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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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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Weekend Projects: Christmas in Your Bedroom

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Christmas is around the corner! Yeay! How's your Christmas decor going up?

Well, some of you might not have an enough space to put many decors. Maybe you just have a studio apartment of your own and you still want to make it a Christmas-y ambiance. So, here's my suggestions for you, prepare Christmas tree that suits your room well, a garland, and wreath. You can add Christmas socks if you like.

You can utilize your wall for the decorations. But make sure everything is on its size that fits your space.

And one more thing, don't be afraid to try darker and rare color to fill your space. Either it's for the floor or the wall paint or wallcovering. Make sure you choose one of the interior parts that I mention before to make your space looks nice and fresh for the next year. You can add a quirky wallcovering pattern like, tropical theme or cartoon as long as it fits your dominant color in the room.

And don't forget to always give another part a neutral color in white or light grey if you put dark colors. Just to make it a little bit lighter, not too heavy because of darker color overdose.

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

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Midweek Projects: Welcome!

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Sometimes a restaurant must have an entrance counter for keeping the menu books, placing the cash register, and also an introduction for the newcomers about the restaurant.

Welcoming desk must portray the whole restaurant in a compact way. The ambiance in the entrance reflects the food they served. The colors represents the ambiance you want to make inside your restaurant.

Bistro basically a small restaurant that is adopted from French small restaurant which served home-style cooking and slow-cooked foods. Although it's a small place to eat and drink, the serve the foods in modest setting in a moderately price for simple meals.

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Weekend Projects: Opening Soon Part 4

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This week finally we've finished most of the part of the on going project in Azra Hospital in Bogor.

✓ Mosaic tiles set and ready to be filled with grout.

✓ Wooden pallet is ready for coating.

✓ Concrete table is also ready for coating.

✓ Controlling the canopy performance in rainy day.

Next step is set all the iron works. What will it be like? We'll share it soon.

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Midweek Projects: Opening Soon Part 3

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I am so thankful that I've got this far for the project in Azra Hospital in Bogor. Although it's tiring and preoccupy my brain that much, but I am glad I can make it this far.

This week is finalizing all the works for couple weeks ahead. The polycarbonates roof is set and this time, we have the chance to do the surface finishing like concrete coating and set the hexagon mosaic tiles. Still have to fix here and there but most of the works are already done. I am so excited to see the result. As all designers would have known, making a 3D picture into real is very delightful. And I hope my clients are happy with the result.

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

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Weekend Projects: Coming Soon Project Part 2

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Today I will share the latest update from the construction site in Azra Hospital in Bogor. It's still on progress since  the weather seems not too friendly lately but don't worry it's all under control and safe.

This week we planned to finish the canopy part and all the details on the counter while the shape of the project is already formed. We choose the wooden pallet as the accent for the cold and masculine of concrete. Wood can make it more colorful and warm.

Just wait for the next update and the final result soon!

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Weekend Projects: Coming Soon Projects

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Lately I've been doing my latest projects for commercial space for my dearest friend. It's still on the progress and will be done soon. As soon as it finished, I will share with all of you for the result.

This time I have to make everything from zero. The client prepared only for outdoor location that can be designed beautifully. But since it's a public space full of sick people (read: hospital), we have to extra careful for all the elements we choose to build this. Plus safety for the workers is a must.

We combine four elements of materials: 👉concrete, 👉iron, 👉ceramic, and 👉wood in a Scandinavian style mixed with Industrial concept. The main concept is to make the place clean but also warm by the presents of the materials. Well, how's the result? Let's see it soon! We promise you it's something that will enjoy your eyes and of course will be fun.

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

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Midweek Projects: Office for Two

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I found myself drowning in inspiration of making a new design for House of Smichi's office. It all began when I was watching Mr. Kate's channel here. 

And then I was inspired to design a new office style for two, me and my partner.

Actually I run House of Smichi with my partner. But since he's the one with arranging the company from somewhere doesn't near the office, so I run House of Smichi alone. But it doesn't close the opportunity he will join here anytime soon.

And here is the design of the new House of Smichi's office. Separated with a glassboard divider, I made two areas. One for working area, one for meeting area with clients and brainstorming with our team.

In the working area, there are two desks that's separated by a big materials shelf in the middle. I made the design as comfort and cozy as I can so we can enjoy our most of the times here doing some interior projects.

And in the meeting area, we use a glassboard as a whiteboard to write something or draw something when are having meetings, either with the clients or brainstorming between the team. It attached in a ex-wooden pallet divider to separate the working area and meeting area.

I use the communal table when handle a meeting to add more spaces if we have meeting with the team. And we love to use a metal chair to add modern touch in the design.

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

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Weekend Projects: Inspired by the Autumn

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Sometimes surrounding nature can be our inspiration to create something. This time, autumn has been our biggest inspiration in designing interior. It contains so many beautiful orange-ish colors and some earth colors like beige, taupe, and even grey.

I paint the wall in grey. Basically I choose to applied the Scandinavian style since it fits in a small room because of its simplicity yet interesting components in the room. I choose to mix the grey, black & white composition, and Autumn colors as the accent to make the room warmer but still being reminded of Autumn.

In this living room I also put a tall book shelf to collect all the favorite books together and read them in a comfy L-shaped sofa. This sofa is only made for two because of the limited space. But you don't have to worry about the design of your sofa, there are many other options of sofas you can explore. You can put your classic sofa or a modern one, fabric covered or leather covered sofa in the room. 

To make more easy to read in the room, I put a table lamp on a end table between sofa and the book shelf. It gives more lights to read the book. And there's a Cinnamon aromatic candle besides the lamp so it can give a nice and cozy feelings filling the room.

I still put a coffee table in front of the sofa to put a cup of warm tea and some snacks while relaxing on the sofa. I make this room a special place to hideaway from outside world and drowning in books. Sometimes a me time alone is needed when there are too many things surround.

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.

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Weekend Projects: Dreamy Place for Daydreaming

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Sometimes most of us need a place, a hidden place, where we can put energy and our thoughts together. It can be anywhere in your home or your office. Make a good and comfort one can increase your productivity in work and even in life. Because everybody needs special time to stay away from outside matters.

Moroccan style has been our concern to make a comfort and special place to hide away. It can give you a dreamy place and serenity to keep you in peace. Moroccan style as a hideaway place can  be perfect with big sofa, pouffe to rest our feet, lanterns, and even the garden style of water fountain also can be inspired to make a perfect one.

This time we use blue color to fill the area. Blue defines a good energy surround us and giving calmness into your soul. Put some soothing music on and you are ready to be on your own. We put a pond surround the sofa area to make a soothing sound of the falling water from the fountain at the side of the sofa. Books also give you inspiration to improving yourself with good things. Or if you don't like reading that much, you can fill the shelf with all the good memory things.

Big window also good for your health. Because a warm and soft sunlight can in to your room and fill it with joy. Natural light can reduce the electricity use in the room, so you can save more from your bills.

Create a peaceful space is important especially if you are so confused about life's matters and need to think about everything only on your own. This hideaway place also can be your place to hangout and have chit chat with some good friends of yours.

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

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Weekend Projects: Cold Cafe to Cool Down

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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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Weekend Projects: Small Scandinavian Kitchen

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A clean kitchen is a must for health and the joy while cooking. So sometimes although some people have small space for kitchen, they always be reminded to have many compartments and storage to keep all the similar kitchen stuffs together and tidy.

We designed a small kitchen into a Scandinavian look with monochrome colors and red as the accent on the refrigerator and the rug at the small dining area. Because sometimes the room needs a contrast color to make it more fun. With more shelves to put the greenery inside the room and put all the jars together.

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Midweek Projects: My Bedroom, My Style Part 2

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Last Midweek Projects we have seen our latest bedroom project in one perspective. This time, we are sharing with you the area behind the bed.

Right behind the bed is the dresser for doing make up (for the lady, of course) and some additional storage to keep little things in stainless drawers. We designed the mirror behind the peacock painting to give a little quirky feelings yet make the space more functional. And we combined the white color with industrial style desk. It's not that wide enough desk, but it's enough to get some free space while the lady do her thing.

The area behind the bed is basically a walk in closet area. We don't put any divider between the bed and the walk in closet unless a curtain in both side, right and left to make the area get more privacy. This is the unique thing of our design.

Since the room is not spacious enough to build a big walk in closet, the area is still divided into two area for the man and the lady. The difference is, the lady has an area to hang long dresses she has, while the man has enough drawers to keep his things and also shared with the lady (since men are simpler that the ladies).

Between the lady and man area, there's a door that connects to the bathroom. And each area has its own personal full body size mirror and a colorful chair. And also each side has a big window to enjoy the outdoor area too.

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Midweek Projects: My Bedroom, My Style

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Well, sometimes the style of your bedroom at least tells a story about your personality. Either you are feminist, romantic, or quirky like the bedroom owner who request us to design a bedroom in a little bit out of the usual layout of a bedroom.

The owner wants an open walk in closet, have a big mirror, and separated side for her and him. So we made this special design based on the owner's personality.

It's a little bit quirky but still well-organized bedroom. Dominantly in white with a little touch of charcoal, turquoise, and yellow for the color accent. Since it's too much boring to play in one tone color, we decided to add more colorful from the outfits the owners' have and the painting as the main view of this room.

We put the bed as the center of the room and as a divider between sleeping area and the outfit  storage area. To add a little privacy, they can turn down the curtain to make the process of changing clothes more comfortable. Each side has a full body mirror.

Not only stopped here, we also add the touch of the blue and white in Moroccan style tiles as the border of the bed area. The color also match the main colors in this room. And we also made the bed board from concrete as the unity with the flooring material.

That's all for today. We'll see you all again soon with what's behind the bed exactly!

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Weekend Projects: Walk In Closet for Her and Him

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Have you ever wonder how to separate his clothes from her clothes? Well, somebody needs us to revamp their walk in closet and here we go like this.

For her:

For him:

They want to separate each other's clothes but still in one unity.

While for her is a little bit need more spaces for this and that with all of her various types of clothes, for him, just as simple as hanging or folded.

But their personal area is combined with a bench that has shoes rack for her and for him. This bench is functioned as a place to think what clothes they're going to wear that day (well, maybe. :D) and a seat to wear shoes, or just as a cozy spot to relax.

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

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Weekend Projects: Industrial Kitchen

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Somebody asks us to explore more of the Industrial concept and we accepted the challenge. She asks us to design her kitchen. It's a small kitchen in I line layout and open space into the dining area. So, here's our design! Enjoy!

We use stainless steel plates for the lower cabinet's doors to make a different impression and make the kitchen more masculine. For the back splash wall, we use a dark marble with a little bit brown and white colors in the pattern. We also represent the masculine side by using the dark charcoal color for the upper cabinet's doors. And for the improvisation, we create doors with wire for the upper cabinet's doors. For the handle, we use the copper plates to make a different sense and color to the kitchen. Of course, to balance all the materials and colors, we choose hanging shelves made of wood plank.

Thank you for the request for us to explore more about Industrial concept! I hope we'll make it better each time we're "cooking" the  design.

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Midweek Projects: Cook In Style In Your Kitchen Update

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This is the update from the last post of a stylish kitchen we have posted few weeks ago. Here are some captures of real kitchen when it's built inside a house of a friend in Bogor. Enjoy!

Well, the basic concept is based by the client's want. She want a home in tree concept house. So the basic colors must be wooden brown and green leaf. But since the space is not too spacious enough, we decided to combine the wooden texture with bronze mirror. The mirrors will give the space more spacious but still connect with the main concept. And they can make the room free from boredom.

As the accessories inside the cabinets, we only use the dish rack above the sink, forks and spoons storage in the drawer, and a waste bin below the sink. One thing interesting about the waste bin is you don't have to bow down if you want to throw the trash. Just open the lower cabinet's door and the waste bin will turn automatically to the side of the door. A simple tech can make life easier.

That's all for today, we'll see you all again soon!

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