Ho Chow Restaurant is a small but elegant Chinese restaurant located in Fremont,CA. They provide a warm inviting environment to enjoy their authentic Chinese cuisine made from only the freshest and natural ingredients available.

The Challenge

For the design team, the small footprint of the space required creative solutions to make it look larger than it actually is without compromising the guest experience.

The Design

The primary objective was to make the interior elegant, warm and inviting while making it look larger. Interior walls with glass insets were designed to stop short of the ceiling to create privacy zones but still allow light to flow through the room. The entry ceiling was designed with a series of ascending stepped coves with warm indirect lighting to create maximum height where guests first arrive. Then general and accent lighting was blended from front to back in warm to cool color temperatures so the depth of the space would visually recede to complete the effect.