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House makeover in KL

Published: Friday September 20, 2013 MYT 12:00:00 AM Updated: Friday September 20, 2013 MYT 8:36:52 AM
Converting old double-storey houses pays off for duo
 Business partners Jessica Lim and Tony Heneberry make up the partnership 2’s Company. Their business is transforming the conventional double-storey terrace houses that occupy some of the Klang Valley’s most desirable addresses into top-spec homes befitting their locations. For many of the Klang Valley’s housing estates, the conventional housing unit — the double-storey terrace house — dates back to the 1970s, 1980s or 1990s.

Stepping into many, they are dark and cramped, bearing no resemblance to swish new developments coming out from today’s “lifestyle” developers. Yet, many of these are located in some of the Klang Valley’s most desirable and dynamically-priced neighbourhoods, such as Bangsar, Damansara Heights, Taman Tun Dr Ismail, Sri Hartamas as well as Section 5 and 12, Petaling Jaya.

 Is it a surprise then that more and more of these homes, originally purchased by those born in the 1940s and 50s, are being bought by the following generation and done up to be modern, bright and stylish? ....Continue reading here or
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