Bathroom at the Villa Berkel by Paul de Ruiter

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Apartment Therapy will be turning our focus to bathrooms and kitchens in March — and we had to jump the gun with this amazing bathroom of the Berkel family in The Netherlands. A new home designed by architect Paul de Ruiter, the design focuses on helping to bring the outdoors in — don't you love the little pond the immense bathroom hovers above?

Check out the full plan and more pictures of the rest of the house at Arch Daily.

Via: Arch Daily.

(Images: Pieter Kers)

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The house looks nice, but I was disappointed to see there were no more pictures of shirtless dutch man :(

posted by ChristopherB on February 27th 2009 at 12:11pm
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lu-uv this house.

posted by visual on February 27th 2009 at 12:14pm
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WOW! This is now one of my top 10 weekend homes.

posted by jeffnyc on February 27th 2009 at 12:17pm
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Please AT if you do this allow some of the bathrooms to be on apartment/condo level. I need some really good ideas, but if you show stuff like the above picture (which is nice) It won't help me.

I need storage ideas and colors for a windowless small bathroom.

posted by Joan52 on February 27th 2009 at 12:19pm
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wasn't this place in that J.Lo movie The Cell?

posted by spicynuts on February 27th 2009 at 1:05pm
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Weekend house? I want to live my entire life in that house -- fabulous!!!

posted by Mid-C Frank on February 27th 2009 at 1:34pm
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wow. absolutely my dream house.

posted by souk1501 on February 27th 2009 at 1:40pm
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First, I want to see more of the shirtless man. Absolutely!

Secondly, I can't believe someone recalled JLo's movie, "The Cell." That movie was soooo horrifically bad that it ended up being actually fun to watch.

posted by david @ justveggingout.com on February 27th 2009 at 3:15pm
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I thought "The Cell" was a pretty good movie. It was certainly beautiful visually. Tarsem (the director) has an amazing sense of design. Someone should blog about him and his other movie "The Fall"

posted by Comicgeek on February 27th 2009 at 3:22pm
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Yes this is something amazing and if I could afford that I could afford the army of window cleaners.

Really stunning house.

posted by LoriSF on February 27th 2009 at 3:43pm
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I just noticed that hot tub that would need to be reworked for me. I appreciate the lid goes down so it disappears when not being used. However, I would be freaked out using it and thinking if it closed and being trapped.

posted by LoriSF on February 27th 2009 at 3:47pm
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These houses are lovely to look at, but I would feel so exposed in them, especially at night when I couldn't see out, but anyone outside could see in.

posted by taritac on February 27th 2009 at 5:05pm
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What a view, from either side of the window! ;^D

posted by btoddster on February 27th 2009 at 5:06pm
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Gorgeous, but id feel too exposed and 'on show'

posted by AMNY on February 27th 2009 at 5:12pm
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I love it! My guess is that they have no neighbors near them, so that's probably why they did that. My house is the same way, and I enjoy it :)

posted by theninthcloud on March 1st 2009 at 4:19am
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