A wood slat wall sets the tone as soon as you enter the living room. It wraps around a built-in steel fireplace, then continues into the custom TV wall and the cabinetry beside it. The timber surface keeps the room grounded, while the steel insert cuts a sharp line through the middle. In this country villa renovation, that single wall does most of the work: it marks the seating area, frames the fire, and carries the eye toward the dining room beyond.

A living room wall that carries the plan

The renovated living area uses one long wall to connect furniture, storage, and heat. Open niches break up the slatted timber, and the blackened steel fireplace sits in the center like a fixed point. Because the TV and cabinet fronts are built into the same structure, the wall reads as one tailored piece rather than separate objects placed along a facade. The result is calm without becoming blank. Every detail has a clear role, from the recessed shelving to the dark metal accents around the screen.

Light lands differently on each material. The wood catches it softly, the steel reflects it in a tighter band, and the glass front of the fireplace keeps the opening visually sharp. Discrete ceiling spots reinforce that reading, especially in the evening, when the wall becomes the main backdrop of the room. A wooden floor runs under the seating area and helps the timber wall sit naturally within the wider interior.

From the living room into the dining room

The wood slat wall does not stop at the edge of the lounge. It folds into the dining room, where the palette changes rather than breaks. Warm green and gray tones take over around the table, softening the transition between the darker living area and the kitchen beyond. The open connection feels deliberate: you move from timber and steel to fabrics, painted walls, and a room that can hold a larger table without losing the thread of the renovation.

Seen together, the living and dining zones form a renovated living area with tailored millwork that controls the entire ground-floor mood. The wall guides the sightline, but the color shift does the rest. Green upholstery, gray textiles, and the long timber line keep the dining space linked to the lounge without repeating it exactly. Even the doorway and adjacent openings feel part of that sequence, with wooden portals and open views pulling the spaces together.

Built for storage, screen, and fire

The custom TV wall is not a separate media unit added later. It is built into the same slatted composition as the fireplace and the shelving, so the joinery can hold books, devices, and decorative objects without disturbing the rhythm of the timber. The steel fireplace insert sits flush within that system. Its dark frame gives the room a hard edge, which matters against all the warm wood around it. This is where the country villa renovation becomes most specific: not by adding more features, but by combining them into one measured wall.

A black beige kitchen that keeps the line going

The kitchen continues the palette in a quieter register. Dark cabinet fronts sit against a lighter island top with a stone-like surface, and the mix of black and beige gives the room its name and its contrast. The kitchen renovation does not compete with the living room; it follows the same restrained approach, using darker volumes below and a lighter work surface to keep the center open. A large pendant and ceiling spots add definition above the island, while the window blinds filter daylight across the work zone.

From the island, you can read the kitchen in layers: tall cabinetry to one side, a work surface that catches the light, and a back wall with built-in equipment set into a dark recess. The finishes stay close to the palette established in the dining room. That continuity matters in a country villa renovation, especially when several rooms share the same circulation path. Instead of switching style from one space to the next, the interior moves by degrees.

Renovated upstairs, renewed below

Beyond the main living spaces, the staircase and bedrooms were also renovated, along with the kitchen. The source material keeps those areas brief, but their presence matters because it shows the project reaches through the house rather than stopping at the public rooms. In the basement level, a cinema was realised. No extra technical details are given, so the emphasis stays on the fact itself: a lower level dedicated to film, added to a house already reshaped for family life.

That mix of calm surfaces and more specialised spaces gives the renovation its range. Upstairs and down, the house moves between timber, steel, paint, and dark joinery. The rooms do not rely on ornament; they rely on edges, openings, and the way one material meets the next. A vertical timber rhythm near the entrance, the slatted wall in the living room, and the darker kitchen fronts all speak the same language, but each room uses it differently.

Details that make the sequence work

The strongest moments are the ones that sit between rooms. A glimpse from the hall through the dining area, the turn of the slatted wall as it enters the next space, and the way the steel fireplace anchors the center of the living room all depend on movement through the house. Horizontal blinds, recessed lighting, and the open niches in the joinery keep the surfaces from reading as flat panels. They give the eye a place to pause.

What remains after the renovation is a clear internal order. Wood, steel, gray, green, black, and beige are repeated with enough restraint to hold the house together, but not so much that the rooms merge into one another. The country villa renovation works because every main area has a defined role: the living room gathers around the fireplace wall, the dining room softens the route, and the kitchen closes the sequence with darker cabinets and a lighter worktop.

Photography: Jurrit van der Waal