Artpro developers - designer Keren Meir/Maor Moyal
The project: Renovation of a private house in Moshav in central Israel
Area: 250 square meters
Residents: a traditional couple whose children have grown up and left the nest
Interior designer: Keren Meir
Iron Works and developers: Artpro
Moshav Yad Rambam is an island of silence in the center of the country, surrounded by open spaces and greenery that can be seen from all sides. The owners of the house built their house about 25 years ago, a spacious house with two floors and a basement that matched the needs of the family in the past. Even today, the couple needs Accommodation spaces that will be able to entertain the extended family comfortably and comfortably, when they come to stay.
In the living room, which is the main meeting point for the members of the house, all the developers were careful in the new design. These were enlarged to the maximum possible and framed in minimalist Belgian profiles produced and designed by the Artpro company.
Artpro developers - designer Keren Meir/Maor Moyal
Artpro developers - designer Keren Meir/Maor Moyal
"The adaptation of the structure to the needs of the family today as well as their love for the place and the plot of land were a decisive factor in the decision to comprehensively renovate the house so that they can continue to enjoy it in its updated version for many years to come," explains interior designer Karen Meir.
The main part of the renovation from a functional point of view was concentrated in the public space of the building and the desire to maximize the space for staying and entertaining through the precision of the living space and a new and comprehensive design of the kitchen.
From a design and visual point of view, the guiding line was to give an extensive expression to the continuity of the house with the outside, by careful handling of the iron keys, which was done through the Artpro company.
The goal was to bring the surrounding greenery inside and illuminate the public space through the treatment of the house's openings. Two windows were united into a huge window and the entire kitchen opened to the public space.
Artpro developers - designer Keren Meir/Maor Moyal
Artpro developers - designer Keren Meir/Maor Moyal
One support column was left and the large island in the kitchen was built around it.
Two distinct work areas in the kitchen.
The old kitchen was bounded by plaster walls that allowed for a lot of storage in tall cabinets, but these also blocked the lines of sight to the kitchen from the public space, and vice versa and made it relatively closed and dark.
In the new design, the plaster walls were dismantled and a two-way carpentry wall was erected in their place, which provides high and practical storage from the kitchen side, and on the other side creates a pleasant entrance to the house that includes a small organization bench, lighting and a mirror.
Taking down the plaster walls and leaving only one support column made it possible to enlarge the island and maximize the seating and storage area.
The cooking area in the kitchen was moved to the island and thus two work areas were naturally defined: a dairy area near the sink and a meat area on the island, allowing the couple to work together in the kitchen while maintaining the laws they adhere to.
Another built-in oven is placed on the island to allow cooking several meals at the same time, and in the process maintain eye contact and conversation with the members of the household.
Artpro developers - designer Keren Meir/Maor Moyal
The dining area remained in its previous place, in the alcove next to the kitchen, but it too was upgraded with a metal utensil chest that was specially designed for Shabbat utensils and was made by the talented owner's own hands.
The dresser is also an element of separation between the kitchen area and the dining room area - between the sacred and the profane.
The height of the dresser was precisely designed according to the height of the keys in the space and from the same material, to produce a harmonious and homogeneous feeling.
The essential change in the entire public space was created following the expansion of the house's openings to the maximum possible and the replacement of the old and coarse aluminum with a thin black Belgian iron profile, designed and manufactured by the Artpro company.
Two windows in the kitchen were combined into one large window, a new opening was added in the dining area and the living room window was slightly "pushed" out towards the garden.
The choice of a thin metal profile allowed maximum outdoor viewing, so the house feels immersed in greenery.
In addition, the character of the developers set the tone for the design of the rest of the space.
The delicate partitions that frame the view from the windows like a picture frame correspond with works of art that decorate the walls and that the owner of the house has painted over the years.
Artpro developers - designer Keren Meir/Maor Moyal
Artpro developers - designer Keren Meir/Maor Moyal
The public space contains many seating areas that can accommodate all family members at the same time.
The living room is used for sitting, meeting and talking, and for that reason and demonstrably - there is no television in it.
Since it was decided to keep the original stone floor, which has a slightly creamy yellowish hue, furniture pieces were chosen in wood, off-white and warm gray tones that would blend in with it in harmony, but in the wood they would also rejuvenate and update the yellow and outdated look that characterized the space in its previous version.
But the bedrooms were also treated and upgraded in a more modest way with wooden parquet where the stairs were also covered, replacement of facades for existing carpentry items and refreshing of the furniture and textiles.
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