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Casal Núria: Restoration of a historic house in Osona

Restoration of the main floor of an 18th-century house near Vic. 190 m² arranged around the original staircase, where the stained-glass windows, floors and restored joinery sit alongside a contemporary kitchen, bathrooms and furniture.

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Near Vic (Osona)

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18th-century house

FLOOR AREA

190 m²

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Interior design for houses

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The brief

An 18th-century house with a historic façade and garden near Vic

The home occupies the main floor of Casal Núria, an architectural gem known for its façade and garden, with Noucentista, Baroque and Modernista features.

The client wanted a contemporary home without losing anything that makes it special. The challenge lay in the floor plan itself: 190 m² with a circular layout around the staircase, a route that shapes any change to the distribution. We worked with that geometry instead of forcing it and approached the renovation as a recovery, restoring the function of every room without touching the heritage value of the whole.

Before designing, understand what makes the space special and what should be kept.

The layout

How the space was laid out

The layout of the 190 m² starts from the circular structure of the floor, which lets you move through the house without corridors: the rooms open onto one another around the core of the staircase. That circulation was the starting point of the project.

Kitchen and dining room
We opened up the living area around an island that organises the work and accompanies the table, beneath the original arches of the floor.
Living room
The living room keeps the fireplace as its centrepiece and receives light filtered through the stained glass along the route.
Night area and bathrooms
The bedrooms and bathrooms were resolved with new built-in pieces, adjusted to the existing geometry of the house.

Recovered heritage

Preserving the original character: stained glass, floors and joinery

The original features were restored one by one and brought to the fore, instead of being covered up.

The stained-glass windows filter the light along the route and set the character of the house. The original floors were recovered and the wooden joinery restored, keeping its profile. Everything new was resolved in a contemporary language that does not compete with them: pieces with simple lines, with no period imitations or false historicism.

It is the way we work on any interior design project for houses with architectural value.

Materials

Natural materials for a result that ages well

Natural woods, stone and fabrics in warm tones, chosen because they improve with use rather than wear out.

The materials are what holds the balance between the old house and the new intervention. Here they accompany the original floors, joinery and stained glass, and keep the house from being dated to the year of the renovation. They add warmth without taking away the solidity and character the original building already had.

Furniture and decor

Furniture and decor selection

Each piece was chosen to engage with the original architecture, not to disguise it.

Contemporary furniture and design pieces blend naturally into a setting steeped in history, and bring the functionality a family needs day to day. The lighting was designed room by room to accompany the route and let the stained glass and original ceilings remain the focus.

The result

The result: a bright house that keeps its identity

A bright, comfortable home with every modern comfort and its identity intact.

Casal Núria enters a new stage without giving up what it was. It was an exciting challenge: preserving the essence of an 18th-century house and adapting it to the way its owners live today.