Interior designer at The Estate, South Bangsar
Which corner of The Estate will you call home?
Bon Estates designed it for several generations, and many plans have a second front door. We start with who lives behind each door, and what every room is for.
A long sofa, room for six and soft light from tall windows. Corner homes at The Estate take light from more than one side, so curtains are planned room by room.
- Developer
Bon Estates, its first high-rise
- Completed
Keys handed over in August 2021
- Homes
Two freehold towers of 164 homes each, four to a floor
- Sizes
2,346 to 3,474 sq ft, four or five bedrooms; penthouses and skyhouses larger
- Architect
JS Lim Architect, in agents’ descriptions
Floor plans at The Estate, four households to every floor
At The Estate, just four households share a floor, each in a corner and each stepping out of the lift onto a landing nobody else uses.
Our design work starts with what each of your rooms is for.
If three generations will share your home, or a grown child is coming back, the first plan we draw is a plan of people: who sleeps where, who cooks, who needs a door they can close. The Estate’s plans give you room to answer that properly.
The closest home Sundays in Bed has designed is at Bangsar Hill Park, across in Bangsar; at The Estate there isn’t one yet. Choose the rooms to hand over, and each room’s fee goes on paper before work begins.
The Estate stands on Jalan Pantai Prima, off Jalan Kerinchi in Bangsar South: two freehold towers of 164 homes each on 3.68 acres, the first high-rise by Bon Estates.
Keys were handed over in August 2021. About 70% of the land is planted, a 300 m Lake Walk runs through it, and Universiti LRT is about a 300 m walk away.
Standard homes run from 2,346 to 3,474 sq ft built-up, with four or five bedrooms; duplex penthouses and skyhouses go larger.
- 2,346–2,580 sq ft4+1: four bedrooms and a room for a helper
- 3,132–3,474 sq ftFive bedrooms, as a dual-key with a second front door
- 4,187–7,057 sq ftDuplex penthouses and skyhouses, four or five bedrooms
Two kitchens, and a second front door
Roughly 40% are dual-key, with a second suite that has its own door and pantry. The standard plans have two kitchens: a dry kitchen that opens to the dining table, and a wet kitchen tucked behind it beside the helper’s room and its washroom.
Type A gives each of its four bedrooms a bathroom, with a tub in the master’s. Agents’ descriptions credit the towers to JS Lim Architect, and The Edge, writing in 2023, likened their dark grey façade to the keys of a piano.
The Estate interior design ideas, starting at your front door
At The Estate, we’d like to hear who lives here and how before any colour or finish.
The landing, the two kitchens and, in many plans, a second front door each need a decision first.
For your own landing
Shoes, parcels and a visitor’s first glance all happen on a landing that only your household uses. It may count as common property, so we ask management before building joinery in, and choose freestanding pieces in the meantime.
If Sunday lunch is a big affair
The dry kitchen is on display to the dining table, so that’s where the stone and the island go. The wok, the steamer and the rice cooker live behind it, in the wet kitchen, where ventilation and wipeable surfaces matter most.
If a second generation, or a tenant, will use the suite
The dual-key plans split into a main home and a smaller suite with a separate door and pantry. A grandparent, a returning graduate, a consulting room or a tenant: whoever it is shapes the locks, the storage and the finishes.
If the afternoon sun finds you
Bon Estates planned every home as a corner, with views towards the city or Bukit Gasing, and its 2017 launch notes list single-glazed windows with shading devices.
Which way your corner faces isn’t published, so we check on the visit. On the sunny side, lined curtains or solar blinds and sofas set back from the glass do more for you than paint.
If your home has held up well since handover
At five years old, a home here may have kitchens and, in Type A, a bathroom beside each bedroom that still serve well. We keep what does, put the work into the master bath and the rooms used daily, and let the rest wait.
Plan by plan, from the 2017 launch review
Type A, 2,346 sq ft, 4+1. The smallest plan carries four bathrooms and a fifth for the helper. With that many in so few square feet, choosing which to leave untouched is where a Type A budget is won or lost.
Type C, 2,519 sq ft, 4+1. A single-key plan whose bathrooms are listed as three plus two. Before we make one bedroom the guest room, we check on your plan which rooms share.
Type B, 2,580 sq ft, 4+1. The roomiest single-key plan, with four bathrooms plus two. A 2024 recommend.my article follows another firm’s renovation of a home this size for a family with two children and a helper: the lift landing gained a tall shoe cabinet with helmet hooks, an umbrella stand and a seat, part of the wet kitchen’s cabinetry came out to make room for a dishwasher, and a chandelier ran months late on supply. Plumbing for a dishwasher belongs in the first drawings, and lights with long lead times are ordered early.
Type D, 3,132 sq ft, 5+1, dual-key. The review describes a main home of four bedrooms, each with its bathroom, living and dining lined up along the dry kitchen, and a separate small home with its own pantry and island behind a second entrance. The partition between the two is the first thing we design: which way its door locks, and how much sound it stops.
Type E, 3,474 sq ft, 5+1, dual-key. The largest of the standard plans. Sources describe its arrangement differently, so we draw from your own sale or strata plan.
Type F, 5,807 sq ft, 5+1. A duplex penthouse, with a stair to plan around and two floors of glass to dress.
Sizes and bathroom counts from PropertyGuru’s March 2017 launch review, repeated by two agents’ sites. How many homes of each type were built isn’t published.
What interior design costs at The Estate, South Bangsar
At The Estate, the Sundays in Bed design fee is estimated at RM37,570–44,700 for a 2,346 sq ft 4+1 and RM41,135–48,265 for a 3,132 sq ft dual-key 5+1.
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 Estate design fee, for homes of four and five bedrooms. Count the bathrooms before you count the bedrooms. In Type A each bedroom has its own, and five years on, not all of them need redesigning: every bathroom we design adds one room, RM3,565, and one you keep adds nothing.
Both kitchens count as rooms. In a dual-key home, the second suite’s pantry stays as it is unless you’d like it designed.
4 bedrooms, 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 is paid
We agree the fee in writing before anything begins, then you settle it in stages. Marble for a skyhouse bathroom lifts the builder’s quote and leaves ours untouched. How we charge
A 2,346 sq ft 4+1 with our fee and Curated renovation and furniture comes to about RM338k–581k.
| Home | Our fee | Curated | Bespoke |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4+1 2,346–2,580 sq ft · Types A to C | RM37,570–44,700 | RM300k–537k | RM558k–1.11M |
| 5+1 dual-key 3,132 sq ft · Type D | RM41,135–48,265 | RM329k–617k | RM609k–1.27M |
The first figure prices the living and dining, the two kitchens, every bedroom and each bathroom bar one. The second adds two rooms, perhaps the helper’s room and that last bathroom.
October 2026 estimates; a firm number arrives with contractors’ quotations.
Behind the ranges
Keys here were handed over in 2021, so every row assumes a lived-in home, one bathroom short of the plan’s full count, with the helper’s washroom and the suite’s pantry set aside.
Cabinets for both kitchens, wardrobes and fresh air-conditioners are in every range; whatever is still in good order can stay.
Furnishing to let?
In 2023 the developer described The Estate as mostly owner-occupied; today homes are listed both for sale and to let. Where a suite or a whole home will be let, our Essential level, furnished from Ikea, SSF Home and Harvey Norman, finishes faster and takes wear, at the same design fee.
Essential: renovation and furniture, our fee aside
- 4+1
- RM171k–277k
- 5+1 dual-key
- RM187k–318k
Begin with a conversation
Tell us your tower and type, and whether the second suite will be lived in. We’ll bring first thoughts on how the household might share the plan.
Or begin with a figure
Answer a few questions about your space, and you’ll have an estimate to consider in your own time.
An interior designer at The Estate, from first call to last room
At The Estate, the designer you meet on the first call is the one who styles your last room.
We design and manage; contractors build from tenders we review with you, and you appoint them.
Since the defect period ran out in September 2023
Management told The Edge that The Estate’s defect liability period expired in September 2023. A leaking seal or a cracked tile found today is yours to put right, so repairs belong in the contractors’ tenders beside the design, not in a claim to Bon Estates.
Lifts, parking bays and the office
Every lift here opens onto a private landing, so each load of tiles, cabinets or a new sofa arrives at a household’s own front door, yours included. The 2023 report in The Edge lists the lift system among the equipment the manager checks every month, so we ask the office for those dates and keep deliveries off them.
The 2017 launch review gives each home at least four parking bays. Once works begin, we ask management whether a contractor’s van may use one of yours, which spares the visitor bays and your neighbours’ patience.
The same report says the manager held back energy-saving upgrades to the common areas until the defect period ended, so as not to void it. Some shared parts may have changed since 2023, and we ask what has before drawing anything that meets them.
- A first conversation FreeTower 1 or 2, the plan you own, whether the second suite is occupied, the people living with you and what earlier owners altered.
- On site with a tape RM200, waived if you go ahead with usEvery room and both kitchens are measured; we note where afternoon sun falls on your corners, inspect bathrooms and wiring, and list what deserves to stay.
- Scope agreed, then drawingsWhich rooms and our fee go into a letter you sign first. Plans, lighting, joinery and materials come next, with the suite’s purpose settled early.
- Tenders comparedA shortlist of contractors prices one set of drawings. We set their figures side by side with you, query the gaps, and the builder you pick is appointed.
- Works, then the finishing touchesAfter management signs off, floors and lifts are protected, trades keep to the by-law hours, each stage is checked against our drawings, and we style the rooms last.
Four parties have a say in works here: the management office, DBKL, the trades, and the three households who share your floor. We’ll coordinate them, so you needn’t. The full process
Approval before any work starts
The Estate’s by-laws set when renovation work may happen, and management will usually need to approve the work. The Edge reported in 2023 that Henry Butcher had run the building since 2021; we check who runs it today. That same report says Henry Butcher advised on the by-laws and on the hours for renovation, though it doesn’t give them, so we work from the office’s current copy, not the 2021 one.
A DBKL permit is needed too, normally lodged by your contractor. Neither the deposit nor the lift arrangements are published, so the office’s current terms are obtained in writing before tenders go out.
Interior design for two or six at The Estate, and how they share it
At The Estate, we design for however many of you there are, two people or six and a helper.
One dual-key home can become very different homes, depending on who holds which key.
For some, the second key belongs to a grandmother. For others it brings in rent, or opens a studio for two desks. We’ll begin with your routines: mealtimes, guests, desks and what needs putting away.
What an Estate home needs at five years old
- KeepThe planBoth kitchens, the bathrooms beside the bedrooms, and the helper’s quarters
- AdaptWindows, bathroomsCorner windows to dress, single-glazed per the 2017 launch notes, and whichever bathrooms see daily use
- AddArrival, purposeA foyer on the lift landing, and a defined role for the second key
Bon Estates hasn’t released a finishes schedule, and owners have altered plenty since 2021, so we’ll look at yours when we visit.
The same 2017 notes list inverter air-conditioners. Five years on, we have them serviced and decide where each indoor unit stays before any ceiling is redrawn, because moving one after the plaster is up costs twice: once for the trade and once for the patch.
What renovations at The Estate have cost
We have no Estate home of our own to show yet, but other firms have published five renovations in this building on the Bangsar cost index: 2,300 to 3,600 sq ft, RM200,000 to RM650,000, RM67–181 a sq ft, and six to sixteen weeks on site.
Bangsar South’s median across other firms’ published records is RM169 a sq ft. The full list sits on the Bangsar renovation cost index.
FAQ
Landings, second suites and costs at The Estate
Could the private lift landing work as a foyer?
Usually. Nobody else uses it, so shoe storage, somewhere to sit and good light make it the first room your visitors meet. In one 2,580 sq ft home another firm renovated, it took a tall shoe cabinet with helmet hooks, an umbrella stand and a seat. It may be common property, so before anything is attached to its walls we ask management, and start with freestanding pieces.
How do you plan a Type D or E dual-key?
By deciding who the smaller suite houses. A parent wants grab rails and a short walk to the main kitchen; a tenant, separate storage and a dependable lock; an office, daylight and quiet. The suite’s pantry and island generally stay. The 2017 launch review describes the Type D suite as a complete small home with its own entrance, so a lock and a little soundproofing on the shared wall do most of the work.
Do all four or five bathrooms need redoing?
Rarely. Type A pairs each bedroom with a bathroom; Type C lists three plus two and Type B four plus two. Five years on, not every one needs redoing. We tend to begin with the master and whichever one visitors use. Every bathroom we design adds RM3,565 to the fee; one you keep adds nothing.
In a corner home here, is heat or privacy the bigger issue?
Generally heat and glare. Bon Estates planned corner homes facing the city or Bukit Gasing, and the 2017 launch notes list single glazing. Lined curtains, solar blinds and seating pulled back from the windows all help, and we note each room’s orientation on the visit. In one renovated home here, full-height curtains in four panels run the width of the living room’s glass.
Roughly what does a 4+1 at The Estate cost to renovate and furnish?
For 2,346 sq ft, allow about RM300k–537k at Curated (Commune, Cellini or Poet Living) or RM558k–1.11M at Bespoke (Space Furniture, BoConcept or Molteni&C), plus our fee, estimated at RM37,570–44,700. Published records here: RM200,000–650,000.
What does management ask for before work begins?
Approval, and work kept within the hours its by-laws allow. Your contractor normally lodges the DBKL permit. Neither the deposit nor the lift booking terms appear in print, so the office sends us both in writing ahead of any tender. In 2023 the manager told The Edge it had advised on the renovation hours, so your contractor’s programme is built around them.
What are the floor plans at The Estate, Bangsar South?
The Estate’s standard homes run from 2,346 to 3,474 sq ft with four or five bedrooms: 4+1s of 2,346–2,580 sq ft, and five-bedroom dual-keys of 3,132–3,474 sq ft with a second front door. Duplex penthouses and skyhouses run from 4,187 to 7,057 sq ft, and roughly 40% of homes are dual-key.
Who developed The Estate, and when was it completed?
The Estate is the first high-rise by Bon Estates: two freehold towers of 164 homes each on 3.68 acres, off Jalan Kerinchi in Bangsar South. Keys were handed over in August 2021, and agents’ descriptions credit the towers to JS Lim Architect.
Can I see photos of a home you’ve designed at The Estate?
Not yet: there isn’t a Sundays in Bed home at The Estate. The closest home we’ve designed is at Bangsar Hill Park, across in Bangsar, and other firms have published five renovations in this building on the Bangsar cost index.
Are homes at The Estate let, or mostly owner-occupied?
Both: in 2023 the developer described The Estate as mostly owner-occupied, and today homes are listed both for sale and to let. Where a suite or a whole home will be let, our Essential level, furnished from Ikea, SSF Home and Harvey Norman, finishes faster and takes wear, at the same design fee.
What interior design services do you offer at The Estate, South Bangsar?
At The Estate, South Bangsar, our condo interior design, renovation design included, covers four-bedroom homes and dual-key homes of 2,346 to 3,132 sq ft. 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.
Interior design Interior styling Condo interior design Virtual Design
Two of you or six, we’d gladly plan your Estate home around you.
Tell us the tower, the type and whether a second suite, if you have one, is occupied, and share a floor plan. That first chat costs nothing, and you see our estimated fee on paper before committing to anything.
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