Really great space. Thanks for sharing. One question (or two): what is the room witht he bright yello wall and where is that sideboard/ storage/ bookshelf from?

Beautiful place! I'd like to know who makes the brownish sideboard and the yellow rug please? Both are great!!!

Absolutely lovely! Marvelous texture, great pops of charming color, and that wood wallpaper - worth moving it from your previous home!

Love it! And I love their answer to best advice :)

Lovely place..but, what are you waiting for to paint your bed like the wallpaper! (or just the headboard).

Wow. There are so many things I like about this tour, I'm just gonna ramble.
--This is the kind of home that would lift your heart the moment you step inside.
--That wood-pattern wallpaper is an absolute stunner. I covet.
--I would like to know the material and source of the rug under the dining table. I'm looking for something similar, something cat-friendly.
--That chester draws (kidding--chest of drawers) in the work area (picture 10) has given me an idea on how to add funk to the one in my bedroom which I had been thinking of getting rid of.
--That room with the yellow wall is so child-ready!
--Those castors on the coffee table look DIY. Are they?
--I love the striking use of primary colors in this house.
In short, I enjoyed this tour very much, and it's not even my style!

Love this house! Nice and bright and airy, with LOADs of personal touches.

Wonderful home. Very personal, too. Bravo.
Would really like to know where that brown floral lampshade on the yellow lamp in the living room is from?

Thanks for sharing your home with us!

Ugh so gorgeous

bright. cheery. beautiful. fun!

Sunny, a term never used to describe anything in Holland until now!

Please tell me there's a source on the hippo rug from the kitchen! SO CUTE!

So bright and cheerful!

I love the pops of color, the unique personality and especially the hippo rug! (@knitsmcgee - look in the resources under Living Room for the source)
Thank you for sharing

Yeah, international tours! Such a nice change of pace. And this home is beautiful and I agree, so sunny!

I'm a big fan of the hippo rug.

Hallo to my neighbors in the Netherlands from germany. I really love your house. It has a great combination of color. Are the peaces of old wood in the sleeping room are real or is it a wallpaper?

@callmecordelia Thanks for that! I kept looking at the kitchen list and not seeing it. Whoops!

Seems effortlessly wonderful - a nice quality - no straining for effect, just following interests and preferences . . . thank you!

"Sunny" is a perfect word to describe this space

Yes, this is the best house tour so far on Apartment Therapy. I would like to see more international house tours. I like decorating ideas from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Germany as well as much from Dutch folks.

i like the modern clean and kitchsy eclectic. love the star wars art in the bedroom. funny.

We have the New Hope poster from Etsy too! Love it!

So happy to see a Dutch home! As an American living here I really appreciate the way the Dutch decorate. They have an uncanny knack for making modern seem very warm and for having lovely looking homes that are not ostentatious, obnoxious or expensive. So in love with the Netherlands. ♥

-anna
at the chateau

I really love this place. So sweet and simple.

Wow, surprised at all the love. I think it's nice too but, if this house was in the states it would have been a different story. I think Americans just assume it's better if it's from Europe.

I love it. The kitchen is wonderful. Everything looks like it serves a purpose, even if it's purpose is just to look beautiful.

This looks like such a fun home, filled with love!

Beautiful floors. Engineered hardwood? I like the wide board style.

Love the Netherlands, love Dutch people, love this house.

Thanks everybody, for your kind comments!

@sfantl: the storageboard in my studio is from Lundia
@Tizzy13 I inherited the brown sideboard from my grandfather, it's very old. I can't recall where I got the plastic carpet in the studio.
@edmarch: The rug underneath the diningtable comes from Ikea. Our cat likes to sharpen her nails on it...and it still stands strong ;-)
@montreal Betty: I found the lampshade in the livingroom in a thriftshop!
@mermaidblue: the brand of the catclock is 'tapas', I don't know if they have resellers in the U.S. I bought it ages ago in a little shop in Amersfoort.

The wallpaper in the bedroom comes from Dutch designers Studio Ditte, the hippe rug is also a Dutch design, from Droog!

Hi,
I live in the Netherlands and I absolutely love the yellow paint you have used on the wall. I have been looking for something similar but so far with no luck. What paint did you use?
thanks so much

Such a bright and cheerful home.

I, too, would love to know the name of that gorgeous yellow paint.

Lovely place. Question: where is the crochet bedspread from?

Beautiful, crisp, clean, sunny.......stunning, I love it!

I love everything about this!

OMG.......so sunny..... as a Dutchman living in the USA this is such a treat, typical Dutch No Nonsense, mix old with new, throw in quirky objects and colors and you're done, true about stuff on display dot't show it off at once just exchange from storage, purr.....fect

a comment for Sandsdesign, that is not true @ all I am in the interior architecture business and I have lots of trouble to make young clients think different, it's just the way you're brought up. In general the Scandinavian countries are much more open to bright, cheerful interiors for we are, due to our geograhic position, in the "dark" for so long so the houses and the interiors have to be bright...OK!

@tereza & karynjeanne: Woops..I don't know which colour I used exactly, I just chose one of those paper paintsamples you can get at D.I.Y. shops. I'll check if I can find it anywhere at home!
@eriqua The bedspread is crocheted (!) by my husband's grandmother. It's very old (and I keep thinking about the amount of hours it must have taken to make it)!

wow! so wonderful! I love how the house is so colorful. How I wish I can own one like this.

Can you tell me about the flooring? What type? Love it! Thanks.

Beautiful, bright & happy! Love the storage cabinet in the kitchen! This house feels like its loved :)

I so agree with sandsdesign! It looks like Marlous & Pim have created a great place to live. So give praise where praise is due, and we have plenty of that here. But from a design standpoint there is room for criticism yet here we find none, nada, zilch, zero! What's up? Have all Americans suddenly started following their mother's advice? "If you can't say something nice then don't say anything at all." I really wish I could just find it refreshing that Americans are behaving well and no one is running us down. I don't want to be skeptical! But I truly believe if Marlous & Pim were American and their home was in NY they would have negative comments. I think Americans are sycophantic towards Europeans because they see them as more sophisticated.

Personally, I've always listened to my mother because she threatened me about what would happen when I grew up and had my own children. And she was so right!

Marlous & Pim, none of that has anything to do with you. Your house is so nice, open, and light. Most of my home is cool and tends to be dark but I have one large bright room where we spend most of our time. Your living room carpet is just the type I would like to find but decorating with a floral carpet can get tricky. I adore the fat cats by your dining room hutch! Those would make me happy every day. Are they ceramic? I have a large crocheted throw that looks identical to the one on your bed, it was a wedding present almost 25 years ago. Now it is an heirloom.
All the best to you AND to all the kind people here!
(But I still think the Americans are acting strange.)

I just wanted to comment that the link to Strand West isn't a link to the store in Utrecht ;) The correct URL is: http://www.strandwest.nl/

Lovely home :) As a Dutch person myself I really like the idea of more international house tours! Not to say that US homes aren't interesting, but it is always good to widen your perspective :)