Before & After: An Architect Couple in Amsterdam Turn a Garage Into a Gauzy, Light-Filled Home
Bringing in skylights, custom glass doors, and tactile finishes, Bart van Seggelen and Valérie Boerma render the car park unrecognizable.
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As far as garages go, this one was pretty standard. At the base of a 1930s building in Amsterdam, the car park—formerly a hardware store—came with oil-stained concrete floors, fluorescent lighting, and reflective tape discouraging drivers from scraping the hefty pillars. Not exactly the makings of a warm and inviting family home, but Bart van Seggelen and Valérie Boerma, interior architects and founders of the design firm Barde + vanVoltt, thought differently.
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Melissa Dalton
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Melissa Dalton is a freelance writer in Portland, Oregon, who has been writing for Dwell since 2017. Read more of her work about design and architecture at melissadalton.net.
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