Category Archives: Living Room

Home tour: Ruthie and Ze’ev’s eclectic palace – Part 1

Thank goodness I live in a great neighborhood. I was supposed to take pictures of my brothers house for today’s post but it turns out that the house is filled with ticks from their dog (who is now asleep on my floor…) and it’s currently getting fumigated, so I was stuck without a Monday Home Tour! Out came the phone book and called my neighbor Ze’ev, an architect married to an amazing jewelry artist – Ruthie. I said “Ze’ev, I need your help,” and he replied “Do you want me to pick up your kids?”
Um, no. I need to take pictures of your amazing house.
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They built their home about 10 years ago now, taking things, like the doors above, from old homes Ze’ev has renovated (in Israel they don’t have architectural scrap yards for some reason – they just throw everything away) and incorporating Ruthie’s pottery.

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Dutch Boy’s imaginative interiors

Room Sets By Dutch Boy
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 Paint companies are the best place to look for colorful interior inspirations, I found these photos on the Dutch Boy site.  Having worked for a paint company, I know first-hand how these room sets are made.  All of the rooms shown here are specifically designed to highlight the brightest colors and to show off uber creative decorative techniques.  Come, let yourself be inspired.

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MoHen interior and lighting design

I’m going to Shanghai next week for school – and so I’m of course thinking about Chinese design. I fell into the Mohen Interior and Lighting Design site while checking out what design is like in China these days. 
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Like Israel, China is obsessed with uber-modern design. Up-lighting everywhere, shiny surfaces and sleek sleek sleek. And twigs on a wall – which apparently represent light and have a lot of meaning, but as I have a real thing about twigs in interior design (I really don’t like it, no reason why – it makes my skin crawl)  I’m ignoring them. They just don’t do it for me.

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What do to with an orange sofa?

I love Tchochkes readers. We just got a comment in an ancient post of mine “What not to do with an orange sofa” and it was too good of a question to leave in an old post:
I just ordered a sectional orange sofa that just looks like this one (it’s actually a sleeper sofa) along with brown wood coffee table from Macy’s

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SpiceIT – again

Last week I wrote a post which some people thought…

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Zoli Havazelet Neuman – Israeli interior designer

Zoli Havazelet Neuman is an Israeli interior designer who I…

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I’m still dreaming of that Roche Bobois sofa

Once upon a time there was a woman with small…

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More accessories does not always mean better design

BVD has a new homepage article about Mika and Gideon’s…

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Feeling guilty about the ‘What not to do’ post

I’m feeling guilty about yesterdays post regarding what not to…

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Store Review – Vastu

Vastu is a very cool furniture shop located in Moshav…

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