Working with a designer
Retail store interior design in Bangkok: layout, lighting and customer flow
Shopfront, threshold, display, fitting room, counter: how retail interior design in Bangkok’s shopping centres turns a passer-by into a visit.
Gratitude Design
Journal
Notes from the studio on planning, material, light and budget — written from projects built in Bangkok, for the people who will live and work in them.
Working with a designer
Office interior design in Bangkok: layouts people actually use
Arrival, the three kinds of room, daylight on a deep floorplate, acoustics, the rooms between the work and finishes for the fifth year: how the studio plans a Bangkok office — with Romrawin Head Office and The Urban Office.
Hospitality
Hotel interior design in Thailand: planning guest rooms and resort villas
Arrival sequence, bed wall, bathroom, terrace and the ten-year test: how a hotel suite, a floating villa and a resort lobby in Thailand were designed around the guest’s day — The Sathon Vimanda, River Kwai Village and La Miniera.
Working with a designer
Clinic interior design in Bangkok: patient flow, privacy and calm
Reception, waiting, consultation, treatment and the staff route behind them: how clinic, dental and hair-wellness interiors in Bangkok are planned for privacy and calm while satisfying the licensing standard — with four clinics from the studio.
Hospitality
Bar interior design in Bangkok: counters, lighting and the flow of a night
How bar and lounge interiors are designed for the counter, three seating densities, lighting that changes with the hour, sound, cold storage and the path behind the bar — with CRU, Beer Collection, Kilik and MU:IN.
Hospitality
Restaurant interior design in Bangkok: planning the dining experience
Frontage, seating plan, light levels, acoustics, the kitchen line and finishes that survive service: how restaurant interior design in Bangkok shapes what a guest feels before the food arrives — with Woo Tender, Seafood Club and Kilik.
Residential
Multi-storey house design in Bangkok: layouts, stairs and daylight
Why a house in Bangkok is designed in section before plan — spending the volume once, floors as registers, the stair as the transition, daylight in the middle — with two houses from the studio.
Residential
Penthouse interior design in Bangkok: light, views and privacy
How a penthouse or high-floor residence in Bangkok is planned around the sun path, glare, the view worth keeping and three layers of privacy — with lessons from the studio’s Sathorn and riverside homes.
Working with a designer
Interior architecture vs interior decoration: which does your project need?
Where decoration stops and interior architecture begins — structure, services, light and circulation — and what that means for a house, restaurant or clinic project in Bangkok.
Working with a designer
How long does it take to design and build a luxury home in Bangkok?
The honest answer is a sequence, not a number. Here are the stages a residential project passes through, what makes each one longer or shorter, and why a condominium and a house run on different clocks.
Working with a designer
How much does interior design cost in Bangkok? Fees and budget factors
There is no honest single figure for interior design in Bangkok, and any studio that gives you one before seeing the site is guessing. What can be said with confidence is what drives the cost, in what order, and why a price per square metre misleads.
Residential
Quiet luxury interior design: 7 principles explained through Bangkok homes
"Quiet luxury" has become a label for beige rooms and expensive restraint. For this studio it is something more exact: seven decisions about proportion, material, light, craft, comfort, the owner and time — and a house is either built on them or it is not.
Residential
Condominium renovation in Bangkok: what owners should plan before design
Three completed apartments — 80, 120 and 250 square metres, two of them inside branded towers — taught the studio the same lessons about what a condominium will and will not allow. Here is what an owner should understand before the first drawing.
Working with a designer
How to choose an interior designer in Bangkok: 9 checks before hiring
Judge built work over renders, ask for a construction set, and decide who carries the risk on site before comparing fees — nine criteria and a five-question framework for choosing an interior designer in Bangkok.
Working with a designer
Interior designer vs turn-key contractor in Thailand: which route fits?
Design-only, a contractor who designs, turn-key by the studio that drew it, or a hybrid — the three questions that decide which route fits a project in Thailand, from a studio that has delivered more than fifty turn-key.
Hospitality
Private club design in Bangkok: 5 lessons from Kilik and MU:IN
Two of the studio’s most awarded rooms — a jazz-and-cocktail social club in Phrom Phong and a nightclub in Thonglor — were built on the same five decisions. What they are, and why they matter more than the finishes.
Residential
Branded residence fit-out in Bangkok: building rules and owner checklist
What owners of a unit at a hotel-branded residence should know before a fit-out: the shell you cannot change, what the management office asks for, working hours and lifts, and why documentation decides the programme.
Residential
How to make a house feel like a luxury hotel: 5 design decisions
The hotel feeling is planning and lighting, not decoration. Five decisions — arrival, material temperature, built-in joinery, wall light and a dressing room of its own — from built residences in Bangkok.
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