Interior designer at The Atrium
Your Atrium home, with a story worth keeping.
Paramount kept the old hotel’s frame and renewed the wiring, pipes and lifts around a skylit atrium. We plan compact rooms that feel generous, and private on the atrium side.
A walnut desk and a lamp beside full-height wardrobes: the kind of study we’d plan at The Atrium, where eleven of the twelve layouts keep a room waiting for its job.
- Developer
Paramount, converting the former Ambassador Row Hotel Suites
- Completed
2024
- Homes
241 in one freehold, 19-storey tower around a skylit atrium
- Sizes
566 to 1,227 sq ft, one or two bedrooms, across twelve layouts
- Facilities
31 across three levels, including an infinity pool, a gym and a yoga lounge
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The Atrium’s twelve layouts, and coming home to a skylit void
The Atrium is a former hotel, now 241 homes in one freehold tower on Jalan Ampang Hilir, each looking, Paramount says, into a skylit central void.
We’d design yours room by room: privacy on the atrium side, storage, and compact rooms that feel generous.
The building on the corner of Jalan Ampang and Jalan Ampang Hilir began life as the Ambassador Row Hotel Suites by Lanson Place. When Paramount bought it in 2020, it kept the frame instead of demolishing it: the structure, the four basement levels and the sky terraces on levels 6 and 13 stayed, while the wiring, pipes, lifts and façade were replaced. Paramount says it added only one level, on the roof, for the facilities, and that the hotel’s furniture and fittings were recycled or given away, some to charitable homes and flood victims.
This guide comes from Sundays in Bed, interior designers in Kuala Lumpur who have yet to design an Atrium home; it draws on what Paramount and the press have published.
The tower rises 19 storeys from a 0.95-acre plot at No. 1 Jalan Ampang Hilir and was completed in 2024, with the skylit atrium at its centre. Across twelve layouts, homes measure 566 to 1,227 sq ft built-up, each with one or two bedrooms.
- 566–624 sq ftOne bedroom, a study and one bathroom
- 849–934 sq ftTwo bedrooms, a study, two bathrooms and a balcony
- 1,213–1,227 sq ftTwo bedrooms, a study in most, a wet kitchen and a larger balcony
Ceilings and space
The conversion renewed the wiring and pipes inside your walls. The hotel’s columns, slabs and storey heights stayed, and they decide where a partition can stand and how far a bulkhead may drop. We’ll measure all of it with you before we draw.
If your home is a compact one, as many here are, we’ll help you give the study a purpose, find cupboard room for everyone who lives there, and keep the atrium’s daylight while the privacy stays yours.
The twelve layouts
From the launch tables: Types A (566 sq ft) and B and B1 (624 sq ft) are one bedroom, a study and one bathroom. Types C and C1 (849 sq ft) and D (934 sq ft) add a second bedroom and bathroom and a balcony.
The E family, from 1,213 to 1,227 sq ft, adds a wet kitchen behind the open one and a larger balcony. Every E keeps its study except E2, the only layout in the building without one. How many homes there are of each type has never been published.
What came with the keys
Paramount and the press describe a partly furnished handover: electrical appliances, kitchen cabinets, wardrobes, a smart-home system and digital door locks. An agent’s launch page fills in the detail: a wardrobe in the master bedroom only, a hood and hob, a fridge, a microwave, a washer-dryer, air-conditioners, water heaters, downlights and engineered timber in the bedrooms.
Your own sale agreement is what counts, and we read it against the home on the first visit. The usual gap is storage: wardrobes beyond the master bedroom, and somewhere for shoes by the door.
Around the building
Paramount lists 31 facilities across three levels, the ground floor, the sky terraces and the rooftop, among them an infinity pool, a gym, a yoga lounge, a reading nook and an atrium lounge, and says it gave 30 to 35% of the space to planting. The four basements kept from the hotel hold the parking: one bay per home, two for some of the larger ones.
At launch, Paramount reported roughly 65 owner-occupiers for every 35 investors. Its next project, The Ashwood, launched in 2024 next door on the same stretch of Embassy Row.
Interior design at The Atrium, room by room and hour by hour
At The Atrium, we first ask who each room is really for, and at what time of day.
In a home of one or two bedrooms, a few early choices set the rest, and we’d rather make them with you.
If you’d like your windows to stay bright
Paramount planned every home to look into the central atrium, so daylight arrives from the skylight above. A neighbour’s gaze from across the void can arrive too. We’ll suggest layered sheers and frosted lower glass, so you keep the light and gain some privacy.
If your study is still waiting for a job
Eleven of the twelve layouts include one. In a 1+1 it might be an office; in a 2+1, perhaps a nursery or a room for visiting parents. We’ll settle what yours is for before any furniture is chosen.
If dinner often starts with garlic in hot oil
In every home the kitchen opens straight onto the living and dining, and only the 1,213–1,227 sq ft types have a wet kitchen behind. We’ll plan extraction and a glazed partition first, before any new cabinet fronts.
If the dining table also has to be a desk
In the 849 and 934 sq ft plans, kitchen, living and dining share one room. A round table seats four with no corners to squeeze past, an extending one seats six when family come, and a pendant on its own switch lets the same table become a desk after dinner. We place the table first and the sofa second.
If you have a lot to store
The handover wardrobe is in the master bedroom. The second bedroom and the study usually need their own, plus a place for shoes by the door. In an 849 sq ft home, built-in storage gives you more room than another cabinet would.
If your home still feels almost new
Your home was completed in 2024 and handed over partly furnished, with kitchen cabinets, appliances, cooling and a smart-home system. Most of it is only two years old. Whatever still works stays, and the budget goes to the gaps.
What interior design costs at The Atrium
At The Atrium, our design fee for an 849 sq ft 2+1 is estimated at RM16,180–19,745, and for the 1,227 sq ft homes with a wet kitchen at RM23,310–30,440. The fee is per room and agreed in writing before we begin.
- Each room we design
- RM3,565
- Living and dining
- RM5,485
Our fee counts rooms, and a compact Atrium home has few of them. In an 849 sq ft 2+1, the open living, dining and kitchen are one room, then come two bedrooms and the study; bathrooms finished in 2024 may not need redesigning, so the estimate leaves them out. The homes from 1,213 sq ft add a wet kitchen, which our fee counts separately.
2 bedrooms and a study: 3 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
Our fee goes into a written agreement before any drawing begins, and you’ll pay it in instalments. It never follows the contractors’ prices, so walnut shelving in the study instead of laminate raises their quote and leaves ours where it was.
A 2+1 finished at Curated, our fee included, comes to about RM149k–264k.
Spend where your home still has gaps. In a 2024 home that is likely to mean wardrobes, a study you can work in and curtains for the atrium-facing windows, and the kitchen can stay. Pick a layout and the rooms you’d like designed; every number stays a guide until contractors quote.
| Home | Our fee | Curated | Bespoke |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2+1 849–934 sq ft | RM16,180–19,745 | RM133k–245k | RM284k–595k |
| 1+1 566–624 sq ft | RM12,615–16,180 | RM114k–211k | RM248k–523k |
| Larger 2+1 1,213–1,227 sq ft, with a wet kitchen | RM23,310–30,440 | RM152k–277k | RM314k–649k |
The lower figure covers the open living, dining and kitchen, each bedroom and the study, with both kitchens counted in the E types. The upper figure allows one more room, perhaps the main bathroom, and two in the E types.
October 2026 guides. For a binding price, it takes contractors quoting on our drawings.
How these figures are worked out
The smart-home system and digital door locks Paramount handed over aren’t priced here at all; both are recent and worth keeping.
With completion in 2024, the bathrooms are left out as recent. The ranges still price a new kitchen run, hob, hood, wardrobes and cooling, though Paramount supplied most of them; where yours stay, expect to spend below these figures.
Furnishing to let?
About a third of the first buyers here were investors. If your home is let, our Essential level suits it: durable, simple finishes, SSF Home, Ikea or Harvey Norman pieces, and a quicker finish. Our fee per room is unchanged across levels.
Renovation and furniture at Essential, before our fee
- 2+1
- RM70k–111k
- 1+1
- RM59k–95k
- Larger 2+1
- RM82k–130k
Begin with a conversation
Say which of the twelve layouts you own and who will live there, and your fee estimate will be ready for our 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.
Renovation at The Atrium, with your neighbours looked after too
At The Atrium, one person sees your project through, first call to finished rooms, and keeps your neighbours in the picture too.
We plan and oversee the work; you choose the contractor once we’ve talked the quotes through with you.
A hotel frame shapes how a renovation is planned. The columns, beams and slabs are where the hotel had them, so the first drawing we make of your home marks which walls can move and which never will.
The same frame is why the conversion needed little hacking, by Paramount’s account, and we would rather keep it that way: built-in storage hung on the partitions, lighting run from the new ceiling services, and as little breaking-out as the design allows.
- Talking it over FreeYour layout type, whether it’s to be your home or a let, what Paramount left in the kitchen and bedrooms, and the spend you have in view, however rough.
- At your door RM200, waived if you go ahead with usA tape measure in every room, a look at the beams the hotel frame left, the view into the atrium, and a list of keepers.
- Scope signed, then designBefore any sketching, the rooms, our fee and your budget are written down. Next: plan, lighting, storage and finishes, and a clear role for the study.
- Drawings and quotesThe same drawings go to each contractor to price item by item; we read the quotes with you, figure by figure, and you appoint the one you prefer.
- Works, then the stylingDeliveries and trades go through management as its house rules require, lift cars and corridors are padded, and every stage is checked against our drawings before the furniture arrives.
Sound carries across an open atrium, and dust finds the corridors. We’ll keep the management office briefed, let your neighbours know in good time and hold the contractors to the timetable, so you can leave the worrying to us. The full process
Defects first, then builders
Completion came in 2024, so many homes are recent enough that the defect liability period in the sale agreement may still be running; your agreement states how long it lasts. Report defects to Paramount in writing before any contractor starts, so repairs and renovation never get confused.
DBKL grants the renovation permit, for which the contractor applies, and The Atrium’s management signs off the works. No renovation deposit, permitted hours or lift booking terms have been published for The Atrium, so we obtain the current house rules first.
Interior design for The Atrium, around your books, desks and weekends
At The Atrium, we get to know you first: how your days go, what you read, where you work.
Then the shelves, the desk and the corners of your home are planned around that.
Maybe the same 849 sq ft plan is a first home for two people who both work from it, or the place new parents put a cot in the study, or a couple whose parents come to stay for months. Tell us what a day looks like for you, and we’ll let that decide each room.
What your Atrium home came with
- KeepKitchen, servicesCabinets with hob and hood, appliances, and the conversion’s new wiring and pipes
- AdaptLight, the studyDownlights and smart-home controls; a study waiting for its purpose
- AddStorage, privacyWardrobes for the second bedroom and study, shoe storage, sheers facing the atrium
Drawn from what Paramount and its agents published; the sale agreement governs, and your own home is checked on the visit.
What have homes the size of yours cost to renovate in KLCC?
Ampang Hilir has no cost index yet. KLCC’s, along Jalan Ampang, holds 18 published renovation records, every one another firm’s project; their median is RM158 per sq ft.
Two are a fair match for an Atrium home: a two-bedroom of 1,200 sq ft at The Manor was recorded at RM188,000, and a 760 sq ft home at Binjai 8 at RM66,000. For an 849 sq ft 2+1, the median gives roughly RM134,000, at the foot of our Curated range, so you can check our figures against someone else’s.
Neighbours in Ampang Hilir, with pages of their own:
FAQ
The Atrium: hotel bones, the void, the study and cost
The Atrium used to be a hotel. Does that limit what I can change?
Somewhat. Paramount kept the hotel’s structure and renewed its wiring, piping, lifts and façade. Lightweight partitions inside a unit can often shift; columns, slabs and beams stay put. On the site visit we establish which is which, and the ceiling heights.
What are the downsides of a home that looks into an atrium?
At The Atrium there are three: neighbours across the void can see in, sound carries across an open space, and a lit room glows at night for the homes opposite. Daytime sheers with dim-out curtains, frosted lower panes, soft furnishings that absorb sound, and lamps instead of bright ceiling light after dark answer most of it. Which way your windows face is the first thing we check.
What could the study in an Atrium 1+1 or 2+1 be used for?
Whatever the household lacks: an office with a door that shuts, a nursery, somewhere for a guest to sleep, or a dressing room. Designed by us, it counts as one room in our fee, RM3,565; left as Paramount handed it over, it adds nothing.
How do I make a 566 or 624 sq ft 1+1 feel larger?
Fewer, better-scaled pieces, storage built into the walls, one floor finish running through, and curtains hung high and wide. A dining table that doubles as a desk can free the study for something else.
What does an Atrium 2+1 take to renovate and furnish?
For an 849 sq ft 2+1, renovation and furniture are estimated at RM133k–245k at Curated, or RM284k–595k at Bespoke. Our design fee is on top; keeping the 2024 kitchen lowers the renovation figure.
I’m letting my unit. Is it worth having it designed?
Often, if only a few rooms. About a third of the first buyers here were investors, and for a tenant, good storage, proper curtains and a comfortable bed matter most. Designing those, and leaving the rest, keeps the fee small. Tell us your plans and we’ll suggest which rooms count.
What are the floor plans at The Atrium?
The Atrium has twelve layouts from 566 to 1,227 sq ft. Types A, B and B1 are one bedroom, a study and one bathroom; C, C1 and D add a second bedroom and bathroom and a balcony; and the E family, from 1,213 to 1,227 sq ft, adds a wet kitchen and a larger balcony, with a study in every layout except E2.
When was The Atrium completed, and who developed it?
The Atrium was completed in 2024 by Paramount, which bought the former Ambassador Row Hotel Suites by Lanson Place in 2020 and converted it into 241 homes. It kept the hotel’s structure, four basement levels and sky terraces, and replaced the wiring, pipes, lifts and façade.
What facilities does The Atrium have?
Paramount lists 31 facilities at The Atrium across three levels, the ground floor, the sky terraces and the rooftop, among them an infinity pool, a gym, a yoga lounge, a reading nook and an atrium lounge, and says it gave 30 to 35% of the space to planting. Parking is in the four basements kept from the hotel, one bay per home and two for some of the larger ones.
Can I see photos of a home you’ve designed at The Atrium?
Not yet: we have yet to design a home at The Atrium. This page draws on what Paramount and the press have published, and we check your own home against it on the visit.
What interior design services do you offer at The Atrium?
Our condo interior design at The Atrium, renovation design included, is planned for compact homes, from the 566 sq ft one-bedrooms with a study to the 1,227 sq ft two-bedrooms with a wet kitchen. We draw the plans, compare contractors’ quotes with you and manage the works on site, and contractors do the building. Interior styling and our Procurement Concierge can furnish a home on their own, and Virtual Design does the same job for homes outside Kuala Lumpur and Selangor.
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From hotel suite to home: we’d be glad to help with yours.
Tell us which of the twelve layouts you own, attach a photo or two of the rooms as they are, and give us a rough budget. We won’t charge for the conversation, and the fee estimate comes to you in writing before you decide.
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