{"id":139975,"date":"2023-10-21T21:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/head-for-heights-an-uplifting-belgian-house-conversion\/"},"modified":"2023-10-21T21:11:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T14:11:01","slug":"head-for-heights-an-uplifting-belgian-house-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/head-for-heights-an-uplifting-belgian-house-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Head for heights: an uplifting Belgian house conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nImagination and a sense of fun gave this 1920s Flanders home a low-cost new lookThe remark about installing a climbing wall in their living room was meant as a joke: \u201cOne of the friends my husband goes caving with came to help with the house renovation. When he saw the ceiling height he said: \u2018You could have a climbing wall in there,\u2019\u201d explains Sigrid Princen. \u201cThomas and I said: \u2018Yes. Let\u2019s do it!\u2019\u201dWhen the couple bought their home 16 years ago, they knew once they finished the renovation it wouldn\u2019t remain a typical Flanders property. Built in the late 1920s, the house had a series of rooms that ran on from each other at the rear \u2013 common to Belgian properties constructed in that period. \u201cWe knocked those down and opened the space up with the timber extension,\u201d says Sigrid. What\u2019s peculiar to their home is that the extension has two floors with the mezzanine level housing a bedroom and a small library with a central area that is open and allows light to flow down. Continue reading…
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