Home Design Contemporary Add-On Transforms This Dutch 50s Farmhouse



Home Design Situated in a town in Aalten, Netherlands, this 50s farmhouse's redesign is a contemporary mix of the customary and the present day. Department Fraai redesigned the insides in the primary living range, and made an extra living space that fuses the old stable alongside the house. 

Astounding building materials and inventive structural components make the new expansion a champion: "While the current outbuilding was worked from blocks and earthenware rooftop tiles, the augmentation's façade and rooftop are made of dark pre-weathered titanium zinc with concealed aluminum window outlines, for a striking and advanced look," the planners said. To open up the home to the encompassing scene, the expansion showcases extensive glass windows.




The wooden scissor outline truss is a gesture to authentic Dutch homesteads. Brilliant and extensive, the new open-arrangement living, eating and kitchen zone associates with the greenery enclosure through glass entryways. 

The insignificant outline highlights solid ground surface and white mortar dividers making an impartial foundation for the expansive inside wooden shafts. [Photography by Wim Hanenberg]