Category Archives: Blog

The workshop and the showroom in Jdeideh are the same address. That changes what you can ask for, what you can check before you commit, and what happens when you want something altered.

A green wall looks like one surface but is really a grid of panels. What goes into a panel — the backing grid, the foliage mix, the layering that creates depth — and how it is mounted on concrete, block or plasterboard, indoors and out, including the edges and corners where the job is actually judged.

There are two ways to end up with a large olive tree in the corner of your living room: choose one that already exists, or have one built to fit the space. Here is how to tell which route is yours — and the three measurements that decide it.

Ask how long an artificial tree will last and any honest answer has to refuse a single number. The trunk, the foliage, the frame and the base age at completely different speeds — and knowing which part is the clock tells you how to judge any tree you are offered, indoors or out.

Almost nobody arrives with a brief. What arrives is a sentence — and that is enough. Here are the four facts that turn a vague wish for greenery into a buildable design, and what is genuinely useful to send us first.

Salt air, wind and shallow planters are why real palms struggle on pool decks and roof terraces. Here is what separates a convincing artificial palm from a plastic prop, where they belong, and what “outdoor” actually requires.

A hotel lobby is judged in the time it takes to cross it. Lobby greenery fails for one of three reasons — wrong size, wrong place, or somewhere it cannot survive — and all three are solvable before anything is ordered.

People almost always ask about the trunk first, and almost never about how many leaves are going onto it. It is the wrong way round — foliage density is what decides whether an artificial tree still convinces on the fifth look.

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.