Welcome to a place of elegance and simplicity on Dubnov Street. Architect, Dan Troim, bought a 2 and a half room apartment two years ago and transformed it into an elegant bachelor pad by tearing down most of the walls and creating one lovely large rectangular space. Dan is known for the stylish restaurant interiors that he does, though he also designs apartments and other projects.
His own apartment is airy and gives one a wonderful sense of space. There is a lot of white and he uses different textures on the walls for some variation on the white theme. Dan added many large windows which means that there is a lot of natural light streaming into the apartment. Unfortunately you don’t see these types of windows often in Israel. This apartment really appeals to my Zen side.
Here is the entrance hall and workspace:
I love this built in bookshelf that lets in the natural light from those fantastic windows.
The open plan kitchen is simple, elegant and pure. There aren’t even knobs on the cupboard doors.
Next to the kitchen, there is an exposed brick wall, painted white to give a variation in wall texture. I like this simple touch.
Light streams into the living area from what used to be the balcony. How amazing are those wooden floors?! They are pine floors painted light gray.
Here are a few angles of the living room.
There isn’t really a bedroom, there’s a kind of sleeping corner, enclosed behind the wall that you see here behind the couch.
The metal window frames and handles are so simple and beautiful (white of course), here’s the frosted bathroom window. All the windows in the apartment are framed in the same way.
The toilet door is a tall, slim white washed wooden pannel with a thin wooden piece for the handle . It’s so refreshing to see a different type of door in an apartment, somehow in Israel the doors all tend to be the same size and shape. There’s another door exactly the same design for the bathroom to the right of the sleeping corner.
This was a big surprise, the man keeps his shoes fresh in an old fridge 🙂 Maybe that’s the way to keep your feet cool in the hot Israeli summers.
So many windows, love it. Here’s yet another one.
Dan is moving into a new apartment so, so prepare yourselves for more great design from him in a few more months.
