Decomissioned church redesigned by architect and designer with Christian themes throughout including the bathrooms
NETHERLANDS---When Ronald Olthof and his partner, Sofie Suiker, decided to buy a home, their first instinct was to find an old building they could renovate. An abandoned industrial space, maybe. They never dreamed they would end up in a church. Then they happened to see a vacant church, in Haarlo, a small town nearby. And they had a good feeling about it, he said. After a certain amount of back and forth, the couple bought the 1928 chapel, which had been used by the Dutch Reformed Church, in March of 2011 for 130,000 euros (about $177,000) and set about converting it into a home. He added: “We honor the holiness, but bring something innocent and mischievous to its modern form.” [link]
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