Moens
Notebook14 March 2026

The first appointment

I rarely ask "how many bedrooms." At the first appointment, I mostly ask: "what does a Sunday look like at your place?"

Thomas Moens3 min
The first appointment

Sundays contain everything. Who cooks, who works, who hosts. The distance to the baker. The number of friends who drop in unannounced. The children doing homework at the kitchen table, or locked in their rooms.

From there, you can start talking about square metres.

A client once told me: "I want a study." Digging deeper, I understood he mainly wanted a door he could close. We found him a landing with a convertible alcove. There was no study on the floor plan. There was the right house.

Good searches don't start with numbers. They start with scenes.

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Thomas Moens