Jenny Charwani reveals how she won back and redesigned her new Ramat Gan apartment
Interior designer, holistic therapist, model and influencer Jenny Charwani says her new home in a 28th-floor tower near the Ramat Gan stock exchange was once at the center of her divorce from businessman Roni Mana. She bought the apartment years ago as an off-plan investment, and when the couple split she fought to keep it. “This house was basically the main issue in the divorce,” she said. “I insisted on not losing it. In the end, we reached an agreement and the house stayed in my name.”
Charwani, 45, has lived there for nearly a year with her and Mana’s daughters, Emily, 13, and Aria, 8. She is engaged to architect and real estate developer Gil Grossman, whom she called “the man of my life.” After six years of renting larger five-room apartments in Tel Aviv, including one that cost her NIS 14,500 a month, she decided to move into her own home because rents had become unaffordable for a single mother. She was finally persuaded by one detail at a tenants’ meeting, the building’s gym.
The apartment has four rooms, 95 square meters of interior space and a 22-square-meter east-facing balcony. Charwani said the view changed her mind about moving from sea views to an urban one, describing the nightly scene from the 28th floor as city lights and sunsets reflected in a golden-orange glow. She had only three months to redesign the space, which she did around a light, open plan with white, gray, green and wood tones.
She rebuilt the kitchen, removed the dining area, and used an island that extends into a table to create room for eating and work. She also added hidden storage throughout the apartment, including a pantry concealed by a wall, a touch-open hall cabinet, a laundry unit that can disappear into a groove, and mirrored closets in the bedrooms to make the rooms feel larger. In the living room, Grossman gave her a 30-year-old B&B Italia Charles sofa from his time living in Holland, which she reupholstered. Charwani also placed repeated “LOVE” elements around the home, said energy matters to her, and has returned to design work after years away, working again from her kitchen island and a hidden pull-out office. She says her building and layout now let her produce healthy recipes, fashion content for her 118,000 followers, and practical tips for others renovating homes.
