Villa Woods

Interior
2025

Interior Design
Renovation
Decoration

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Villa Woods is the complete reinvention of a dated, enclosed kitchen in a family chalet overlooking the valley of Megève.

The brief: open the room to the living area, bring in as much natural light as possible and create a calm, contemporary space that still feels warm in the middle of winter.

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Strata reorganised the floor plan around a monolithic island in pale stone, aligned with the large window framing the landscape.

Tall storage in matte white lacquer disappears into the walls, while a band of warm oak runs horizontally to link kitchen, dining and living. Appliances are fully integrated, handles are reduced to discreet shadow gaps, and a continuous microcement floor visually connects the whole level.

Indirect lighting under shelves and within niches replaces overhead glare, making the kitchen feel soft and inviting from early morning to late evening. The result is a quiet, generous room where cooking, working and entertaining naturally overlap — a contemporary heart of the house anchored in its alpine context.

“We thought we just needed a ‘new living room’. Strata helped us rethink the whole space: how we rest, how our kids move around, how we host friends in winter. The room feels twice as big without being cold or minimal for the sake of it. Morning light on the island, evenings around the table… it’s quietly become the place where we spend most of our time.”

— Claire & Thomas R., homeowners

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Credits

Architecture & Design
Cabinet Strata

Creative Direction
Aurélien Sooukian

Photography
Michelle Gondry

Year
2025