From the monthly archives:
A landscape architect’s floor plan
I recently met a landscape architect and to be honest, I didn’t really know what this profession entailed. After doing some research, I now have great respect for this work; it not only beautifies the land but also pinpoints environmental concerns and in many cases is influenced by art and design. Below is a clear example of what landscape architecture can do.
Before
This rocky, muddy mess was transformed into a paradise.
Click here.
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When I was a child my father used to tell me, ‘it’s just as easy to fall in love with a rich man as it is a poor one.’ Now, I’m not saying I’m poor – because I’m not – but I don’t live like this either (yet), and I want to. I repeated my fathers adage jokingly to my husband while walking wide-eyed through the master bath.
When we walked into the master bedroom my husband turned to me and said, ‘I should have listened to your father as well.’
We really liked this house.
Not surprisingly, I took a serious amount of pictures (58 to be exact), so this may end up being 2 posts.
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Happy New Year!
The pomegranate is a symbol for health and re-birth.
Wishing all our readers a year filled with the seeds of good decoration and design.
Thanks for reading Tchochkes!
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That’s one “GREEN” bed!
I came across this photo on the HGTVwebsite. Now come on, who plants grass on the top of a bed? Granted this is a rooftop garden and the bed is meant to be seating, but I still think this is one bizarre design idea…
I wonder how they mow this bed?!
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If middle earth and hobbits ever existed they lived in places that looked like this. The low arched entryway seems hidden and inconsequential behind the garden growing on the walls of the house. This sweet little home in Ein Kerem is owned was bought by the current owners in 1969. The previous owners lived there from 1948 and were selling so that they could move to live in a ’shikun’ (tenament apartment building) in the middle of Jerusalem. They (the previous owners) had done whatever they could do destroy all of the charm in the building, covering the arches and the tile floor. Aveda (the owner) and her husband did all of the restoration work themselves.
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It’s really not important what this wall is advertising, what does matter is how nice these flowers look. In an otherwise dismal city scene, this wall which is just outside the back entrance to the parking garage at the Misrad Hapanim really makes a difference.
Hello Tel Aviv!
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CHAINS
This emerging trend is everywhere…
I saw a lot of it recently on a walk through of the shops in the “Gan Hahashmal” a trendy shopping area in South Tel Aviv just off of Allenby Street (cross street Harakevet).
Chainmail gloves by Real Armor of God
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Lamps is located in the heart of Souk HaPishPishim in Jaffa and has possibly the widest selection of proper (and I define proper as in a lamp with something other than a paper shade) lamps I’ve seen in this country. I fell in love with the lamp below, with it’s green glass shade and brass base. I can’t even tell you why I like it so much, but I do.
The people who own the store happen to be positively lovely as well. The wife was very excited when I told her about Tchochkes and she turned on her favorite light for me to picture…
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Design & Art Stage
Art space meets innovation and wonder, that’s what I left with after visiting Katalog; a new store at 20 Alfasi street in Tel Aviv. Owner & creative director Roni Laufer has done a magnificent job of combining established designers and new artists work. Housed in a well light, under-consructed warehouse atmosphere; the works on display take on a life of their own. Click here.
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Before
This is my kitchen counter. No, it’s not meant to be an advertisement for Palmolive (but if they wanted to be an advertiser on the site I wouldn’t say no). It’s an example. An example of how little things can make a difference.
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