Fatt Interior
Renovation Cost Estimator, Malaysia 2026
Put a published market range around your renovation before anyone visits the site. Every rate in this tool comes from a named third-party Malaysian source, and none of it is our quotation.
Most renovation conversations start in the wrong place. A homeowner asks for a price, three companies answer with three numbers covering three different scopes, and nobody can compare them. This tool does the one thing that helps at that stage: it multiplies your own floor area and your own wall lengths by ranges that third-party Malaysian publishers have already put in print, and shows you the span you land in.
It is deliberately not a quotation engine. There is no email capture, nothing is sent to a server, and the number it produces is a range rather than a figure, because a range is the honest shape of an answer before anyone has measured a wall.
Where that puts you
Enter a built-up area to see a range.
Every rate in this tool is a third-party Malaysian market range with the publisher named and linked. They are market context, not a Fatt Interior quotation, and they are not our rate card.
How to use it
- 1
Get your real floor area
Take the built-up area from your sale and purchase agreement, or measure the rooms you are actually renovating and add them up. A whole-house rate applied to a whole-house area is the only version of this that means anything.
- 2
Measure the cabinet run
Walk the wall with a tape and record the length in feet, not the cabinet height or depth. Malaysian carpentry is priced per running foot, so a three-metre kitchen wall is about ten running feet regardless of how tall the units are.
- 3
Read the span, not the middle
The output is a range because the published sources are ranges. Treat the low end as a stripped specification and the high end as a heavy one, then ask what a real quotation puts in the middle and why.
The published ranges this tool uses
Nothing here is our price list. These are the figures the named publishers have put in print, reproduced without rounding or averaging so you can check them yourself.
| What it prices | Range | Unit | Published by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole-house renovation, all tiers | RM20 to RM150 | per sq ft | iProperty Malaysia, home renovation cost guide(2026) |
| Mid-range renovation | RM120 to RM200 | per sq ft | PropertyGuru Malaysia, Renovation House 2026 guide(2026) |
| Kitchen, whole room | RM10,000 to RM100,000 | for the whole item | PropertyGuru Malaysia, Renovation House 2026 guide(2026) |
| Bathroom, whole room | RM5,000 to RM50,000 | for the whole item | PropertyGuru Malaysia, Renovation House 2026 guide(2026) |
| Living room and bedrooms, including built-ins | RM10,000 to RM70,000 | for the whole item | PropertyGuru Malaysia, Renovation House 2026 guide(2026) |
| Exterior and landscaping | RM10,000 to RM100,000 | for the whole item | PropertyGuru Malaysia, Renovation House 2026 guide(2026) |
| Basic built-in furniture, per piece | RM3,000 to RM6,000 | for the whole item | PropertyGuru Malaysia, built-in furniture guide(2026) |
| Contingency to hold back | 10% to 20% | % of budget | PropertyGuru Malaysia, Renovation House 2026 guide(2026) |
| Melamine-faced cabinets | RM290 to RM600 | per running foot | AmpQuartz, kitchen cabinet price guide(2026) |
| Solid plywood cabinets | RM330 to RM600 | per running foot | AmpQuartz, Johor kitchen cabinet buyer guide(2026) |
| Aluminium cabinets | RM400 to RM700 | per running foot | AmpQuartz, kitchen cabinet price guide(2026) |
| Quartz countertop | RM70 to RM190 | per sq ft | AmpQuartz, quartz stone supplier page(2026) |
| Granite countertop | RM10 to RM500 | per sq ft | AmpQuartz, granite table top price guide(2026) |
How accurate is a market-range estimate?
It is accurate enough to tell you whether your budget and your scope are in the same neighbourhood, and not accurate enough to sign anything. The published ranges cover the whole country and every specification level, so the span is wide on purpose.
What narrows it is information a calculator cannot have: whether a wall is plumb, whether the floor level changed when someone re-tiled, whether the wet area moves, how many drawer stacks replace doors, and what the hardware is. Those are the same variables that make two quotations for the same kitchen differ by half again.
Why is the cabinet price per running foot?
Because that is how Malaysian carpentry has always been quoted: the length measured along the wall, regardless of how tall or how deep the unit is. It is a rough unit, and knowing that is useful, because it means a quotation per running foot tells you almost nothing about what is inside the box.
Two runs at the same rate can differ in carcass thickness, edge sealing, hinge quality, runner load rating and whether the back panel is a real panel or a sheet of hardboard. When you compare quotations, compare the specification line by line and treat the rate as the last thing you look at.
Should I hold money back for surprises?
Yes, and the published guidance says how much: the renovation guide cited below recommends setting aside a share of the total for costs nobody could see at the start. In an older house that is not pessimism, it is arithmetic, because what is behind a wall is unknown until the wall is open.
The usual surprises in Malaysian terrace houses are wiring that does not meet current practice, a leak that only shows once tiles come off, and a floor that has to be levelled before anything can be fitted square.
What these numbers are, plainly
Every rate in this tool is a third-party Malaysian market range with the publisher named and linked. They are market context, not a Fatt Interior quotation, and they are not our rate card.
The only price band this workshop has published for its own work is a kitchen renovation in Seremban at roughly RM15,000 to RM50,000, which depends on size, materials and how complex the design is. Anything more precise than that needs a site measure.
Questions about the estimator
- Is this a quotation?
- No. It is published market data multiplied by numbers you enter. A quotation comes after a site measure, and it will differ, because a measure knows things a calculator cannot.
- Do you store what I type?
- No. The calculation runs in your browser, there is no form submission, and nothing is sent to a server or written down anywhere.
- Why are the ranges so wide?
- Because the sources cover the whole country and every specification level, from a repaint to a gut renovation. A narrow range at this stage would be a false promise rather than a better estimate.
- Can I use this for a condominium?
- Yes, with one caution: high-rise work carries costs a per-square-foot rate does not capture, such as management deposits, permit paperwork, restricted working hours and lift bookings.
Want the version that knows your wall?
Send the room, a photograph and the measurements. You will get a scope and a figure from the workshop that would build it, not from a calculator.