About the project
The property was built on a 300 sqm plot, the ground and first level extend across 90 sqm and the top floor, a loft, extends across 30 sqm. They asked the Sara and Nirit Frenkel to ensure the house was washed with natural daylight as much as possible, to make it visually bigger and in general to refresh it and make it more current.
This cozy and relaxed feel is apparent from the very first moment you enter the property: with wooden floors and a “festival” of textiles in the main living area. A glimpse of the kitchen and the dining area can be caught from the entrance. The lounge is home to a wide range of materials; fabric sofas, brown leather seats that correspond with various other brown elements throughout the property, a custom-made steel library that displays the family’s decorative items and a white steel framed window that opens the lounge to the view and the swimming pool. Across from the entrance is a steel sculpted banister, leading upstairs. The new staircase brings all elements of the house together and washes the property with an abundance of natural light.
The dining area is located between the kitchen and the lounge. It is a black corner with light thin chairs. To make it unique and to accentuate it, two single dominant light fixtures were chosen, made of brass and milky glass. The chairs warm up the space with their rattan backrest. The small windows were opened up to the maximum, and anything that was not required, from a structural perspective, was demolished to maximize the view of the garden and make the dining area feel like a part of the outdoors.
The kitchen, which is the heart of the house, was changed considerably. The owners wanted it to be cozier and have an industrial vibe to it. It was important to them that the furniture would be light, the openings would be floor-to-ceiling ones and that the old planning qualities would be kept but made more current and adapted to today’s standards. As a result, a large kitchen with clean straight lines and contrasting materials was designed.
Two of the children’s bedrooms are located on the first floor. The feature wall in the youngest son’s room has brick cladding along the top and gray wood cladding along the bottom. Across from it is a steel library that includes a wardrobe and a study corner. The older son’s room was fitted with a black steel library with a built-in study corner and a barn style wardrobe unit. Natural colors and terrazzo flooring were used in the boys’ shared bathroom that is combined with a laundry room.
The guest toilets, which were completely redone and include a free-standing sink, are located behind an integral door adjacent to the lounge. The lower part of the wall is cladded with gray terrazzo and the top part with wood. The parents’ room was spruced up with the help of wooden ceiling beams, a white wardrobe corner that makes the space appear bigger, an abundance of textiles that provide a sense of warmth, and a Belgian steel profile doorway that leads to a wood and terrazzo en-suite.
The area with the lowest headroom was dedicated to the sleeping area and across from it is a study corner situated against a clean white wall with a large exit to a roof terrace. The en-suite bathroom includes a shower, toilet and sink.
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