* Interior of our Home in Yemin Moshe, Jerusalem *

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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.


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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.


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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.


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A View of the Kitchen Counter

The counter in the kitchen is of made of marble.

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Table and view into the Livingroom

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