Tchochkes

Doesn’t mean you can set up your own interior design firm.

SpiceIT are an interior design team based somewhere in Israel. My husband sent me their link and asked me what I  thought of them while he was researching topics for tchochkes.co.il.

I find their work provoking. I say this because I looked at page after page of ’straight out of IKEA’ boredom and dullness and wanted to scream. Where is the style? Where is the individuality? Where is the creativity? Where is the design?

I think their work sucks. The room above, for example, has no actual bedding on the bed. The silver lamme drapes should go down to the floor. The padded walls make it look like an asylum. The white on white everywhere is done the wrong way and the IKEA table is just stuck there, too far to be a bedside table, too small to be a coffee table for the sitting area. The silver cushions are tacky, the silver on the door is worse.

I like the color of the base of the bed. That’s it. The room above looks like it was decorated by kids in high school who are simply copying IKEA. If that were the case - I would love the room. However, one has higher expectations from someone stating to be an interior designer expecting to be hired.

Anyone who would pay to have a room look like that should have their head examined.

The room above would be fine if it was, again, just someones room. Actually it looks like a room in a zimmer (Israeli version of bread and breakfast). Still, my old complaints are there - where’s the bedding? What is the purpose of the netting at the foot of the bed? It’s obviously not against mosquitoes. Only one bedside table has a light on it. The bed needs a box spring - the mattress is way too low. And then of course, my favorite - twigs in a vase.

My G-d, do I HATE TWIGS IN A VASE.

Also, what are those blue things on the bed? They obviously aren’t rose petals. Rose petals don’t come in that color. I can’t imagine why someone would decorate a bed with marbles…

Apparently someones poodle died in the center of the bed.

Hate it.

I do like the drapes. Their tonal shading is quite nice. I also like the wall bedside lamps.

Lucky for me, SpiceIT also has kitchens on their site - which I will give my comments on later this week.

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