DRIFT. ‘The Luizenmoeder’actor, Maarten Ketels lives on a boat in London

Showbiz is not for everyone: with your partner and baby on a space of twenty square meters to live in. Still, Maarten Ketels (33), Ronald in " The Luizenmoeder’, nothing but benefits to his houseboat in London. “We live mainly outside. Winter and summer. The city is our garden.”

Maarten Ketels, now to see if concierge Ronald in the VTM-series " The Luizenmoeder’, has an apartment in Brussels. It is his residence when he is at work in Belgium. But a real at-home feeling he has on the London houseboat he shares with his British girlfriend Kimberley and their daughter Willow, who is fifteen months. “When I Kimberley got to know in South Africa, she had just this boat bought the Sunshine. I decided to help her with the renovation, and so the spark will be skipped.”

There is a handy harry in you?

“When I was in school, I was afraid to never find work as an actor. Therefore I have in class training followed: cabinet maker, contractor, masonry and concrete, and a welder. Those skills are me already seriously involved, because the houseboat was completely cancelled. On the outside everything had to be re-painted, and the interior is completely stripped. Outside of plumbing and electricity I have everything done yourself. That renovation was the toughest thing I've ever done, but also the best and most unlikely. And the most important: it is almost behind the back (laughs) .”

Ask such a boot is not constantly a lot of maintenance?

“the two years you will need the bottom paint, but that is not such a great work. In a house the window frames are also from time to time again be dealt with, hey.”

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