A Home Between Garden and Gable
How Studio Frick used INTER\STITIAL to turn plain Enscape renders of a two-family house near the Osterseen into photorealistic images — so convincing that people asked when it had been finished.
“After our Instagram post, three people wrote to me who all thought the house had already been built. The result is really very good — and we're getting better and better at the workflow.”
Quietly set in the Alpine foothills, just a few kilometres from Lake Starnberg, this two-family house near the Osterseen is Studio Frick’s contemporary interpretation of the Upper Bavarian country house. A simple volume with a pitched roof and generous eaves lets it settle naturally into the village — while inside, it connects the landscape of the lakes with a clear, warm sense of home.
Above is the garden gable. Hover it and drag the compare button in the top-right corner back to the original Enscape render — and see exactly what INTER\STITIAL changed. Every comparison on this page works the same way.
The long side of the house, half hidden behind trees — the way you’d actually come across it.
The open living and kitchen space, with the garden right outside the floor-to-ceiling glazing.
Natural stone kitchen island, long dining table and a lounge in soft green.
Two homes, one roof
The building is divided into two homes. The northern part has two storeys and is laid out for two people; the southern part rises to three storeys and makes room for a family of five. Above the northern home, a roof terrace is tucked discreetly into the roof form, opening up a view across the Osterseen. The house is fully basemented.
The solid masonry walls are rendered in plaster, articulated horizontally through bands of fine and coarse grain. Square timber windows, set in a deliberately playful rhythm, bring a lightness to the large volume.
The street side — a simple pitched-roof volume settling in behind hedges and a garden wall.
The entrance side. INTER\STITIAL brings out the two plaster grains that structure the facade.
A reduced, natural palette
To create a timeless and long-lasting home, Studio Frick worked with a deliberately reduced palette of colours and natural materials. Light timber, natural stone, warm whites and light grey plaster, accented with soft greens, pick up the surrounding landscape and create a calm, homely atmosphere.
The image from the Instagram post — the one people mistook for a photo of the finished house.
How Studio Frick works
Studio Frick is a Munich practice founded in 2018 by Simon and Lilit Frick. Its approach is interdisciplinary: architecture, interior architecture, brand and product design are planned together, from a single hand. That breadth lets the studio develop holistic, many-layered solutions — and give the layered identities of people and brands a clear, distinctive and modern architectural expression.
Working with INTER\STITIAL
The starting point was a set of Enscape renders. They already had the design fully resolved — every window, every joint and every piece of furniture in place — but they looked like what they were: plain, flat and clearly computer-generated. Uniform light, spotless surfaces, a lawn like a carpet.
Studio Frick used INTER\STITIAL to turn exactly those basic inputs into photorealistic, immersive images. The architecture stayed as designed; around it, the images gained soft overcast daylight, the grain of the plaster, the warmth of oiled timber, meadow planting instead of perfect lawn, curtains, books and art on the walls.
For the renders, the studio used Nano Banana Pro together with Design Mode, which reads the selected image and writes the prompt automatically. Instead of wording prompts by hand, the team could concentrate on choosing views and judging results. The whole set — ten views, inside and out — came together right in the office, as part of the design process rather than an outsourced job at the end of it.
For any studio already working with Enscape, it’s a workflow worth copying: keep modelling and rendering in the tools you know, and let INTER\STITIAL take the step from plain render to finished image.
The best proof came after the studio posted the images on Instagram: three people got in touch, all convinced the house had already been built.
Inside the house
Indoors, the difference is atmosphere. The Enscape renders show the rooms; the finished images show what it’s like to live in them.
The living room looking out to the garden — light timber floors, built-in shelving and a splash of colour on the wall.
The dining area, framed by timber panelling and sheer curtains.
From the timber deck back into the kitchen — the threshold between house and garden.
The result
A house that doesn’t exist yet, shown the way it will feel once it does. With INTER\STITIAL, Studio Frick turned plain Enscape renders into a complete, consistent set of images — convincing enough that the people who saw them simply assumed the house was already standing. And with every project, the workflow becomes a more natural part of how the studio designs.