Elements is a single guesthouse on the green edge of Bergen, Noord-Holland. Two bedrooms, an oak kitchen, a bathroom with a walk-in shower, and one wall that is almost entirely glass: eight metres of it, facing nothing but meadows, grazing cows and the line where the polder meets the dunes.
The village is five minutes away by bike. The sea is twenty, straight through the dunes. The quiet is immediate.
guesthouse
70 m²
guests
4
of glass
8 m
built
2024
The architecture
Eight metres of outside.
The whole house is arranged around one gesture: a glass façade, eight metres wide, that slides open onto the fields. Inside, the ceiling rises to double height under a thatched roof; outside, a reed-lined overhang shelters the terrace. The materials take their colours from the landscape they face: pale oak, corten steel, lime-washed walls.
There is no view “feature” here, no picture window. The polder is simply the fourth wall of the living room. Light moves across it all day; in the evening the glass holds the sunset, and after dark the room shrinks to lamplight and the sky takes over.
Open the doors and the boundary disappears entirely: from bed to grass in eight steps.
A day at Elements
The light does something different every hour.
You don’t need a programme here. The day has its own, and the glass wall broadcasts every minute of it.
06:47
First light
Mist on the meadows, the duvet still warm. You watch the first sun reach the garden without lifting your head from the pillow.
10:30
Open air
Coffee on the terrace, bikes out of the shed. Bergen for fresh bread and a gallery, or straight through the dunes to the sea.
20:15
Golden hour
The polder turns amber, the cows walk home in single file, and dinner takes longer because nobody is in a hurry.
23:00
Deep rest
No traffic, no neighbours, no noise. Just the dark you forgot existed, and a bed you’ll write home about.
The house
Small on purpose, generous where it counts.
Seventy square metres, considered down to the last centimetre: a double-height living space with the oak kitchen and dining nook, a master bedroom with an Auping bed and en-suite walk-in shower, and a second bedroom tucked under the thatch. Everything you need.
Elements looks out over open polder: protected meadow land where cows graze in summer and geese land in winter. Beyond it, the tree line, and behind that, the dunes of Schoorl. Nothing between you and the horizon but grass and sky.
It changes constantly: fog at dawn, hard blue at noon, gold at eight, ink at midnight. Guests who come for two nights spend a surprising amount of them just looking out.
Explore
Bergen and the coast, through our eyes.
The artists’ village at your feet, the widest dune landscape in the Netherlands next door, and the North Sea at the end of the cycle path. We wrote down the places we send our friends to: not fifty addresses, just the ones that are worth your time.
At its heart, Elements is a couple’s house: one great bed facing the fields, a rain shower, long dinners at the oak table, and absolutely nothing on the agenda. Come Sunday, leave Tuesday, feel like you were gone a week.
With children
The second bedroom sleeps two under the sloping thatch: the kind of room children claim instantly. Outside there’s a lawn made for football, an in-ground trampoline, a swing, and a beach twenty minutes away. A cot, toddler bed and high chair are ready and waiting.
Guests
What guests notice.
We could tell you about the light and the quiet, but guests say it better.
★★★★★
5.0 · 23 reviews · Guest Favourite on Airbnb · Hosted by a Superhost
“A beautiful and peaceful place. The guesthouse is wonderfully furnished and very well equipped. From the bedroom you have a stunning view over the fields and meadows at sunset. Bergen is just a 5-minute bike ride away, and the beach only 20 minutes. The hosts are warm and incredibly helpful. We already look forward to coming back!”
“A beautifully designed and brand-new holiday home, spotlessly clean. Our two kids loved the garden with the trampoline. The views across the landscape are wonderful and it’s so peaceful, yet Bergen’s centre is only 5 minutes away. Communication with Raika was friendly and easy. We’d love to return!”
“A stunning home in a unique location, yet very central. Raika is a wonderful host with great tips when you need them. We felt very welcome. Highly recommended!”
Reviews from verified stays, quoted as published.
Your host
Hosted with care, left entirely to you.
Elements is looked after by Raika: Airbnb Superhost, ten years of hosting, fluent in Dutch, English and German. She built the guesthouse with her family and lives on the same grounds. She’ll be there when it’s useful: a tip for dinner, a rainy-day plan, fresh advice on where the heather is blooming. And invisible when it’s not.
You get your own entrance, your own terrace and your own rhythm. Questions before or during your stay are answered fast, and in person.
Raika, your host
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