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Anxiety attack in the middle of the renovation: the hallucinatory stories of the designers
The renovation season is at its peak and there is nothing like a good renovation to derail people.
Those who know this best of all are the interior designers who accompany dozens of clients and they have already really seen it all.
These are their most bizarre stories
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Friday, 16 July 2021, 07:39 Updated: 07:50
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The summer months are considered the peak season of the renovation field, and do not just say that renovation can be a real danger to a relationship.
The financial pressure, disagreements about taste and style and the extra load can cause people to go off the rails and renovating couples to get into terrible quarrels.
Those who have really seen and heard it all, are the interior designers who accompany dozens of clients every year and are exposed to all the most extreme and delusional stories.
Here are some surprising behind-the-scenes stories - the couple who put the designer to a surprise test, customers from abroad who discovered a pregnant belly at the end of the renovation, fights over money, anxiety attacks, how can it be without Facebook and one safe discovered in the kitchen.
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The safe that was found during the kitchen renovation, and the client who went on vacation with me - architect Boaz Snir
Why did the customer need 3 freezers?
A house designed by architect Boaz Snir (Photo: Valery Zioz)
"I picked up the embossment and found a safe." Architect Boaz Snir (Photo: Valery Zioz)
Architect Boaz Snir tells two curiosities from the field "Someone came to me for a planning meeting. During the planning I created a lot of storage space for her in the pantry, because she wanted to put 3 freezers in there. The client was enthusiastic. I asked her why you need so many freezers? "They are sensitive to gluten, so they need a lot of freezers, which is exactly the same reason I also have 3 freezers at home. In the end, we went on vacation together with the two families on a special gluten-free weekend."
Another story by Snir sounds like an episode in a detective series: "I arrived in the area of an apartment that had just been purchased. I scanned the apartment together with the client. At some point I stepped on a very special protrusion. The floor of the kitchen! " And what was in the safe? After Snir and the customer sailed through the imagination about what treasures it might contain, when they managed to open it they discovered that it was empty. So Treasure was not there,But a good story actually does.
The customer saw the price and had an anxiety attack - interior designer Barbara Berzin
What is the difference between fantasy and reality?
A kitchen designed by Barbara Berzin (Photo: Tomer Balilati)
"I'm always on the side of the house," says interior designer Barbara Berzin (Photo: Guy Hecht)
Interior designer Barbara Berzin, owner of the School of Interior Design, says she encounters mostly fights over money - where to invest more and where to invest less and there is usually a significant difference between the couple in the priorities. It is often impossible to do both, and the big question is who gives up.
"I had clients in Jerusalem, a retired couple who bought a second-hand apartment, when the budget allocated to the project did not meet their fantasies. I offered them a tender for suppliers and materials and check the gaps between fantasy and reality. After examining all the parameters, For hours, the woman called me and told me that her husband had an anxiety attack and they were getting rid of all their fantasies. "
"An experienced professional knew how to reflect the costs and pros and cons of customer choices. I will never take one side of the couple, and that's also what I teach my students, my side is the side of the house and I will always put it first and foremost," says Berzin.
Surprise double pregnancy - architect Shira Muskel and interior designer Hadas Roth, Hillel Architecture
Work on the project until the last minute before the births.
A house designed by Hillel Architecture (Photo: Oded Smadar)
Customers were surprised to find a designer and architect with a respectable pregnant belly.
Shira Muskel and Hadas Roth (Photo: Oded Smadar)
"Customers who do not live in Israel were looking for a large house for a massive renovation in one of the moshavim in the Sharon," says architect Shira Muskel and interior designer Hadas Roth from Hillel Architecture. "They contacted us by phone from their place of residence in Panama and asked that we see for them a property that seemed right to them. We arrived at the house, researched the data and rights and came to the conclusion that the house had huge potential. And that they can continue their lives peacefully there and that we will take care of everything from A to T. But what happened and we did not take into account is a double and surprising pregnancy of both of us a few months apart. The project but also a respectable pregnant tummy tuck each one individually. " Muskel and Roth tell stories that worked on the project until the last minute and also responded to each other when the need arose. "There is nothing like a partner in this matter,You know that you leave the customers in good hands and that the line continues even when you are busy with the new baby. "
The failing question - Shlomit Zeldman, practical engineering architect
The budget is what determines.
A house designed by Shlomit Zeldman (Photo: Amit Gosher)
Knows how to deal with disagreements.
Shlomit Zeldman (Photo: Nofar Boganim)
"There was a renovation where throughout almost the entire process I was by the client's side, whose partner was very, very old-fashioned," says architectural engineer Shlomit Zeldman. "One day they both sat together in the car and called me. "What do you think? First, I told them I was actually in favor of my husband and then they laughed and said they tried me and exchanged their opinions to test me."
"It is important to know how to deal with these disagreements," Zeldman adds, "and with the experience of working with couples and over the years I know how to explain in advance how the process goes, how to lead and aim to spread the cake correctly. I create a dialogue and I translate each of their proposals into cost issues, which saves a lot of quarrels in the end because the budget is usually the one that determines. "
The trolls from Facebook have lines for their character - interior designer Keren Gens
"Urgent. Where is the sink from?"
A kitchen designed by the Gens Foundation (Photo: Assaf Pinchuk)
"Give a good word and what a nice emoji."
Gens Foundation (Photo: Natalie Schur)
Facebook has become a large and wide arena of recommendations and the average Israeli is attacking the wealth of information there.
Interior designer Keren Gens sifts out the typical respondents: "There is the Israeli who developed a polite and flattering response: 'Wow, what a lovely house, are you really talented, where is the kitchen from? / Where were the claddings bought? / What is the color number of the left wall?' Who wants to get what he wants with as few keystrokes as possible: 'Perfect Where's the closet?'
Or Dhoffffff where the sink. And the Israeli who does not invest, certainly not pandering and no commas or spaces: Aifhkonimathmnorh? '.
"I welcome any comment," says Gens, "It's nice and fun react on a project I designed, but it is important to remember In each project, many hours of design, planning and foot classes are invested in the stores until a perfect look is created.
So if you feel like it, give a good word, write politely and parry Blake and what a nice emoji. "
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