Warm wood panels, a marble-look worktop and slim steel details set the tone from the first step inside. The mid-century interior is built around a custom kitchen that feels anchored by material rather than decoration. Curved cabinet edges, open niches and a black tap give the room a clear rhythm, while the adjoining living spaces pick up the same palette of timber, stone and earthy colour.

Warm wood and stone at the centre of the plan

The custom kitchen is the visual core of the house. Its oyster-toned marble-look worktop sits against wood-fronted joinery, with open shelving cut into the cabinetry so the wall reads as both storage and display. The surface lines are calm and direct, interrupted only by the sink zone and the dark tap. Nothing here is overworked. The material contrast does the heavy lifting: wood grain, pale stone and a restrained steel edge.

That same logic carries into the connection with the living room. Arched steel doors mark the transition, their slim frame and curved top echoing the softer lines in the kitchen joinery. Through the glass, the room beyond is only partly visible at first, which gives the passage a slight pause. It is a small move, but an effective one. The doors separate the spaces without turning them into separate worlds.

Arched steel doors and a living room with pattern

In the living room, the walls shift from quiet surfaces to statement wallpaper with a dense pattern that changes the room’s pace. The print sits behind the seating area and continues across adjacent walls, so the eye keeps moving. Large windows with dark frames cut through the pattern and bring in daylight, while curtain panels soften the edges of the glazing. The result is not flat decoration. The wallpaper gives the room a clear surface to push against.

Seating is kept low and calm, allowing the patterned walls and the hanging lights above to take the lead. Cushions, upholstery and drapery repeat the palette in smaller doses, with muted earth tones and touches of blue. The room reads as assembled rather than staged. Furniture, fabric and wall treatment all work in the same register, but each one is still distinct enough to register on its own.

Statement wallpaper that continues through the house

The wallpaper does not stop at the living room. It reappears in the stair areas and toilets, where the scale of the space makes the pattern feel sharper. In the narrower passages, the print becomes more immediate, almost graphic, and it helps link one room to the next. That continuity matters in a house like this. It ties together the custom kitchen, the living room and the more compact circulation zones without forcing them to look identical.

One accent wall shifts the palette toward terracotta, with built-in niches carved into the surface. The wall is simple in massing, but the recessed openings break it into useful parts. Nearby, another passage uses a steel-framed opening to extend the visual language of the doors. These moves are subtle, yet they keep the interior from becoming repetitive. Different rooms hold the same mid-century interior logic, but each one has its own surface and proportion.

Design furniture, art and measured repetition

Design furniture and art are placed as part of the room composition, not as separate statements. A chair, a table or a framed work is allowed to sit against wallpaper, timber or stone and pick up the colours already in the house. That makes the interior feel edited rather than crowded. The visual focus stays on the architecture of the rooms: the joinery, the thresholds, the stair run and the framed views through glass.

The staircase brings in a different kind of pattern. Its treads carry a repeated geometric motif in black and white, which is stronger and more graphic than the wallpaper. A timber handrail softens the line of the stair and keeps the transition from feeling harsh. Seen from below, the pattern steps upward in a clear rhythm. It is one of the few places in the house where the eye gets a strong vertical beat.

A geometric staircase that changes the pace

Because the stair surface is so distinct, it becomes more than circulation. It marks a shift between rooms and reinforces the house’s interest in pattern as structure. The surrounding walls stay relatively quiet, so the geometry on the steps can register properly. This is a useful contrast with the wallpaper elsewhere: one wraps the room, the other is something you move across. Together they give the mid-century home a strong internal sequence.

The bathroom continues the material clarity in a lighter register. Marble-look wall finishes, a black shower fitting and a dark tap create a crisp surface without adding unnecessary detail. The bedroom moves to a deeper palette, with a teal upholstered headboard wall and patterned textiles near the window. Even there, the house keeps its measured approach to colour and texture. Each room shifts tone, but the timber, steel and stone remain part of the same family.

Garden pool as a quiet final room

Outside, the garden pool acts as an extension of the interior rather than a separate retreat. The pool sits beside straight garden walls and planted edges, with the surrounding terrace kept visually simple. A vertical panel wall and a curved opening above the pool add structure to the garden view, while the planting softens the hard lines. It is a clear outdoor counterpoint to the patterned rooms inside.

Seen as a whole, the house relies on controlled contrasts: wood against stone, print against plain wall, curve against rectangle, open view against framed passage. That is what holds the mid-century interior together. The custom kitchen sets the pace, the arched steel doors shape the transition, and the statement wallpaper carries the story through the living spaces, stair and smaller rooms before it ends at the garden pool.

Photographer: Space Content Studio

Suppliers / materials:
Proest interieur bouw
Jan Reek natuursteen