Country Club & Clubhouse Interior Design.
Dining rooms, grills, lounges, patios, and pool decks — renovated around your season and your members. Showrooms in Metro Detroit. Projects nationwide. Since 1985.
What is country club interior design?
Written for club boards, house committees, and general managers — the people who present the renovation to a membership and answer for it.
Country club interior design renovates the spaces members actually live in — formal dining, the grill, lounges, locker rooms, patios, and pool decks — without closing the club. It means phasing work around the season, carrying a board through approvals with samples and renders, and furniture that honors decades of membership.
Every part of that sentence is a constraint a hotel project does not have. Your members are owners: they will sit in the chair, remember the room it replaced, and say so at the annual meeting. Your building operates seven days a week through a season it cannot shorten. And your approval path runs through a house committee that meets monthly. Clubs sit inside commercial interior design, but they are specified with a patience the rest of the sector never needs.
Italcasa specifies and supplies those rooms — dining and grill seating, lounge and card-room upholstery, terrace and pool-deck furniture, and the lighting that ties them together — imported and installed by the team that wrote the specification, in the shoulder season, one space at a time. Since 1985.
Country Club Interior Design Answers to a Membership, Not a Brand Standard.
A club is counted in member seats, approved by committee, and renovated inside a season that will not move. Six constraints shape every clubhouse specification we write — and every one of them is a scheduling decision before it is a design one.
- Member Seats
The unit of work is the member seat.
Not covers, not keys — seats a membership can actually use at once. Formal dining at capacity on a holiday, the grill on a Saturday after a shotgun start, the terrace when the weather turns. Scope and phasing are counted against the seat number your GM already knows, so a board can compare what is being replaced against what the club owes its members.
- Committee
Approval is a presentation, not a sign-off.
A house committee meets monthly, rotates members annually, and includes people who have never read a finish schedule. We build the package for that room: renders from a member's eye level, physical samples that get passed down the table, and a plain-language rationale for every substitution. Boards approve what they can see and touch — patience here is the service.
- Season
The calendar is the client.
Golf season, event season, and the club's fiscal year set every date on the project. Specification and approvals happen while the club is at its busiest; orders go in mid-season so production and ocean freight land in time; install happens in the shoulder weeks. A slipped approval does not delay a clubhouse renovation by two weeks — it delays it by a year.
- One Building
Formal and casual dining share a roof.
A club runs a white-tablecloth dining room, a grill that serves in spikes, a bar, and often a bistro or halfway house — all in one building, all seen in one visit. They cannot look like four unrelated restaurants, and they cannot look identical either. We set one material and finish language, then vary formality by seating type, table top, and lighting.
- Events
Rooms have to change on a Friday afternoon.
Weddings, member-guest dinners, tournament banquets, and board meetings all use the same square footage. Seating is specified to stack, nest, or move without two staff and a dolly; tables are specified in sizes that combine; and everything is finished so it survives being reset weekly. Event revenue depends on how fast a room turns over.
- Outdoors
The patio is a second clubhouse.
Terraces, pool decks, and halfway houses now carry as much member time as the dining room, and they take weather, chlorine, sunscreen, and spikes. Outdoor furniture is specified on UV stability, drainage, frame corrosion, and cushion construction — then on how it looks from the eighteenth green. It is the fastest-growing part of a club renovation and the one most often under-specified.
- Codes & Standards
What we specify against.
Checked before the order is placed, and documented in a form the house committee and your club's insurer can both read.
- CAL 117 flammability on all upholstered seating; CAL 133 where the assembly occupancy classification requires it
- NFPA 260/261 cigarette-ignition resistance on upholstered assemblies where required
- ADA and ANSI A117.1 clearances, accessible routes, and table and bar heights in member spaces
- Local health-department requirements where seating and surfaces sit in food-service areas
- Assembly-occupancy egress and aisle widths in banquet and event configurations, reviewed with the fire marshal
- Outdoor performance: UV and fade ratings, frame corrosion resistance, drainage, and all-weather cushion construction
Every Room a Member Walks Through, Specified as One Package.
Clubs rarely renovate one room. A dining refresh pulls the grill with it, the terrace has to match, and the lounge is next season. We specify the whole sequence at once so it reads as one club, then install it in the order your calendar allows.
Formal & casual dining rooms
The main dining room, private dining, and the bistro — seating specified for long meals and frequent resets, tables sized to combine for member-guest events, and finishes that hold their line through a decade of service.
Grill room & bar
The room members use most and dress for least. Spike-tolerant flooring adjacencies, durable seating that takes wet gear and quick turnover, and bar stools specified for a footrail and a long sit.
Lounges & card rooms
Fireside seating, reading corners, and card and game rooms — upholstery with presence, tables at the right height for a four-hand game, and lighting that works in the afternoon and at nine at night.
Patio, terrace & pool deck furniture
Country club patio and pool furniture specified on UV stability, corrosion resistance, and drainage — dining sets, chaises, shade, and lounge groupings that survive a Michigan season and stack for winter storage.
Event-flexible banquet seating
Stackable and nesting seating, combinable tables, and storage planning — so a wedding, a tournament dinner, and a Tuesday board meeting all fit the same room without renting anything.
Lighting specification
Dining, lounge, bar, and terrace lighting selected as one scheme — dimming zones for a room that hosts breakfast and black tie, and fixtures that stay serviceable for a maintenance staff of two.
Off-season phased installation
Delivery and install sequenced space by space in the shoulder weeks, staged from our warehouse, old furniture removed the same day, and each room handed back finished rather than half done.
Formal dining, grill, lounge, and terrace specified together — so a phased renovation never looks phased.
Ordered In Season. Installed Between Them.
A clubhouse renovation is not scheduled by how fast the work can be done — it is scheduled backwards from the day the club reopens for the season. Specification and committee approval happen while the club is busy; production and import run through the tail of the season; the install lands in the shoulder weeks when the building is quiet. Miss that window and the project waits a year.
- 01Kickoff
Walkthrough with the GM
We walk the clubhouse with your general manager and committee chair on an ordinary day — seeing the grill at lunch tells us more than a floor plan. Rooms, seat counts, event calendar, season dates, and the club's own sense of what it must not lose all get set here.
- 02Design
Member-Proof Specification
Layouts, seating and table schedules, finish and fabric selections, and lighting — written across all rooms in scope so a phased renovation reads as one club. Every piece is one we can actually supply, price, and reorder years later.
- 03Approvals
Committee Presentation
We present to the house committee or board in person: renders at member eye level, physical samples on the table, and a clear answer to why each substitution was made. Revisions and a second presentation are assumed, not treated as a problem.
- 04In-Season
Order, Import & Staging
Orders placed while the club is still busy so European production and ocean freight land before the window opens. Customs, receiving, and inspection are ours; each phase is staged complete in our warehouse rather than arriving in pieces at a club with nowhere to put it.
- 05Shoulder Season
Space-by-Space Install
Install scheduled inside the quiet weeks, one space at a time, with old furniture removed as new goes in and the punch list closed before the next room starts. The club opens the season with the room finished, not in progress.
Italian Dining Furniture, Commercial Terraces, and the Lighting Between Them.
A design-only firm presents a mood board and then goes shopping. We hold the dealer agreements, so the chair in the rendering is the chair we can price, lead-time, and match again in four years when the club adds twelve more. These are the houses we specify most often for clubs.
Dining and grill seating
Italian dining furniture, commercial-rated.
- Cattelan Italia
Formal dining tables and chairs with the weight and material quality a main dining room needs — stone, glass, and solid timber tops that read as permanent rather than replaceable.
- Bontempi
Dining chairs and tables across a wide formality range, so the main room and private dining can share a language without repeating the same chair.
- Calligaris / Connubia
Contract-rated seating in volume for the grill and casual dining — stackable and extendable options, deep finish ranges, and reorderable years later when the club adds twelve more.
Lounge upholstery and light
Fontana Arte lighting and seating with presence.
- Arketipo
Lounge and sofa upholstery with genuine presence — the fireside and reading-room seating that sets a club's tone in the first three seconds a member walks in.
- Fontana Arte
Dining and lounge lighting from a house with a longer history than most clubs — fixtures that carry a room without dating it, and that a small maintenance staff can service.
- Flos
Architectural and decorative lighting for bar, corridor, and terrace, with dimming behavior that lets one room serve breakfast and black tie.
Country club patio furniture
Specified for weather, chlorine, and spikes.
- Talenti
Italian outdoor dining and lounge collections built for a full season on an exposed terrace — the range that lets a pool deck and a dining terrace belong to the same club.
- Harbour
Outdoor seating and chaises in teak and performance textiles, specified where a terrace should weather gracefully rather than be replaced.
- Vondom
Rotomolded polyethylene planters, bar units, and seating that hose clean and take chlorine, sunscreen, and a pool deck in July without flinching.
Your Committee Meets Monthly. We Meet Them Where They Are.
Clubs outside Michigan run the same way ours do — a house committee, a season, a membership to answer to. The only difference is that the presentation happens on video and the samples arrive by courier. We furnish clubs across the country from Metro Detroit.
Video walkthrough and plan review
You send the clubhouse plans and the season calendar, or we walk the dining room, grill, and terrace on camera with your general manager. We work from the same drawings your architect has.
Committee presentation by video
We present to the house committee remotely, with renders and a specification package formatted for a board meeting — and we sit through the questions, the revisions, and the second meeting the same way we would in the room.
Samples shipped to the club
Fabric, finish, and outdoor material samples couriered to the club so they can be passed around the table and left in the room they are meant for. A committee approves what it has handled.
Freight and white-glove install between seasons
We manage factory orders, import, and freight, then coordinate local white-glove crews into your clubhouse inside your shoulder window, removing the old furniture as the new goes in.
Country Club Interior Design in Michigan — and Wherever Your Members Play.
Oakland County and Grosse Pointe hold one of the densest concentrations of private clubs in the country, and our showrooms sit inside it. Bring the house committee in on a weekday morning: sit in the dining chair, handle the terrace frame, see the fabric under real light. A committee that has touched the samples approves faster than one reading a board.
Clubhouse renovation questions.
What boards and house committees ask in the first meeting — answered the way we would answer them across the table.
How long does a clubhouse renovation take?
It is set by your season, not by the work. The pattern is: walkthrough and specification while the club is busy, committee presentation and approval on the committee's own meeting cycle, orders placed mid-season so European production and ocean freight land in time, and installation in the shoulder weeks before the club reopens. The approval stage is the variable — a committee that meets monthly and wants a second look adds a cycle, and missing the install window usually means waiting for the next one. Tell us your reopening date and we will work backwards from it and tell you honestly whether it is this year or next.
Can you renovate while the club stays open?
Yes, and most club work is done exactly that way. We phase by space rather than by trade: one dining room, or half of one, at a time, with the grill kept open while the formal room is down and the terrace done before the pool opens. Each phase is staged complete in our warehouse first, so a room is emptied and refurnished inside a scheduled window rather than sitting stripped for a month. Old furniture is removed as the new arrives, and the punch list on each space is closed before the next one starts.
How do you work with a house committee?
We assume the presentation is the project. The package is built for a board meeting rather than a design review: renders from a member's eye level rather than an architectural axonometric, physical samples that can be passed around the table, plain-language reasoning for each choice, and a clear cost structure the treasurer can follow. We present in person or by video, take the revisions, and come back — a second and sometimes third meeting is planned into the schedule, not treated as a delay. Committees rotate, so we keep the record of what was approved and why for whoever chairs it next year.
What furniture works on a pool deck or terrace?
Materials chosen for the exposure, not the look alone. Rotomolded polyethylene for pool decks and bar areas — it hoses clean and shrugs off chlorine and sunscreen. Teak and powder-coated aluminium frames for terrace dining, specified on corrosion resistance and joinery rather than profile. All-weather cushions with quick-dry foam and solution-dyed acrylic covers, with drainage built into the seat. And everything checked for UV and fade rating, winter storage footprint, and how it behaves in wind on an exposed terrace. We put the actual frame and fabric in front of you before eighty of it is ordered.
What brands do you carry for clubs?
For clubs we most often specify Cattelan Italia and Bontempi for formal dining, Calligaris and Connubia for grill and casual dining in volume, Arketipo for lounge and card-room upholstery, Talenti, Harbour, and Vondom for terraces and pool decks, and Fontana Arte and Flos for lighting. We hold the dealer agreements for the top Italian and European houses, which is the practical difference from a design-only firm: the chair in the rendering is one we can price, lead-time, and reorder in four years when the club adds a table.
Do you work with clubs outside Michigan?
Yes. Our showrooms are in Metro Detroit and we furnish clubs nationwide. A remote club project runs on plan reviews and video walkthroughs with your general manager, a specification package formatted for your committee, samples shipped to the club so the board can handle them, and then import, freight, and local white-glove installation coordinated by us inside your shoulder season. Clubs in warm-weather markets run a different calendar than ours — the install window is the winter season rather than the summer — and the schedule is built around yours.
Let’s Design
Tell Us Your Season and Your Seat Count.
Send the clubhouse plan, the rooms in scope, and the date the club reopens. We come back with a specification your house committee can vote on, samples and renders built for a presentation rather than a design review, and an install sequence that lands inside your shoulder season.
- A package built to be presented to a house committee
- Ordered in season, installed in the shoulder weeks
- Dining, grill, lounge, and terrace specified as one club
Birmingham · Bloomfield Hills · Grosse Pointe · Rochester Hills · Troy · Ann Arbor — and clubs in any state.