{"id":146387,"date":"2024-07-14T21:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-home-should-be-a-living-composition-like-a-garden-or-painting-an-artists-home-in-antwerp\/"},"modified":"2024-07-14T21:14:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T14:14:49","slug":"a-home-should-be-a-living-composition-like-a-garden-or-painting-an-artists-home-in-antwerp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-home-should-be-a-living-composition-like-a-garden-or-painting-an-artists-home-in-antwerp\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A home should be a living composition, like a garden or painting\u2019: an artist\u2019s home in Antwerp"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAn unappreciated \u2018hodgepodge\u2019 of a building in Belgium has been opened up into a spacious and unusual homeFor Belgian painter Nils Verkaeren, a home of his own wasn\u2019t strictly necessary. He could just as easily live as a nomad. \u201cIn 2002, I didn\u2019t have an official address. I traded two landscape paintings for a Renault Twingo and set off into the wild. I found it quite easy to have nothing. But owning a home also has its charm.\u201dBut his partner, Eva Wuytjens, needed a place where she felt at home. At first, somewhere in the countryside was their instinct: a logical decision, given that Eva grew up in the country and Nils creates vibrant landscape paintings, preferably in the open air. But also illogical, given their hunger for urban stimuli. \u201cSo we decided to search for a home in Antwerp instead,\u201d says Eva. \u201cWhen we visited this house, right in the city centre, we spontaneously began renovating it in our minds. I understand why many potential buyers backed out: it was a bit of an odd thing. You had to be able to see through the hodgepodge of extensions. The house was divided into numerous small rooms. Additionally, its circulation was not logical at all. You had to walk through various dark spaces before reaching the living areas.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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