Interior designer at The Manor
Your Manor residence, quietly perfected.
Much of the care in a Manor one-bedroom goes into its study, just inside the front door by the second bathroom. A deep chair, a desk for one and a fold-away bed can make it where the day is spent.
A bedroom of ours at Bangsar Hill Park, in Bangsar, where the desk and shelves are built into one timber wall so the room works by day as well as by night. A Manor study can take joinery of the same kind, drawn to its own walls.
See Bangsar Hill Park- Developer
Desaria Property, on freehold land at 3 Persiaran Stonor; architect NK @ Ngai Architect
- Completed
January 2023, by Desaria’s 2023 sales sheet
- Homes
484 in one tower, fourteen to a floor up to Level 36 and twelve above
- Sizes
999 to 2,618 sq ft, from one-bedrooms with a study to three suite plans
- Facilities
Sky pool, gym and spa on Levels 46 and 47; 24-hour reception and housekeeping by Alorie
The Manor floor plans, as the tower was actually built
The Manor is a single freehold tower of serviced homes on Persiaran Stonor, with a hotel operator at the front desk, finished to a different plan from the one first launched.
Our interior design starts from your own floor plan and sale agreement, and from who the home is for.
Look The Manor up and you’ll find two buildings. The one launched in 2015 was to hold 212 large homes, six to a floor, with completion due in 2018. The tower that was built holds 484, from 999 sq ft one-bedrooms with a study to suites of 2,618 sq ft, and several portals still print the old figures. So a brief here begins with your own plan and sale agreement, never with a listing.
Sundays in Bed has no project at The Manor so far; the photograph above shows a bedroom from a Bangsar Hill Park home of ours, in Bangsar. For a Manor home, we’d put a fee against each room you want designed, and you’d sign the total before work begins.
Desaria Property, part of the family-owned Desaria Group, developed The Manor on about 1.5 acres of freehold land at 3 Persiaran Stonor, beside EtonHouse International School and near Conlay MRT station, and NK @ Ngai Architect designed it. Desaria bought the land in 2011 and a neighbouring parcel in 2012, and its September 2023 sales sheet gives completion as January 2023, with keys handed over through that year.
Alorie Hotels & Resorts runs the building’s services. Its page in the sales brochure lists 24-hour reception and concierge, housekeeping, laundry and dry cleaning collected and returned, grocery shopping, meals delivered from restaurants, and an app of The Manor’s own.
Desaria’s layout plans and its 2023 sales sheet show eleven plans in the finished tower.
- 999–1,070 sq ftTypes C3 and A3: a bedroom and a study room, with two bathrooms
- 1,109–1,323 sq ftFive two-bedroom, two-bathroom plans: B1, B2, A1, A2 and C1
- 1,926 sq ftType C2: three bedrooms, the third a studio room with its own door, pantry, bathroom and yard
- 2,341–2,618 sq ftThree suite plans, higher in the tower; Suites A and B add a maid’s room and an enclosed kitchen behind the dry one
Fourteen front doors a floor, then twelve
The developer’s floor-plan sheet puts fourteen homes on every floor from Level 10 to Level 36, and twelve on each floor above. Its 2023 sales sheet still lists a private lift lobby, a phrase carried over from the 2015 launch; with this many homes to a floor, we look at your own landing before planning anything beyond the door.
Below the homes are three basement levels and eight floors of parking. The shared rooms sit on Level 9, with a business lounge, a clubhouse, a nursery and a playground, and on Levels 46 and 47, with the sky pool, the gym and the spa.
What the 2023 sales sheet lists
Desaria’s sales sheet lists kitchen cabinets, a hood, an oven, a washer-dryer and a fridge in every home, laid over imported floor tiles with imported bathroom fittings. It also lists an automated waste-collection system: rubbish goes into a chute through a hopper door and is drawn away by vacuum to a bin centre. Wardrobes and air-conditioning aren’t on the sheet, and your sale agreement governs in any case, so both go on our list for the visit.
Interior design ideas for The Manor’s study, studio room and pantry
In a Manor home, we start with the rooms whose use is still open: the study in a one-bedroom, the studio room in the 1,926 sq ft plan and the compact pantry kitchens.
Settle what those are for, and the living room, bedrooms and storage are quick to plan.
If yours is a one-bedroom with a study
In both one-bedroom plans, the 999 sq ft C3 and the 1,070 sq ft A3, the study room opens just inside the front door, with the second bathroom beside it and the main bedroom further in. That position gives it more uses than its size suggests. A visitor can sleep there with a bathroom to hand and never pass your bedroom, and someone who comes to work with you needn’t see the rest of the home.
So we design it first, and put most of the joinery there: one wall with a desk for one, shelves to the ceiling and a cupboard that hides a folding bed, lit more by a desk lamp and a reading lamp than from above. The developer’s plans don’t show how the room is lit by day or cooled, so we check its window and air-conditioning on the visit. When a meeting needs a table for six, the building’s meeting room and business lounge can take it.
If the studio room may be let, or lived in by a parent
In the 1,926 sq ft C2, the third bedroom is a studio room with its own front door, pantry, bathroom and yard, and on the developer’s plan a small balcony of its own. It can be let on its own terms, become a suite for a parent, or open back into the home, and that choice decides the locks, the wiring and which side of the wall the storage goes on, so it is settled before anything is drawn. Whether it may be let separately is for the management’s house rules to say.
If you cook in a pantry kitchen
The smaller plans have compact kitchens: an open pantry with a yard behind it in the one-bedrooms, and in the two-bedrooms a kitchen set off the dining area, by the foyer or beside a bathroom, depending on the type. The cabinets, hood, oven and fridge came with the handover, so we keep them and work on the fronts, the light under the wall cupboards and the fittings inside. If the wok comes out most nights, we first find out how much the hood can pull away, and we ask management what the hopper door on your floor takes, so the bin under the sink suits it.
If housekeeping will be in your rooms
Housekeeping is one of Alorie’s services, and many Manor homes are let, so your rooms may be cleaned and reset by people who don’t live in them. Loose covers you can unzip and wash, worktops that take a hot pan and a scrape without marking, and a lockable cupboard for the owner’s own things all last longer under that routine, and surfaces kept clear are quicker to wipe down.
If the afternoon sun reaches your rooms
Desaria’s plans label each home by the side of the tower it faces. Homes marked west take the afternoon sun, so solar film and lined curtains come first there, with fabrics that resist fading; on the east side the strongest light comes early, and a sheer often does the job. We read the label on your plan, then watch the light on the visit.
If the bathrooms came with the handover
The 2023 sales material lists imported floor tiles and bathroom fittings, and the tower is only a few years old, so rebuilding a bathroom seldom makes sense. A new vanity, a larger mirror and better light change how one feels without disturbing the tiling, and our estimates leave bathrooms out unless you ask.
If yours is one of the suites
Suites A and B, of 2,618 and 2,386 sq ft, pair a dry kitchen facing the dining table with an enclosed kitchen behind it, beside a store, a yard, a powder room and a maid’s room with its own bathroom. Suite A and the 2,341 sq ft Suite C also give the main bedroom a walk-in wardrobe. We let the dry kitchen belong to the dining room, with good stone and light, and fit the enclosed one for heavy cooking, with surfaces that wipe clean.
What interior design costs at The Manor
A one-bedroom with a study at The Manor carries an estimated Sundays in Bed design fee of RM12,615–16,180; a two-bedroom of about 1,322 sq ft, RM12,615–19,745; and the 1,926 sq ft dual-key three-bedroom, RM16,180–23,310. It is a fee per room, agreed in writing before we begin.
- Each room we design
- RM3,565
- Living and dining
- RM5,485
In a one-bedroom here, the study counts as a full room in our fee, however small it is. Living and dining planned as one space is RM5,485, the bedroom RM3,565 and the study the same again, which makes RM12,615; ask us to refit a bathroom too and it reaches RM16,180. Every other Manor plan is priced on that per-room basis, with the foyer and the yard designed at no charge.
3 bedrooms: 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.
When the fee is agreed, and what it leaves out
We put the total in writing at the start, and it is paid in parts as the design moves forward. Contractors’ charges stay outside it, so a sintered-stone worktop in place of quartz changes their quote and leaves our fee alone.
Our fee plus Curated renovation and furniture brings the 1,926 sq ft dual-key three-bedroom to about RM157k–283k.
| Home | Our fee | Curated | Bespoke |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-bed 1,926 sq ft, dual-key capable | RM16,180–23,310 | RM141k–260k | RM300k–631k |
| 2-bed 1,109–1,323 sq ft | RM12,615–19,745 | RM122k–226k | RM264k–558k |
| 3+1 suite 2,386–2,618 sq ft, upper floors | RM23,310–30,440 | RM163k–316k | RM333k–734k |
| 1+1 999–1,070 sq ft, with a study | RM12,615–16,180 | RM114k–211k | RM248k–523k |
Each lower figure designs the living and dining space, its kitchen and all the bedrooms, the 1+1’s study among them. The upper figure allows for one room more, or two from 1,200 sq ft upward, such as a bathroom you’d refit or a suite’s maid’s room made into a study.
These ranges date from October 2026; once contractors price your drawings, their quotes are what count.
What the Manor ranges assume
Every row prices a home as Desaria handed it over, so no bathroom is counted: the sales material lists imported tiles and fittings. Add any bathroom you mean to change.
In the three-bedroom row the studio room is the third bedroom, and the 1+1 row includes its study. The suite row counts the dry kitchen and the enclosed one as two rooms and leaves the maid’s room alone.
The renovation ranges buy wardrobes, air-conditioning, a washer-dryer, a hob and hood and the kitchen cabinets new, although the handover list already includes the cabinets, hood, oven, fridge and washer-dryer.
Furnishing to let?
Many Manor homes are let, some by the night through short-stay operators and others on longer tenancies, with Alorie’s housekeeping on call. If yours will be one of them, the Essential level, furnished from SSF Home, Ikea and Harvey Norman, is fitted quickly and easy to put right between guests. The level you pick doesn’t change our design fee.
Essential, before the design fee: renovation and furniture
- 3-bed
- RM74k–118k
- 2-bed
- RM63k–101k
- 3+1 suite
- RM87k–148k
- 1+1
- RM59k–95k
Begin with a conversation
Send the plan from your sale papers and tell us who will live there, and who might stay over. We’ll arrive at the first call with ideas for each room, starting with the one that has to work hardest.
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 interior designer at The Manor, while the builders are in
At The Manor, one designer carries your project from the day you call until the rooms are finished, and deals with the management office for you.
We design the work and oversee it; the building goes to the contractor you pick, after we’ve compared the quotes with you.
Below Level 37, fourteen homes share each floor, and above it twelve, so a renovation is noticed by many households, and deliveries and lift bookings run on management’s terms. Some neighbours may be short-stay guests in for a few nights. We gather the noisy work into as few days as we can and book each delivery ahead.
Alorie’s reception is staffed around the clock, which helps when you’re at work or away: we agree with management early how furniture is received, and when the trades may use the lifts.
- Which plan, and for whom FreeYour type, from a one-bedroom with a study to a suite, who will live in it or rent it, and what the handover left you.
- A visit, plan in hand RM200, waived if you go ahead with usWe hold your home up against Desaria’s plan, check the study’s window and cooling, look over the handover kitchen and bathrooms, and note which side of the tower you face.
- Fee in writing, then designYou confirm the rooms and our fee on paper. The design follows, with the study or the studio room planned before the rest, then lighting, joinery and furniture.
- Quotes on identical drawingsEvery bidder works from the one drawing set, so like is priced against like. We talk you through the results, and you decide who builds.
- Works, then the welcomeLifts and deliveries go through management’s booking rules; we inspect every stage against the drawings, then style the rooms for you or your first guests.
A home completed in 2023 seldom needs walls or floors opened up, so the work here is usually joinery, lighting and furniture, and the noisy days are few. We report at each stage, by message or call, whether you’re in town or not. The full process
Two consents before work starts
The building’s management approves a Manor renovation first. Then, where the works call for a permit, your contractor applies to DBKL, Kuala Lumpur’s city council.
Nobody has published the deposit, working hours or lift terms for renovations here, so we request the management office’s current rules at the outset and plan the works around them.
Renovating at The Manor, starting with whose home it will be
At The Manor, one floor plan can become a home in town, a family home with a parent in the studio room, or a let, so our first question is whose home yours will be.
One Manor plan can hold very different lives. A couple may keep it as a home in town, with the study as an office; a family may give the studio room to a grandparent; another owner may let it from the start. Each asks something different of the same rooms, so whose home it is comes first.
What came with a Manor home, and what it still needs
- KeepTiles, bathsImported floor tiles and bathroom fittings, as the 2023 sales material lists them
- AdaptThe pantryCabinets, hood, oven, fridge and washer-dryer in place; new fronts, light and storage
- AddThe studyJoinery, a desk and a bed that folds away, then curtains and lamps through the rest of the home
Desaria’s 2023 sales material is the source for this list, and your sale agreement overrides it. Neither wardrobes nor air-conditioning appears on it, so the visit settles both.
What has a Manor renovation cost?
We haven’t designed a Manor home ourselves. One published renovation record names the building, and it is another firm’s: a two-bedroom of 1,200 sq ft with two bathrooms, renovated for RM188,000 over eight weeks on site, about RM157 per sq ft.
That sits almost on the KLCC median, RM158 per sq ft over 18 published records, and inside the Curated range the calculator gives for a two-bedroom here.
FAQ
Buying, letting and settling in at The Manor
Why do some listings say The Manor has 212 homes?
Because they describe the 2015 launch design. That plan had 212 large homes, six to a floor, with completion due in 2018. The Manor completed in January 2023 has 484 homes, from 999 to 2,618 sq ft, with fourteen to a floor up to Level 36 and twelve above. When we plan a home here, we work from Desaria’s layout plans and your own sale agreement.
How much does it cost to hire an interior designer in Malaysia?
At The Manor, our design fee runs from an estimated RM12,615–16,180 for a one-bedroom with a study to RM16,180–23,310 for the 1,926 sq ft dual-key three-bedroom, with two-bedrooms at RM12,615–19,745. Each room we design is RM3,565, living and dining together RM5,485, and we agree the total in writing before we begin. Renovation and furniture are paid separately, to contractors and suppliers; for the three-bedroom they come to about RM141k–260k at our Curated level.
Can I rent out the studio room in a Manor three-bedroom?
That depends on The Manor’s house rules, not the floor plan. In the 1,926 sq ft three-bedroom, the studio room has its own door, pantry, bathroom and yard, so the layout lets it work apart from the home; whether it may be let separately, and on what terms, is for management to say. We confirm that before furnishing it for anyone else.
How should a Manor home be furnished for tenants or short stays?
For hard use and quick changeovers. At The Manor, where housekeeping may reset the rooms between guests, we choose fabrics that go in the wash, a stone or compact-laminate worktop, bedroom curtains lined to darken the room and a locked cupboard for the owner’s own things. Each piece is one that can be replaced quickly, and nothing personal is left on show.
Is the study in a Manor one-bedroom worth designing?
Usually, if you’ll live there yourself. At The Manor, the study in the 999 and 1,070 sq ft one-bedrooms opens just inside the front door, next to the second bathroom, so it can be a place to work in the day and somewhere for a guest to sleep. Our fee for it is RM3,565, and most of the effort goes into one wall of joinery: a desk, shelving and a bed that folds away.
When can design start on a completed Manor home?
Design can begin once the keys and the floor plan are in your hands. The Manor was completed in January 2023, by the developer’s sales sheet, so there is no construction to wait for. The visit, the design and the contractors’ quotes come first, and management’s approval is in place before any work starts on site.
What are the floor plans at The Manor KLCC?
The Manor as built has eleven plans, from 999 to 2,618 sq ft: two one-bedrooms with a study, five two-bedroom plans of 1,109 to 1,323 sq ft, a 1,926 sq ft three-bedroom whose third room is a studio with its own door, and three suites higher in the tower. Several property portals still print the 2015 launch figures, so we work from Desaria’s layout plans and your own sale agreement.
Who developed The Manor, and who runs its services?
Desaria Property, part of the family-owned Desaria Group, developed The Manor on about 1.5 acres of freehold land at 3 Persiaran Stonor, and NK @ Ngai Architect designed it. Alorie Hotels & Resorts runs the building’s services, which the sales brochure lists as 24-hour reception and concierge, housekeeping, laundry and dry cleaning, grocery shopping and meals delivered from restaurants.
What facilities does The Manor have?
The Manor’s shared rooms are on Level 9, with a business lounge, a clubhouse, a nursery and a playground, and on Levels 46 and 47, with the sky pool, the gym and the spa. There is also a meeting room, and an automated system draws rubbish away by vacuum from a hopper door on each floor.
Are there photos of a home you’ve designed at The Manor?
Not yet: Sundays in Bed has no project at The Manor so far. The bedroom pictured on this page is from a Bangsar Hill Park home of ours, in Bangsar, with the desk and shelves built into one timber wall, joinery of the kind a Manor study can take.
What interior design services do you offer at The Manor?
At The Manor, our condo interior design covers every plan in the tower, from the 999 sq ft one-bedroom with its study to the 2,618 sq ft suites, with renovation design wherever a home needs building work. We draw the plans, compare contractors’ quotes with you and manage the works on site, and contractors do the building. Interior styling and furnishing through our Procurement Concierge can ready a home for you or a first tenant, and Virtual Design covers a home outside Kuala Lumpur and Selangor.
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