Wednesday, January 15, 2014

How Did We Started In Interior Design?

How Did We Started?

I started in the Interior Design field specializing in design & built way back 1996 with a business partner operating from eateries stall for few months before we gradually rented a premise and start employing staffs. We found a premise in an industrial area with a rental of RM1,000.00 per month. Its a 1.5 storey building with manufacturing facility and a small office above it.

That gave us an idea of manufacturing our own designed custom made furniture thus we brainstormed and finally within a month we are set. Luck was on our side , we manage to source used machinery and hand tools from a close friend. With the appointment of a Chief carpenter who handles machinery and manpower finally we are ready to pump in more jobs which was outsourced previously.

Everything was really new to us , i am the only one who has an exposure to manufacturing from a previous work place therefore my partner has to really pick up things very quickly otherwise i will be working round the clock. We used to spend an average of 12-15 hours work daily from marketing , sales , awarding of tender to contractors , site supervision , ordering of raw materials for our factory , drafting and drawing and etc. We were young , energetic and managed to secured almost 100-150k job monthly for our factory and in no time we were looking for expansion and additional staff for ID works.

 
Posted photos on one of our finished work. A simple kitchen cabinet made of nyatoh plywood and hardwood carcase with melamine worktop. Finished with natural lacquer.
Wooden hardwood arch complete with nyatoh plwood and finished with natural lacquer.

Simple designed custom made wardrobe.