Short essays on the things we think about between sanding and stuffing. Material choices, joinery decisions, and how furniture earns its keep in a Malaysian home.
Malaysian indoor humidity sits around 65–80% for most of the year. Choose kiln-dried timber wrong and your dining table will cup within eighteen months. Here is how we pick the boards.
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Most sofa returns happen because of one of five missed measurements. We've fielded enough of them to write a short checklist that takes ten minutes and saves a weekend.
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Caning fell out of fashion. Then it came back. We never stopped using it because in a tropical climate it does something no upholstery can: it breathes.
Read the pieceWrite in — we sometimes turn good questions into journal entries. Always with permission.