“What matters is concrete communication, helping one another through life. I have received about twenty times an assignment to construct an ample house. I never do that. One cannot construct a house with four outside walls. Holiday parks are the true antisocial districts of a city. A lack of connections kills society.”

Nearly ten years after the completion of ‘de Spaanse Kade’ and ‘Blaakoverbouwing’ in Rotterdam, Herman de Waal, director of construction firm Wilma, requested Blom to design his private house. Blom longed for assignments- over the last couple of years not one of his concepts having been realized- and immediately grabbed this opportunity. Blom was inspired by Irkutsk’s buildings, the town where Herman de Waal’s wife, Yennah Prusha was born. He designed a true palace for Yennah, standing out because of the four onion roofs piercing through the aluminum roof of the castle. The fronts were covered with an outstanding motif and stuck in between soft greenish covered window frames. Blom:”This is daring. Try to invent anything this ordinary.” During the following years, Blom designed a couple of detached habitats for private individuals. An example took place in 1994 when Blom, during the opening of ‘het Gasbedrijf’ in Heemskerk, was requested by the couple Driehuis to design their private house. The conversation that took place resulted in a plan of five studio houses, in which living and work could be combined. However, eventually, the houses were not build.

One year later, Blom designed a double private house in houtskeletbouw for the couple Anneke and Willem Develing and their friends Kina Bartelds and Huib de Munnik, a plan which did result in the actual construction of the house. The house was designed in a geometrical pattern of squares without corners, received six tangled roofs and pentagon window frames, painted in Bloom’s ‘giggling-girlish-green’.