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Three commissions, told honestly

Every project teaches us something. Here are three recent ones — what the client asked for, what we built, and what we would tell you if you were planning something similar.

Heritage shophouse cafe in Muar furnished with custom timber tables and rattan chairs

Commercial · Muar, Johor · 9 weeks

The kopitiam that kept its bones

A young couple took over their grandfather's 1920s shophouse on Jalan Abdullah and wanted a café that felt inherited, not installed. The brief: nothing that would look wrong beside eighty-year-old floor tiles.

  • Fourteen merbau-top tables sized to the original floor tile grid
  • Twelve metres of banquette seating in commercial-grade olive fabric
  • Rattan-back chairs referencing the original kopitiam seating
  • Service counter clad in reclaimed shophouse timber

What we would tell you: heritage floors are never level. We fitted every table with concealed adjustable feet — ask for them if your floor is older than you are.

Mont Kiara condominium living room with custom sofa, coffee table and armchair

Residential · Mont Kiara, Kuala Lumpur · 7 weeks

Nine hundred square feet, nothing wasted

A couple moving from a landed house into a 900 sq ft unit needed full-size comfort in compact dimensions — and everything had to come up in a residents' lift measuring 2.1m diagonally.

  • A 2.5m sofa built in two sections that join invisibly on site
  • Dining table with rounded corners for the tight walkway
  • Media console with a lift-out section hiding the router and DVR
  • Armchair scaled down 8% from standard — the room reads bigger

What we would tell you: measure your lift and stairwell before you fall in love with a sofa. We design around the journey, but only if we know about it.

Corporate lobby in Johor Bahru with six-metre timber reception counter

Corporate · Johor Bahru · 11 weeks

A lobby that had to work by Monday

A plantation group's headquarters needed a new reception — six-metre counter, timber slat wall, bench seating — without closing the office for a single working day.

  • Counter built in three sections, joined and finished on site
  • Slat feature wall pre-assembled into panels for a two-day install
  • Bench seating upholstered in stain-guarded wool blend
  • Full installation completed across one weekend, Friday 6pm to Sunday 10pm

What we would tell you: modular construction costs slightly more in the workshop and saves a fortune in downtime. For working premises, it is almost always worth it.

Your space could be the next story

Homes, cafés, offices, clinics — if furniture goes in it, we can build for it. Tell us what you are planning.

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