From a quiet workshop in Kota Kinabalu, our cabinetmakers, upholsterers and finishers turn Malaysian timber, rattan and full-grain leather into pieces shaped around the way you actually live.
What we do
Turboniq is the kind of atelier you visit once, leave with sketches, and come back to months later to see something you described in your living room become an object on the floor. We design, prototype, build, finish, deliver and install every piece in-house — nothing is subcontracted offshore.
Most of our work is private commissions for homes in Sabah, Penang and the Klang Valley. We also fit out boutique hotels, restaurants and design-led offices when the brief calls for furniture that has to last a thousand sittings.
Collections
Modular sofas, sectionals and lounge seating shaped to your room and your routine.
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Solid-wood dining tables paired with sculptural chairs for everyday meals and long dinners alike.
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Hand-built bed frames with carved headboards, drawers and brass detail finished in your timber of choice.
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Wing-back chairs, reading chairs and tufted ottomans in linens, velvets and full-grain leather.
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Reception desks, banquettes and lobby seating for boutique hotels, restaurants and offices.
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Every commission moves through four unhurried stages. You will meet the person doing the carving, see the timber before it is cut, and approve the finish on a sample before we go anywhere near the final piece.
We spend an afternoon talking through the room, your routines, who sits where, and what light is in the space. We leave with measurements and rough sketches.
You receive scale drawings, material samples and a fixed quote within two weeks. We refine the design together until it is exactly the piece you imagined.
The piece is shaped by hand in our Kepayan workshop. You are welcome to visit during the build — many clients do.
Our own crew delivers and installs the piece in your home or venue, then walks you through care and maintenance so it lasts a generation.
Materials
We work mostly with FSC-certified merbau, chengal, white oak and walnut. Our rattan comes from a Borneo cooperative, our leather from tanneries in Kuala Lumpur, our brass hardware from a third-generation foundry in Selangor. When a piece needs an imported veneer we will tell you exactly why.
In their words
"The dining table is the centre of every dinner we host now. Friends ask where it's from. We tell them about the visit to the workshop in Kepayan, and they go quiet."— Lim Wei Han, Kota Kinabalu
"We commissioned eighteen lobby chairs, a reception desk and two banquettes for our boutique hotel. They arrived on time, finished better than we expected, and three years in they look like they did the day they came."— Pooja Subramaniam, owner, The Linnet House
Questions clients ask first
An armchair starts around RM 4,200 in linen with a hardwood frame. A six-seat dining table in solid merbau is usually RM 9,500 to RM 14,000 depending on dimensions and finish. We give you a fixed quote in writing before any timber is cut, and there are no change-order surprises.
Twelve weeks is typical from approved drawings to delivery. Larger fit-outs run sixteen to twenty weeks. We share a build schedule with milestone dates at the start, and we will tell you the moment anything looks like it might slip.
Yes — we encourage it. Visiting the workshop and walking the timber yard is part of why most clients come back for a second piece. If you can't make it to Sabah, we ship samples to anywhere in Malaysia.
We deliver and install across Malaysia. Peninsular Malaysia deliveries are handled by a partner logistics firm using climate-controlled trucks. International shipping is possible by sea freight — speak to us early so we can plan crating and timber documentation.
Every joinery joint, frame and structural element carries a ten-year guarantee. Upholstery cushions and fabric carry a three-year warranty against manufacturing defect. Wear from daily life is, of course, exactly what the pieces are made for.
Roughly a third of our work is commercial — boutique hotels, independent restaurants, design-led co-working studios. We can run a project of up to eighty matched pieces in a single brief and have completed two full hotel openings to date.
If it has good bones, almost always yes. We re-glue and re-tighten frames, replace springs and webbing, and re-upholster in your chosen fabric. We will be honest if a piece is past the point of sensible restoration.
Send us measurements, sketches, mood images — anything. We will reply within two working days with first questions and an honest sense of fit.
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