Spacious 1930s Semi-Detached Villa in Hilversum's Prestigious Schilderskwartier

Located on one of the most beautiful lanes in Hilversum, the lush Diependaalse Drift, this impressive semi-detached villa dating from 1933 offers generous living space. With a generous living area exceeding 230 square meters, a sunny garden surrounding the property, a spacious basement, and a garage with a deep driveway, this friendly and comfortable family home provides ample space and a sense of security for the entire family in one of the most beloved residential areas of the Gooi region.

The Diependaalse Drift derives its prestige from its generous width, tall trees, lush canopy, wide sidewalks, beautiful sightlines, and varied 1930s villa architecture. The low-traffic lane offers a welcome tranquility and a distinctly safe, protected environment.

This large 1930s house represents the best of what the architecture of that period has to offer. The appearance of the house is distinguished, robust, yet open, light, and welcoming. Architect D.A. van Zanten designed his double country house on the Diependaalse Drift with generous roof overhangs, a striking high gable roof, an imposing side facade, tall chimneys, and beautifully detailed brickwork. The spacious terraces, halls, landings, garden doors, grand staircase, mullioned windows, stained glass windows, and marble fireplaces give this family home a timeless allure.

Layout

The entrance leads to a vestibule with original tiling, a wardrobe closet, and a beautiful stained glass door. The spacious hall features paneled doors, stained glass windows, and an impressive staircase with elegant balusters. The hall provides access to three living rooms (dining room, sitting room, and side room), the kitchen, a toilet, and the standing-height spacious basement with storage space for provisions and a boiler room containing the central heating system and water heater.

The three interconnected living rooms with double en-suite arrangements are characterized by beautiful details such as the mullioned windows, the doors opening to spacious terraces on both the garden side and the side of the house, stained glass sliding doors between the dining and sitting room and between the sitting and side room, and two marble fireplaces (in the dining and sitting room) with open hearths. The living rooms and hall feature a kambala strip parquet floor.

The light and spacious kitchen is equipped with a large window with mullioned divisions, a granito countertop with base cabinets, a built-in dishwasher, a robust five-burner gas stove with spacious oven, and a strikingly beautiful tall china and glassware cabinet with glass doors and integrated lighting. Through the kitchen, the spacious utility room is accessible, offering storage spaces, laundry connections for washing machine and dryer, and a back door to the detached backyard.

First Floor

Access via the beautiful staircase leads to the spacious landing with parquet flooring, providing access to a separate toilet, the bathroom, and all bedrooms. The master bedroom benefits from abundant natural light, features French doors to the balcony, and provides access to a spacious walk-in closet. The second generously sized bedroom at the front of the house includes built-in wardrobes. The third bedroom also features built-in cabinets and deep storage space. The light and spacious bathroom has a high dormer window and is equipped with a bathtub, separate shower, double sinks, and a large floor-to-ceiling built-in cabinet.

Second Floor

The distinguished staircase continues to a spacious landing area that provides access to a lockable storage room and, through modern sliding doors, opens to a beautifully converted very spacious attic floor. This space features dormers at both the front and rear and a remarkable ridge height of 4.30 meters. The extended open space receives natural light from three sides and is fitted with ridge-height built-in bookcases. It currently serves as a library and office or workspace. The room has wiring provisions for the setup of four workstations.

Renovations and Updates

Since purchasing the property in 2000, the current owners have carried out extensive improvements. The house has been almost entirely fitted with double glazing, new window frames and exterior doors, new hardware and locking mechanisms, a completely new electrical installation including hotel switching and switched outlets, a new plumbing system, TV and internet cabling in all rooms, audio system wiring in both living rooms, a new central heating system with recessed piping and built-in convectors, roof and cavity wall insulation, and new chimney work with fire insulation for the open fireplaces. The architectural character has been carefully preserved by retaining the original window layout and various other original details.

Special Features

This is an exceptionally comfortable family home with very generous dimensions situated on one of the most beautiful locations in Hilversum South. The property offers 230 square meters of usable living space excluding the basement and garage, with a total volume of 980 cubic meters. The plot measures 531 square meters and includes a deep, fully enclosed backyard. The deep driveway can accommodate multiple cars, and there is a detached brick garage. The property is equipped with a modern electrical installation featuring an automatic fuse box, modern plumbing, an extensive modern central heating system with a separate boiler, double glazing throughout (with the exception of the original dormer on the second floor), roof insulation, cavity wall insulation, wired TV and internet connections (UTP) in all rooms, and audio wiring in the living rooms.

Location

The house is situated in one of the most beautiful locations in the popular Schilderskwartier neighborhood. The Schilderskwartier offers a privileged living environment characterized by its spacious layout, attractive and comfortable family homes, mature trees, lush greenery, very sparse traffic, and ample space and opportunity for children to play in the street. The streets in the area are lined on both sides with quiet and safe sidewalks.

Thanks to its location on the Diependaalse Drift, the house offers all conceivable amenities for a comfortable and convenient lifestyle. The lane connects almost directly to one of the most beautiful nature reserves in the Gooi region, consisting of both forest and heathland. Hilversum Sportpark train station is just a few minutes walk away. The access roads to Amsterdam and Utrecht are practically around the corner, and the highway can be reached in less than two minutes. The popular shopping area of Gijsbrecht van Amstelstraat, offering a wide variety of shops and dining establishments, is within easy walking distance. A range of excellent schools including HSV, Fabritiusschool, and the International School can be reached safely and independently by children on foot. A wide range of sports facilities is accessible via a short bike ride, and the watersports paradise of Loosdrecht is also within cycling distance.

The property features an energy label D and is heated by a gas-fired HR-107 combination boiler from 2000, which is owned by the current owners. The house is situated on land held in full ownership, with a cadastral registration under HILVERSUM K 661 measuring 531 square meters.