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"You Can See, Touch, and Feel What’s Possible" — How This Interior Designer Turned Her Home Into a Richly-Layered, Live-In Showroom

Pink living room with stone fireplace, linen sofa, cream armchair and patterned curtains.

This former dreary and cold music school in Haarlem, just outside Amsterdam, now looks as though someone has waved a magic wand over it, such is the spellbinding use of color employed by its owners, Leonie Hendrikse and Jeroen Stock of Stock Dutch Design.

They breathed new life into the monumental 1886 building, transforming it into a modern home and their enchanting live/work environment. Small rooms, suspended ceilings, cold, gray, and even a little grim — the words Leonie used to describe what it was like when she bought it.

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