Actress Anastasia Tsvetaeva showed ELLE DECORATION her apartment near Tel Aviv, which she designed herself

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Actress Anastasia Tsvetaeva has been living in Israel with her husband since 2010. Here they bought an apartment in the city of Herzliya near Tel Aviv, which Anastasia designed herself. “If you climb on the roof of our house, you can see the sea, but we live on a low floor, so we have palm trees and flowering Bougainvillea bushes outside the window,” she says.

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“When we first saw our future apartment, we immediately realized: this is IT, we want it! There was everything that we only imagined in our dreams: a respectable neighborhood, a clean, enclosed courtyard, a relatively old house (it is not even ten years old!), the right number of rooms, a spacious balcony, a dressing room, underground parking, even a special place for bicycles in the entrance. Well, an adequate price for all this. We were in a hurry with the repairs, because the task was to move as soon as possible: the children had to go to a new school and kindergarten.”

“When we first saw our future apartment, we immediately realized: this is IT!”

Anastasia was engaged in the design of the apartment herself, without involving third-party specialists. “I was an idea generator, although I coordinated everything with my husband. But, thank God, we have similar tastes, we are both Libra according to the horoscope, and we had to quarrel quite a bit—” Anastasia laughs. – Although when we did argue about 50 shades of gray in the children’s rooms, we almost killed each other!”

Living room

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Hallway.

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A fragment of the living room.

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Deciding what the image of the new house would be, Anastasia chose between several directions. As a result, two became priorities: Scandinavian style and Provence.

“Interiors in this style are closest to me. A lot of wood, a combination of white with natural wood, interspersed with black, vintage items — very cozy and soulful. In addition, I wanted to combine the Mediterranean style and the style of old Moscow apartments, which I miss so much. Well, to add a little New York loft – the wall in our living room with open brickwork. With the world by a thread, as they say, ” says Anastasia.

Kitchen.

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Bathroom

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Kitchen combined with dining room.

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In other rooms, the walls are partially papered, the floors in the apartment are wooden. Both decisions are atypical for Israel. “Everyone here makes stone or tile floors, parquet is rarely laid, and we also have it made of bamboo! Perhaps this is the only apartment in the country with a bamboo floor,” Anastasia laughs. — As for the wallpaper – due to the peculiarities of the climate, there is a very high humidity here, there is a danger that they will start to get wet, bubble or even become covered with mold. But we took a chance. We ordered wallpaper in Holland.”

A fragment of the bedroom.

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Bedroom.

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From the old Moscow grandmother’s apartment, the actress, among other memorabilia, moved her great-grandfather’s paintings to the new house. “His works, romantic and tender, he painted mainly in oil. Rarely came across watercolors and graphics. I remember them from childhood,” Anastasia says.

Children’s room.

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On the walls in the corridor you can see posters with engravings by Mauritz Escher, brought from The Hague. In the interior there are works by other artists: Svetlana Marshalkina and Marina Peregudova.

“These are my artist friends. Svetlana sent me her paintings from the USA, Marina – from Italy. And they fit perfectly into the interior!” – Anastasia comments. In the dining room above the dining table hangs the work of the artist Natalia Suzeva “Note”.

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Anton Mislavsky

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Most of the furniture in the apartment is made according to Anastasia’s sketches: kitchen cabinets, wardrobes in children’s rooms, storage systems in bathrooms and even doors. A sofa for the living room and a TV stand in the style of the 1960s were ordered from a local workshop in Jaffa. All the lamps were bought here at the flea market. “I found a shop of a master who makes chandeliers from old sugar bowls, salad bowls and candy bowls!” says Anastasia. By the way, the sockets and switches in all rooms are in the vintage spirit, brought from St. Petersburg. Much attention is paid to the details. No wonder, because Anastasia has her own online store of accessories and jewelry Nastia Olgan.

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Anton Mislavsky

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Anton Mislavsky

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Another attention-grabbing object in this apartment is the piano “Red October”. The instrument is right in the bedroom. “Our family is absolutely not musical, I have never played anything, my husband too. And, as often happens in this case, we decided to teach music to our son,” Anastasia says. — I fundamentally did not want to buy an electronic piano, I dreamed of an old instrument, “with a soul”, as I love. And we found an ad on the Internet for the sale of this piano. Apparently, one of the emigrants transported it with him from Russia to Israel.

I tortured my son Kuzya with private piano lessons for two or three years. But he didn’t show any abilities. Then I stopped this process because I already had a daughter. And now I hope she will master the instrument someday!”

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Anton Mislavsky

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The owners’ favorite place is the balcony. There is a lot of greenery here, Anastasia and her husband have put a wrought-iron table and two French-style armchairs. “I jokingly call the balcony “our vegetable garden”, we grow mint, basil, cilantro, rosemary here. On warm summer evenings, we often sit on the balcony with a glass of wine or work on laptops,” says Anastasia. – And we dream of a big house with a garden… This will be our next project!”

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