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Chapel conversion: before & after

AI-generated concept, not a real renovation. Every image on this page, before and after, was made with AI. There is no real property, no building work and no cost behind them: they are ideas to look at, nothing more.

A small abandoned stone chapel in the countryside, reimagined five times: from the air, the front, the nave as a living room, the transept as a kitchen and the choir gallery as a bedroom. Gothic windows, oak trusses, limewash and stone: ideas for a church conversion that keeps its character.

1. The chapel from above

Before (AI concept): Aerial view of a small grey stone chapel with a bell turret, a slate roof with holes, ivy on the walls, a collapsed timber porch, and an overgrown churchyard with leaning gravestones beside a curving country lane. — Before

After (AI concept): The same chapel from the same height with a new slate roof and small skylights, cleaned pale stone, warm light in the gothic windows, a rebuilt oak porch, a mown lawn, a gravel drive with a dark green vintage 4x4, and the gravestones kept in the grass. — After

Same footprint, same turret, same windows, same lane. The concept re-roofs the chapel, adds a few skylights and turns the churchyard into lawn and gravel.

2. The front door

Before (AI concept): The chapel's gable end from the path: a tall gothic window with broken tracery, a rotten arched wooden door, a porch collapsing to one side, ivy, moss and leaning gravestones in long grass behind a rusty gate. — Before

After (AI concept): The same gable with cleaned pale stone and ivy trimmed back, the gothic window glowing warm, an oak-framed porch with a slate roof over a new oak door, olive trees in stone planters, a sandstone path, lavender, and the gravestones kept on the lawn behind a black iron gate. — After

The window, the door arch and the turret do not move. The porch is rebuilt in oak, and the old gravestones stay where they stand.

3. The nave as a living room

Before (AI concept): The nave looking towards a stained-glass window: dark timber trusses with daylight through missing slates, pointed arches on both sides, flaking plaster, broken pews and a floor of cracked stone covered in debris. — Before

After (AI concept): The same nave with restored trusses and skylights, limewashed walls, a herringbone oak floor, two curved cream boucle sofas and leather armchairs on a large rug, a stone coffee table, olive trees, a long dining table with black chairs, lit bookshelves at the far end and a cluster of glass globe pendants. — After

The arches, the trusses and the far window stay. The skylights are an addition the before image does not have.

4. The transept as a kitchen

Before (AI concept): A side space with one tall gothic window of broken leaded glass, stone walls black with damp, a broken timber ceiling, an old organ case, a stone font, a fallen ladder and a patterned tile floor under rubble. — Before

After (AI concept): The same space with the window in place and its tracery restored, an oak board ceiling, limewashed walls, deep green shaker cabinets with a butler sink under the window, a stone range hood, open shelves, a marble-topped island with a bowl of lemons, leather stools, brass pendant lights and a pale stone floor. — After

The gothic window sets the kitchen: the sink sits under it. Deep green, marble and brass against the pale limewash.

5. The choir gallery as a bedroom

Before (AI concept): An upstairs gallery under steep timber trusses with a round rose window in the gable, flaking plaster over stone, a carved wooden balustrade on the right above the nave, gaps in the floorboards and scattered hymn books. — Before

After (AI concept): The same gallery with the rose window centred above a low bed in white linen with a rust throw, oak bedside tables with lamps, a leather armchair, a large cream rug, repaired oak floorboards, an olive tree, and a glass balustrade with an oak rail where the carved one stood. — After

The rose window stays centred and the bed goes under it. The only structural change is the balustrade, from carved wood to glass.

What Roomstill does, and what it does not

These concepts go further than Roomstill does: they can rebuild a roof, add glass or move a window. Roomstill starts from a photo of your own room, furnishes or restyles it, and keeps its walls, windows and doors where they are.

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