{"id":3407,"date":"2025-10-21T17:09:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/2025\/10\/21\/reader-rehab-an-art-nouveau-apartment-in-antwerp\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:09:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:09:42","slug":"reader-rehab-an-art-nouveau-apartment-in-antwerp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/reader-rehab-an-art-nouveau-apartment-in-antwerp\/","title":{"rendered":"Leser-Reha: Eine Jugendstilwohnung in Antwerpen"},"content":{"rendered":"

When graphic designer (and Remodelista reader) Davy Dooms purchased an 850-square-foot apartment located in an Art Nouveau house in Antwerp, his goal was to create a blank canvas. \u201cIn all my work projects, I start by defining a working color palette,\u201d\u009d he says. \u201cI did the same thing in the decorating and furnishing of my own apartment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dooms took his color cues from a favorite exhibition poster; using a palette of \u201cwhite, black, brown, gray, and orange; this is the color combination that makes it all seem whole,\u201d\u009d he says. The rooms have a spacious feel, due to the high ceilings; Dooms\u2019 main intervention was to update the bedroom suite: He replaced the bathtub with a walk-in shower, installed a new sink, and painted the walls white to match the rest of the apartment. With his new blank canvas, he began layering in the only way he knows how.<\/p>\n

Photography by Niko Caignie.<\/p>\n

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Above: Dooms\u2019 styling inspiration is a mix of Scandinavian and American midcentury. The low shelving to the right is integral to the kitchen island.<\/p>\n

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Above: A poster from Danish midcentury designer Poul Kjaerholm\u2019s retrospective in 2006 was the starting point for Dooms\u2019 color palette for the apartment.<\/p>\n

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Above: The kitchen cabinets and island, designed by architect Sofie De Clercq, were a minimalist insertion into the Art Nouveau shell and were installed by the previous owner. (For another look at a minimalist kitchen insertion into a 19th century building, see Minimalist Moves in a Chelsea Townhouse.)<\/p>\n

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Above: The wood in the midcentury tableware brings color into the otherwise black and white dining room.<\/p>\n

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Above: Dooms\u2019 color palette\u2013white, black, brown, gray, and orange\u2013comes together in the living room.<\/p>\n

Above: In the dining room, Dooms\u2019 interventions were minimal. He rebuffed the existing floor and changed the window treatment.<\/p>\n

Above: In the bedroom suite, Dooms installed a wood floor to match the existing ones in the dining room and living room.<\/p>\n

Above: An Eames chair anchors a corner in the bedroom.<\/p>\n

Above: A view from the bedroom to the living room.<\/p>\n

Above: Dooms replaced the original sink and installed a new sink mirror and black countertop.<\/p>\n

Above: The new walk-in shower replaced a bathtub; Dooms built a cabinet around the boiler.<\/p>\n

Above L: The bedroom unit was originally painted green. Above R: A view into the bathroom reveals a corner of the bathtub which Dooms removed.<\/p>\n

Above L: The original sink. Above R. The location of the bathtub, which Dooms replaced with a walk-in shower.<\/p>\n

Above: The sole reminder of the apartment\u2019s green past: a cactus.<\/p>\n

The legacy of midcentury design remains stronger than ever. See 725 images of Midcentury Furniture in our Gallery of rooms and spaces.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Als der Grafikdesigner (und Remodelista-Leser) Davy Dooms eine 850-Quadratmeter-Wohnung in einem Jugendstilhaus in Antwerpen kaufte, war es sein Ziel, eine leere Leinwand zu schaffen. \u201cBei all meinen Arbeitsprojekten lege ich zun\u00e4chst eine Farbpalette fest\u201d, sagt er. \u201cDasselbe habe ich bei der Dekoration und Einrichtung meiner [...]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interior-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}