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Renovate Your Hotel or Vacation Rental to Increase Bookings

Renovate Your Hotel or Vacation Rental to Increase Revenue — Modern Coastal Style Bedroom

Do you own a hotel or holiday home that needs to increase its revenue? Need to recover from the lockdown?

Expectations grow as the years go by and the Covid19 pandemic brings new challenges. Designers can support this by introducing extra solid surfaces and fabrics for windows with impregnated anti-microbial properties. Attention needs to be paid to how easy everything is to clean now and having a refresh of key areas such as headboards and curtains or drapes that people touch will be significant.

By carrying out a light refurbishment you can increase your booking rates both in frequency and in the rates you charge as your new interiors entice more holiday goers. You should also think about offsetting the costs against your tax bill to make it cost effective, ask your accountant for details.

UK Interior Designer Rachel Davies trained with world leading 5 star hotel spa designers ESPA International before setting up her freelance business Spinriver Design in 2009. She now works in the UK and Europe to design unique modern homes with a touch of luxury where possible!

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Fabulous Fabrics! Sarah Burghard Designs

During half term break I went to the Cotswolds and met with Stroud based Textile Designer, Sarah Burghard.

Sarah Burghard Designs ltd design and produce custom textiles for many applications which can elevate a good interior design scheme to a truly authentic luxurious one. Sarah takes influences from your project or brand to develop highly individual textile patterns in a very personal way. Once you have your design options you can then choose which to implement and how you want to use them.

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Sarah Burghard Textile Designer

Gorgeous fabrics from linens to silks can be printed and used for lamps, decorative cushions, throws or upholstery and can meet all the necessary contract standards. Boutique hotel or holiday cottage owners – this is something that will give you the edge and make your interior scheme a memorable talking point of someone’s holiday.

If you are thinking of refurbishing your hotel or holiday home Sarah and I are happy to work together on unique projects to give you an integrated interior design and textile design service.

Contact me, Rachel Bogdaniec on info@spinriverdesign.com or 07590 530806 for more details.

http://www.sarahburgharddesigns.co.uk

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Luxury Window Treatments for Hotels or Holiday Homes

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When choosing fabrics for your hotel or holiday home curtains or blinds it is really important to understand the performance requirements with regards to fire ratings before you start. There is no blanket rule such as all holiday homes have to be FR inherent as each location has unique requirements. The onus is on the business owner or the legally designated “responsible person” to ensure that the correct fabric is used, so you do this through carrying out your own Risk Assessment (and indeed all other fabrics such as upholstery and bedding). It is best to seek the advice of your local Fire Officer trained to know this complicated and technical information, they will be happy to advise you for free. They will advise not only on soft furnishings but on all aspects of fire safety such as keys, smoke alarms, furniture. They are able to visit your hotel or holiday home and offer their judgement of what is needed for each particular area. For example there may be different requirements dependent on the volume of visitors, size of the building and other factors. They can guide you if you need to use a Fire Resistant fabric or not. Then there are two types of fire resistant fabrics – those which are inherently FR by their nature not flammable such as Trevira and those which need to be treated to become FR. Be aware that FR treatment adds to lead times and also washes out gradually so your curtains may need treating again in future. Also be aware that not all fabrics are FR treatable so you or your designer need to check this when specifying too. If you need an easily washed fabric that is machine wash you will also have to consider this. Having more restrictions on being FR inherent and washable will reduce your options on fabric designs and colours.

Spinriver Design are experienced in sourcing luxury fabrics to the highest and most stringent standards for fire and ease of care so if you are finding it a minefield why not save yourself some time and pick up the phone, we are happy to liaise with the Fire Officer on your behalf here in Cornwall if you are not in the vicinity. We supply a range of beautiful fabrics for a complete range of budgets and know where to look for that contemporary coastal or country look you want to achieve for your hotel or seaside holiday home. We can also advise on types of window treatments for particular rooms and arrange custom design of curtains and headboards which may need to be to a higher “Crib5” fire testing rating.

Give Rachel a call on 07590 530806 or email info@spinriverdesign.com to make an enquiry today.