A steel staircase offsets seaweed-coloured joinery and marble surfaces inside this Belgian apartment designed by local architects Carmine Van Der Linden and Thomas Geldof.
Van Der Linden and Geldof thought using natural materials and colours would reflect the calming coastal location of the two-floor apartment, which is encircled by sand dunes and grassy banks.
The kitchen in the apartment features seaweed-coloured cabinetry
In the apartment's kitchen, the splashback, shelving and panelled birch-wood cabinets have been stained a murky shade of green.
"The colour choice of the wood subtly brings in the seaweed colour from the adjacent sea and the marram grasses in the surrounding dunes," said the architects.
The same green stain has been applied across the apartment's wood-panelled walls This green hue continues across a handful of wood-lined walls in the apartment and into the guest toilet, which is fitted with a Gris Violet marble basin.
Alga Marina marble has then been used to craft the kitchen countertops and the surface of a central prep table. It's supported underneath by interlocking silver-metal poles.
The guest toilet includes a marble sink
The architects blanketed the remaining surfaces throughout the apartment in white paint that leaves a clay-like textural finish, in hopes of fostering an "unconscious sense of silence and serenity".
Dark-grey terrazzo also runs across the floor.

One wall of the living room features a sequence of shelves exten...