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A B O U T M E
Dutch | Optimist | Everything paper | Perfectionist | Design | Interior | Horses | Scandinavian roots | Travel | Foodie
My name is Sophieke de Voogt, but Sophie is also fine (and easier to pronounce). I am a 21 year old student in Interior Design (& Styling) at the Jan des Bouvrie Academy. I live, work and study in Deventer; one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands. Deventer is the ‘book-city’ of Europe. Now, you wouldn’t be surprised if I told you that I work in a bookstore.
My house is my sacred place. My safe haven. My sanctuary (and also my guinea pig, when it comes to interior design). In may 2016 we -me and my partner- signed the lease on a beautiful 17th century apartment in the middle of the city center and I can't stop restyling (every part of) my house since then.
I see my house as my business card: Stained glass | Enormous windows | A beautiful courtyard | Scandinavian minimalistic interior | Room for my own studio
I find great passion in design and interior. I love to learn, see and experience new things. I take great pleasure in solving promblems in interior design.
M Y D E S I G N S
I like to try different styles and techniques in every single design that I make. Coming up with all sorts of concepts is something that I love to. Finding the right images and photo's for composing moodboards and trendbooks is something I can spend hours on, because I find such joy in seeing al this imagery. It inspires me.
Nature and sustainability are subjects that you will always find in my designs. Nature is and always will be my biggest inspiration source. Sustainability is the most important subject in future interior (and exterior) design. I thrive to learn more and more about sustainable materials and techniques.
We can only save the planet if we start with ourselves.
M Y J O U R N E Y
After graduating with two diploma’s in my Senior General Secondary Education (SGSE) in 2012, I enrolled at the University of the Arts in Utrecht (HKU) for Product Design. Since I can remember, I’ve been very creative and I always scored high on art-related subjects. I got admitted to the HKU and started in september that year.
It seemed that creative education was too free for me at such young age*. I was 16 when I started Higher Vocational Education (HVE), and by that I was the youngest student in my year. It was too much for me. No matter how much I liked my class and the school in general: I knew I wasn’t going to sit this out, so I decided to stop.
The rest of that year I had the chance to grow and evolve as a person. I worked two jobs that year: fulltime in a restaurant; baking cakes and pastries and parttime as a cleaning help in a computer company. I decided to chase an old childhood dream of mine: to become a military fighter pilot (in an apache helicopter). Unfortunately there were few jobs then. It wasn’t a certain future, so in the meantime I decided to go back to school again for Pre-University Education. I thought why not spend my time useful while soliciting in the army.
Two years later I received my diploma. I knew by then that my military dream had to be over. I wouldn’t become a fighter pilot. I had to focus on finding a new education. I was scared to go for the obvious: creative studies. Nevertheless I decided to give it one more chance. I came across the Jan des Bouvrie Academy. Here I found the structure and discipline that I missed so badly in the University of the Arts. I immediately saw that this was the right spot for me.
In the meanwhile I’ve acquired my propaedeutic diploma and I am still very happy with my choice of education. I’ve found a professional field in which I can thrive as a designer, and which challenges me to reinvent myself constantly.
*Although now, I have to admit that I would really like the University of the Arts, because I am a different person now. since 2012 I’ve grown a lot -as a person- and gained a lot more understanding about the arts. I started to appreciate and admire it. I was just too young back then, and so very stubborn!