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French château renovation: 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 forgotten 18th-century château in the French countryside, reimagined five times: from the air, at the front steps, in the grand salon, down in the vaulted kitchen and up in a tower bedroom. Limestone, slate, boiserie, copper and toile de Jouy: ideas for a château renovation that keeps its towers, its fireplaces and its painted ceiling.

1. The château from above

Before (AI concept): Aerial view at sunset of a limestone château with two round towers and conical slate roofs, the main roof full of holes, ivy on the walls, broken windows, and an overgrown courtyard of rubble, weeds and a rusted tractor, with a dirt track curving through fields and forest. — Before

After (AI concept): The same château from the same height with its slate roofs and towers repaired, the limestone cleaned to cream, grey shutters, a pale gravel courtyard with clipped box parterres, a round stone fountain and a dark green vintage car, and the same track lined with young trees. — After

Same towers, same track, same forest. The concept repairs every roof and turns the rubble courtyard into gravel, box parterres and a fountain.

2. At the front steps

Before (AI concept): The front of an abandoned château: cream limestone stained black, a slate mansard roof, broken windows with grey shutters hanging loose, an iron balcony, a weathered double door at the top of a curved double staircase, ivy, and a cobbled forecourt full of weeds with a toppled stone urn. — Before

After (AI concept): The same facade at golden hour: stone cleaned, every window glazed and lit behind grey shutters, the iron balcony and railings in black, a deep green double door, white climbing roses, and a pale gravel forecourt with clipped box balls along the same double staircase. — After

Same windows, same balcony, same double staircase. Clean stone, glass and a green door do almost all the work.

3. The grand salon

Before (AI concept): A grand salon with a faded painted ceiling, fallen plaster cornices, a grey marble fireplace under a tall gilded mirror, pale blue boiserie, three tall French windows with torn curtains, a fallen crystal chandelier and a broken gilded armchair on dusty Versailles parquet. — Before

After (AI concept): The same salon with the painted ceiling and gilded cornices restored, the crystal chandelier hanging again, a fire in the marble fireplace under the same mirror, ivory curtains, cream sofas and gilded armchairs around a low table, and a large antique rug on restored Versailles parquet. — After

The painted ceiling, the mirror, the fireplace and the three windows stay. The chandelier goes back up and the furniture is new.

4. The vaulted kitchen

Before (AI concept): A vaulted stone kitchen in the basement: a huge blackened hearth, rusty copper pans on the wall, a long scarred table with broken crockery, a stone sink under a small barred window, and a cracked terracotta floor covered in debris. — Before

After (AI concept): The same vaulted kitchen with the stone cleaned to a warm honey tone, a black range cooker set into the old hearth, polished copper pans on a rail, deep green cabinets with a marble worktop, a long oak table with rush chairs under brass pendant lights, and a restored terracotta floor. — After

The vault, the hearth and the barred window set the plan: the new range sits exactly where the fire was.

5. A tower bedroom

Before (AI concept): A bedroom in a round tower: curved stone walls with peeling blue toile de Jouy, a small stone fireplace, a deep window onto an overgrown park, a collapsed four-poster bed with torn fabric, exposed beams and dusty oak floorboards. — Before

After (AI concept): The same tower room with fresh blue toile de Jouy on the curved walls, the beams oiled, the same fireplace and window, a restored four-poster bed with white linen and toile curtains, a cream armchair, an oak bedside table with a lamp and a wool rug on oak floorboards. — After

Same curved walls, same window, same fireplace. The toile de Jouy comes back fresh and the four-poster bed is rebuilt in place.

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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