Two green walls can look identical on the day they go up. A year later, one is still full and even and the other has bare patches and a tide-mark. An honest comparison of living and artificial green walls for Lebanese homes, restaurants and offices — light, water, power, cost shape and upkeep.
Green absorbs light; neon makes it. A practical guide to pairing artificial greenery with neon signage — the three arrangements that work, which colours flatter foliage, and the mounting and cleaning details people discover too late.
Yes, artificial foliage can fade — but not all of it, and not for mysterious reasons. What UV, heat, dust and pigment quality actually do, how to specify and place a piece so it holds its colour in Lebanon, and what to do if yours has already gone pale.
Most of our projects start with a badly taken photo of an empty corner. Here is the sequence that turns it into a finished tree standing in the room — the three measurements that decide the build, how the species and trunk get chosen, what a quote is based on, fabrication in the Jdeideh workshop, and what happens on installation day.
Blossom is the most photographed tree we build — and the easiest one to put in the wrong room. An honest guide to where artificial cherry blossom trees work, where they don’t, and what makes one look real.
A real olive tree is the right choice in some places and the wrong one in most interiors. Here is how to decide between real and artificial — light, water, weight, size and realism — before you buy.
Square metres are the thing you cannot buy more of in a small Beirut apartment. Ten practical ways to bring greenery into a flat without giving up floor space — walls, corners, balconies, ceilings and pieces that do two jobs at once.
Dust is the only maintenance an artificial tree or green wall really needs — and the one thing most owners get wrong. The right method, the products to avoid, and how often it is worth doing in a Lebanese climate.
Ask where a large artificial olive tree in Lebanon came from and the answer usually stops at a shipping container. We built our studio the other way round — a workshop in Jdeideh with the showroom attached — because the decisions that make greenery convincing are made during fabrication.
Why the olive is the tree Lebanese interiors keep asking for — what makes an artificial one convincing, how to size it to your ceiling, and what to settle before you order one made to measure.
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