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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Cool Pins: Backsplash Wall Ideas

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Sometimes choosing a good materials for backsplash wall on your kitchen, or laundry room, or bathroom can be exhausting and perhaps a little bit boring because you can't find a good ones. Well, our finds from the Pinterest may cheer you a little bit now.

 Annika Välimäki Creative

 Jeremy Gable

contemporist

 jen gibbons

Susan Rizk

Those are the top five ideas for your backsplash wall. Sometimes a simple materials can be arranged in a random way to make it look extraordinary. From herringbone style to honeycomb, from marble to Moroccan tile style. You can combine with mirror, stainless steel plates, or even another tiles. It's your style!

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Midweek Projects: Mural, Mural on the Wall

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Welcome back into today's Midweek Projects!

This time, we are going to share with you about painting your wall like this latest work from House of Smichi. It's not just paint the wall like usual with one color, but it's about make your wall feel alive. This art project named mural.

mural

/ˈmyo͝orəl/

noun

a painting or other work of art executed directly on a wall

Painting the wall or mural can be one of the alternative besides using wallpaper in your interior space. Mural can bring a personal taste that describes the interior space's owner, and also gives you a very interesting point of view. You don't have to make murals in every sides of the wall, but take one point that you really love the most to make it the center of the interior space.

One of our favorite mural artist is Koralie who's often collaborate with Supakitch.

You can bring nature into the space or you can play with typography with your favorite quote. Just make sure your space won't be too crowded with all things inside. Keep make it simple and beautiful.

Well, that's all from us today. We'll see you all again soon!

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Cool Pins: 5 Ideas of Peg Board

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We are back again with another finds from the Pinterest. This time we have five ideas for peg board. 

peg·board

/ˈpeɡˌbôrd/

noun
A board having a regular pattern of small holes for pegs, used chiefly for games or the display or information.

Lately people often use peg boards to hang some useful stuffs in one place, like kitchen appliances storage, office supplies storage, and even hang the paintings. Because it is simple and efficient to look for things in one place.

Here are the ideas for you!

 IKEAhackers

 Nikoline Beck Ulrich

Jenjenn128

 Design*Sponge

Aikary Lai

OK! That's all for today's Cool Pins. We'll see you all again soon!
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think interior design, think House of Smichi!

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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Cool Pins: Decor Your Entryway!

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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

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Midweek Projects: Modern Sleek Bedroom

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Midweek Projects on House of Smichi is back with another fun adventure!

This is the final photographs for our latest residential project. It's all about modern, simple, and clean design for our dearest client bedroom.

The world map above the TV area is a place to place her memorizing travels around the world. And it's magnetic! So she can put a new pictures easily without damaging the board.

And for her favorite spot on the room. :)

The walk in closet to give storage to clothes, a shelf to display her bags and shoes and everything she loves. The shelf is right in front of her bedroom door, so whenever she come in, the first time she sees is the good mood from everything she loves on the shelf.

The wardrobe divided into two door-less area.

We are so glad that our client loves her bedroom so much. :)

We are looking for a new design adventure. Maybe with you?
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think interior design, think House of Smichi!

Cool Pins: 5 Fave Pins of Cozy Spot

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Welcome back into our Cool Pins This FUN Thursday on House of Smichi.

This time we pick 5 favorite Pins of cozy spot to read, to meditate, to hangout with friends and family, and to enjoy life from Pinterest. So, enjoy!

 Janis Baer

Sandra Nilsson

 Tiinia Auler Makeup Artist

Sarah Martine 

Chairish

OK! That's all for this week. We'll see you again soon!
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think interior design, think House of Smcihi!

Color Therapy: Winter Color Blue and White

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We are back again with this week's session of Color Therapy. This time, we are inspired by the color of winter season that is cold, calm, and serene.

Mostly, winter colors identically match with indigo blue and white. It represents the snow and how cold the weather. These color palette can be your inspirations to do a color renovation on your space.

All winter color palettes are taken from here.

If you have a Scandinavian style home or interior space, these color palette may be suitable to be applied in your room. It represents the simplicity, clean, and declutter house.

All these Scandinavian style interior are taken from here.

That's all for this week. I hope you all can enjoy our session today and will meet you again next session of Color Therapy on House of Smichi.
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think interior design, think House of Smichi.

Midweek Projects: Modern Tropical Studio Apartment

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This is our first design review on 2016. Well, happy new year! We wish you a very delighted and joyful year.

This Midweek Projects belongs to an urban man who live in a small space apartment. He decided to re-design the space to get a new ambiance and refreshment of the room. We choose the modern tropical style to treasure the owner's hometown in Bali. It's a quite challenging because of the limited space, but it won't stop us to create a unique space for our dear client.

Well, enjoy the gallery! :)

This is the bedroom area view. A longline bed head. Side reading lamp and one big enough side table to minimize the limited space. Above the bed head is a set of three tropical style wallpaper in wooden frame along with three mirrors.

We also added a drawer with mirror that function as a vanity mirror too beside the double mirror door wardrobe.

In front of the bed area is the entertainment set area, consists of hanging TV cabinet, a big storage, small storage at above, and a shoes rack below the TV cabinet.

And this one is the view from the bedroom area to the entrance which also the kitchen. All in one place but still a cozy room to rest from the hectic working days.

That's all for this Midweek Projects! See you again soon!

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think interior design, think House of Smichi! :)