About Pantry and Kitchen

Sometimes we get confused of the difference between kitchen and pantry. According to Wikipedia, kitchen is a room or part of a room used for cooking and food preparation. Pantry is a room where food provisions, dishes, or linens are stored and served in an ancillary capacity to the kitchen. In my words, kitchen is for cooking raw food; pantry is place for food to place before getting served onto the dinning table.

Following image is a sample of my pantry design. Simply click on it to enlarge.

In the past time, within Asia home style, kitchen was mostly located at rear because cooking activity was categorized as a private activity. Nowadays, especially in urban style, cooking is not a private activity anymore. People tend to show what they cook. It is like how BreadTalk, in which people can directly see the bread making process. The company would like to convince their consumers that the bread is being cooked properly in a clean kitchen.

However, many people still tend to divide cooking area into kitchen and pantry.

Following image is a sample of my kitchen design. Click on it to enlarge.

Dehellenag's Make Up Studio

Client: Ellena Gunawan
Location: Riverside Park, Mataram City, Lombok

Following image is the design. Click to enlarge

My client is a famous wannabe make up artist. She needs a studio in which she and her employees may able to give the best service to their clients.

Function
The analysis of activity and needs were the first thing I got concerned with. The dimension was specified based on the existing site plan.

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Design Concept
I did not even ask my client about the concept. I just asked her promptly what the stuff does she love to collect as a hobby. She loves collecting Hello Kitty stuff since childhood. Bingo! I got the the concept. I decided to play around with pink colour.

What Kind Of Pink?
Once I decided to play around with pink, I made some research about it. Based on my brief research, pink colour is same as white, which is potentially divided into families.  According to Interior Style book released by Benjamin Moore Paints, white can be divided into two families: warm whites, with yellow, pink or brownish undertones; and cool whites, with minty green or blue-gray undertones. In this case, pink is basically the result of red combined with white. More you add the amount of red, you would see the warmer pink. In the return, decrease the red you would get the cooler pink.

Warm Pink. Click on the image to enlarge

Cool Pink. Click on the image to enlarge

As you can see both images above, warmer pink has that impact: Sexy. The cool pink is more "princessy", reminds us to the princess movies. For this studio, I chose the warm pink to apply. To neutralize the effect of red, I used white as colour combination. In order to make the room becomes girly, I decided to cover the wall with rose-pattern wallpaper.

Why Tiffany Chair?
Tiffany chair is a kind of fancy chair probably invented by someone called Tiffany. It is chair without arm rest, made of wood, with pillow on the seat. I have suggested my client that this kind of chair is not comfortable to use specially for a make up studio. However, my client insisted to have fancy chair instead of comfort one. 

Following images are the result of the design. Click on the images to enlarge.