is DBKL, and the guardhouse your contractors pass is shared with the estate’s terraces, villas and semi-detached houses.
What might it cost to redo a 3+1 here?
For a 2,756 sq ft 3+1, allow roughly RM288k–514k with Curated furniture (Commune, Cellini or Poet Living) or RM536k–1.06M with Bespoke (Space Furniture, BoConcept or Molteni&C). Our design fee is separate.
Who developed Sri Bukit Persekutuan, and when was it completed?
Tan & Tan Developments finished Sri Bukit Persekutuan in 2006, on 18 freehold acres beside the Lake Gardens. Highbank, the condominium, shares its gate and guards with terraces, villas and semi-detached houses, 148 homes in all.
What facilities does Sri Bukit Persekutuan have?
Sri Bukit Persekutuan’s clubhouse has a gym, a sauna, a swimming pool and a wading pool, beside a jogging track, a playground and a barbecue area, all inside the estate’s gate.
Can I see photos of a Sri Bukit Persekutuan home you’ve designed?
Not yet: we haven’t completed a home at Sri Bukit Persekutuan, and no Highbank home carries our work. The closest guide on this page is Bangsar’s published renovation records, other firms’ projects, at a median of RM114 per sq ft.
What interior design services do you offer at Sri Bukit Persekutuan?
Our condo interior design at Sri Bukit Persekutuan covers three- and four-bedroom homes of 2,573 to 3,600 sq ft, renovation design included. We draw the plans, compare contractors’ quotes with you and manage the works on site, and contractors do the building. We also offer interior styling, furnishing through our Procurement Concierge, and Virtual Design for homes outside Kuala Lumpur and Selangor.
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