Interior design from Janneke & Sven

This is the interior design from Janneke, manager of the Museum of Bags and her husband Sven, director of the Human recourse company Hollandse peper. In 2008 they were house hunting in Amsterdam. They were looking for a house on the Prinsengracht they could renovate and could design from scratch. Via a website they ended up in a former printing company they bought for € 825.000, -. A magnificent four-storey building. The renovation could begin.

Interior renovation

In order to transform this old printing house in Jane and Sven had sought help from Ad Bogerman and Thomas Dill of BogermanDill architects. It would be no easy task. Because it has become a monumental building was going on facade not happen that much.

The former printing house has four floors with floor heights ranging from more than three meters to about two meters high. The opening up of the existing building is by means of ladders and steep stairs by former lifting shutters. Over the years, from all sides of the building was built. Direct sunlight reaches the floors only by a small number of windows in the southeast corner of the building.

The operation of the design provides for the creation of an open central space of three layers in the middle of the building. This new space connects the upper three floors allowing direct relationships between the various housing functions as possible. The facade and roof vents are made to sunlight and views into the central area to get.

New layout

Behind the entrance door is the entrance to the separated space on the ground floor. The open steel staircase in the double-height entrance hall to the living area of ​​the house is accompanied by a timber volume. This volume of storage and service space is the separation between living, working and the entrance hall.

The first floor is the central place in the house where open stairways around the central area the floors together. The kitchen on the first floor is the center of the house in which the upper living room and den are directly connected. The degree of openness of the stairs and railings define the connection to the central place in the house.

The bedrooms on the top floor to hang and confined spaces under the roof and are thus indirectly to the central space. The walkway between the two bedrooms are covered with hanging plants, so that here the relationship of sight is filtered.

The last stage which is hewn out of the bedroom wall leading to the future roofterrace.