Interior designer at The Reya, KL East
A hillside home in KL East, wrapped in green.
Every room with a purpose, and all of it yours.
Thoughtfully designed around the way you live, and what you’d like to spend.
Who’s coming with you when you move into your Reya home?
The Reya’s homes are large family homes, each with a dry and a wet kitchen, in a tower that keeps much of its hillside forest.
We help you give every extra room a clear job, find places for a big household’s things, and make calm rooms, whether yours looks to the city or the forest.
We’re Sundays in Bed, a Kuala Lumpur studio that designs and looks after homes. Nobody has Reya keys yet, so we haven’t designed one here. We can start on yours from the plans. You choose the rooms, and each room’s fee is written down and agreed with you before we draw.
The Reya is Sime Darby Property’s freehold tower in KL East, Desa Melawati, at the foot of the Klang Gates Quartz Ridge. Its two wings, of 30 and 32 storeys, are due in July 2029.
The Reya’s 480 homes run from 1,350 to 2,210 sq ft built-up, each with three bedrooms or more and a dry and a wet kitchen.
- 1,350–1,420 sq ftType A: three bedrooms and a study
- 1,758 sq ftType B: four bedrooms, one a junior suite with its own bathroom
- 2,210 sq ftType C: dual key, four bedrooms plus a studio with its own door
Space and ceilings
These are big homes by KL condo standards, built with large families and upgraders in mind. If that’s you, you may not be short of space. What we’ll work out together is who each room is for, and where everyone’s things live.
Sime Darby says 47% of the natural forest on the site is kept, and homes look towards the city, the forest or both. From the developer’s plans, most Type B and C homes face the trees. If yours does, we’ll frame the green so you can enjoy it from the sofa.
No handover specification has been published, so wardrobes, air-conditioners and ceiling heights are still unknown. We’ll read your sale agreement with you now, and check it against your home when the keys arrive.
Who in your family needs a space of their own?
We start with who needs what: a place to study, a room for a parent, a spot to cook.
Once the study, the junior suite and the dry kitchen each have a purpose, the rest of the plan follows.
If heavy cooking is part of family life
Every Reya plan separates a dry kitchen from a closed wet kitchen and yard. Heavy cooking already has its room, so the dry side can be a breakfast counter, a coffee station or, in Types B and C, an island for homework.
If someone needs a study
In every Type A plan it is a small room. On the A1 plan it sits between the two bathrooms, with its own window. Home office, homework room or a daybed for visiting family: we settle which before drawing a shelf, as each needs different light and storage.
If a parent may come to live with you
Type B places one bedroom, with its own bathroom, across the living room from the other three. It suits a parent, a grown-up child or a long-staying guest, so we’d plan softer lighting and grab rails into it.
For the way your windows face
Some city-facing stacks take the afternoon sun; homes facing the trees may need little more than sheers. We find out which way your windows look before choosing a fabric, a sofa colour or where the television goes.
What may come with your home
Whatever your sale agreement includes, whether kitchen cabinets, wardrobes or air-conditioners, we keep it if it works and design around it. Your budget then goes where the developer’s work stops, and nothing is spent replacing something new.
What could you expect to pay us for designing your Reya home?
For a 1,350 sq ft Type A 3+1, the Sundays in Bed design fee is estimated at RM26,875–34,005; for the 2,210 sq ft dual-key Type C, RM30,440–37,570.
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
3 bedrooms, a study and the dry and wet kitchens: 6 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
You’ll have the total in our agreement before any drawing starts, and you pay it in stages. It isn’t linked to what contractors charge, so choosing stone over the handover tiles leaves our fee untouched.
If yours is a Type A 3+1, our fee and Curated finishes (Commune, Cellini, Poet Living) come to about RM198k–345k in all.
Start with what a big household needs most. Here that often means foyer storage, wardrobes and the dry kitchen. The floors can wait in a home nobody has lived in yet. Pick your type, then choose the rooms to draw.
| Home | Our fee | Curated | Bespoke |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type A 3+1 1,350 sq ft; A2 to A4 are 1,420 | RM26,875–34,005 | RM171k–311k | RM350k–721k |
| Type B four-bed 1,758 sq ft, with a junior suite | RM26,875–34,005 | RM181k–327k | RM367k–758k |
| Type C dual key 2,210 sq ft, with its studio | RM30,440–37,570 | RM203k–396k | RM407k–903k |
The lower figure covers a typical layout: the living and dining, both kitchens and every bedroom, plus the study in Type A. The higher one adds two more, say the master bathroom and one other. Type B’s fee matches Type A’s, because its fourth bedroom takes the place of the study.
Figures are October 2026 guides at Curated or Bespoke; a quotation only ever comes from your contractors.
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.
The Type C row counts its studio as a fifth bedroom.
With keys due in 2029, no bathroom is counted: they’ll be new. The ranges assume new kitchen cabinets, wardrobes, bedroom air-conditioners, a hob, a hood and a washer-dryer. The handover list isn’t public yet; if yours includes some, expect less.
Furnishing to let?
Type C’s studio has its own door and kitchenette. 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
- Type A 3+1
- RM92k–147k
- Type B four-bed
- RM97k–154k
- Type C dual key
- RM110k–188k
Whichever Reya you’ve bought, we ask about your budget first, for a 1,350 sq ft Type A as much as a dual-key Type C. You tell us the number, and we’ll plan each room around it.
While you wait for your keys, what can we get started?
Most of it can happen on paper first.
One designer draws your Reya home from the developer’s plans, then checks every measurement against your real home at handover. The building goes to licensed contractors; you pick one from quotes we gather and compare with you.
- The discovery call FreeWhich type you bought, A, B or C, which wing and floor, who is moving in, what the sale agreement includes, and roughly what you’d like to spend.
- The scope, then the designOur fee, your budget and the rooms we’re designing go into writing first. Then layouts, lighting and materials from the developer’s plans, with a clear purpose for the study, junior suite or studio.
- The site visit RM200, waived if you go ahead with usOnce you have keys, we measure every room, note which way the windows face, list what the handover brought and adjust the drawings to the real unit.
- Drawings and quotesA full drawing set for contractors to price and build from. We bring back several quotes and go through them line by line with you; the choice of builder stays yours.
- On site, then moving inWe book lifts and loading with management, line up the trades and deliveries, inspect each stage against the drawings, then style the rooms you’ll actually live in.
A new tower has its own sequence: the sale agreement, handover inspections, a management office still finding its feet, DBKL, and six or seven neighbours renovating at once, as most floors of each wing hold eight homes. We keep track of all of it and tell you what comes next. The full process
Bought off plan?
The Reya is due in July 2029. When your keys come, inspect the unit and report any defects to Sime Darby Property in writing before a contractor starts work.
KL East falls under DBKL, and the renovation permit is normally applied for through your licensed contractor. The management office will set the deposit, working hours and lift booking once residents move in; we get the current rules before work is scheduled.
What will make your Reya home feel like your family’s?
We start with who will live there, and design the rooms around them.
Two families can buy the same Type B and need very different homes from it.
If yours is a Type B, maybe the junior suite is for grandparents; for another family it’s a teenager’s place to retreat. Tell us who stays over, who cooks, where the prams and school bags go. Those answers shape a room more than any palette.
What a new Reya home will likely need
- KeepTwo kitchens, the planThe separate dry and wet kitchens and the room layout, rarely worth moving
- AdaptStudy, suite, studioRooms that could be several things, each given one clear job
- AddStorage, window dressingFoyer storage for a large household, and sheers or blinds suited to each facing
From the developer’s published plans. The Reya’s handover specification isn’t public yet, so we check yours when the keys arrive.
What have other families spent on homes at Desa ParkCity?
We haven’t designed a Reya home yet, and we don’t publish a cost index for Ampang or KL East. The nearest guide is Desa ParkCity, another planned township of family condos, with nine published renovation records.
There, South Brooks homes of 1,001–1,537 sq ft came to RM100,000–150,000, Park Place’s 1,300 sq ft to RM120,000 and Westside 3’s 1,500 sq ft to RM130,000. Across all nine, the median came to RM92 a sq ft.
Those were older homes and other firms’ projects, and their scopes vary, so please read them as a starting point for a larger Reya home. They’re on our Desa ParkCity renovation cost index.
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The Reya, from buying off plan to moving in
Can I start designing my Reya home before the 2029 handover?
Yes, and it helps. We can draw your home from the developer’s plans for your type, give the study, suite or studio its job, and line up quotes. When the keys arrive, the RM200 site visit checks every measurement before anything is ordered.
How do you design a Type C dual-key home?
As two homes behind one entrance. The main home gets foyer storage and family rooms. The studio, with its own door, bathroom and kitchenette, gets a small self-contained brief: grandparents, a grown-up child, a home office or a tenant.
What could the junior suite in a Type B be used for?
It sits across the living room from the other three bedrooms, with its own bathroom: privacy without a separate entrance. It suits parents staying long, a returning grown-up child or guests. For parents, we plan lighting, rails and a step-free shower early.
How much might it cost to renovate and furnish a Reya Type A?
For a 1,350 sq ft Type A 3+1, renovation and furniture are estimated at RM171k–311k at Curated (Commune, Cellini or Poet Living), or RM350k–721k at Bespoke (Space Furniture, BoConcept or Molteni&C). Our fee, estimated at RM26,875–34,005, comes on top.
My Reya home faces the forest. How does that change the design?
Mostly for the better. Forest-facing rooms rarely need heavy blinds, so sheers and natural materials can do the work, and seating can turn towards the green. City-facing stacks may need more sun control. We confirm which way yours faces on the site visit.
Which council approves renovations at The Reya?
DBKL, as The Reya is in Desa Melawati, Kuala Lumpur. Your licensed contractor normally applies for the permit. Management will add its own rules once the building is running, such as a deposit, working hours and lift booking; we check them before scheduling.
Plenty of rooms, and time to plan each one. Shall we start?
Tell us your type, your wing and your floor, and the budget you have in mind. That first call is free, and the estimate of our design fee comes to you in writing before you commit to anything.
Free · your fee is agreed in writing before we start