{"id":43760,"date":"2025-08-04T04:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T04:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43760\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T04:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T04:15:13","slug":"home-tour-modern-villa-design-with-6-bedrooms-in-bidor-perak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43760\/","title":{"rendered":"Home tour: Modern villa design with 6 bedrooms in Bidor, Perak"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n DAA Design Associates creates a 6-bedroom Perak villa that prioritises spatial separation over open-plan living, using natural materials and careful zoning for entertaining and privacy\n <\/p>\n

When a high school classmate<\/a> of Ken Tiu, managing director and design director at DAA Design Associates, reached out after years of silence, the conversation quickly turned to an intriguing project<\/a>. The businessman had acquired an empty plot in Bido<\/a>r, Perak, and wanted to build a house from scratch\u2014a proposition that immediately captured the architect\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n

The 3,836-sq-ft villa<\/a> that emerged reflects the conviction that houses should acknowledge how families actually live.\u00a0 Instead of a fashionable open-plan living space, he divided the ground floor into discrete zones<\/a>: a guest lounge separate from the family\u2019s daily area, an office for complete privacy, and a wine room that began as storage but evolved into something more ambitious.<\/p>\n

Read more: Home tour: A majestic Gothic Revival castle in California inspired by \u2018Game of Thrones\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAA Design Associates creates a 6-bedroom Perak villa that prioritises spatial separation over open-plan living, using natural materials…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[30974,30956,30994,30959,76,354,355,30916,30986,30971,49,48,30960,30940,30917,30980,30919,30979,356,30945,30983,30963,30915,30948,30968,30931,75,30951,30987,30962,30978,30926,30997,30993,30952,30939,30976,30977,30925,31000,30970,30946,30953,30965,30998,30911,30988,30966,30981,30990,30999,30942,30949,30920,30950,29646,30941,30912,30935,30944,30996,30929,30930,30921,30909,30928,30995,30913,30982,30910,30989,30991,30943,30958,30954,30927,30964,30969,30967,30985,30973,30955,30938,30918,30937,30992,30922,30972,30932,30984,30923,30936,30961,30975,30947,30957,30924,30934,30933,30914],"class_list":["post-43760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-3836-square-feet","tag-adaptive-use-spaces","tag-architectural-moments","tag-architectural-restraint","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-bidor-house-design","tag-brand-new-build","tag-businessman-client","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-careful-planning","tag-circulation-design","tag-contemporary-malaysian-villa","tag-custom-wine-room","tag-daa-design-associates","tag-dedicated-office","tag-design","tag-detailing-standards","tag-dining-area-design","tag-domestic-architecture-malaysia","tag-eco-certified-wood","tag-eco-friendly-materials","tag-empty-plot-development","tag-energy-efficient-home","tag-entertainment","tag-entertainment-spaces","tag-extensive-renovation-alternative","tag-family-life-design","tag-family-living","tag-family-lounge","tag-finish-coordination","tag-fluid-movement","tag-gathering-spaces","tag-ground-floor-layout","tag-ground-floor-zoning","tag-guest-entertaining","tag-guest-lounge","tag-harmonious-transitions","tag-high-school-reunion-project","tag-installation-methods","tag-intimate-family-spaces","tag-johor-bahru-architecture","tag-joint-consideration","tag-ken-tiu-architect","tag-key-features-design","tag-kuala-lumpur-design","tag-landscaped-garden","tag-layout-planning","tag-line-consideration","tag-local-contractors-malaysia","tag-longevity-design","tag-luxury-villa-malaysia","tag-maintenance-considerations","tag-malaysian-architect","tag-malaysian-climate-architecture","tag-malaysian-home-tour","tag-marble-coordination","tag-material-junctions","tag-material-pairing","tag-material-transitions","tag-matte-finishes","tag-modern-house-perak","tag-modern-villa-design-malaysia","tag-natural-light-architecture","tag-natural-lighting","tag-natural-stone-interiors","tag-open-concept-living","tag-perak-architecture","tag-pool-consideration","tag-pool-extension","tag-precision-construction","tag-primary-residence-conversion","tag-privacy-design","tag-private-office-design","tag-residential-projects-malaysia","tag-scratch-build-house","tag-selangor-residential","tag-separate-living-areas","tag-six-bedroom-villa","tag-sociability-architecture","tag-social-connection-design","tag-sophisticated-interior-design","tag-spatial-clarity","tag-spatial-experience","tag-stone-flooring-malaysia","tag-successful-entrepreneur","tag-sustainable-architecture-malaysia","tag-thoughtful-layout","tag-timber-flooring","tag-understated-luxury","tag-unpredictable-rhythms","tag-upper-level-bedrooms","tag-weather-resistance-materials","tag-weekend-retreat-design","tag-wine-room-design","tag-wood-plastic-composite","tag-wpc-ceiling","tag-zoned-living-spaces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}