Art Journal: Thank You!

Greetings!

Have you've been thankful for today?

Sometimes we forget to say thank you for those who helped us. Sometimes a simple word like thank you can make someone happy, although what they did is not that important. Sometimes thank you also means you're satisfied with what you have now.

Let's be kind one another.

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

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think interior design, think House of Smichi!

Daily Pictures: The View

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Today I was at the Azra Hospital to check out the progress of maintaining the roof.

This is the view from the front corner and I am so happy to see this result. The Bougainvillea flowers coloring the color palette perfectly. And the greenery makes the coffee kiosk fresh. It's still in the progress to complete the view of the coffee kiosk.

As a designer, I am beyond happy because my 2D pictures became reality. The hardwork has became a wonderful presents at the beginning of this year. Plus, I can get more experience to do something different and sharpen my brain, especially the part of creativity and logic. Yes, sometimes making a project needs logic too! It's important.

I can't wait to see the whole picture of this coffee kiosk at February when all the activities begin.

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

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think interior design, think House of Smichi!

Enjoy My Book Club: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

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Let's start the year with fresh new way decluttering your life, start from your house!

This book is really inspired me to declutter all the things in my house. Start from clothes, books, papers, and all the small things inside the house. Somehow, in a tidy house, our life will be better too since all the trashes are gone.

I am trying to do this KonMari method for this year after reading this golden book of decluttering. She said, all the same things live in the same place. And to declutter the house, always start from clothes, then books, papers, then the last thing is small things inside your house. It's an effective way to decultter your house faster and efficiently.

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

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think interior design, think House of Smichi!

Daily Pictures: New Perspective

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This time I get a chance to learn something new which a little bit out of my knowledge. It's about hospital and healthcare facilities.

Although I learned many things in college, but just a little of the knowledge I got that I can use in this working time.  I only got the basics for interior designer at school. But now, facing the real world, interior designers must learn new things by themselves. And sometimes they got from learning by doing. In college not everyone got everything to learn. Like this time, I get a chance to improve a hospital to be better.

Hospital is one of the subject I tried to avoid in college since it's harder than any public buildings and areas, it also has so many rules in every elements inside the project. Well, I did hospitality project for my last semester project. But since my friends mostly from Medicine faculty, I was kinda getting more interest for healthcare world. And this time, I have a real job to do a better healthcare facility.

So, to improve my knowledge about hospital and healthcare facility and systems, I went to Universitas Indonesia's library to satisfy my thirst of knowledge about hospital and healthcare. It was a very fun journey between my awkward moments in a new place, but I think I could got through it successfully.

I choose the book Building Type Basics for Healthcare Facilities and Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design.  I hope by reading these books, I can get what I need to design a better healthcare facility.

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

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think interior design, think House of Smichi!

Art Journal: Daydreaming

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Sometime all you have to do is daydreaming and make it happen.

Well, I guess daydreaming isn't all bad like that. Sometimes, you'll get much ideas in your daydreaming activity. But make sure you do all the ideas come true.

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MondayFest: It's Rainy Day!

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Since we have an internet connection problem yesterday here, so I could post MondayFest now. But no worries, the connection's already in control now.

Let's start the fun!

These past few days the weather was acting so weird all day. 5 mins was sunny and 5 mins later it's raining then sunny then gloomy again. Well, they said here because of the Chinese New Year that will be happened on January 28. It's a belief in my hometown that before the Chinese New Year, it will raining all day. Then after that, the sun comes out.

Apart from the belief, I feel so alive when rainy day has come. It gives me strength to do more and create more. Well, somehow they call this Pluviophile, a lover of the rain; someone who feels joy and peace of mind during rainy days.

Believe it or not, somehow when the weather is gloomy or raining, I will wake up earlier and I don't know where and why, I will get the strength to do difficult things that day and be more creative during rainy days. It feels so energizing.

Then when people mostly face some trouble on rainy days, I feel like I am gonna dancing in the rain. It's fun!

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

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think interior design, think House of Smichi!

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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MondayFest: With Love

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This week I have a special order from a girl for her birthday boy.

Happy birthday!

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Art Journal: Love is All You Need

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This time, I try to do a brush lettering in my own style.

It's kinda hard to do brush lettering actually. I think I'd prefer to do my own typography style. I do my style with all kinds of Sakura decorative pens: Stardust, Aqualip, and Metallic pens for dark color papers. And mix media with Faber Castell's connector pens and some Snowman Drawing Pens in various tip point. For the paper I choose sketch paper, black paper, brown paper, and watercolor paper. It's fun to mix media and try all the various art supplies.

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

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Art Journal: Hello! It's Me

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This is my Art Journal of the day with another doodle.

I love making doodles. Doodles can calm my mind and sharpen my creativity. Sometimes people would like say doodling dries your ink fast. But for me, doodles fill my brain with happiness and joy.

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

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Remember,

think interior design, think House of Smichi!

Enjoy My Book Club: First Term at Malory Towers

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This is my first reading list for 2017.

It's always fun to read all Enid Blyton books. First time read this book series when I was in elementary school. This series is all about girls school named Malory Towers. It's a boarding school which located near the sea and has four towers that named from the four cardinal directions: north tower, south tower, east tower, and west tower.

Although the books are related each other, but you can read them randomly. But since I am a bit OCD in organizing things, that everything must start from the very beginning, I choose to read the series volume by volume from the beginning of the story.

All the scene in this book is around year 1940's. When no students bring phones to school, no internet, and everything going on there was old school but I found it fun. The book tells us story from the main role like Darrel Rivers, Sally Hope, Alicia Johns, Mary-Lou, and Gwendoline Mary Lacey. Each role has different characters that made this book so rich and interesting to read. This book tells us about their first term in Malory Towers school. How Darrel, Sally, and Gwendoline faced their first time in Malory Towers, and all the adventure they have around the first term.

I think Enid Blyton was an adventure lover since all of her books are full of adventure stories. And all of them are fun to read!

Well, if you like to read books in 1940's style and school life, I recommend you to read this series.

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

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Art Journal: Happy New Year 2017!

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Happy new year 2017! 🎆 😃  🎇

It's been a while since our last Art Journal post. It's the first month of the new year but not the first time of the month since I was taking my day offs and kinda enjoy life while making some working plans for this year.

They say January is a right time to start something good, so I want to make this year better than before so I will start this year with positive vibes. Having faith that many good things happen this year and more blessings we receive each day. Well, I guess it's not the new you, but the better you. Starting today, let's spread love and positive vibes, and make the world a better living.

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

Thank you for reading!

Remember,

think interior design, think House of Smichi!