Vintage Red Green White Dutch Window Photo

This is a typical window of a real original wooden timber house of the Golden Age of Holland. Usual bold colours are used, of course green and in this case bright red. White is used to create bold contrasting lines. This architecture is as Dutch as it gets. You find a lot of this architecture in the village of Zaandijk. The Zaan region derives its name from the river Zaan, a wide and lazy wetland river along which many settlements can be found. Due to the rather poor farmland which really is only fit for some cows, the Zaan people applied themselves to industry. And before the steam age that meant windmills. First they started with whaling and the processing of its parts. Later they added timber from the Baltics. Now the Zaan region is a major producer food items, either in bulk or in finished products like cookies, snacks and chocolate.