Five Families Join Forces—and Finances—to Form Their Own Take on Communal Living in the Netherlands

Craving not just a home but a proper piece of architecture, a handful of design-savvy Dutch families banded together, hired an architect, and set about reaping together what they couldn’t have sown on their own.
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This story was originally published in Dwell’s December/January 2010 issue.

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Jane Szita
Amsterdam-based contributing editor Jane Szita took the train to Ghent–three hours away, but a very different Franco-Flemish culture.

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