Why do this blog?

When most people think of the Netherlands they think of wooden shoes, tulips, windmills, bicycles, and then some people think of only Amsterdam - smoking weed, and the red light district... but something else totally unique to the Netherlands in my opinion is the modern architecture and designs of homes. It's usually only million dollar homes or public buildings like libraries and such that you see unique modern design... but in the Netherlands in the last 20 years or so they have been building a lot of very modern homes - and not just the high end price classes - but even the more affordable housing - everything is modern here now... and that is what i'd like to capture in my blog with photos and such.

You know, if you want to be an architect and design interesting modern designs - you probably have a hard time in the U.S. getting a job and doing what you want and love to do - but it's so cool that they are actually building modern homes over here - i want to capture that a bit.

I will have photos of some million dollar homes (or million euro homes) but mostly I just want to show the lower price class homes or in other words - the row houses or town houses as that may be. As most people know, the Netherlands is a small country - and with the way they set regulations - like you can only build in certain areas - most of the homes tend to be squished together. So it's really only the million euro homes that are free standing - while everthing else is connected in some way - or atleast - very close to their neighbor... but that can make things interesting in design.

Luckily, I'm living in one of those newer neighborhoods where everthing is quite new - modern and interesting - so I will have quite a lot to post in the coming months.

I will also occassionally post photos of other unique designs - buildings and such, but mainly I'm going to focus on homes.