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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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

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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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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.

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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: Cook in Style in Your Kitchen

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It's been a while since our last post of Weekend Projects. Now, we are back again with another design review originally made by House of Smichi. Enjoy!

Mirror at the door of your kitchen cabinet? Why not! So you can cook in style to make delicious foods and creating a good vibes around the area.
The hanging shelves made to make a contrast for small kitchen so the space won't be too much doors and closed cabinets.
The ice glass at the top cabinet's doors also made a contrast to the design so it won't be boring with full wooden pattern doors.

That's all from us today. Meet you all up again soon!
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Midweek Projects: Scandinavian Style Dining/Living Room

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Welcome back into this week's Midweek Projects by House of Smichi!

We are still continuing our last project of Scandinavian style kitchen for a special client. And today we move into the dining/living room.

We choose to make an open and combined the dining and living area. It's a not-too-big house so we must combine two rooms into one. We choose the dining room and living room.

Our client really likes reading and has so many books inside her home. So we make a small library inside the dining room. She loves to spend her reading time in a cozy place, but not in the bedroom. And she also loves eating while watching the TV. So we make a comfy bench with fluffy pillows and a big table with extra storage at the bottom of the bench.

Well, that's all for this week! Don't miss this Weekend Projects because we will reveal inside the bedroom in Scandinavian style.
So we hope you enjoy and thank you for reading!

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Weekend Projects: Scandinavian Kitchen

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Welcome back into our Weekend Projects by House of Smichi!

This week we have a request from our dearest client to renovate her house to make it even better. She loves clean, tidy, and bright spaces. So we choose to start from the kitchen because she put it at the front part of her house. Enjoy!

Well, since she loves clean, bright, and tidy, we choose to make her a Scandinavian style house. Basically the style refers to an interior trends in the Scandinavian countries, like Sweden and Finland. The open space and light will make the space be  more inviting and functional.

Our design for the small kitchen is really light and open. we choose to add a little warm wooden color for the flooring. Beside that, we choose all in white. Since she loves to cook so much, we design a bigger space with an island to add extra working spaces. The island also has a function as breakfast table, combines with the lovely Wishbone Chair in pale wooden color.

We make the room fuller and added more storage systems into it. All spices and seasonings are on the storage, so every guest won't see them spreading around the kitchen.

The light and open space also makes us create a bigger windows since she has a beautiful garden outside. It allows the sunshine and gentle breeze to come into the kitchen and make it fresh.

Well, that's it for this week. We'll see you again on Midweek Projects to see our next Scandinavian style dining room.
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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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