We recently spent a full day with the team from MIMA Housing, filming the second episode of their Home Stories series. MIMA Housing are the architects behind both Yuna houses. They’re an award-winning Portuguese studio known for minimalist, prefabricated timber homes, flexible, modular designs that draw a lot from traditional Japanese architecture and settle quietly into the landscape around them. It’s exactly that thinking, simplicity, natural light, and an easy flow between indoors and outdoors, that shaped both of our houses from the start.
Home Stories is their series where clients open the doors to their homes and share the spaces they’ve created. Real homes, real stories, real experiences. So when they asked us to take part, it felt like a natural fit.
It was a wonderful day. The team followed us around the houses and along the coast, and we talked, in our own words, about how Yuna came to be: our move from Haarlem to the Portuguese coast, the life we wanted to build here, and the things that matter most to us, kitesurfing, long meals with friends, golden evenings, and the people we meet along the way.
Telling this part of the story alongside the people who designed our houses felt right. The collaboration has been a real pleasure from the beginning, and this film is a lovely reflection of it.
