Jewish News Interiors Supplement 977

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Your kitchen hero / Interiors

KITCHEN Stardom It is the most important room in the house so get an expert to look after it, says Brigit Grant

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f your house were a movie, the kitchen would be the hero. Obviously the lounge would co-star along with the bedrooms as romantic leads and the bathroom as a possible detective.

But it is the kitchen – where we come together to, eat, socialise relax and cook – that drives the story.

For that reason, any building, refurbishment and decorating of the kitchen must be done by those who appreciate its star status.

Wilson Fink is just such a company and has been rebranded with completely new and exotic designs, some of which can be seen on its newly-developed website – wilsonfink. co.uk. The company does bedrooms, too, but appreciates the importance of the kitchen and will never compromise on quality.

“That is why we have managed to win

the trust of our loyal customers and whatever the challenge, we never back away,” said a spokesman. “Innovation is a must in the field of designing and we think you will find our German kitchen designs to be the most unique and creative compared to our competitors.”

Like anything you wish to consider for a permanent instalment in your home, it is best to see the products up close, and so Wilson Fink advises you to drop by its showroom in Radlett and see the fascinating interior designs for quality German kitchens.

“Our customers are in a state of awe when they do,” said the spokesman, which is surely an incentive to visit.

When you have questions about doing your kitchen, no one is better placed to answer them than Oliver Wicksteed, the

A contemporary Wilson Fink kitchen with a country feel

co-owner and kitchen designer at Cameo Kitchens. Curious about what’s new in materials and colours? Then just ask Oliver.

“White has been popular for an awfully long time, but grey is becoming the colour of choice, partly because it takes away the starkness of white and partly because of fashion trends,” he says. “Grey looks great as a contrast to other colours, but also mixes well with materials such as wood and there is a distinct trend towards matt and satin finishes rather than glossy.”

Oliver says the days of tiled kitchen worktops are long gone for both practical and hygiene reasons.

“Tiles are almost exclusively now used as feature elements of a kitchen design, with materials such as porcelain very popular.

Otherwise, tiles are now primarily used on

Chic and exotic design by Wilson Fink

the floor, with larger tiles of up to 600mm square, using colours such as whites, creams, blacks and greys and natural stones such as limestone.”

Cameo does worktops in materials such as Silestone, Dekton, granite and laminate and glass is used to create a wow factor in your kitchen, with fashionable paint finishes that complement a material such as slate or porcelain from a feature wall and create texture in a kitchen design.

Oliver will even chat about taps and recommends installing a boiling water tap for instant hot drinks. Get a spray tap too, which is used by all the leading restaurant kitchens as it is a great way of washing and rinsing items and remember modern taps can also come with a water filter or combinations of features, such as mixer tap with water boiler.

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Interiors / Your kitchen hero When it comes to new tech appliances, Cameo Kitchens (cameokitchens.co.uk) are at the top of their game, citing wireless worktop charging systems as a favourite, as it charges up your mobile phone or tablet simply by placing them on your kitchen worktop or counter.

“LED taps turn your kitchen sink into a major talking point among friends and dinner guests, with amazing multicoloured water,” says Oliver. “And Sous Vide vacuum drawers are in fashion owing to TV cookery programmes.

Simply vacuum pack the ingredients, sealing them in the bag in the drawer, and then you place the bag directly on the oven shelf.”

For those who are mainly interested in setting up a shomer Shabbat kitchen, in-toto Kitchens (intoto.co.uk) are the people you need as they have made a point of finding out the needs of the Jewish community.

To understand what is required and get it right, they have invited Jewish News cook Denise Phillips to their showroom to road-test the Sabbath settings on their appliances.

“We also know that more and more the kitchen has become open plan serving as a multi-function room,” explains one of their knowing designers.

“Our aim is to create something striking and practical, as it is all very well suggesting lots of high tech gadgets, but if you aren’t going to use them, there is no point installing them. We take time to understand our clients’ needs and get them exactly right whatever their budget.”

And that is the ideal starting point for a kitchen in a starring role.

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Perfect Israeli pads/ Interiors

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AT AZORIM, we believe that a home is much more than four walls – a home is people, and a home is a community. And what is inside those four walls matters equally to us. One of our fundamental beliefs is that people who live in our homes have a sense of belonging.

The foundation for each of Azorim’s projects is its design, striking a perfect balance between the privacy of family life and a strong connection with the neighbours. We are dedicated to our commitment to quality furnishing and finishes. This is why, for nearly half a century, we have been planning our projects with meticulous attention to small details – details that make all the difference in granting our residents a rich community life.

Our vast experience, as well as the company’s commitment and financial stability, has made Azorim one of the largest, most experienced companies in Israel’s real estate realm.

As we celebrate 50 years of entrepreneurship, it is delightful that we have sold and built more than 170 ,000 homes over the years.

We are constantly renewing and changing to remain in sync with the needs of today’s Israeli and international families – creating quality neighbourhoods designed to meet residents’ every need, including gardens, green spaces, recreational facilities, shopping centres and more.

We currently have 2,500 apartments under construction in prime locations. Our vision is to create the very best residential environment

in Israel, opening a portal to living within a quality, caring community.

Our architectural design offers a spacious living environment and a range of practical solutions for comfortable life. Our range of apartments, across all our projects, include modern spaces in various sizes, applying advanced technologies and high quality materials and amenities.

Take our Arzei HaBira project in Jerusalem. It has an underfloor heating system, matched with electric window roller shutters with Shabbat command for windows.

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Interiors / DIY? You bet

FIXER UPPERS of the faith!

According to a famous comedian, we don’t do DIY. Debra Barnes disagrees

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hen Jackie Mason announced on stage that Jews can do nothing with their hands, we all laughed. “Ever see a Jew measure a room in his house?” Mason asked, as he walked across the stage with one foot tightly in front of the other. It was hilarious, because it is a truism. Yet when we asked readers if they’re handy with a hammer, the response was surprising.

Turns out that some of us defy the myth and, as DIY wizards, can change more than lightbulbs.

Take Linda Bloom. When she needed some new curtains, she decided to have a go at making them herself. “I watched one video and worked it out from there. Once I’d made the curtains, I decided to fit the tracks too,” she said. That was 20 years ago, but Linda, now 67 and recovering from a hip replacement, is still a DIY queen.

“I have a drill, glue gun and hacksaws in my toolbox,” she said with glee. “I live alone and do all the jobs around the home, including flatpacks, cutting blinds down to size and fitting them, in fact every job from changing old fashioned electric fuses to installing a video camera intercom. I also tackle painting and I’ve laid four

metres of artificial grass in my garden.”

Self-taught Linda says it helps to be good at maths “for getting the measurements right”.

She continued: “I like a challenge and enjoy the sense of achievement I get from doing stuff myself, and obviously the financial aspect is also a factor.

“The leg on my sewing cabinet needed replacing and a builder told me it was going to be a big job to repair, so I went to Homebase, bought some hinges and wood and fixed it myself. My white Audi was scuffed, so I repaired it with an £8.99 kit. When my son saw it, he asked where I had taken it, as it looked like new!”

Linda, who lives in Stanmore, is also a dab hand with a sewing machine and made the dresses for her daughters’ bridesmaids. “It’s satisfying to do it yourself. I have to confess that my talents do not stretch to the kitchen though – you’re most likely to find my son cooking and me on the floor fixing the waste disposal!”

“I’m a fiddler,” announces Howard Messias, 70, from Borehamwood. “My forte is wiring. I was an auto electrician by trade before I retired and although most modern items these days are ‘throw away’, I can often find a fix. I enjoy fiddling about trying to repair things. I was able

DIY Queen Linda Bloom likes a challenge

Wiring is Howard Messias’ forte

It’s barbells and a glue gun for Mitchell Klein

to fix the front and back washers on a Ford Focus recently for £50 instead of £400 by realising they worked the same way as an electric window motor. I once fitted a waste disposal using a car jack to lift it up. It’s all about lateral thinking, which is something I learnt from my trade.”

Unlike most Jewish men, Neil Gold doesn’t need to hunt around for his toolbox as he keeps it under the bed in the spare room for DIY emergencies. Fuses, putty, a drill, spanners, chisels – you name it, it’s there and out of the packaging.

“I’ve been building stuff since I moved into my own flat in my early twenties and created a headboard with internal speakers around my bed,” says Neil. “I’ve tiled floors, built and fitted cupboards and shelves, colour schemed and decorated a nursery and several bedrooms.”

Neil will give way to the experts when it comes to extensions and roof repair, “but I’ve yet to hire anyone who can hang wallpaper as well as I do,” he says and loves the trend for feature walls. “For a keen amateur like me, they are a showcase.”

When Carolyne Klein returned from an aerobics class 20 years ago and found her kitchen cupboards ripped off the wall, she realised her future husband Mitchell was a keen DIYer. “I’d had my eye on those cupboards for a while, they didn’t look right and anyway I wanted to have a go at tiling her kitchen floor,” admitted Mitchell.

He still gets satisfaction out of his own handiwork. “He has decorated, tiled, plastered and laid laminated flooring throughout the whole house,” explains Carolyne proudly. “Before launching his personal training business last

Neil Gold loves a feature wall

year, he laid the flooring in the play room and converted it into a gym with full length mirrors.

The results are great and his clients comment on how tranquil the atmosphere is in there.

“Mitchell is a perfectionist. We could be getting ready to go out and he will get the paint pot out because he can see a mark on the wall.

Anything that’s broken he will try to fix; in fact, he wants to fix things that aren’t broken. For example, when we had the rear extension done, he wasn’t happy with the plastering carried out by the builders, so he replastered it himself and then tiled the new kitchen floor. He wasn’t happy with the tiles we chose, so he retiled the kitchen floor a year later.”

Residents of Edgware may be familiar with the problem of flooding gardens owing to the clay soil. Rather than pay out £5,000 to a drainage specialist, Mitchell decided to have a go himself. “He dug the most enormous ditch in the ground – it took him ages and we all thought him mad as he would spend hours out there. Then he placed large crates in the ground, and relayed the grass. He raised the level of the lawn so we don’t get the rainwater collecting in our garden now and we were delighted with the results. I never thought it would work,” admits Carolyne.

Jackie Mason , we proved you wrong.

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Interiors / Bathrooms

SPLISH SPLASH Time for taking a bath T

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And they have done many bathrooms, including one for none other than “Le Professeur” of the Emirates Stadium, Arsène Wenger. For the record, it wasn’t red and white, but that is as much as Trevor will reveal, as he is an Arsenal fan.

When it comes to designing the layout of a bathroom, the guys hand over to their designer, Sarah Gore, who can do a full computer-aided design drawing for a client and will advise on colour combinations and product features from the latest ranges and technology in the business.

The rest of the Radlett Premier team do the estimating and installation, as well as associated building work, such as plumbing, tiling, electrical works and decorating.

“Creating bathrooms for onebedroom flats to large houses is what we do well,” explains Trevor simply.

The company stays on top of bathroom trends and in the past few years has replaced eternally popular white tiles with on-trend grey, moved away from fitted furniture to the more userfriendly modular kind and noticed our love for showers.

“The bath has really been sidelined in favour of fixed head showers or showers on a slide rail,” clarifies Trevor, who acknowledges that as we’ve become time-short, luxuriating in the tub is not as popular as it once was.

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Interiors / Stylist

A week in the life of interior stylist

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By Alex Galbinski

TUESDAY MONDAY Next week I’m doing a four-day spring/summer 2017 shoot for partyware company Talking Tables. The company had already told me the 10 ranges it will display and the budget so, as the stylist, I have to make sure that I have all the right elements, such as tablecloths and flowers. So today I went to a prop house – big warehouses that have rows of every imaginable prop in various styles and colours, including china in any design – and ordered furniture, tables, backgrounds and accessories. As I’m not at my desk for much of the day, I check in with clients all the time about upcoming shoots for their magazine, brochure or press launch. When you’re working on one job, you’re always having to prep for the next one.

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As the former craft editor for different magazines, including Prima and Essentials, I’ve done everything from building tables to recovering chairs, making cushions and table decorations. Today I was organising, spray painting and gluing all the things I need for a major shoot tomorrow – I’m upcycling six items. As it’s for the January issue of a magazine that won’t be out until next month, I can’t tell you exactly what I’m doing, but upcycling is a big thing, especially in the new year, when people want to give their home a new lease of life. I never throw things out if they’re detailed or an interesting shape, as no one wants their house to be a carbon copy of anyone else’s. I ended the day making notes on the steps I’ll be doing.

WEDNESDAY We started shooting by 9am in a tiny but very central and trendy location house on Columbia Road in London’s East End. We looked around the house – actually two that had been knocked through – and chose the spots we thought would work. It took six trips to empty my car of props, which I pack in plastic tubs so I know what’s in each. The first shot always takes the longest to set up, but this time it was quite quick. As companies want images for their websites, Facebook and Twitter feeds as well as their magazines, shooting takes twice as long.

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I wrote up all the steps for the six crafts I styled yesterday – companies are keen to get the copy straight away. Some of the projects are very easy – it’s a case of getting things together and just gluing them – but for those you have to sew, they can be very difficult to explain in words. After filing the copy, I can return the props and make sure any damage done is paid for. Then I can invoice.

FRIDAY Last week we broke a vase on a shoot, so today I paid for it and arranged the return of all the hired props and packed away my own. I have so many – five or six big boxes – that I put them away, not just so my family doesn’t trip up on them, but also so I can find them again before the next shoot. This can take a good hour or two and you can’t even see my kitchen table at the moment! One client wanted to see drawings of how I think their video shoot should be styled, so I emailed them.

They were happy, but we need another table and a coat rack.

I sent a poster to the printer’s for the video shoot on Monday and made a note to pick it up over the weekend. Happily, I invoiced the client from Wednesday’s shoot as well as the one from last week. My work is often all or nothing – no week is ever the same and it’s certainly not glamorous, but it’s very varied and there’s always something new and exciting.

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Sleep tight / Interiors

And so to bed Debbie Collins has got her mattress requirements all tucked up MOST of us greedily watched the weekly instalments of The Great British Bake Off and when it came to the innuendos, they were as plentiful as doughnuts at Chanukah.

‘Soggy bottom’, ‘firm base’, ‘nice bounce to it’ – these were just a few of quips we sniggered at behind Mary Berry’s back.

When buying a new bed, you could apply the same bake logic – firm, soft, springy. Except it’s no laughing matter; gone are the days of setting aside an hour or so at the weekend to buy a

bed. It is a serious business that requires much research, not to mention hands and feet-on experience.

The Sleep Council advises replacing your bed every seven to 10 years, so if you do your homework properly, then a trip to the shops hopefully won’t make you feel like crawling back under your duvet. Here are the ‘Four P’s’ to consider when buying a new bed:

PRICE

If your dream is to kip like a Kardashian, then check that your budget can handle the price tag of a super king. A bed is most definitely a luxury item and we all want to sleep like royalty, so if you can afford the extra money on a higher-quality mattress, then definitely go for it. For affordable quality beds, a wide range of mattresses and frames that have much-needed storage, there is no better place to go than the Bed Mattress Factory (bedmattressfactory. co.uk) where owner Benny will help you to find the sort of bed you have dreamt about and at the best price.

POSSIBILITIES

Memory foam, feather-topped, motorised, water-filled, sprung… and that’s just the mattresses. What about the bases? Divan (with or without drawers), bedstead, sleigh, wrought iron, four-poster and so on. Browse the web, ask your friends, post queries on social media – these are all great ways to narrow down your options, but you need to be realistic that a trip or two to a showroom will still need to happen.

It’s a tactile experience and you shouldn’t just go with the first one you try. ‘Go compare’, as the ad says, and if the bed is for you and your partner, then schlep them along, too! Zip together or dual mattresses are no longer just the domain of the uberobservant. The ability to choose medium for Mordechai and soft for Safta has such broad appeal because it means neither party has to compromise on comfort. Curl up, stretch out, fluff those pillows, argue with each other – sales people have most likely seen it all.

PRACTICAL

If you stayed at a hotel and remember having the best night’s sleep on record, call and find out what brand the beds were – chances are you can buy one. Just bear in mind that their bed sizes might be bespoke and therefore finding linen to fit can be a pain. If buying for your children, then consider if they will have sleepovers. Trundle beds with an extra mattress tucked underneath are a brilliant spacesaving idea. Bunk beds are, too, but consider ceiling height.

POSITION

Have you got space for a double bed in the back box room for when your Mancunian relatives come to visit? Estimating the space by using the length of your middle child may seem a good marker, but you need to mark out the floor space accurately. Can you open the door fully? Access the wardrobe? Are you able to walk round the bed easily or does it require a Greg Rutherford-style leap to escape the confines?

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