 The front is now approached in the English manner, with a drive sweeping to the side and an unbroken expanse of lawn.On the garden front, the house stands on a terrace with steps leading down to the former parterre, which is now lawn, and the expanse of water in the formally shaped "pièce d'eau", from the far end of which the château is reflected in its entirety.The original furnishings of Guermantes have been scattered, but rooms retain their seventeenth- and eighteenth-century "boiseries".