Talbiya was built in the 1920s and 1930s as a neighbourhood of grand stone houses, and the detail in them still sets the standard for the work. We renovate here in English, at the finish level these buildings ask for, for owners in Jerusalem and abroad.
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Apartments inside divided historic villas, finished to the level the building already sets.
High specification kitchens detailed to sit properly inside a period room.
Rebuilt from the waterproofing up, in stone and tile chosen to suit the house.
Carved surrounds, sills and patterned floor tile matched or remade.
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The villas between the Jerusalem Theatre, Hansen House and the President's Residence were built with real ambition: arched and columned windows, decorative floor tile, carved stone surrounds and interior detail drawn from several traditions at once. Many were later divided into apartments, so a single flat can hold a remarkable amount of original material.
Work at this level lives or dies on matching. Replacing a run of original tile, a stone sill or a plaster cornice means sourcing or fabricating to match what is already there, and that is a lead time question as much as a craft question. We identify those items early and order them before demolition rather than after.
Talbiya also has a high share of apartments owned by people who are not in Israel most of the year. That shapes how we run a job here: fixed reporting, clear approval gates, and a site that is always presentable because a neighbour or an agent may walk through at short notice.
A high share of Talbiya apartments are owned by people who are in Jerusalem for part of the year, often with an architect, an agent or family visiting the site in between. We run these projects so that any of them can walk through at short notice and find the work presentable and the schedule current.
You get one English speaking contact, scheduled photo and video reporting, and written approval gates before any stage that moves the budget. Long lead items such as matched tile and cut stone are identified and ordered at the start, so the finish is never the thing holding up handover.
In most cases yes. Patterned cement tile is still made in the region and can be produced to a matching pattern and colour, and stone can be cut to match an existing profile. Both carry lead times of several weeks, which is why we identify and order them at the start of the job.
With a fixed reporting rhythm rather than updates on request: scheduled photo and video reports, a live schedule you can check, and written approval gates before any stage that changes the cost. Payments follow completed milestones that have been inspected, not dates on a calendar.
Regularly, and it tends to produce the best result in Talbiya. We price from their drawings, flag anything that will be difficult in a building of this age before work starts, and keep them in the reporting loop throughout so decisions are made once.
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