I was visiting Utrecht University back in 2010 and to get to the university from my accommodation I cycled past Rietveld Schröderhuis daily. Unfortunately I didn't have time to visit it back then and it always bothered me how near miss this site was for me. But luckily in April 2024 I had finally chance to visit the house properly. I had pre-booked the house tour online and I arrived 15 minutes before my time slot. While waiting for the tour to start I was guided to watch a film about the house and interview of Truus Schröder-Schräder where she described how the life was in the house. I found the film very interesting and good introduction before the actual tour.

The tour around the house is self-guided audio tour. You first walk around the downstairs before moving up to the second floor. The whole house is full of fun details that were many times ahead of its time. You'll understand fast why this house was so groundbreaking in architecture and why it's a WHS now. When everyone in your group are upstairs the guide will demonstrate how the walls move. We got to see how the walls open and create a spacious room with lots of natural light. The group after us then got to see how they close the walls creating smaller rooms that were the bedrooms of Schröder's children. The transformation of space is amazing. You are otherwise allowed to photograph inside the house but you're not allowed to film the wall demonstration. I truly enjoyed my visit in Rietveld Schröderhuis and it was worth the wait for 14 years to visit it. And on the year when the house turns 100 years old!