90 sq.m., NIS 600,000: Renovation of a small and sweet house with a garden
Before the renovation it was a dark and neglected house where a family with many children lived, so how difficult could it already be to turn it into a dream home for four people and a dog?
A few broken walls afterwards, this is the result
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Home and design
03/03/2022
Thursday, 03 March 2022, 00:07 Updated: 00:11
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Project:
Private house, 4 rooms in Kafas
Tenants:
Couple + 2 and dog
Space:
90 sq.m.
Budget:
600,000
Planning and interior design:
Roni Shani Feldstein
Private homes are often very spacious properties, with generous space and a healthy budget that allows them to be combined. Many functions that give a sense of size and space.
But there are also the "old" houses - modest houses, built on one level and not rising to a height with a modest number of rooms.
Actually not modest, but accurate.
Such is this house in Kfar Saba - its area is 90 square meters in total and it has 4 rooms. 3 bedrooms, a living room and a garden, which is exactly what a family of a couple of parents, two children and a cute dog need.
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"When I entered the house for the first time, I imagined how from the entrance they would receive the garden and the light that penetrates from the windows."
A house in Kafas (Photo: Orit Arnon)
White subway tile cladding meets marble with a gray concrete look.
The kitchen (Photo: Orit Arnon)
"When I first entered the house I was right in the market, the house was abandoned and at a very high level of neglect. The previous occupants of the house were a couple with nine children, so I thought, what could it already be? .
The homeowners moved from an apartment to a private home especially because they wanted to allow the kids to play and run around freely and of course they loved the green landscape that surrounds it.
"When I entered the house for the first time, I imagined how from the entrance they would receive the garden and the light that penetrates from the windows as an inviting and pleasant first impression," the designer explains the vision that was formed at first glance.
But in order to carry it out it was necessary to overcome some physical obstacles, in the form of walls that separated reality from the dream and the interior from the light coming from outside.
"I was required to take down walls and brought in a constructor who would confirm all my fantasies to me. Pretty soon we formulated a position plan and set off with the plans and choice of materials."
The plaster parquet and the black profile of the windows were the first choices in design (Photo: Orit Arnon)
Books and decorative items.
Details from the library in the living room (Photo: Orit Arnon)
"Everything went pretty smoothly and we were on time quite surprisingly," Feldstein says.
The first choices made in the project and helped define its design visibility were the parquet flooring and thin black aluminum profiles that would frame the windows elegantly.
All the way through, the client aimed for a certain shade that she really wanted to be prominent in the design, but she had a hard time pinpointing it.
"We wanted to use a shade that the client tried to describe as 'pink, gray, purple brown' ... In the end we compromised on a pink shade in the bedroom and not as a central element in the house," explains the designer.
Iron and wood libraries on both sides of the television (Photo: Orit Arnon)
Lots of cabinets for maximum storage.
Kitchen (Photo: Orit Arnon)
The kitchen has been designed in a matte black shade with lots of cabinets for maximum storage, having a concrete look and classic white ceramics looking like subway tiles.
In front of the kitchen is designed an island that connects to the dining area.
This way the extra storage of the island is obtained, but the tenants have the option to open and enlarge the table for diners and other guests, when the need arises.
In the living room, Feldstein designed an industrial library made of black iron bars and wooden shelves.
It is an open library for storing books and decorative items, and it also embraces television on both sides.
"In choosing the art for the client, it was important to go for happy pictures and we chose a pleasant color palette that with gentle touches of green connects to both the green chairs in the dining area and the cushions in the living room," says the designer.
An island that connects to the dining area (Photo: Orit Arnon)
In the parents' bedroom, as mentioned, the coveted and elusive hue to which the landlady lusted was expressed.
The walls of the bedroom were painted up to two-thirds of their height in a delicate pink hue, at the entrance to the room was placed a small work desk and next to it an upholstered chair, so that it would be really comfortable to sit and work on - because the landlord works from time to time.
The bed and the chests of drawers next to it moved with the couple from their previous apartment, and next to the closet hung wooden hooks that correspond with the color of the parquet.
"In the bathroom we chose devastating black hexagon flooring and clean white tile walls. The combination created a modern and classic shower in shades of black and white," says Feldstein.
An elusive and coveted shade.
Delicate pink in the parents' bedroom (Photo: Orit Arnon)
A work area that is really comfortable to sit and work from all day (Photo: Orit Arnon)
Modern and classic.
Master shower (Photo: Orit Arnon)
The children's rooms were designed according to the character and interests of the children - son and daughter.
"We created a cool climbing wall above the bed that he just climbs on all the time and gets excited over and over again," says Feldstein. .
In the daughter's room, the designer created a colorful frame for the niche of the bed in a bright but pleasant shade of pink, thus emphasizing both the bed and a kind of separate area for sleeping, which actually visually increases the space.
Climbing wall above the bed.
Children's room (Photo: Orit Arnon)
The color delimits a designated area for sleeping within the general space of the room.
Children's room (Photo: Orit Arnon)
Suppliers:
Kitchen - Logat Kitchens, black Nano Formica kitchen, a combination of natural oak shelves
Marble concrete - Pervital
Dining table and sofa - Beitili
Green chairs - contrast
Cabinets / shutter cabinet at the entrance to the house - Riviera
Lighting fixtures - Thomas
Accessories for the whole house - bandaged
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