A renovation of a detached manor home can go in many directions, but here the first thing you notice is the way living space and work space share the same calm register. The house now includes offices and a showroom, yet the rooms still read as a home: soft neutral walls, layered fabrics, restored parquet, and long views toward the stair hall. Material samples are not hidden away. They are placed in lit recesses where visitors can study colour, stone and finish at eye level.

Classic manor details kept in view

High ceilings set the tone before any furniture does. Mouldings trace the walls, and the classic stair balustrade gives the entrance a measured rhythm that anchors the newer interventions around it. Rather than replacing these features, the manor house interior renovation leaves them visible and lets the new surfaces work around them. White joinery, light wall colours and restrained transitions keep the rooms open to one another without flattening their character.

That approach is clearest in the circulation spaces. The stair itself stays a reference point, but the surrounding walls are treated with a lighter hand: painted surfaces, clean frames and shallow openings that guide the eye further into the house. The result is not decorative overload. It is a sequence of plain surfaces, moulded edges and controlled openings that make the older structure feel legible again.

Rooms that support both work and daily use

The renovation of a detached manor home with showroom and office needed rooms that could carry different roles without breaking the domestic feel. In the work areas, a table, wall-mounted screen and long lines of light create a clear setting for presenting ideas. The showroom is formed from the garage, and its layout is direct: display niches, sample storage and wall surfaces that leave space for materials to speak for themselves. The same neutral palette runs through both zones, so the shift from home to work feels gradual rather than abrupt.

Openings between rooms also matter. Glass doors and glazed partitions let daylight move through the plan, while curved thresholds and white frames soften the transitions. In the day, the rooms read as bright and open; in the evening, the lighting takes over and brings the sample displays into focus. The office function is present throughout, but it never overwhelms the domestic scale of the house.

Showroom niches as a working display

The most direct display element sits in the wall: illuminated wall niches for material samples. They are narrow, precise and easy to read, with light washing over the pieces instead of catching them in glare. That matters in a showroom where the difference between one finish and the next can be subtle. The niches also keep the presentation ordered. Samples sit in sequence, framed by white surfaces and stripped of visual noise.

Elsewhere, custom built-in wardrobes with LED are used less as furniture than as part of the room architecture. The lighting runs with the cabinet lines, outlining the storage and making the joinery feel lighter. Even when the front surfaces remain plain, the lit edges give depth to the walls. It is a practical detail, but it also changes how the room is read: storage becomes part of the composition instead of a separate block added at the end.

Stone, parquet and paint form the material register

Five types of marble are mentioned in the project, and that variety is part of what gives the house its layered finish. In the kitchen, marble takes the form of a feature wall with horizontal shelves, while other rooms show stone in smaller doses, around counters, niches and bathroom surfaces. The kitchen wall is the most explicit gesture: a pale stone plane cut by slim ledges and interrupted by built-in appliances. It gives the room a fixed centre, even as the rest of the layout stays understated.

Wood is handled with the same care. In some rooms the existing parquet has been restored, and in others underfloor heating was added during the renovation. That mix of old and new is visible underfoot: one room carries the traces of the original floor, another feels newly calibrated from the ground up. The painted walls, fabrics and curtain systems complete the palette, shifting the interior away from contrast and toward measured changes in surface.

Restored wood floor and quieter finishes

The parket/wood floor restoration is one of the details that keeps the house from feeling overworked. Instead of replacing every surface, the renovation leaves some of the original material in place and brings it back into use. The wood adds grain and variation where the painted walls stay nearly flat. In a room with large windows and soft curtains, that small difference is enough to give the floor a visible role without making it dominant.

Textiles do similar work. Different fabrics and curtain hanging systems are used to shape the edges of the rooms, filtering light and keeping the volumes from feeling bare. The colour range stays close to off-white, sand and pale stone, but the textures change from one surface to the next. A smooth wall sits beside a woven textile, then a polished stone edge, then a timber floor. The house relies on those shifts rather than on strong contrast.

Lighting draws the display into the room

Integrated lighting and materials are treated as one system here. In the showroom, the lit recesses guide attention to samples. In the kitchen, concealed light lines sit beneath upper storage and under ledges, keeping the work surfaces visible without adding bulk. Over the table and in the office zone, pendant lights and rail lighting mark out the uses of each area. None of these fixtures tries to become a feature on its own. They serve the surfaces they touch.

The same can be said of the bathroom details. Marble-look surfaces and illuminated niches give the room a measured depth, while the light reveals edges and joints rather than hiding them. This attention to light keeps the interior from becoming flat, even though the palette remains restrained. It also helps the rooms move between day and evening use, especially in the work areas where samples need to be read accurately.

Plans for the outside are still to come

The interior renovation is already well developed, but the house is part of a broader sequence of updates. The exterior walls are planned to be coated later, and a pool house and garden are also on the list. For now, the emphasis stays inside, where the manor structure has been adapted to daily living, work and presentation. The house shows how a detached manor home renovation can keep its original presence while making room for a showroom and office that feel built into the plan rather than added beside it.

Photography — Bert Demasure