Hi Ra, I really like the way you have "played" with top cabinets in the kitchen to maximize the storage space (maybe I would have done it in white, but that's just an opinion). I'd like to know the way they have been set up, did you use some structure to hang them and increase the resistance?

the back wall panels look like ikea besta doors. the hanging cabinet could also be besta boxes, but with customized doors. the console in front of it, you could get a similar look by using a malm console table and cutting it to height. from there you'd want to use a couple of besta cabinets to create the closed off storage. the low bench could be made with plywood and then stained or painted to match the finish of the malm/besta combo you choose. besta cabinets :: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/living_room/11794/ malm console table :: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/80196480/

You do realise that this poster is in India don't you Elliott ? Or did you post without reading up first ? I wouldn't get your hopes up about the TV show Aimen - I would be very surprised if their budget ran as far as your beautiful country. They don't even seem to be spending money on real advertising - just posting the same message on lots of threads on Houzz. If you can post a sketch plan of the room and some idea of where the plan is to put the soil pipe plumbing - I'll see if I can help on my coffee break later.

The simplest thing will be that the faculties should be practioning architects as well as professors. There is a wide gap between the bookish curriculum and the one which is going outside in the field. The study should be grounded to the regional feasibility and how things are actually practised when you get into the field. There were great structures built but one should also study the whole process of design approval in each design, like what was the need, who were the clients and what they demanded, how did the architect come to build the said thing. The one miss in education I find is that the architects face difficulty running a business and that too should be a part of the architecture degree curriculum.