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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Remember,

think interior design, think House of Smichi!

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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Remember,

think interior design, think House of Smichi!

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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Remember,

think interior design, think House of Smichi!

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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Remember,

think interior design, think House of Smichi!

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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Remember,

think interior design, think House of Smichi!

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.

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

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Remember,

think interior design, think House of Smichi!

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.

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

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think interior design, think House of Smichi!

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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think interior design, think House of Smichi!

Midweek Projects: Cozy Living Room

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Inspired by the fireplace, since here in Indonesia we don't need fireplace to get away from cold winter, we've decided to make something different of someone's living room today.

Sometimes you need a refreshment into your living area. It's OK sometimes to look different from the others because different is pretty too.

Fireplace has been in our thought to be designed since a long time ago. But we have no chance to use the idea up until now.

We've designed a fireplace / book shelf in living room. In an informal ambient, we tried to pull the coziness inside and a perfect place to do homework, gathering as a family, and even working at home.

With no sofa, we replaced it with short wooden chair and two pouffe. The pouffe here can be used as coffee table too, and also as foot rest while reading favorite books from the collections.

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

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Remember,

think interior design, think House of Smichi!

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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Remember,

think interior design, think House of Smichi!

Midweek Projects: Walk In Closet in Modern Style

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Midweek Projects is back on the Blog now!

This time we are trying to make a budget concern walk in closet in small spaces, like in an apartment space. So ladies, prepare your soon-to-be-home or apartment to place your walk in closet in stylish way. Men, watch out for the next post about your ideas of walking closet! :)

Walk in closet basically is a room where you can walk in your clothes cupboard to mix and match the clothes with the accessories, and do your make up. So it's like a giant clothes cupboard inside your house or apartment. It doesn't have to be big and wide, you can place it even in a small space.

So, we choose a simple design to fit in the walk in closet in a small space. No furniture's handles, and less use of materials to reduce the cost. We add the wallpaper behind the closet as the aesthetic element. Or if you have a nature gift as painter, you can paint the wall of whatever you like. The idea is not to make your closet too plain because of the simple furniture. You can change the hanger side into folding side if you have folded clothes too.

As for the color, we don't pick too much color. More white to widen up the space, wooden color as for warming the room, and the pink color is optional. It's just for the accent color of the room.

We create a light the make up area with direct light all over you face and above where you sit. Just in case you don't need the make up area lights, you can only switch on the light above the make up area.

Well, that's all for the Midweek Projects this time. Next, we'll make a special design of men's walk in closet soon.
Thank you for reading!

If you want to read the past posts of Midweek Projects, you can read here. And so for the Weekend Projects, you can read here.

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Midweek Project: Moroccan Style Into A Beauty Salon & Spa Part 2

After we shared the Moroccan style in a lobby last weekend in Weekend Project, now we reveal inside the beauty salon.

Midweek Project on House of Smichi this week still belongs to Moroccan style in Beauty Salon & Spa. In the same design concept with last Weekend Project, the beauty salon is designed to be simple, clean, and still looks beautiful and luxurious.

In the dominant colors of blue and white, the beauty salon aims to make the guests feel so comfortable and relax while the stylist do their job to make them beautiful.
We also use frameless mirrors to simplify the shape as we applied the modern touch in the design.

The style is still be continued soon. Stay tuned! Hail to Moroccan style! :)

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Weekend Project: Moroccan Style into A Beauty Salon & Spa Part 1

Greetings!
Welcome to a new post of Weekend Project!

What is this post about?
Weekend Project is all about House of Smichi's original works in interior design that we've finally decided to share with all of you. Every twice a week, we create fresh ideas and inspirations in interior design in every style. From east to west, from ethnic to modern. We're gonna explore all the things as our inspirations.

Well, basically we will post our portfolios on Wednesday (midweek) and Sunday (weekend).

Why in twice a week?
Because sometimes once is not enough to apply all those beautiful things into one design. So, we're gonna separated the works into two parts in the same style.

What's the purpose of this post?
Just. To. Have. FUN! As we sharpen our skill to be better everyday and express the feelings about something good.

This week we have a project in Moroccan style for beauty salon and spa. In this part 1, we finished the lobby first before goes into the main area. Mostly, Moroccan style home is designed to be comfort and clean style with colorful cushions. But a little bit touch of modern can simplify the colors.

We choose the cool colors as we represent a fresh and calm ambiance. the aim is that everyone that come here can feel relax and serene as we create soft lighting in some spots. The water and plants are designed to balance the harmony inside the room as to welcome the guests with something fresh and natural.

Since it's a small area, we use mirrors and shiny materials in most of the area of the room. Mirrors can make a small room looks bigger.

That's all for part 1 for Moroccan Style Beauty Salon & Spa. We'll see you again in part 2 this Wednesday only on Midweek Project. New project will be shared next weekend as in Weekend Project.

And don't forget to stay tuned into our daily post on Instagram and the Blog. And for more information and art & design consultation, you can contact sherly@houseofsmichi.com.
We'll see you around soon!

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Midweek Project: Modern Mountain Suite

Greetings!
It's time for Midweek Project of House of Smichi!

We designed a modern suite for mountain resort few weeks ago (it's already posted on our Instagram) in a warm wooden color in luxury style. A big window designed to make a connection with the surround nature.

FYI
Midweek Project is an updated project designed by House of Smichi. In this feature, we will reveal our design and make a review about it.
We will post our updated projects every Midweek and Weekend only on House of Smichi.
Contact us through email to sherly@houseofsmichi.com if you need more info!

See you on our Midweek Project posts!

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Cool Places: Nanny's Pavillon on Kuta Beachwalk, Bali

Who says Monday is a mad day? Let's boost your mood by celebrating MondayFest with House of Smichi!
In this blog session, we'll gonna post some cool places to hangout and go each week. And our first post is going to Nanny's Pavillon on Kuta Beachwalk, Bali. And don't miss our Art Project Monday on our Instagram.

Ok, let's begin our MondayFest today!
Designed like a winery mixed with country style, Nanny's Pavillon in Kuta Beachwalk is really interesting from the outside because of the big see-through glass window surround it. With decorations full of wooden furniture and dominantly in brown color, make the restaurant warm and tempting to eat here.

They have cool decorations too. When beers meet barbecue and winery.

See you on the other session of Cool Places!
We'll make sure that it always fun in House of Smichi.

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New Cushion Covers Collections!

To celebrate the OctoberFest, House of Smichi launched new collections of cushion covers.
Add the colorful Balinese Batik to your interior space to bring a good mood.

More collections are coming soon!

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Coming Soon!

Hello, people!

House of Smichi will launch our cushion covers soon! Add the colorful Batik cushions to your home, office, restaurant, cafe, or spa to add good mood into the interior space.
Stay tuned!

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Christmas Decor For Your Home & Party

"Hello, people! My name is Agla. I am a red clothes angel. I can make your Christmas time is as beautiful as the stars in the sky. Hang me on your Christmas tree or anywhere to make your home or party more beautiful. To see my other Christmas friends, your can take a visit to House of Smichi's shop. See you in Christmas time! ♥ "

Here we go with Christmas decorations on our shop! Take a visit, choose your decor, and order to House of Smichi. Surely will make your Christmas time be brighter and merrier.
Thank you!

See our video teaser!

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