Versatile Refurbished Bungalow for Filming.
tl;dr
- Space
- Versatile Refurbished Bungalow for Filming is a 350 sqm (3,767 sq ft) basement level floor inside a mall in Setapak, Kuala Lumpur, for rent as a content studio, fashion showroom and event floor with white walls, wooden furniture and dense planting. Dressed sets shift between café, living room and bar inside a single booking.
- Best For
- Campaign and ecommerce photo shoots that need several backdrops in one crew day, video production and branded content shoots, wholesale appointments and buyer preview days in showroom format, press days and collection previews with barista hospitality, and creative workshops or networking events for a seated and standing audience. Available to book by the day.
- Standout Features
- Fitting rooms, retail counters and garment racks are already installed, with a lockable stock room for wardrobe and samples. Add a fixed lighting rig with sound and video equipment, a working kitchen plus specialty coffee and barista service, lift access for basement load in, on site parking for crew vehicles, and complete blackout with no daylight variables across a full shoot day. Vetted by Fashion Week Venues as move-in ready.
- Location
- Setapak, on the Jalan Genting Klang corridor, roughly 20 to 30 minutes by car from KLCC outside peak and longer after 6pm, with the nearest LRT stations in the Wangsa Maju and Danau Kota area reached by short drive rather than on foot, plus parking and lift access on site. The street runs on morning kopitiam trade and steady vehicle traffic then thins by mid afternoon, so brands hire here for quiet load in and a closed set rather than pavement visibility.
- Availability
- One day minimum rental at a published day rate of RM1,560 (approximately EUR 333), with multi day and week long holds quoted on a brief-based basis. We advise confirming 4 to 6 weeks ahead for standard shoot weeks and 8 to 10 weeks around Kuala Lumpur Fashion Week and the January to March Raya campaign production peak, when spaces at this address typically book out first.
- How to Book
- Request availability through Fashion Week Venues and we reply within 24h with date holds, a costed outline and a load in schedule, while permit paperwork, on site staffing and fit out coordination are handled by our team with no charge until confirmed. Enquire now to hold your dates.
about this space
Experience a unique refurbished bungalow, perfect for diverse filming needs. This space features a flexible layout that can be easily transformed to suit different settings, from a café atmosphere to a cozy living room or vibrant bar. The design incorporates clean white walls and wooden furnishings, creating an inviting environment enhanced by lush greenery. Enjoy additional amenities including specialty coffee and barista services, along with essential facilities such as air conditioning, high-speed internet, a security system, and sound and video equipment. The location offers various features such as fitting rooms, counters, and a kitchen, facilitating a comfortable experience for filmmakers and crews. Join us in this rejuvenating haven that fosters creativity and community in an inspiring setting.
what's included
- Internet
- Air Conditioning
- Security System
- Stock Room
- Counters
- Fitting Rooms
- Garment Rack
- Lighting
- Furniture
- Sound & Video Equipment
- Electricity
- Heating
- Parking
- Elevator
- Kitchen
- Wifi
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how to book this space
- 01
Check the shell and the dates
Review the gallery, 350 sqm floor plan and amenities for Versatile Refurbished Bungalow for Filming, then note the window you want in Kuala Lumpur. Fashion week dates book 6–10 weeks out.
- 02
Send the brief
Use the request panel on this page to send your dates, expected footfall and budget. The listed rate is a starting point at €334 per day.
- 03
Get availability and a quote
We confirm availability with the operator and come back within 24 hours with the all-in cost: rent, staffing, permits and fit-out for Kuala Lumpur.
- 04
Lock the contract
Sign the short-term licence, pay the deposit and we register any permit or signage paperwork the address needs.
- 05
Build and open
Fit-out, install and staff the pop-up. Our production team handles delivery, install and the strike at the end of the run in Kuala Lumpur.
activation ideas
E-commerce Shoot
This is the strongest use of the space, because 350 sqm of basement floor with a fixed lighting rig and no daylight means a set you light at 9am reads identically at 6pm and your product images stay consistent across a full catalogue run. Brands running high volume e-commerce shoots in spaces like this typically build three stations, one on white wall, one on the wooden café dressing and one in the living room setting, then rotate a crew of six to ten between them. In practice the installed fitting rooms and garment racks handle wardrobe flow without requiring a separate styling truck, and the lockable stock room takes overnight sample storage so a three day shoot needs one load-in only.
Campaign and Editorial Shoot
Works well for editorial shoot work because the café, living room and bar dressings give you three distinct narrative environments inside one day rate, which is rare at RM1,560. A campaign crew of twelve to twenty fits comfortably with room for hair and makeup at the counters, a client viewing corner and a catering base in the kitchen. What makes this work for editorial specifically is the neutral white and wood base with planted greenery, which takes styling and gels without fighting the frame. The constraint worth knowing is that there is no natural window light, so anyone briefing a sun-flare or daylight-interior look needs to budget for HMI or LED panels beyond the house rig.
Video Production
A credible video floor for the money, largely because the basement position gives you an acoustically isolated, blackout-capable set with no street noise bleeding into dialogue or interview audio. Sound and video equipment is on site, air conditioning covers the full 350 sqm so lights can run without the room climbing, and high-speed internet supports live client review from another city. Lift access and on-site parking mean grip and camera vehicles unload directly rather than staging on Jalan Genting Klang, and our production and build team can construct additional set walls over the existing shell where a brand film needs something beyond the three house dressings.
Content Creation Day
Well suited to a multi-creator content day, since three dressed environments in one 350 sqm floor lets six to twelve creators shoot simultaneously without appearing in each other's backgrounds. Brands running always-on social content here typically block a full day, assign each creator a set for a rotating ninety minute slot and use the barista service to keep talent on the floor between turns. The fitting rooms and garment racks handle look changes at pace, and the kitchen removes the usual mid-afternoon collapse when everyone leaves the building for food. Budget for a producer to run the rotation, otherwise three sets become one bottleneck.
Fashion Showroom and Buyer Appointments
Genuinely showroom-ready rather than showroom-adaptable, because fitting rooms, retail counters, garment racks and a secure stock room are already installed and need no build. For a wholesale appointment schedule we would plan two to four buyers on the floor at once, with rail walkthroughs on one side, an order desk at the counters and the café dressing handling hospitality between meetings. A full season hangs comfortably in the space with room to walk the rails, and multi-day holds avoid daily load-out because samples stay in the stock room under the venue security system. Compare the economics against a Kuala Lumpur central showroom before you commit and the gap usually funds buyer transport.
Collection Preview and Press Day
Adequate to strong as a press day venue, with the caveat that Setapak carries less address recognition than Bangsar or KLCC, so your invitation and transport plan has to do more work. Operationally the space handles it well: half the 350 sqm for the collection presentation and rails, the remainder for hospitality with the kitchen and barista service running throughout. We would schedule tight appointment windows for twenty to forty editors and stylists rather than an open house, arrange car transfers for key attendees, and use the fitting rooms for on-body shots. Our activation service covers the scheduling and attendee logistics that make this format land here.
Sample Sale
Works as an invite-led or ticketed sample sale space, not as a walk-in one, and that distinction should drive your whole plan. The retail infrastructure is already here: counters for checkout, fitting rooms, garment racks and a stock room for replenishment, which means the floor trades from day one with no fit-out spend. Basement positioning inside a mall structure delivers no pavement discovery, so treat the low day rate as your marketing budget and drive attendance through your own database. On-site parking matters more than usual for this format, since most buyers will arrive by car and leave carrying volume.
Product Launch and Brand Activation
A workable launch floor for an invite-only audience of eighty to a hundred and fifty standing, well inside the 360 occupancy estimate but far more comfortable than pushing the ceiling. The bar dressing plus working kitchen supports a full hospitality programme without a venue minimum spend, and the closed basement environment means an embargoed product stays unseen until the room opens. Brands running launches in spaces like this typically build a hero product moment in the living room setting, keep the café area for press interviews and use the counters for gifting. Staggering arrivals matters here because the Jalan Genting Klang corridor congests around 6pm.
Influencer Event
Strong for an influencer event because the three dressed environments mean forty to sixty guests all leave with visually distinct content rather than the same backdrop repeated across every feed. In practice the installed lighting rig covers phone and creator camera capture without additional hire, which removes the usual scramble for ring lights and portable panels. Fitting rooms let guests try and be photographed in product on the spot, and the barista service gives the room a reason to stay past the first hour. Attendance is entirely driven by your list and outreach, so pair the booking with influencer marketing if the guest roster is not already built.
Creative Workshop and Masterclass
Suits a seated workshop or masterclass for twenty five to sixty participants, with the café dressing giving a naturally informal teaching layout and the counters working as demonstration surfaces. Sound and video equipment on site handles amplification and live capture for anyone recording the session for later distribution, and the kitchen covers refreshment breaks without external catering. Air conditioning across the full floor matters for a three hour session in Kuala Lumpur. The honest note is that the space reads intimate rather than institutional, so it favours hands-on sessions over lecture-style formats with a large passive audience.
Networking Event
Handles an industry networking evening for sixty to a hundred and twenty guests, with the bar dressing and kitchen doing the hospitality work and the flexible layout allowing conversation zones rather than one undifferentiated room. Parking on site is the practical decider for this format in Setapak, since most guests drive and the nearest LRT stations sit a short drive away rather than a walk. Plan arrivals from 7.30pm to sit behind the evening traffic peak. Teams weighing this against a central Kuala Lumpur venue usually find the saving covers catering outright, and you can sense-check that in the budget calculator before enquiring.
use cases
location
what's around
9 places within 600 m, incl. Telekom Malaysia, Yamaha, Honda
brands nearby
- restaurants & bars
- 3
- other retail
- 6
- TMpoint130 m
- Doktor Cermin340 m
- Restoran Setapak Teochew360 m
- Yamaha420 m
- Iktikadraya430 m
- Honda BigWing Setapak430 m
the neighbourhood
Production crews, modest fashion labels, halal beauty brands and independent F&B operators are the working population around Setapak and the Jalan Genting Klang corridor, and they treat this district as a workshop rather than a shop window. Walk it on a weekday and you see grip vans double parked outside shoplots, photographers loading rails into service lifts, small ateliers running batches of fifty pieces above hardware and optical retailers such as Doktor Cermin, and student crews from the creative faculties out towards Danau Kota and Wangsa Maju picking up second unit work. The commercial spine near TMpoint, Honda BigWing and the Proton showroom is functional rather than decorative, and that is exactly the point: fabricators, signage printers, prop hire, tailors and caterers all sit inside a fifteen minute drive. In our experience placing brands in this neighbourhood, a team planning a shoot week or a production and build schedule rarely needs to source anything from outside the district, which shortens timelines more than a central address ever does.
Cost per square metre is the honest reason brands take space here rather than in Bukit Bintang, Bangsar, Publika or the TRX and KLCC blocks. A 350 sqm floorplate at this day rate costs a fraction of comparable area on Jalan Bukit Bintang, and across a multi day press day, sample sale space or rolling content shoot that gap typically funds the entire build. The trade is real and worth stating plainly: Bangsar and Damansara Heights carry address recognition that international press and buyers respond to instinctively, and Setapak does not. What you gain instead is floor area, on site parking, secure storage and a basement footprint you can black out and reset three times in a day without anyone watching the clock. Reckon on twenty to thirty minutes by car from the city centre outside peak, considerably longer along Jalan Genting Klang after 6pm, so stagger guest arrivals. Teams weighing this against a central alternative usually settle the argument inside ten minutes with our budget calculator, particularly when the format is invite only and everyone is arriving by car regardless.
Arrival here is straightforward and unceremonious, which is precisely what a closed set needs. Motorbike traffic and kopitiam trade dominate the mornings, with Restoran Setapak Teochew and the food stalls south of the block busy through lunch, then the pavement thins noticeably by mid afternoon and load in becomes easy. The side streets behind the main corridor are residential and light commercial, quiet after 8pm, with none of the pedestrian congestion that complicates a central KL get-in. Being on a basement level in a mall structure gives you lift access, overnight wardrobe storage and no daylight variables to fight, which is why the café, living room and bar dressings hold consistently across a full shoot day. The street dynamic works particularly well for crews who value privacy over prominence, and what we consistently hear from brand teams who activate here is that parking and uninterrupted control matter more than the postcode. The honest limitation: this is not a location for walk-in retail, tourist footfall or shopfront visibility, and if being seen from the pavement is central to your brief you should browse all spaces in the central retail zones instead.
getting here & street life
nearest transit
- SRJK (C) Chung Hwabus · KL692367 m · 5 min
- Guan Ying Ting (Opp)bus · KL691399 m · 5 min
- Wisma Lotusbus · KL672409 m · 5 min
- Guan Ying Tingbus · KL673445 m · 6 min
- Titiwangsa (Barat)bus · KL670615 m · 8 min
- SMK Bandar Baru Sentulbus · KL650702 m · 9 min
street activity
quiet street.
1 places within 200 m · 6 stores · 3 cafés and restaurants
- within 200 m
- 1
- within 400 m
- 3
- within 600 m
- 8
the neighbourhood
Titiwangsa is one of the main areas located on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Kuala Lumpur General Hospital is located south of Titiwangsa. The current member of parliament for Titiwangsa is Johari Abdul Ghani from Barisan Nasional-UMNO.
- Titiwangsa Lake Park · 774 m
frequently asked
Yes, this 350 sqm basement floor in Setapak is available for pop-up shops, and it already carries the fixtures most temporary retail formats need. Fitting rooms, retail counters, garment racks and a lockable stock room are installed, so your team can move from empty floor to trading set-up without a full fit-out. The honest caveat we give every brand is that a basement level inside a mall structure on the Jalan Genting Klang corridor does not generate pavement discovery, so this works best as an invite-led sample sale, a members drop or a ticketed pop-up shop with an audience you drive yourself. Brands running that format in this type of space typically find the saving against a Bukit Bintang floorplate funds the marketing spend that brings people through the door. If your commercial case depends on walk-in traffic, tell us in your enquiry and we will point you to alternatives.
who it suits
Brand Scale
This space fits a brand with a 4 to 25 person team, roughly 2 to 8 years of trading, and an existing DTC or regional wholesale base that needs volume content and controlled events rather than street-level walk-in sales. At 350 sqm across a basement level in a Setapak mall setting, the value here is production capacity, not exposure. You get fitting rooms, counters, garment racks, a stock room, kitchen, lighting and sound and video equipment already in place, which means a lean team can shoot a full season of lookbook, ecommerce and campaign content without renting a separate content studio and a separate showroom. In our experience the profile that gets the most from this space is a brand producing 3 to 6 collection drops a year with an in-house or freelance content lead. Where we see mismatches is when a young label with one drop a year books 350 sqm and fills a third of it, or when a global house wants a public-facing flagship moment and finds a basement floor plate with no shopfront presence works against them. Brands needing footfall-led retail should compare alternatives across browse all spaces before committing here.
Aesthetic Fit
Clean white walls, wooden furnishings and lush greenery make this a natural home for contemporary casualwear, modest fashion, lifestyle and wellness labels, minimal jewellery, skincare and independent footwear. The refurbished bungalow treatment reads warm and neutral, so product photographs cleanly against it and the space can be dressed as a café, a living room or a bar within the same booking. That flexibility suits brands whose visual identity leans soft, earthy, editorial and daylight-toned even though the floor is below ground, because the fixed lighting rig carries the look. What does not work here is high-gloss luxury with a hard architectural signature, heritage houses that need cornicing and period scale, or streetwear brands built on raw concrete, industrial volume and graffiti-scale wall art. Those identities fight the wood and greenery rather than sit inside it. If your brand world needs a purpose-built environment rather than a dressed one, our branded store design team can build over the shell instead.
Best Use Cases
First choice is campaign and ecommerce photo shoots, because the transformable café, living room and bar sets plus on-site lighting, fitting rooms and garment racks let one crew shoot multiple looks and multiple backdrops in a single day. Second is video production and branded content, supported by sound and video equipment, air conditioning, high-speed internet and parking for crew load-in. Third is a wholesale showroom and collection preview, where counters, fitting rooms and a stock room handle buyer appointments and rail management properly. Fourth is a press day, with the barista service and kitchen doing real work on hospitality and dwell time. Fifth is a creative workshop or brand community session, given the 360 person occupancy estimate and flexible layout. Sixth is a networking or corporate event, which the bar setting and kitchen support well. Seventh is a sample sale or short-run pop-up shop, ranked last only because basement mall positioning limits passing trade, though a booked audience solves that quickly with influencer marketing driving attendance.
Budget Signal
This sits in the accessible mid tier for Kuala Lumpur and well below what an equivalent 350 sqm space would cost in Bukit Bintang, KLCC or Bangsar. The value case is straightforward: the equipment, furniture, fitting rooms, kitchen and barista service are included rather than line-itemed, so the effective cost per shoot day or per event lands materially lower than a bare white-box short-term commercial space where you would add furniture rental, lighting hire and catering on top. Compared with a hotel function room you get full styling control and no minimum spend on food and beverage. Compared with a co-working event room you get four times the floor area and genuine retail fixtures. Compared with a shared pop-up format you get exclusivity of the whole space. Brands at this stage typically find the trade-off is location prestige, not production quality, and if a prime address matters more than square metres you should be looking at a different tier of listing entirely.
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