Stone House, Borochov 17

How to turn a contractor’s apartment into a villa? The leading idea in the design of the apartment was to create a significant transformation from a contractor’s apartment on the first floor to one that would feel like a luxurious villa, it was important to me to make the visitor completely forget that he was visiting an apartment on the first floor of the building.

For this purpose, motifs drawn from luxury houses are used intelligently. Courteous window openers, natural stone coverings that were introduced into the house, the creation of ceiling recesses in continuous and clean lines and the prevention of the air conditioning recesses known in the contractor’s apartments, natural marble flooring, doors and coverings in the 0 line, etc.

The apartment was designed for an observant ultra-Orthodox family and the planning had to take into account aspects of kosher, modesty, symbolism and more.

We have created a modest area for washing hands by creating stone columns that function as sinks, behind which are covered wooden bars that modestly enter the guest toilet.

The kitchen was designed so that it would be possible to maintain the separation between meat and milk both by two sinks and by combining different work surfaces with different textures.

In the main guest room, it was necessary to overcome the fact that there is no television screen that we are all used to, and for this purpose, an impressive fireplace element was integrated in carpentry of a personal design.

One of the most important elements in the house was a library for the holy books which are used by the family both for prayer for the holidays of Israel and for study, for this purpose a library was designed that integrates integrally into the walls of the house, in the crack of which light emanates from glass and back lighting and in front of it are glass doors that protect the books over the years from dust, moisture, etc.