Private Villa in the Roman Countryside: Light Contemporary Retreat
Private Villa in the Roman Countryside sets a measured, luminous house on the outskirts of Rome, Italy, by THILE architettura&design. The new single-family villa unfolds over two levels, using natural light, a calm palette, and custom furnishings to connect interiors with the rural landscape. Every room aligns with this quiet rigor, from the sculptural hearth downstairs to the intimate master suite above.
Soft daylight grazes adjustable screens before slipping across marble, oak, and smooth plastered walls. Shadows stretch and sharpen as the sun moves, turning everyday routines into a slow visual sequence.
This is a new single-family house on the Roman fringe, planned as a flowing, two-level home rather than a detached object. THILE architettura&design treats the 250-square-meter villa as a continuous interior landscape where materials, furnishings, and light share the same calm rhythm. The project leans on a restrained palette and precise custom work, so every room feels connected to the countryside beyond the glass.
Light Shapes Daily Life
Natural light acts as the main instrument in this house. Large openings are veiled with adjustable privacy screens that regulate brightness throughout the day and subtly change the villa’s expression. By rotating the screens, residents tune glare, shadow, and view, turning the living areas into a quiet stage for dawn, midday, and evening light. Inside, illumination tilts, fragments, and traces surfaces, so each room reads differently as hours and seasons roll past.
Living Room Around The Hearth
On the ground floor, one open-plan living area groups lounge, dining, and kitchen into a bright, continuous volume. A double-sided fireplace stands at the center, both sculptural and practical, separating the dining table from the sitting zone while preserving a single, shared atmosphere. Its presence anchors the room, giving soft focus to everyday gatherings and longer evenings by the fire. Nearby, a guest room with its own bathroom forms a self-contained, welcoming corner that still keeps pace with the overall rhythm.
Kitchen In Marble And Wood
The kitchen is fully custom-made, built as a precise play of contrast and depth. Verde Alpi marble stands against black surfaces and warm walnut, creating a layered composition where color, grain, and reflection carry most of the character. Tall cabinets, worktops, and integrated elements line up cleanly, so the room reads as a single, coherent volume rather than a collection of parts. This is where the project’s measured contemporary mood becomes most tangible, with texture doing the visual work that ornament might have done elsewhere.
Oak Stair As Interior Object
At the heart of the plan, a suspended staircase turns circulation into a piece of interior architecture. The stair reads as a solid oak monolith, yet rises lightly thanks to a transparent glass balustrade that lets views and light pass through. At its base, an integrated planter with exotic greenery introduces a small indoor garden that echoes the surrounding countryside. This planted threshold softens the transition between levels and keeps natural elements present even at the house’s core.
Rooms Tailored Over Time
Throughout the villa, made-to-measure furniture sets the tone more than decorative accents. Built-in wardrobes, dining storage, and a carefully planned laundry keep technical areas ordered while aligning finishes with the main rooms. Upstairs, three bedrooms and two bathrooms continue this measured approach, especially in the children’s rooms, where balanced colors and custom pieces support growth and changing needs. Light-colored surfaces and tailored details in the family bathroom bring a fresh, energetic note that still respects the home’s prevailing calm.
The master suite unfolds as a quiet sequence from walk-in closet to bedroom to wellness-focused bathroom. A smoked glass door screens clothing storage without closing it off entirely, adding depth and a faint play of reflections. In the en suite, dramatic onyx and a Turkish bath shift everyday routines toward a private ritual, reinforcing the project’s focus on atmosphere through material and light.
By day’s end, the villa reads as a composed interior landscape tuned to its countryside setting. Screens soften the sunset, materials deepen in color, and each room holds its own version of the same filtered glow. The house lives from this interaction between crafted surfaces and changing light, always in conversation with the nature that surrounds it.
Photography courtesy of THILE architettura&design
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