* Interior of our Home in Yemin Moshe, Jerusalem
*
A View of the Kitchen
The Kitchen has two windows overlooking the South where the
windmill is situated, whereas from a third window one has a view
on Mount Zion, adjacent to the Old City of Jerusalem.
The kitchen table is of a massive wooden top placed on a white
washed concrete-block wall, accompanied by two wooden benches
with pegs to hold the legs and upper plank together.
The counter is made of slabs of greyish marble, whereas the doors
for the cabinets were modeled from massive wooden Spanish doors
which were cut up in order to serve their purpose of kitchen
cabinet doors. Since the cabinet's legth supersedes the amount of
doors at our disposal, I added two units of drawers of different
design.
A View of the Kitchen Table
The floor of the kitchen is made of natural stone slabs which
were brought in from the Judean Hills near Ramot to the west of
Jerusalem. The stone slabs of the rest of the kitchen came from
the famous Ramallah Quarries, red-buff slate.
The floor tiles which were used for the livingroom are the
famous "Mizzi Yehudi" stone slabs, the hardest stones
quarried in Jerusalem itself during the last century. In ancient
times, every single home in Jerusalem had these stones as floor.
By the frequent use of water to clean the floor, the stones
blistered and about 40 years ago most of the floors in Jerusalem
were covered with modern tiles. When we dug in the room which
serves us today as bedroom, an entire floor of Mizzi Yehudi
stones was found which I took to the living, balcony, entrance
and patio downstairs. This served the purpose of making the
entire floor upstairs into one unit.
A View of a Carved and Painted Kitchen
Door
I like wood-carving and therefore many of our doors are carved
and painted. The motifs are taken from Moroccan Art. The
painting consists of overlaying layers of paint which has been
partially removed by grinding and scraping. The dominant colors
of the kitchen are brown, beige and orange, accentuate by black
and sometimes yellow and red, earthy colors which gives the
kitchen a rustic look.
A View of the Kitchen Counter
The counter in the kitchen is of made of marble.
Table and view into the Livingroom
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