Enjoy My Book Club: Hello!

Greetings!

This is our first post about books and we're so excited to share our reading materials with all of you. We love books so much so we decided to make posts under Enjoy My Book Club label starting today. We hope it's gonna be fun book club!

Let's start with our first reading for few days ahead. We have Alive Through The Looking Glass. It's not our first book we read so far, but this book is a wonderful beginning to start the book club.

Today, we've been reading until page 70 and we're in love with the art detail inside the book. The imagination is so wonderful. the character is really beautiful. So far we've just met Tweedledum & Tweedledee, Red Queen at the beginning, talking flowers, Agas the mosquito who mentioned all the name of the insect inside the mirror world. Lewis Carroll really explain all the characters so deeply so we can imagine what they look like. What's gonna happen next? We hope we can finish the book soon so we can share with all of you about the review of the book.

That's it for today and welcome to our Enjoy My Book Club!
Thank you for reading!

Remember,
think interior design, think House of Smichi!

Art Journal: Art Therapy

Greetings!
This is our art of the day.

Have you ever heard an Art Therapy? According to Wikipedia.com, Art Therapy (or Arts Therapy) is a creative method of expression used as a therapeutic technique.
We use an Art Therapy to release a stressful feeling in a day. We can't say everyday always a happy day. Sometimes, we're also facing the gloomiest day too. And because we love art so much, an Art Therapy is really helpful. And whenever we can, we always make art projects to turn a gloomy day into a happy day.

Well, this is our art of the day. Enjoy!

#1
Paper Artwork: Tour de Kota Tua
This picture was taken couple weeks ago when we work for Style It Tuesday post on the Blog. Every picture means thousands word and memories. So we decided to take a memorable picture each day to remind us how to be grateful of life.

#2
Brush Lettering: Between Pigma and Koi Brush Pen
We are learning Brush Lettering with the two brush pen from Sakura, Pigma and Koi. Both have a different character of brush. Koi has a little bit more stiff than Pigma, while Pigma is more flexible like a real brush. So far I's rather choose Koi Brush Pen because it's more easily to control the thickness of the line.

Thank you for enjoying our art of the day! We'll see you again soon!

Remember,
think interior design, think House of Smichi!

Art Journal: Making Art With A Happy Heart

#1
Paper Artwork: The Museum Journey

Last week we got a chance to visit the old town, Kota Tua, Jakarta. It was a very happy and sunny day to walk through some museums. One of it is Bank Indonesia Museum in front of the Kota Train Station. It is a wonderful place to enjoy the economy history of Indonesia, from ancient history up to now. Make sure you bring your camera on (no tripod and selfie stick) because it's fun to take pictures in some beautiful spots (unfortunately we cannot take pictures in all around the area).

#2
Hand Lettering: Dance In The Rain

No matter how hard the wind blows.
No matter how pouring the rain is.
Just keep dancing in the rain.
Because I feel better when I'm dancing.

Thank you for enjoying our art of the day. We'll see you again soon!

Remember,
think interior design, think House of Smichi!

Style It Tuesday: Casual Style in Heritage Tour

Greetings!

House of Smichi is back with casual style while our interior stylist, Sherly Genoveva, collaborates with Malinda Tania.
Few weeks ago, we got a chance to explore the heritage site in Jakarta, Kota Tua. Well, it's a place which has many Art Deco style architecture since the colonialism.

Our outfit that day was denim mixed with the square pattern outfit. We hope you enjoy our outfit!

Location #1: Museum Bank Indonesia, Kota Tua, Jakarta
Outfit: personal-old-collection
Makeup: NO makeup

Museum Bank Indonesia (Indonesian Bank Museum) is located near the Kota Train Station. It is a very well-known if you want to know what happen to Indonesian economic since the ancient era, colonialism era, up to now. The building is very beautiful. It was built on 1828 by the Netherlands government.

Location #2: Batavia Cafe, Kota Tua, Jakarta
Outfit: personal-old-collection
Makeup: NO makeup

Batavia Cafe on the center of Kota Tua is a very lovely Indonesian restaurant for the foreigners who want to fell the taste of Indonesian foods. The place is really beautiful with colonialism that represents Batavia (now Jakarta) in old times.


Location #3: Museum of Fine Arts and Ceramics
Outfit: personal-old-collection
Makeup: NO makeup

Museum of Fine Arts and Ceramic is a very wonderful rustic style for some spots. It is well known place to learn about Indonesian pre-historic to nowadays art and ceramic. It's a very quiet place to enjoy all the Indonesian Art.

That's all for this week's style. We'll see you all again soon!
Thank you for reading the Blog!

Remember,
think interior design, think House of Smichi!

MondayFest: Quotes of the Week

Greetings!
This is art project for MondayFest!

"Life is a journey that gives you the liberty to draw your own map and choose your own route."

Paper artwork is one of our favorite art project for this MondayFest on House of Smichi. We play with the patterns, colors, and contour. Mostly we make art project for MondayFest as a reminder of a good quotes that can make your life more colorful and meaningful. Yet, we still learn to make a good one.

Thank you for reading our MondayFest! We'll see you all again soon!

Remember,
think interior design, think House of Smichi!

Art Journal: The Life I Live Today

Greetings!
I am not quite feeling well today. But it can't stop me from making daily art for today's art journal. Well, enjoy the gallery! :)

#1
Paper Artwork: Friend
We're not just a friend. We're best friend.
Paper Artwork is one of my favorite art project that can collect memorable moments.

#2
Hand Lettering: Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Just remember the song in this rainy afternoon. Still trying to practice my hand to write something beautiful.

#3
Newspaper Art: Optimistic
A word that I learn today is Optimistic.

op·ti·mis·tic

ˌäptəˈmistik 
adjective
Hopeful and confident about the future.

What we do today is for the future. And we can decide what future that will come to us.

Thank you for enjoying the art of the day!

Remember,
think interior design, think House of Smichi!

Weekend Projects: New York Style Two Bedrooms Apartment

Greetings!
House of Smichi is back this weekend to share with you our latest project. So, let's start with our latest apartment project.

This weekend we have a two bedrooms apartment project in Jakarta, Indonesia. A little information about the owner, she loves books and most important of all, she loves New York. Been living few years in New York when she was younger. So, she wants to bring back the memories she know about the wonderful city.

Well, she has a very wonderful layout for an apartment. Though the apartment is not too big for living, but the layout is very interesting with some cozy spots to enjoy the view of Jakarta city whenever she come home from work at night.

We've designed the living area first to be shared this weekend with you.
The living area is not too wide, but it has a longer area with a big window at the end of the area.

In this living area, she has a tall storage shelf to put nice books and any other office supplies. We designed the lower storage with mirrors so the place can look bigger than it should be. This is one of the trick for a small spaces: more mirrors!

And for the cozy window spot, we designed an area to enjoy the view while working, reading a book, or even just sit and relax. Since the owner loves greenery so much, we put some plants in pots to decorate the area. And one of the trademark of House of Smichi is we always put dramatic lighting in every potential spots. And she loves it!

And put the comfy sofa in front of the TV. It has no armrest at the right end, so she can sit while facing her list of books at the shelf. And this can give more rooms to open the lower storage at the shelf.

New York style is basically combinations of Industrial concept with chic style with a lot of decorations of art, like paintings, photography, and even sculpture. You can also put modern touch of furniture too, not always industrial.

Well, we think that's enough for Weekend Projects this time. We'll see you soon with our latest projects originally design and build by House of Smichi!
Thank you for reading!

Remember,
think interior design, think House of Smichi!

Cool Pins: Decor Your Entryway!

Greetings!
Welcome back into our top five ideas from the Pinterest!

Have you ever considered to make an area of entryway at your house or office? Entryway in a house is used to put a storage for shoes, coats (if you live in four seasons country), and any decoration materials, like mirror, small bench, fresh flowers, etc. Sometimes they put a place to hang keys.
This week we have five ideas to decor your entryway from the Pinterest. Well, enjoy!

 Decoholic

 Moira Sheehan

 Soffia Garðarsdóttir

FabArtDIY

Diane Saunders

We'll see you all again soon!
Thank you for reading!

Remember,
think interior design, think House of Smichi!

Style It Tuesday: Playground Style

Greetings!

There's always a child soul inside any of us. How we want to be a child sometimes and playing whatever we like to play. Like us! We found this cute playground in a high rise building while doing some interior design job, and why not to try it out and take some pictures. :D
Enjoy!

We'll see you all again soon with another pictures of our adventure in style.
Thank you for enjoying our style today!

Remember,
think interior design, think House of Smichi!

Art Journal: Random Art Making

Greetings!
This is House of Smichi's art of the day!

#1
Doodle: Lord Is My Shepard
Lately I've been so interested to Calligraphy and Brush Lettering so I learn all the things by my own from the Instagram and the tutorial from Youtube. Bought the Calligraphy pen and Brush pen earlier today and curious to try it out. And the result is... it's not that easy like they're showing on the Instagram. And this is my hundreds maybe of trying using the Calligraphy pen. Well, continue to learn! :)

#2
Paper Artwork: The Train Journey
Train in Jabodetabek has been my favorite public transportation. No more worries for traffic jam! I enjoy my time in the train, though the train sometime took a long way to go home, but I think it's OK.

#3
Newspaper Art: Love
Still in the mood of Valentine's Day I guess. :D

Thank you for enjoying the art of the day! See you again soon!

Remember,
think interior design, think House of Smichi!

Art Journal: Valentine's Day

Greetings!
Happy Valentine's Day! I hope you all enjoy all the love that you receive today and you can give love to others that needed too.

This is our Valentine's Day art of the day.
Enjoy!

#1
Paper Artwork: Valentine's Day Greetings
Four letters of a word make one simple phrase that will always make you remember me.

See you all again soon!
Thank you for enjoying our art of the day!

Remember,
think interior design, think House of Smichi!