CASA DEL NOI · UNA BELLA STORIA
We are Will and Jolanda. Two people who have both spent a large part of their lives working, raised a family and, like so many others, known both beautiful moments and setbacks.
Will worked as a baker and pastry chef for 37 years. Early mornings, long nights, hard work and always carrying on. Until life forced him to stop for a moment.
And Jo-tje? She also worked for 37 years, in administration. Together, that makes 74 years of work experience. And while artificial intelligence is taking over more and more administrative work, something remarkable happened at home.
There was time to think. To rediscover old dreams. To finally take plans seriously that had lived somewhere in the background for years.
And what does that old baker do next?
He starts writing. Drawing. Imagining little houses. Furnishing an old inn in Italy that is not even ours yet.
And he does all of it together with his best friend, Amico-Blu. A headstrong blue mug with an opinion about everything, who is now even demanding 14% royalties.
All with the help of artificial intelligence.
While that same old baker still cannot work out how his earbuds from Action function.
Well… sometimes the future is hidden in the strangest things.
There was writing, drawing, calculating, starting over and starting over once again.
Slowly, a simple wish grew into a much bigger story.
Casa del Noi.
A place where we want to begin again ourselves, but above all a place where other people may feel welcome. Where families can create memories together, including when life calls for a little more care.
To make this dream a reality, we have decided to take a major step. We want to sell our home in the Netherlands and build a new life in Italy.
We bring with us everything we have built over all those years: our experience, our time, our ideas and the resources we are able to contribute.
But transforming an old inn into a warm, accessible place takes more than a dream and two pairs of hands.
That is why we intend to launch crowdfunding for the creation of our first Casa del Noi, Casa Uno.
Not to leave our past behind.
But to carry everything it has taught us into something new.
A place where a new adventure can begin for others too.