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An interior atelier that quietly thinks like an architect.
Reachbay was founded in 2011 above a quiet kopitiam in Damansara Heights by a former contracts architect and an interior designer who had grown tired of glossy mood boards that never met a building site. Fourteen years later, the recipe is unchanged: do the architecture work, then dress it with care.
Composition is patient. Hurry it and you pay twice.
We accept a deliberately small number of new commissions each year — usually between fourteen and eighteen — so that the same two designers can stay with a project from the first studio coffee to the day the keys are handed over. That continuity is the difference between a house that feels designed and a house that feels assembled.
Every brief begins with a written record of how you live, not how the property listing imagines you live. Where the morning sun lands. Whether the children eat at the island or the dining table. Whether you cook with the windows open or the air conditioner on. We draw to that, not to a magazine.
See the services we offer →Fourteen years, kept quietly on the books
220+
Homes & spaces delivered
14
Years in practice
96%
Referral or repeat clients
18 mo
Aftercare window included
42
Trade partners we trust
5 yr
Optional retainer term
Six tenets we hold above the rest
Architecture before decoration
The cornice does not save the floor plan. We resolve the bones of a space — proportion, daylight, circulation — before we choose a single finish.
Honest materials, slowly chosen
Travertine, white oak, lime plaster, brushed brass: materials that earn a patina rather than fight it. We avoid finishes that look tired after two years.
Same designer, sketch to handover
You will not be handed off to a junior after the contract is signed. The hand that draws the plan is the hand that signs off the joinery.
Specifications priced line by line
Three tendered vendors per package. No hidden mark-ups on the trades. You see what the supplier sees, and our fee sits transparently on top.
A Friday log, every week
Photographs, the week’s decisions, the next week’s decisions — in your inbox by 5pm Friday. No need to chase, no need to wonder.
Eighteen months, not eighteen weeks
The first monsoon will find every joint that was hurried. We come back, we fix what moved, we close the file properly.
A studio of nine, on purpose
We have kept the studio deliberately small. A senior pair leads every commission, supported by two project leads, a draftsperson, a tender coordinator and an interiors stylist. Anyone you meet on day one will still be there at handover.
Adrian Choo
A contracts architect by training, a quiet diplomat by temperament. Reads tender documents the way other people read novels.
Liyana Mokhtar
Studied interiors in Glasgow, came home to Bukit Damansara. The studio’s instinct for materials and the keeper of its colour archive.
Hafiz Suhaimi
Eleven years on Malaysian construction sites. The reason the trades arrive on time and the Friday log lands at five.
Coffee at the atelier?
The studio sits above Plaza Damansara. There is parking, there is good coffee, and there are always samples to handle.
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