Ideal Home

Keeping things simple

Living room

A palette of white, brown and soft blue has been used for a feeling of peace and tranquillity. ‘The sun shines in and it makes me happy to sit here in a quiet, clean house,’ says Marieke.

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After 11 years in the same house on a street known locally as ‘the street with the wooden homes,’ Marieke and Alexander moved to a corner house across the road that had a bigger garden for their children. ‘Although there were several potential buyers, the elderly couple who’d lived there for 40

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