Anyone who enters Janneke Vreugdenhil’s upper house in The Hague will already find her desk near the stairwell. “This is where I write my articles for the newspaper, and here I also made my last cookbook.” Two meters away is, not to be missed, her kitchen island. It is the heart of her living room. From her house, actually. She has lived there for a few years now. She knew immediately that the kitchen island had to be placed in the middle there. She points to the old layout, with the kitchen in a corner of the house. I am not, she thought.
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