Moroccan Interiors and Design

The outside of a Moroccan home looks like this...

Plain plaster, on a narrow street, a few feet from the next.

Then you go inside and it looks like this...

And this...

Completely covered in ELABORATE decor from floor to ceiling.  Mosaic tiled floors, and about the first half of the walls were mosaic tiles.  Then carved plaster till the ceiling, which was always elaborately painted cedar.  Not to mention, all windows are either stained glass or, had iron work in them.

I could do without the floors and walls, but I loved all the ceilings.  I loved the colors the designs, the carved wood.  Oh and the doors were painted as well, or they had intricate carving on all surfaces, or both!

One ceiling without paint, but you can see the wood work.

We went to a tile factory where they make the tiles for the mosaic wall.  All the tiles are placed upside down like this...

 And the result is this.  Gave me a whole new appreciation for the artist.  Backwards and colorless.  I wouldn't have the memory or the eye.

Every mosque had one of these on top to show the direction towards Mecca

These next few are of the first university supposedly ever.  9th century.  Women were permitted, but stood behind wooden dividers so they couldn't be seen

The dark wood is original

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One gate to the Medena

At a restaurant