{"id":139123,"date":"2023-09-09T22:02:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T15:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/living-dolls-house-a-remarkable-renovation-in-amsterdam\/"},"modified":"2023-09-09T22:20:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T15:20:57","slug":"living-dolls-house-a-remarkable-renovation-in-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/living-dolls-house-a-remarkable-renovation-in-amsterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"Living doll\u2019s house: a remarkable renovation in Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThis Dutch apartment started life as a storage space, but a touch of toy design transformed it into a live\/work eyrieNaomi Russell may not be an interior designer, but she has precise views about how her Amsterdam home should look. The \u201cperfectly done space that feels like a showroom\u201d is not for her. What Russell, a theatre producer and founder of arts organisation Espa\u00e7o Agora prefers is a gentle fusion of past and present. It is the approach she applied to her ingenious live-work eyrie. Set on the top floor of a slender 19th-century townhouse, streamlined furnishings and vivacious paint colours are clasped by soaring golden beams so that, as she puts it: \u201cThe provenance of the architecture shines through.\u201dLike most of Amsterdam\u2019s pre-20th century houses, the apartment originally served as a storage space for household clutter. A previous owner converted the 90sqm interior into a home in 2002. The airy, double-height living area \u2013 a ladder stretches up to a roof terrace above \u2013 basks in the brightness of the south-facing front, with two bedrooms and a bathroom tucked behind. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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