The location

A new-build hotel in Noordwijkerhout, between the dunes and the bulb fields, with thirty-nine rooms. Commissioned by Chronos Vastgoed, with architecture by Van Maanen. I designed the interior.

The interior

With thirty-nine rooms the risk is repetition, so I let the building itself decide: full-height rooms on the lower floors, and rooms tucked under the roof slope with a dormer and their own sitting corner. Every room has an upholstered headboard running the full width of the wall, a bespoke desk and generous wardrobes, so that a single night and a full week both feel considered.

Colours and materials

A soft, muted palette: sage green against warm off-white, herringbone oak floors and joinery in walnut. Brushed brass details give the rooms their warmth after dark. In the bathrooms I set a hand-textured green tile against pale stone, so that even the smallest room has something worth looking at.

“A hotel room should not feel like a room in a hotel. It should feel like somewhere you would choose to stay.”