Showing posts with label Belgian architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Belgian architecture. Show all posts

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Where to find reclaimed building materials in Belgium

After sharing with you images of Belgian houses at a lot of my earlier posts, some readers emailed me asking where to find reclaimed ancient building materials in Belgium. Because there is such a huge interest in finding the right addresses, I decided to write a post about it.

There are a lot of addresses in Belgium where you will discover the most beautiful reclaimed materials but I picked out 4 addresses.

The addresses I share with you today, are all companies where we have found different ancient materials to built our own house.

At the end of this post I’ll show you some pictures of my own home together with the addresses where we bought the respectively materials.

So whether you are surching for façade bricks, roof tiles, terrace floors, path cobbles, garden ornaments or ceiling beams, parquet floors, lime stone and antique mantelpieces, you will find the most gorgeous materials in Belgium.

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Van Huele

Charming Flemish house built with ancient materials.

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Beautiful ancient roof tiles.

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Roof made out of 17th century grey tiles. Walls made with planks of old oak.

 

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  Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Garden path in calcaire stone.

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Van Huele

Cobbled path.

 

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Garden gate in cast iron - 19th century.
Garden path made with Calcaire stone.

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Annex with roof in 17th century grey tiles. Walls out of planks of old oak

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Verschaeve

Ancient gate in cast iron.

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Frame of windows and porch put together with 17th c. white.
stone - authentique blue stone doorsteps - red tiles - 17th century wall-ties.

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Van Huele

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Different bricks and a combination of tiles and slates.

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Ludwig Deblaere

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Surroundings of doors in white stone – 17th century.

Slates Fumay

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Van Huele

Ancient French roof tiles for this outbuilding.

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Verschaeve

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Verschaeve

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Verschaeve

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Ludwig Deblaere

Different kinds of Belgian bricks.

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Ludwig Deblaere

Different kinds of roof tiles and slates.

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Van Huele

Beautiful reclaimed ceiling beams.

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Cross-beams in old oak.

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Van Huele

Terrace floor.

 

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  Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Terrace sandstone

Columns of Bourgogne 18th century.

Grey tiles 17th-18th century.

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Van Huele

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Belgian blue stone floor.

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Floor in carrara marble.

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Waterbasin in carrara marble – 19th Century.

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Verschaeve

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Van Huele

French terracotta tiles.

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Steps in blue stone.

Floor in Calcaire stone and Basècle.

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Floors in blue stone 19th century.

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Van Huele

Ancient Belgian floor tiles.

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Banisters in cast iron – 19th century.

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Van Huele

 

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Image source : Ancient Building Materials Rik Storms

Old planks.

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Here below you will see some pictures of my house with the name of the company where we have found the respictively building materials.

 

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Two different kinds of bricks for the façcade and a combination of slates and tiles.

Both : Ancient Building Materials LUDWIG DEBLAERE

 

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Terrace and path floor : Ancient Building Materials LUDWIG DEBLAERE

 

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Outbuilding bluestone floor : Ancient Building Materials VAN HUELE

 

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Doorway and steps. Both : Ancient Building Materials VERSCHAEVE

 

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Entrance hall floor tiles : Ancient Building Materials RIK STORMS

 

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Library parquet floor tiles : Ancient Building Materials RIK STORMS

 

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Kitchen ancient carrara marble floor : Ancient Building Materials RIK STORMS

 

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Dining room ‘Hungarian Point’ parquet floor : Ancient Building Materials RIK STORMS

 

Webaddresses :

www.rikstorms.com

www.vanhuele.be

www.verschaevenv.be

www.ludwigdeblaere.be

             

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For more architectural salvage materials, please visit this link : www.antiek.com :  http://www.antiek.com/partners/?sele=0&cid=4&pid=0&RubriekTitel=Architectural

I hope that, with this post, I have answered a lot of my readers’ questions about ancient architectural building materials to find in Belgium.

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Monday, January 24, 2011

A beautiful Belgian farm house

I love to tell and to show you a lot about Belgian architecture and interior design, so that you all become more and more familiar with it, my dear readers!

Today I am talking about a Belgian farm house, that is one of my all times favorites.

The house is new built but thanks to all the reclaimed materials, the owners brought in, it looks aged and very authentic!

Ingrid Segers and Annemie Coppens, the owners of the building company Porte Bonheur, and even the owners of this house, together with the decorator Natalie Haegeman, have done a wonderful job.

 

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The house has a limed façade and the home extension is built with reclaimed oak.

Reclaimed Belgian roof tiles, which we call here  “Boomse pannen”.

 

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The use of steel windows and doors are one of the characteristics of Belgian architecture. I wrote about this HERE.

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The oak wood home extension.

 

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Even the interior of the house has an aged appearance because of the antique and aged furniture the owners and decorator have chosen for. I love it!

 

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The architectural plans of the house were designed to match the old doors which the owners bought long ago before the house was built. So as you can see above, the door between the living room and the kitchen is an old stable door.

Morrocan zelliges wall tiles in the kitchen.

 

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Love this still, so inviting!

 

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Even the exterior as the interior of this house are so charming and cozy, which creates such a familiar atmosphere!

Notice the beautiful pottery on the shelves.

 

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Natalie Haegeman, a decorator of Antwerp, ( I wrote a blogpost of Natalie earlier (HERE) ), was asked to create a warm and inviting interior! She did it in an outstanding way, by choosing beautiful aged furniture, carpets and fabrics!

Natalie is also specialized in custom made lampshades. Her website of these remarkable shades will soon be on line HERE. So she took care of the sconces, the floor and table lamps. Sometimes she used old pots that she transformed into beautiful table lamps as the one here on the picture above.

Remarkable are the aged stools, placed around in this house. Very practical if all your friends are coming over!

 

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Beautiful combination of the oak table and wicker chair.

Aged oak boards used as flooring.

 

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“Although the chosen colors for the interior are held rather subdued, this antique secretary is an eye catcher.” explains Natalie. “It is an antique piece of furniture that is crooked, but it has the perfect look for this house.”

Notice the sconce with one of Natalie’s custom made shades.

 

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The red painted sitting corner is in contrast with the neutral tones of the other lime painted rooms. But according to Natalie, a more smaller room as this one, is allowed to have a more pronounced color.

 

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Antique bed.

Notice Natalie’s bedlamp.

 

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The applied tadelakt technique gives the bathroom a rural and natural look.

 

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Well-meant congratulations to Ingrid, Annemie and Natalie with their gorgeous, successful project, which is a wonderful example of the Belgian rural architectural design.

 

I hope you enjoyed this farm house tour of today and I wish you all a wonderful week!

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Architectural design by Porte Bonheur 

Interior design by Natalie Haegeman

Images scanned  Belgian magazine Wonen Landelijke Stijl – oktober-november 2008

Photo credit : Bieke Claessens