Design: Ofry Yarom
Photography: Tal Brushel
Carpentry: woodsmith
The Alpine cabin project covers an area of 150 square meters on a single level and has 5 bedrooms. In the design process, the clients, with the help of the designer Efri Yarom, took a new house and changed its internal division and materials. The simple village," says Yarom, "The interior design of the Alpine cabin project is functional and aesthetic: the design is characterized by traditional materials such as wood, stone and natural textiles, along with adaptation to modern life. For example, the flooring is a split natural oak parquet, the carpentry uses ash wood and oak, and American walnut wood, in the living room the walls are covered with gray natural wild stone, and the armchair is covered with natural sheep cloth that came straight from Iceland."
At the entrance to the house, there are storage cabinets on both sides of the door - one, a black cabinet notched with the appearance of wooden beams. The second cabinet is an ash wood cabinet with a shoe bench next to it which is found at the entrance to every typical alpine cabin. "The use of wild stone is very common in alpine cabins, especially in the Austrian region, together with wood that gives the cabin a warm and homely feeling," Yarom says. Also in the kitchen there is a repetition of the combination of wood and stone: the kitchen is spaciously designed and included an Asha wood kitchen combined with an island made of wild stone - super white granite. The super white granite has a wavy, watery and flowing appearance, reminiscent of the many sources scattered in the Alps.
"In order to maintain design minimalism and maximum movement, we added a dining area that was made by a craftsman carpenter and is a direct continuation of the stone island," Yarom says, "The division between the kitchen area and the living room area is done in a harmonious way using only furniture, so that one continuous family space is created between all The sitting areas. In the living room, a sofa with natural linen fabric, and a butterfly armchair with natural sheep's wool that came straight from Iceland. The pieces of wood for the fireplace and sheep's wool are a typical and common sight in every chalet in the Alps."
For the purpose of the project, we collaborated with an artist who painted two pictures of a typical sight seen from the Alps - tall fir trees covered in snow, and deer antlers, a hint of the beautiful wildlife found in these areas. Natural-looking logs are scattered in the living room, giving the appearance of a cabin, along with a handmade coffee table made of natural oak. In the bedroom there is a huge carpentry cabinet in white color combined with American walnut wood, with a writing desk integrated into it. Next to the desk is a natural cosmetics cabinet of spa products, bath salt and aromatic oils.
Beside the closet, the room has oak furniture - a bed, dressers and a stool that were also custom made by hand. Natural and breathable textiles are used in the bedroom, with bedding, curtains and pillows made of natural linen fabric. In the parents' bathroom, the door was replaced with a glass door to maximize the passage of light between the bedroom and the bathroom. The sink cabinet is made of natural oak wood and above it are bathroom accessories of natural marble stone.