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.

We'll see you all again soon!

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Weekend Projects: When Dark Meets Bronze Kitchen

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Here we are with today's Weekend Projects on House of Smichi.

Today we are sharing with you our latest work in interior design: kitchen design. The owner loves to expose the existing material, red bricks, and he loves something shiny and reflective materials like bronze, to be combined with darker color, like charcoal grey.

So we made an Industrial style concept to meet the owner's likes and what he needs. Dark colors, grey, meets bronze to balance the shiny and reflective material to make it a little bit luxurious look.

As the aesthetic aspect of the room, we decided to play with some woods. The old wood look as the kitchen hanging shelves as his seasoning jars storage, and some recycle wooden crate to make a book shelf for his collection.

Since the owner don't have much spaces and he loves cooking that much, we designed the kitchen big enough to prepare the foods with enough natural lighting and big windows as the representation of Industrial concept, besides the bricks exposed.

And he loves to spend his times at the kitchen, working on things, reading books, and even hangout with some friends at home. Or just enjoying the garden view at the backyard of his house from the simple and small dining area with big windows.

And we really love the mason jar lamp to be placed at the top of the dining area. The lamps give the area a lighter space at night and while reading books that he loves.

Well, that's all for Weekend Projects on House of Smichi. We'll see you all again soon!

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And if you missed the last Weekend Projects, you can check them out here.

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Weekend Projects: New York Style Two Bedrooms Apartment

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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!
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Weekend Projects: Industrial Modern Bedroom Design

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It's been a while since our last post. We are back again with this week's Weekend Projects from our latest interior project in Bogor, Indonesia.

The client loves modern sleek style match with Industrial look. Although it seems so contradicting each other, but we finally made one that can put the modern sleek and Industrial style at one place. Enjoy!

Below is the view everytime she open her bedroom door. A glam of the bags and shoes display shelf makes a mood booster for the bedroom owner. We added a little comfy bench at the end of the room so there's a little space to sit down and enjoy the room or just welcoming her friends into the bedroom.

Besides the display shelf is her vanity area. Big size mirror with frontal lighting, an organized shelf for her make up tools and stuffs, nail polishes collection display, and see through jewelry collections.

In front of her bed is the entertainment set cabinet. Where she can enjoy the movie, books, and many photos over here. She asked us to make a world map panel so she can put her photo collections from the travelling around the world.

Nest to her bed is the working desk area with a little scrapbook corner for placing the paper, ribbons organizing, and stuffs like stickers that can be hung at the hook we placed on the wall. The book shelf beside the desk is for her binder filing from work which she set up in rainbow colors.

For the bedside lamp, we make a little Industrial style as we use the Mason Jar lamp that we create on our own. And a little wall decor of black butterflies as the vocal point of the bed area.

That's all for this week's Weekend Projects! We'll see you around again soon!
P.S.: we'll be a little bit less posting this month as we have many interior projects in the short time. But we'll be here after a project is done.
Thank you for reading and season's greetings!

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Midweek Projects: Industrial Style Home Office & Kitchen Part 2

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Welcome back into the Part 2 of HoS design review this week in Midweek Projects. This time we are still review our recent projects: the Industrial style of home office and kitchen.

This time we will reveal the other side of the room.
While last post on Weekend Projects is talking about the part which aims to make beverages and wet area, and also the working area, well, this time we will talk about the cooking area.

>> We have 2 fridge here, the medium one and the large one. The medium one is for keeping the beverages and stuffs cool, while the large one is for keeping the foods cool. For what? We're trying to make everything's clean here.

>> And we separate two working tables as the cooker is in the middle of them. One side of the table is for preparing the foods before it cooked, while the other one is for preparing for the serving of the food. So, no more messy table mixed of oils, dirt, and stuffs.

>> The style is as the same like the other side, except we add mirror as the boundary of the cooking area and we add blank canvas to make an art on the blackboard.
The blackboard is one of the way to make an art because when you are bored hanging the same art every week or every month, you can erase it, and start to make a new one. But don't forget to memorize the old one, keep it, post it on the Instagram, or maybe sell it.

You can work happily if you make the kitchen your sanctuary and your comfort place to work on something. Well, if you do really have a limited space, maybe you can combine the function of two rooms.

We love to combine the kitchen with working area because we can easily grab beverages and foods when you have guests or clients, and we can show off the cooking skill to them. :D

That's all for Midweek Projects today, we'll see you soon with new fresh ideas of interior design inspirations originally made by House of Smichi.
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Weekend Projects: Industrial Style Home Office & Kitchen Part 1

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Welcome back into another episodes of Weekend Projects on House of Smichi!

This weekend, we have idea how to mix home office with the kitchen while you have a small spaces in home or you just feel kitchen as your sanctuary.

Working from home is really fun because you can control everything: the times, the money you spend, and of course the foods you want to cook. More healthy we guess. But here in Indonesia, working from home identically with freelance occupation, like us designers.

So, enjoy our idea!

Well, in the part one, we reveal the other side of the room. A book shelf, beverages maker table, wet area, and a medium size fridge to keep the cold beverages, and also enough lighting while you're working. This part of the kitchen here is for you to make drinks for the guests or clients that come into the house / office, or for yourself.

It's like you have a dining table/working table as the island at the kitchen. You can prepare the foods there while you can watch the "how to make Aglio E Olio Spaghetti while you're working on stuffs there.

One lucky thing when you have home office near your kitchen is you can bring your clients come and serve them like in restaurants. Don't forget to add big enough table if necessary. You'll need this table if there are more than 1 persons, or you have to spread the work to explain it.

OK! That's all for the part 1. We'll see you on the part 2 this Wednesday on Midweek Projects. Make sure you don't miss the post!
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To read our past Weekend Projects click here, and for the Midweek Projects read here.

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Cool Places: Seniman Coffee Studio, Ubud

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Cool Places on House of Smichi is back again with another review of hangout and great place to spend the times. And since we are still in Bali for next months, we will review some of the great places around Bali, especially in Ubud.

This time, we're trying the famous coffee shop in town, Seniman Coffee Studio.

Located in Jl. Sriwedari, Ubud, Bali, it's a right place to spend the times in the afternoon and having a chit chat with friends. The place isn't too big enough so they're separated the cafe into two part of  the building that is opposing each other.

So we tried the building in front of the main cafe. The specialties here is the cold beverages, from milk to chocolate. We tried the Soy Milk on Ice and Bali Shot (Kintamani Bali Choco mixed with Almond Milk) and they are sooo delicious and fresh to drink in the middle of the day.

The Cold Brew studio is less crowded, so you can use your times to relax and chill out here. It has a very beautiful industrial concept bar and a unique chair made of plastic that combines with wood to make them sophisticated.

And it has a very nice spot to enjoy your beverages while seeing the activities on the road. Sometimes, when there's a Balinese religious ceremony, you can see Balinese people bring their offerings to the nearest temple.

People at the Seniman Coffee Studio are really friendly and helpful! You can enjoy your time there.

That's all for this week's Cool Places. We'll see you again on the next edition of Cool Places around Bali, especially Ubud.
Hope you enjoy our review!

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