Hotel Restaurant Interior Design

Is it easier to focus on getting the bedrooms right in a hotel than the bar, restaurant and public areas?

 It’s obvious that the bedrooms in any hotel need to look their best if guests are going to have a good experience. For hoteliers, it’s a balancing act between investing in upgrades to the hotel and generating revenue. Often the two go hand in hand and it’s certainly important to see a good return on your hard-earned cash. Good hotel restaurant interior design is not solely the domain of the luxury end of the market. After all, it’s the public areas guests see first and that sets the tone for everything. It’s also the public areas that are going to sell those functions. I’m convinced that an attractive bar and restaurant area is irresistible to guests. Smart hallways encourage people to move about the hotel, explore a little and not hide away in their bedroom. You want to encourage guests to use all the facilities you have to offer.

 If your hotel is struggling to get function bookings, bar and restaurant takings are down and guests seem less than satisfied with their overall stay, it could be that you need to think about your hotel bar and restaurant interior design.  There are of course, other elements that come into play, but if you get the setting right, you certainly stand a better chance of generating more revenue.

 I was asked recently to put the finishing touches to a newly designed restaurant in a beautiful country hotel in the Cotswolds. I’d never done that before, come in at the end of a project to finish it off, but I threw myself into it and thoroughly enjoyed it.

 I could see when I first visited that you could be forgiven for thinking that the newly refurbished restaurant was finished, but it lacked atmosphere first and foremost, as well as visual interest and intimacy. In other words, the room was a bit flat and left you feeling that way too. There was a small section at the end of the restaurant and if your table was there you would definitely feel you’d drawn the short straw.

 I always think that those are the areas you should really get to work on and make them shine. Add in a console table, mirrors, lamp, plants and pictures and your guests will be fighting over that little corner. Check out my Instagram page for images of Hotel Restaurant Interior Design at The Three Ways House at Mickleton.

 With the addition of some carefully selected key pieces like mirrors, lamps, pictures, plants and ceramics, the restaurant has been transformed into a lush, vibrant, intimate space you want to relax and linger in. It really lifts your spirits when you walk in. And, I imagine, that also means that you are more likely to spend a little more money in there, recommend it to your friends and most importantly come back and visit again.