Wikkelhouse

Meet the team: Lara // Production Chef, the technical backbone of Wikkelhouse

We’ve developed our own code language. Every segment has its own code. WSLCR1PH means a closed middle segment with a round window on the right. And when I spot a CNC part marked M10A, I know instantly: that goes right there in the bathroom ceiling 😉

I studied product design at the HvA and during my internship at Wikkelhouse I designed a bed that fits perfectly into the curves of the floor and walls. On top of that, it had to look beautiful, offer storage, use as little material as possible, be easy to transport and simple to assemble. We pulled it off and we’re still making it!

Seven years later, my role covers everything: from technical drawings to implementing innovations to overseeing the entire CNC side and everything in between. I also work on the floor in the workshop and on-site sometimes, because I believe that as a technical engineer you need to know how something actually gets built. Those are two very different things: whether something fits together on a screen versus whether it fits together in the workshop.

I don’t really see Wikkelhouse as a house. I see it as a product. The level of attention and precision that goes into every detail is genuinely unlike anything you’d expect from a house. Every single screw gets thought about: is it even necessary? If so, where does it go, visible or not? Every step in the production process gets questioned.

The best part of my job is that we do it all together. From start to finish, every single step is special.

We prefer to make everything ourselves. Even when we could source it from a manufacturer, we want that extra little notch in the rubber, or exactly that curve in the wood. So we build a machine or a mould to do it ourselves. That’s the charm of this company. It’s what makes Wikkelhouse so distinctly its own. We don’t look at what’s on the market; we start from our own idea of what’s smart, beautiful or sustainable and then figure out how to make it happen.

I would absolutely love to live in a Wikkelhouse one day. At the Kortenhoefse Plassen. Yes.. that’s my dream.

Having a lovely long weekend ahead.. enjoy dear friends!

✨bathroom details✨

Why go straight when you can go curved?

Happy weekend!

⚙️Another busy day in the workshop 🗜️

This is your doorway to a Wikkelhouse mansion: the tunnel! Why limit yourself to a single tiny Wikkelhouse, think beyond your dreams! ✨✨✨

A flashback to our crazy Taiwan adventure of 2024… Who could have thought that our little house would sail across the ocean to stay in Taipei, Taiwan for 100th anniversary of Yuen Foong Yu, an Taiwanese paper company.
Good memories.