Details make the manor home

It might take a while to narrow down your favorite features from a $5 million house, but here's what we liked in Orren Pickell's Scottish Manor.

The home serving as a model for Pickell's Tarns of the Moor development in Bannockburn will have open hours through Sept. 21.

French doors

When you walk under the elegant, arched woodwork and open the leaded French doors to the master suite, the pair can swing closed over bookcases on either side of the entrance foyer. This was a difficult-to-execute carpentry coup, Pickell says.

Range hood

Aged zinc glows with a warmth not expected from silvery metal. It's barrel-shaped and looks great over the huge, shiny range that wasn't even dreamed of when people built manor homes in Scotland.

Wood

The kitchen, which leads to the family room and other informal areas of the house, features antique oak beams reclaimed from an old barn, a table or island made from one piece of bubinga -- an African wood -- with a rough, natural edge and walnut cabinets.