Picnic Themed Playroom (of course it's in pink!)

The Tree House Room

Inspired by his request of a tree house, we put his room on the upper floor at the nearest spot with the tree. It contains two levels: Level 1 - Bedroom, Level 2 - Upper terrace. He can climb the iron stairs to the upper terrace and hangout with his friends there.

I made the head bed with one unused glass door. Painted it with geometrical white stripes resemblance  the tree branches.

Collect some of his belongings, choose the most decorative, got this aesthetic values which fit with the room concept in particular. Of course at first we have to ask him his favorite color. Yes, BLUE it is.

So it's a blue tree room? 

THE STAIRS
 lead us to the room' upper terrace.

DIY - TABLE 01: BLACK

If we only have a very very tight budget to spend on some furniture, one of the solutions is doing the DIY or Do It Yourself thing.

I bought these new but cheap wooden tables last year and I want it to look better (and modern) by paint it with basic color like black. I told the table maker for making it ready for the paint procewss so I don't have to sand-paper-ing it first.

Kids Room | Design Ideas #2

Mood Board #2 | The Boy

Mood Board #2 | The Girl

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TEEN ROOM

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KIDS ROOM 

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Kids Room | Design Ideas #1

This year we really need to finish the kids room, two of them. The first is for The Boy who already in his adolescent years, and the other is for The Girl, 5 year old, with her princesses fairy tale and all.

Well, blog the ideas might be a very good thing to start it all, and the universe will do the rest, right? Hello Sun, Moon, Sky, Stars, Rainbow, Momma needs your help here!!

First I need to write down their characteristics and create some mood boards to do the room design. Guess it helps me a lot as the designer.

THE BOY

+ 14 going on 15

+ Loves books, very serious with great sense of humor

+ Dinosaurs

+ Minecraft

+ History

+ Military

+ World Leaders

+ Words Wizard

+ Internet Savvy

+ Geeky

>> BLUE BLACK WHITE | VINTAGE-WORLD TRAVELER-FDR

Mood Board #1 | The Boy

THE GIRL

+ 5 going on 6

+ Loves to sing, a singer in the making

+ My Little Pony

+ Princess Sofia

+ Candy

+ Math Prodigy

+ Swimming

+ Dragon Valley

+ Social Person

>> PINK PURPLE WHITE | SHABBY CHIC-DREAMY 

Mood Board #1 | The Girl

Wait... how come we raise a completely different type of kids? But they complete each other perfectly. And both love Minecraft-don't-ask-me-why.

Love them so very much ;)

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#JHouse Magazine Coverage: Behind The Scenes

A couple of months ago, we had Indesign Indonesia, an Australian based architecture and design magazine, call and visit us here in #JHouse. They want to do the article about #JHouse architecture and interior design, such honor!

Then we have to do pretty hectic preparations for the photo shoots with some supports from family and friends. 

His parents, both are respected painters AD Pirous and Erna Garnasih Pirous, lend us some of their amazing paintings (and at the end they gave us one precious painting for our master bedroom, yippee...), my Mom, Laksmi Siregar, the senior architect, my inspiration, send people to help us out with the furniture and the house cleaning (Thanks, Mom!), my friend Tina from ToiMoi sent their upbeat collection to add the ones we already have, splash some strong fun and fresh pop style to the house interior (bear hugs!)

And for this, I dedicated some weekends (and nights) to paint the outer side of Mahesh room white. Paint it all by myself! Of course with some help from Mahesh and Alana, the cousin who lives at the next house. I also make over some tables with wood paint in white and black.

The preparations done in two weeks and the photo shoots that came after finished only two hours!

Thanks to Sunthy from Indesign Indonesia with her effort to write such a beautiful article. Reaaally LOVE the poetic title: Bare Warmth. 

Such coolness!

Roommark

Beberapa waktu lalu saya sempat membuat beberapa roommark untuk menyambuat kedatangan beberapa teman yang berprofesi sebagai jurnalis.  Roommark atau penanda ruang(an) adalah sebuah komposisi dekor yang menjadi titik perhatian di sebuah ruangan. Istilah ini pertama kali saya temukan di blog INI. Saya khusus meluangkan waktu seharian untuk mendekor beberapa titik di beberapa ruangan rumah supaya kece dan enak dilihat.

Elemen roommark yang saya gunakan adalah berbagai benda yang sudah kami punyai sebelumnya, tidak ada yang khusus dibeli untuk keperluan pembuatan roommark tersebut.

Kebetulan saya mendapat beberapa warisan poster dari ayah dan kipas angin vintage yang cukup estetik untuk menjadi elemen utama roommark yang saya buat. Gitar listrik milik suami pun saya keluarkan dari sarungnya untuk tampil menjadi salah satu elemen ganteng roommark tersebut.

Saya juga menggunakan mainan koleksi saya (dan koleksi anak-anak) untuk menjadi elemen pendukung roommark tersebut. Bahkan beberapa buku yang sampulnya menarik saya gunakan juga.

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