How a proposal is actually developed.
One representative terrace kitchen, from the condition it was found in to the specification a contractor can price. Three layouts are tested and scored against the brief — and the two that are rejected are shown with the reasons, because that is the part a finished render can never argue.
Before any design, the existing condition is recorded — including the parts nobody wants to look at.
The real existing condition
The room measured and photographed as found — not styled.
What is actually wrong
Damage, damp and failure marked on the photograph itself.
Retain · repair · upgrade · replace
Not everything has to go. This decides what your money touches.
How you use the room, where water already is, and where the services already run — the facts a layout has to obey.
What you need the room to do
Cooking pattern, storage, who uses it and when.
Where the moisture is
Dry, semi-wet and wet zones decide the material, not taste.
Where the services already run
Existing power, water and drainage — moving them is a cost.
Three layouts are drawn on the same measured shell and scored against the brief. Two are rejected in writing — the reasons are part of the proposal, not hidden.
Option A
Straight run.
Option B
L-shape.
Option C
Galley.
Why two were rejected
Eleven criteria, scored side by side — selection is not visual preference.
The layout that advances
Resolved with real clearances, not just a shape.
Materials by zone, appliances and storage, services coordinated — then the same room shown at each spec level, so the price difference is visible rather than described.
Material by wet and dry zone
The substrate follows the moisture map above.
Appliance and storage zoning
Decided before the cabinet drawing, not after.
Services coordinated
Power, water and extraction against the chosen layout.
The approved palette
Finishes fixed, so what is quoted is what is built.
The same room · Essential
The spec ladder shown on one room, so the difference is visible.
The same room · Signature
What changes when the specification steps up.
The same room · Bespoke
The upper end of the same decision, not a different room.
Elevation and specification
The drawing a contractor can price against.
Final scope composition
What the scope is made of — where the work sits, package by package.
This sequence is a representative study, not a completed project: the room, dimensions and options are worked as a teaching example so the method is visible without exposing a client's home. On your project the same steps run against your measured room — and appliance models, service capacities and final clearances are verified before anything is produced.
Your renovation, presented as one clear plan
Before any work begins, ELS turns your choices into a single proposal you can read in five minutes — the design direction, your spaces, exactly what's included, an indicative investment, and one clear way to start.
Direction
The design language matched to your home and how you live.
See it
Concept studies in your direction — so it's not left to imagination.
Spaces & finishes
Your rooms, wall colour, ceiling and hardware, captured in one place.
What's included
The exact scope — what ELS coordinates and what ALUMAX supplies.
Investment
An indicative planning band from your brief — never a surprise.
Commit
One clear next step — a deposit reserves the project and starts the work.
This is how yours will read
A sample built from a real ELS style — your proposal is prepared from your own brief, with your spaces, renders and figures.
Warm Wood Modern
An example of how ELS turns your decisions into one clear plan — direction, spaces, scope and next steps.
Warm Wood Modern
Warm, practical and contemporary.
Warm timber reads as calm rather than cold, which matters in a house that is lit for twelve hours of flat equatorial daylight. Because the palette sits in the middle of the tonal range, it hides the two things Sarawak homes actually show: fine dust on horizontal surfaces, and the slight colour shift every timber finish suffers near a west-facing window. It is the most forgiving of the ELS styles over a ten-year life.
Concept studies in your direction — reference for the look, not your final design.
- Kitchen
- Living / TV wall
- Master wardrobe
- Lighting
- Ventilation
- Waterproofing
Recommended tier: Signature
Indicative planning band, NOT a quotation. Your firm figure follows a site measurement and confirmed scope.
50%
A deposit reserves your project
A 50% deposit confirms this direction and releases the full renders, working drawings, procurement and site works.
- DepositConfirms the direction — full renders + working drawings begin.
- ProcurementMaterials and specialist trades are scheduled to your plan.
- WorksCoordinated on site, with progress you can see.
- Sign-offYou review and approve as it completes.
After sign-off, the first 2 major changes are included; a variation-order fee of RM500 applies from the 3rd major change.
Ready to see yours?
Answer a few questions and ELS will prepare a proposal like this from your own brief.