Difference from Continental Farmhouse: One is working, the other is for show

A French manor with grandeur. Continental farmhouses are places of work: practicality over beauty, mismatched chairs, restrained grey tones; manors are the opposite: symmetrical facades, enfilade rooms, matching furniture, portraits on the walls, and a division between rooms for guests and hidden servant routes. Avoid: making the space a single practical large kitchen, having mismatched furniture, ignoring symmetry and axis, shrinking the scale to that of a farmhouse.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一座有排場的法式莊園。歐陸農舍是工作的地方:實用先於美觀、椅子不成套、灰調克制;莊園相反,立面對稱、房間成串、家具成套、牆上掛著肖像,而且分成給客人看的房間與藏起來的僕役動線。避免:把空間做成單一的實用大廚房、讓家具不成套、忽略對稱與軸線、把尺度縮到農舍的大小。