Weekend Projects: Appliances Setting and Coffee Training

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I am still maintain my work at Azra Hospital in Bogor this January up to the opening in February. Make sure everything's set and proper for the opening.

Well, yesterday was my duty to accompany my client to set up all the appliances at the coffee kiosk. It was a fun day to know everything better and maintain new friendship, also got new experience and knowledge about coffee.

I am basically not a coffee person, but I have a huge interest on coffee things. Flavor, taste, and how to make a good one are challenging on coffee knowledge. All you need to know basically some theory that you have to swallow, but to make the best coffee, you have to do some trials and errors until you want to throw up the coffee.

Some coffee experts (read: baristas) from Labirin Coffee were coming to the place yesterday and told us many, many useful information about coffee making and coffee machine installment. Well, they are related to the coffee machine distributor so they were giving us coffee training on Saturday afternoon.

The thing is, when your project is done and the client love it so much, you will feel like grateful and so thankful that everything went well while in progress. Because what you designed on 3D illustration is becoming in real shape and form. It's like my own satisfaction.

That's all for today. We'll see you all again soon!

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Midweek Projects: Clean & Cozy For Hangout

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It's been Wednesday already and we have a request to design a clean and cozy place for hangout. So here's the design.

It's a Scandinavian style inspired cafe basically. Dominantly colored in white with grey and wooden texture accent in some part of the room. Most of the room is filled with wooden table top on brushed iron frame. The area is not big enough so we have to maximize the use of the room but still look light and not too crowded.

We still keep the bar area to make more seating area. This place is for everyone, although you want to hangout with some friends or just want to spend your time alone. This place is designed for you to be cozy and feel lighter.

If it's rainy day, there's a spot for you to put your umbrella and let it dry until you are ready to out of the cafe. And there's a newspaper and magazines stack that we put on a piece of iron everytime you need an update information about the world at the entrance.

We separate the customers' area and the employees' area with a door. We put a different color to make people notice about the changing room that not anyone can enter the area.

That's all for today. We'll see you all again soon!

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Weekend Projects: Cold Cafe to Cool Down

Greetings!

Today we're gonna play a little bit colorless or in the other words is monochromatic.

mon·o·chro·mat·ic

/ˌmänōkrəˈmadik/

adjective

1. containing or using only one color.

A cold ambiance bar sometimes needed when hot days attack. Whenever you need a cup of coffee in the middle of the day, you also need a cool color space to cooling down the heat. In this small cafe, we have to use bright color to make it more mild and easy, but also make it more simple when the things they need fill the small room. The lighter color brings light mood and coziness.

And while we're playing with the honeycomb shape for the tiles and mirror as the point of view of this cafe, we also add wooden color to make the room a bit warmer and not too cold.

That's all for today. We'll see you all again soon!

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Cool Places: Kafe Topi, Organic Cafe in Ubud

Greetings!
Here we are on today's post about Cool Places in the town. This time we are still talk about a cozy place in Ubud, Kafe Topi.

Kafe Topi is located in Nyuh Kuning St., Ubud, Bali, managed by Japanese owner on the next of Sopa Garden. It has a very unique design that is very organic, like the cafe offers for the foods and drinks. Kafe Topi offers not only for vegan but also for everybody. The menu is not as many as usual cafe. We tried the Chicken Gyouza here and taste nice. The service also fast, friendly, and great.

The dining area is made of bamboo that is built like a gazebo inside a garden. The roof is made of dried grass. Sometimes if you're lucky, you can see some cows running on the small path besides the cafe.

Kafe Topi is not big but offers a cozy place to spend the day. The place is separated into 3 areas: the kitchen, group dining area, and some seats at the bamboo gazebo. All the part of the cafe is surrounded by the garden.

That's all for today! We do hope you all enjoy the Cool Places list by House of Smichi. Thank you for reading!
To read the past posts about Cool Places, read here.

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Cool Places: Starbucks Coffee, Farmers Market, Bogor

Hey, everyone! Welcome to our FUN Thursday!
Here we are in another post about Cool Places we've met. This time is for a small Starbucks Coffee shop in Farmers' Market area, Bogor, West Java, Indonesia.

Starbucks is a very well-known coffee shop and cafe as a place to hangout, meet some friends, meeting with colleagues, or just doing personal work or group. One of the Starbucks stores is really near to our office and it's a small store but we adore this lovely place. 

Mostly, Starbucks store is designed in natural-industrial style. They have warm ambiance from wooden panel, exposed bricks, and soft lighting. But they also have a masculine style to represents the industrial style in darker colors, heavy furniture, and big windows.

And they have a room in glass roof and glass wall. Really looks cool when rainy days.

Look at the table's detail.

So, this Starbucks Coffee shop is really got our attention to its design. What do you think?
See you in another list of Cool Places only on House of Smichi. Of course it will be more cooler and funner. OK, we don't think that a word. But surely it will be FUN Thursday on House of Smichi! ❤

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