What I absolutely love about this place is the way that even ‘ordinary’ houses and buildings are of such high quality and are usually embellished with something either beautiful or amusing. I wonder how much this helps the Netherlanders to be so happy and relaxed.
Some doors and windows in Groningen.
This is on the outside wall of a block of flats in Sneek – just for fun!
People make a lot of their windowsills.
Here’s an unusual window treatment – this is a shop, I think.
Ceramics outside a hotel in Workum.
A bird hide and some colourful houses.
and finally…they seem determined to pave everywhere. Makes the cycling easier.
When we visited the Netherlands years ago, it was the pretty window treatments in houses that we noticed; the ornate, lace cafe-net curtains and decorative plaques. Very pretty window trees tents in general 🙂
We think that the displays in the windows are a small version of the freely visible reception rooms that the slightly larger houses have. They display the taste of the occupants without showing the whole room.
Ignore the last sentence!