Smaller to Larger Kitchen Dimension

Can't breathe in your tiny kitchen space and losing hope to change the look and add more available space in your kitchen without extending and borrowing more space from other areas of the house? Try tricking your eyes with colors, dimension and furnishings. Read on to get ideas on what to do with your caving kitchen.

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1 Fewer color difference in your cabinets, counter-top and woodwork makes the eyes stream over the surfaces to rest on, gives a larger dimension. 
 

2 The invasion of the sun's light enlarges any area especially small spaces.

 

3 The look into an area through a glass can add to a more spacious accommodation.

4 Slender furniture and/or appliances gives a bigger geometric dimension of your small kitchen space. This gives a wider look of your cooking room.

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5 By removing dividing walls, this does not technically add space but it creates an open air in your kitchen. If you can't deal without walls, perhaps you can do with an open wall, the one that opens into your living room.

6 Clean clutter on counter top because it causes your eyes to stumble on many things causing your kitchen to feel smaller. By keeping your little gadgets like coffee maker away, your counter-tops will be wider.

7 Expanding floor space does not literally mean to create more floor space but painting your floor with wide prints to give the eyes longer course to follow from one side of the room to the other. You can do a stripped-alternating light and medium colored flooring.

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8 Install furnishing that heightens the view of the room. Through this, you can diminish the feel of being caved in your own kitchen.

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10 Choose light and bright, lighting system of kitchen.

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Industry Forum 2012: "Business Prospect in 2013"

Sea Olympus Marketing, Inc. has once again been invited for University of San Carlos CAFA's Industry Forum 2012: “Business Prospect in 2013” held last 15^th of December, Saturday at CAFA Theater.

This forum aims to enlighten students about the up-to-date innovations in relation to the participating industries' marketing strategies for the upcoming year 2013.

This was attended by two (2) of the company heads: Brand Manager Ms. Jewel B. Jalandoni and Store Operation's Head, Ms. Vida Aurora Llevares, along with other participating companies.

In behalf of Sea Olympus Marketing, Inc. we would like to extend our sincerest Congratulations and deepest gratitude to Dean of University of San Carlos- College of Architecture and Fine Arts, Joseph Michael P. Espina, MURP, as well as the organizers of the event for giving us an opportunity to be a part of an enriching academic activity.

Modern Green with Lantawan Liveable Cebu

The University of San Carlos-College of Architecture and Fine Arts' official publication features articles for a more satisfactory and sustainable community.

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With contributions from prominent individuals like Archbishop Palma, Jayme Zobel de Ayala, Alexius Medalla, Maxcell Migallos and many other respective personalities in the field of Architecture and Fine Arts, the Lantawan: Liveable Cebu further extends the college's belief that “Cebuanos have the potential to participate in the making of a more liveable Cebu.”

Sea Olympus Marketing, Inc. would like to express our earnest Congratulation to University of San Carlos-College of Architecture and Fine Arts for their release of Lantawan: Liveable Cebu for the year 2013.

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Filipino Kitchen with Time and Solid Surface

The Filipino kitchen, like all other kitchens, is the place where food is prepared. But its appearance is unlike other kitchens, American, English and Japanese for example. 

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American kitchens usually have smaller dining table where the inhabitants usually have their meal. English kitchen on the other hand can be related to a work place with a scullery. The Japanese kitchen is centered with the stove and hearth since cooking is done in an open fire which can be found in a kitchen detached from the main house to avoid the smoke from smothering the house, but as time passed it was absorbed into the house.

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The Filipino kitchen in a way has also a different beginning from the stated kitchens of the 2 western kitchens and likely similar to its mentioned neighboring country.

The Filipino kitchen is mainly for preparation of food unlike the American one which includes breakfast table and island table. Its main components are the Kalans, palayok, kawalis, kawas, bangas, almirez, sandok, sianse, gilingan, sangkalan, kudkuran, lamera, batidor, tacho, and garapinera.

Aside from the everyday kitchen where meals/foods are prepared, Filipinos have a detached hut/roofed-open space. This detached structure is called the “dirty kitchen” because Filipinos usually use charcoal in this place for cooking to either save in the expense on LPG and/or for fiestas when a household requires to cook as much as possible for visitors. Like its neighbor, the Japanese kitchen, this isolated space also helps the users to avoid smoke from entering the house.

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But like any other modernization, the appearance of the Filipino kitchen has evolved as time passed though its components and the dirty kitchen are mostly preserved since these are still useful especially during special occasions. Some if not most houses, however, use the "dirty kitchen" more commonly than those who can easily avail the LPG, hence the dirty kitchen may be the direct kitchen. Philippine kitchen also had incorporated American concept of designing kitchens. One of which is incorporating stones, marbles and/or solid surfaces either as counter tops, kitchen sink and table/island top. 

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Incorporation of solid surfaces in the kitchen does not only gives elegance and the impression of being able to afford something even when that something seems expensive since this somehow boosts one's confidence, it is also helpful since having solid surface a part of one's house offers various advantages especially when most Filipinos love to spend most of their time in the kitchen.

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Perks for Holiday Celebration

Brain-cracked on how to spice up Christmas celebrations without boring your family and/or guests?

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Perking up a gathering and make it memorable may be a nerve-racking task especially when it'll be your first time to do the planning and/or when your ideas have all been used up. But by introducing another activity to the family and guests, this avoids celebrating the holiday season in a routinely-dining-only-manner.

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Good news! There are simple activities to help you plan for the upcoming holiday celebrations!

To do this, you can either start a tradition/activity to pass down to your family members like eating a cake for Jesus in Christmas morning or do secret acts of service for each other and/or that someone who has been done with a certain good deed should either give an exchange gift back to the person or pass the service to another. 

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You can also introduce a game every year like a couple or two minute to win it games which fills the place with laughter and thrill. Minute to win it games includes hanging Christmas ornaments without using your hands, eat the cookie from your forehead without using your hands, shake off all ping pong balls placed in an empty tissue box, guess the word placed on your forehead & etc.  Minute to Win It Games

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With games like these, you can be sure that all the attendees will focus their attention to the players. They will not only be thrilled whether their bet will win but they also will enjoy the celebration. And having a joyful gathering is something each will look forward to.

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Ambient Lighting

Was there any point in time that you felt bored with your kitchen that you don't want to do anything in it? Probably because there was something lacking with your kitchen atmosphere.

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Ambient lighting, also termed as general lighting provides an overall illumination in an area. Its purpose is to provide an even wash of light throughout a room in comparison with task lighting wherein its purpose is to concentrate light for a specific job. It also helps the inhabitants to walk around the place without tripping on unseen obstacles as well as setting the mood in a room. It can either be from a natural or artificial source.

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The kitchen is the only area in the house where one has to find a versatile lighting system that can function as both task lighting and general lighting. 

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Ambient lighting can be achieved either by chandeliers, ceiling or wall-mounted fixtures (pendant lights, torchieres, suspended uplights), recessed or track lights and perhaps lanterns mounted on the outside of the home.

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Ambient Lighting is the “humanizing factor to any lighting design” because it softens the lines and shadows on people's faces and creates a warm inviting glow in the room. 

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Task Lighting

“Task lighting is fundamentally any lighting that helps to facilitate a particular visual task.” It should be prioritized when it comes to the kitchen since this is essential to preparing food, and misplacing this may hinder your work efficiency specially when your lighting system throws shadows on your workspace. 

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Having a well lit area to work in makes a task more easy. It also helps relieve eye strain when installed properly giving a pleasant working environment What is Task lighting?.

Task lighting is energy and money saving since it can reduce the amount of energy to light an entire room plus the energy saving light bulbs that can be used. Task Lighting

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There are, however two things to consider before setting up your task-lighting system. You'll have to carefully assess that the light (1)does not give a direct glare to the user (2)nor will it cause to cast a shadow on the working space area; also, dedicate light to the specific space or area where you usually do your work. 5 Tips for Better Home and Office Lighting

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Key locations for your task lighting includes underneath the overhead cabinets and over the island-anywhere you'll be chopping, slicing, reading your recipes or anywhere you need the light to be focused. 

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For both underneath overhead cabinets and over the island:

• You can either use a wired or plugged in incandescent or fluorescent lighting. Incandescent lighting offers better light quality but is much expensive while fluorescent lighting does not cast much light and emits less heat and lasts longer especially with bulbs which also uses much less electricity. 10 Kitchen Design Mistakes to Avoid

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• If you choose to use LED lights, which can also be applied, be sure to choose color temperature wisely.

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• Another choice is the use of halogen lights for underneath overhead cabinet. This should also be dimmable, which should be applicable to the other 3 choices for lighting, so as to lessen the use of electricity and help lengthen the life of your bulb. Get the Lighting Right: 8 Mistakes to Avoid

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After purchasing your preferred task-lighting fixtures, you can ask a reliable electrician to help you install properly.

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Table for Suggested Lighting Strategies and Levels by Rooms 

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Kitchen Lighting System

What happens in your kitchen? How much time do you usually spend with your prime kitchen utensils and valuable counter tops?

Lighting system is used to illuminate a place either during the day or night, for working/task purposes and for other purposes. But most of the time if not all the time, lighting system in a certain room especially the kitchen is taken for granted and/or generalized in the sense that as long as where you want to go and where you can work is lighted, that is enough.

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As Scott Gibson stated in his article Light Up Your Kitchen “Bad lighting can take the joy out of a kitchen. It makes cooking more of a chore and discourages people from getting together. Even the finest cabinetry, appliances, and counter tops look dull and unappealing in dim lighting.” As in any other cases, lighting system greatly affects in setting the mood of a certain area.

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According to Randall Whitehead, there are four functions in lighting your kitchen and blending these functions will provide you an effective yet inviting and fun cooking station. These functions or systems namely are your task lighting, ambient, accent and decorative lighting.

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• Task lighting prioritizes key locations for work spaces like underneath overhead cabinets, islands or anywhere you can chop, slice read recipe or need to focus illumination.

• Ambient Lighting is best in softening lines and shadows on people's faces. This also sets a warm and inviting glow in the room.

• Accent lighting is the least common lighting in the kitchen because it may necessitate something to be highlighted.

• Decorative Lighting should be directly proportional to the size of your kitchen. Whitehead also stated that, "You want to make sure that the scale of the fixtures is right for the space, and that the shade material has enough opacity to effectively hide the light bulb."

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Peripheral Edges

  What comes to mind when you enter a kitchen as chic as Sheryl Crow's?

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What possibly dawns into one's knowledge is the neatness and the combination of earthen colors with the majority of white color, the counter top being used and the cost of it, or one of the most visible commodity the chairs and/or even the most intricate designs of the cabinets.

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A piece of art less noticeable when we enter a stunning room, may perhaps be the edging of a counter top. When we enter the room, our eyes easily place edges on the peripheral view. For one, the edges have become part of the slab that they camouflage effortlessly. It's only when we do some activities in our kitchen that we see the edges' exquisiteness.

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The type of edging/nosing is also one of the most important things to consider in choosing a design for your counter tops especially for those households with children.

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Edging also offers not only sophistication, beauty and elegance, but also benefits and aids to your counter tops and even to your personal workshops. Solflex is made of acrylic modified material; hence, it offers tidy nosing/edging.

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Cobo: Seamless PossibiliTeas

Under the umbrella of its mother company, Possmei Taiwan (biggest milk tea ingredient supplier in the world and home to bubble milk tea), and after allowing Profoods Inc., Possmei Philippines gave birth to Cobo Milk Tea and saw a potential to cause a blast in Philippine palates.

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Bubble tea a cold drink which originated from Taiwan made from tea mixed with milk, fruits and other flavorings usually with black balls or pearls called tapioca.

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Cobo Milk Tea , an acclaimed milk tea in Luzon has now four branches in Cebu which played a trick with tea and milk hit most teenage Cebuanos like love stricken kiddos. With its playful mural, colorful furnishings, mysterious and surprising treats, Solflex Dali Stone completed the whole setting.

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Solflex Dali Stone is a sooty shade of solid surface pigmented with different colors, gold, fog white and maroon not only sprinkled on the surface but drenched unto within.

 

Solflex is as helpful as a bank especially with Cobo since they serve fluids most of the time which easily spill when one simply trips and even the moist from the cold drinks will stay on the material. Solflex can easily be maintained since it can conveniently be wiped with damped cloth and the stain does not penetrate.

 

Its non-porosity is sanitary because it is solid from top to bottom so no fluid can sip through whenever anyone can spill over the counter. Its pigmentation also helps in the promotion of the material's stain resistance since these pigmentation absorb the stains when these stains get unnoticed and are not wiped within twenty four (24) hours.

Solflex is also available in interesting matching colors to choose from: midnight, castor root, coco gravel, dusty gravel, and Ortega brown which like Dali stone can match with any arrangement, and relaxing tones like milky spots, nougat white, polar white, snow white, vanilla sand, white satin and fog pine.

Solflex has a brand new product called Solflex Superior. Although this material is thin, its durability is unquestionable because it is in accord to its kin product and it can tolerate to increasing temperatures of up to 200 degrees Celsius. Like its predecessor, Solflex Superior is also perfect for counter tops, vanity tops, and sink tops. It also comes in many hues like white, abalon and polar white for slabs.

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Share Your Kitchen Contest

Join the Share Your Kitchen Contest of S.E.A Olympus Marketing, Inc. and get a chance to win a KITCHEN SHOWCASE! 

 

Contest Guidelines

Eligibility

• This contest is open to everyone who is of legal age.
• The kitchen entered must be in your primary residence. Entrant must be the owner of the home. Only one entry is permitted per household.

Deadline

All entries must be submitted on or before November 12, 2012.

Contest Schedule

Deadline for entries: November 12, 2012

Contest voting period: November 12-30, 2012

Announcement of winner: December 10, 2012

Mechanics

To join, simply send us a photo of your kitchen. In not more than 100 words, describe what is happening in the picture. Participants must include the following information:

• Complete Name
• Address
• Contact Number
• Email Address
• Profession

Entries must be submitted to contest@olympus.com.ph. Accepted file formats are jpg, png or gif.
Image file must not be larger than 3MB in size.

Only one entry submission per person and email address is allowed. Duplicate entries will be disqualified.

All entries will be posted in Solflex Solid Surface Facebook fan page. Winners of the contest will be determined through the most number of likes.

Entries that are lewd, obscene, pornographic, disparaging of the sponsor or otherwise contain objectionable material may be disqualified in the sponsor's sole and unfettered discretion.

All employees of SEA Olympus Marketing Inc. and its affiliates are not eligible to join the contest.

By submitting an entry, each entrant agrees to all the terms and conditions of these rules; agrees to be bound by these rules and the decisions of the Contest judges; and consent to the use of his/her name, likeness and other information for publicity purposes.

The owner's rights for the contest remain with the owner. Photos may be used in advertisements, print materials, online, and in the contest sponsors' showrooms and stores. (Names and images of individuals will not be used without permission.)

Awards and certificates provided to the winner are non-transferable and have no cash value.

Prizes:

Only one winner will be announced on December 10, 2012. The Winner will be notified through email, mail or phone and will also be posted on the social media and blog sites.

For more information, contact us at espanadero@olympus.com.ph or call (032) 421-7863.