Family home + airbnb in phenomenal mansion

Aalter SOLD

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“The holiday home became a completely separate entity, with its own front door around the corner. It soon proved the ideal place to stay for tourists wanting to visit Ghent and Bruges.”

The owners, Sarah & Kasper,

Family home + airbnb in phenomenal mansion

Lodorp 89
9880 Aalter

SOLD

Stéphanie Madou

Published on 11-7-2023

Sold on 9-8-2023

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Description

Lotenhulle near Aalter: charming, rural and central, because in fifteen minutes you can be in both Ghent and Bruges. School, bakery, butcher, pharmacy, supermarket and café - all nearby in this quiet village street.

This 20th-century mansion and former inn used to be home to the Van Hulle family and brewery family De Cuyper, among others. Through the wrought-iron front door, you enter the stately entrance hall with, on the left, the sunny living room on original tiled floor and, on the right, an amazing art deco home cinema. Stained glass, moulures, floors... The authentic elements have been beautifully preserved throughout.

Nostalgic and modern are effortlessly combined in the rear kitchen. Can you see yourself cooking at the AGA cooker or the beautiful wood-fired Rayburn cooker? There is also a wheelchair-accessible bathroom and a cellar with washing machine connection. Next to the blissful terrace is the walled garden, a gigantic hangar (with space for several cars) and a wood storage area.

Stylish wooden staircase to the first floor (note those details), with bathroom and spacious dressing room. Office with plenty of fitted wardrobes and three bedrooms, two XL and one more compact.

Like the family home, the beautiful holiday home has also been stylishly renovated. Large private kitchen with dining area, two bedrooms, one bathroom with infrared sauna, for sale furnished or unfurnished as desired: ideal for airbnb, holiday rental or kangaroo home. Above the house and holiday flat there is a yet to be finished sun-drenched attic with just seven velux windows.

Specifications

General
- Area: 683 m²
- Ground area: 789 m²
- Bedrooms: 5
- Bathrooms: 3
- Parking: Yes
- Garden: Yes
- Terrace: Yes
- Cadastral income: 1050 euro

Energy
- EPC score: 250 kwh/m²/j
- EPC class: C
- Double glazing
- Heating: individual
- Heating type: gas

Extra info
- Basement
- Attic
- Bureau
- Washing place
- Parking inside

Legal info
- Electrical inspection: yes, conform
- EPC score: 250 kwh/m²/j
- Summons: No
- Building permit: Yes
- Destination site: living zone
- Preemption: No
- Real estate inventory: Yes
- 0-level: not located in flood area
- P-score: B
- G-score: B

Assets

Unique property
Interesting investment
High-quality renovation
Central location
Gigantic hangar

Location

Familiewoning + airbnb in fenomenaal herenhuis

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The holiday home became a completely separate entity, with its own front door around the corner. It soon proved the ideal place to stay for tourists wanting to visit Ghent and Bruges.

The owners, Sarah & Kasper,

owner speaks out

'We both grew up with a firm brick in our stomachs. When we no longer wanted to live in the hustle and bustle of the city, but not quite in the countryside either, we instantly fell in love with the grandeur of yesteryear and the authentic character of this property. This house is the centrepiece of the village, literally and figuratively, and it also has a rich history. For instance, the previous owner lived here with her fourteen children (!).

There was a lot of work on the house, and it promised to be a 'crazy' project, but we threw ourselves 200%. Over the past ten years, we have literally renovated everything here and adapted it to contemporary comforts.It really is a robust house that never disappoints. They don't build them like that today! We added our little chapter to it, by renovating it to sustainable and quality standards. Among other things, we chose aluminium windows with steel-look profiles, sanded concrete on the terrace, wrought-iron hall doors that are up to three metres high, black roof tiles, sandblasted floors and stairs...

Wanting to make the most of the large volume, we thought it would be nice to attach a holiday home to our family home.It became a completely separate entity, with its own front door around the corner.It soon turned out to be the ideal place to stay for tourists wanting to visit Ghent and Bruges.Staying in a house with a soul, the parking facilities, the local village life, the beautiful Castle Domain.... All our tenants leave here feeling satisfied. Lotenhulle, of all places.... We have known it for a long time, but living more centrally between the capitals of East and West Flanders is almost impossible.
If you would prefer to convert the holiday home into a commercial property, b&b, residential.... This is possible with an application for an environmental permit.

For us, this will always be a unique house, like none we will ever find again.We will also miss the pleasant, quiet village, with its well represented tradespeople and friendly neighbours.Everyone here likes to do another 'klapke' when you come out, you are barely 300 metres from Poeke park, and a large loose-leash meadow for dogs.In the evening, village life then falls completely silent again and it's still really quiet here.'