Brutalist buildings aren’t everybody’s design ideal, but when Nathalie Vandemoortele first saw the fortress-like, rural Belgian house she now shares with her sons, Merlin, 14, and Cesar, 12, it was love at first sight. She worked with designer Renaud de Poorter on interior renovations, which included opening up the heavy structure with the help of new windows and doors to the outside. They didn’t want to gut the space, and kept existing decorative motifs like the dining room’s circa-1975 painted cupboard.
Photo by Frederik Vercruysse.
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