With a clear brief and extremely tight budget and time constraints, we worked on extending the theme of the hotel with a neutral canvass of warm greys, whites, pearls, taupe and shades of blue.

As always, the challenge when working in the hospitality industry is coordinating the timing of the allocated rooms that are being refurbished around your guests bookings. Since this is pivotal to a successful roll out, we worked meticulously with the management and suppliers to achieve this, given that this 4 star hotel usually runs at full occupancy.

With ten different room configurations, each having their own theme, we wanted the visitor to have a sense of a ‘home away from home’ and the palette and textures of fabrics chosen were to lend themselves to a serene space, reflecting the essence of the ocean and spectacular mountain views with an understated contemporary elegance.

Respecting the budget constraints and carbon footprint, we chose to re-invent some of the existing oak cabinetry and furniture. Using a combination of soft grey and taupe stains contrasting with flat white, a wonderful opportunity was created to re-invest in most of the existing pieces and to give them an entirely new ‘personality’.

We designed an integrated luggage rack and the flat panelled Wall mounted TV units were to be as unobtrusive as possible.

Energy efficient lighting was to play a major role and superior quality fabrics that could endure a fair amount of wear and tear were critical when making our final selections for all the different themes.

We opted for some of the lovely vynil fabrics on all the headboards as close attention had to be given to maintenance and practicality!

Working with mirrors and circular themes throughout, the rooms appear so much lighter and more spacious. Careful positioning had to be considered to either bounce the light or accentuate the heavenly sea views.

The shades of all the fabrics were carefully woven into the themed artwork and selected pieces in the bedrooms with accent walls and wallcoverings in certain suites allowing us a little touch of glamour!