Factory settings: how an old steel plant was polished up

A dilapidated steel faactory in Holland is working again – this time as a glorious family home

Morning is Yasmina van den Oetelaar’s favourite time of day. It is when she sits in her garden, reads a book and breathes in the calm of her courtyard oasis while taking in the sweep of her industrial-style home. There is little inkling that on the other side of the front door, you step straight into the thrum of the city centre of Tilburg, in the south of the Netherlands. It’s an unlikely oasis, yet moving to the heart of the city where her husband, Maicol, spent his childhood was exactly where they sought to embrace urban life after their daughter, Vivian, had grown up.

Not that their home was easy to find – or in its current incarnation, even existed. When they started their search, they mostly found houses that were either too expensive, too tall, too narrow or spread over too many floors.

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