Once a Church, This Elegant Rotterdam Home Combines Inspiring Architecture and Modern Design in the Most Divine Way

Butter yellow living room with curved sofa, tan leather accent chairs, dark wood and glass coffee table and patterned peach rug.

"It felt like a building with both a story and a future," say the owners of this expansive home, set amid a leafy garden overlooking Rotterdam’s harbor within a four-storey, double-fronted former chapel.

Walking through the first-floor enfilade of living spaces of the modern home, where gracious proportions and original features meet confident, contemporary furniture, that pleasing tension between tradition and modernity seems perfectly expressed.