10. Daughters' bathroom

Puck and Gé shared a bathroom, and both had doors to it from their rooms. Each had her own washbasin, and they also had a bath, shower, bidet and heated towel rail. The bathroom is exactly as it was when the building was completed. The turquoise tiles were also used in the Van Nelle Factory, where Mr Sonneveld was a director. It's possible these may have been leftovers, but it's more likely that he liked this colour so much that he also used it in his own house. The floor tiles are quite unusual: they have convex and concave sides, and actually looked slightly old-fashioned in the 1930s. There are stone slabs around the edges of the bathroom, and the pipes are hidden away behind these. This bathroom was used not only by the sisters but by the visitors who sometimes slept in the guest bedroom on the other side of the landing. They entered via the toilet, which had doors on either side. If you wanted to bath in peace without anyone walking in on you, you had to lock a lot of doors. And as one of Ge's girlfriends later remarked, you also had to unlock them all again afterwards, which people sometimes forgot to do.

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Sonneveld House is one of the best-preserved houses in the Dutch Functionalist style. The villa was designed in 1933 by architecture firm Brinkman and Van der Vlugt for Albertus Sonneveld, a director of the Van Nelle Factory.