Hotel Interiors

The art of design

Hotel interiors inspire trends and lead the rest of the industry with their innovative designs, but what inspires hotel interiors in modern New Zealand hotels today?

• Hotels
• Luxury Accommodation
• Interior Design

Now an art form unto themselves, hotel interiors present the most lavish, extravagant, intelligent and environmentally conscious design elements.

In a bid to stay on top in the industry, savvy hoteliers strive to compete by employing the efforts of the hottest interior designers.
Often the designs and décor created are ahead of their time - inspiring renovation, redecoration and redesign in homes across the world.

What's more, the fascination with luxury hotel interiors has never been more apparent, with an increasing number of websites and coffee table books dedicated to the art popping up to meet demand.

As an incredibly competitive market among masters of design, the opportunity to bring a hotel interior concept into fruition is highly sought after in the design industry, with seasoned and respected designers going to continually greater lengths to impress.

Designing hotel interiors is all about creating environments in which guests can be welcomed and provided with facilities for rest, relaxation and indulgence.

Interior design in modern New Zealand hotels is well in step, keeping up and even managing to surpass global competitors in their typically Kiwi ability to be innovative.

While the interior design of luxury hotel rooms is a fluid and ever-evolving industry, current trends indicate that while luxury and opulence are still in high demand, an understated elegance and nod to nature are also being praised by both hoteliers and travellers.

Suite sophistication
Bold and beautiful and spectacularly spacious suite designs will always provide the ultimate in luxury accommodation.

Modern hotel interiors are bold and unafraid to make a statement with new colour palettes, striking architecture, and sumptuous furnishings. Bringing together modern and luxury, custom-designed furniture and fabrics make each design element pop, adding interest and texture.

And with hotel interiors that honour the glamour and sophistication of the past while grandly sweeping into the future, travellers can get the best of style, technological convenience, and elegant indulgence.

The clever marriage of these elements in a luxury hotel suite results in designs that are relaxed and unpretentious, yet revitalising and exciting. A focus on spaciousness has become a highlight in catering for the more discerning traveller with grand suites becoming increasingly open to stunning views of surrounding landscapes via expansive windows, balconies, and even rooftops.

Kitchens, bedrooms and bathrooms feature highest-end appliances, custom features and spa-like experiences, and luxury rooms seamlessly incorporate advanced features and user-friendly technology.

Green is gorgeous
There isn't an industry out there that isn't considering ways of becoming more sustainable and environmentally responsible, and the designers of luxury hotel interiors are going green like it's the new black.

Integrating ‘greener' materials and products into hotel interiors and design is reshaping the look, layout and function of hotels worldwide. In many cases, a focus on natural and local elements are preferred, such as utilising more sustainable furnishings like bamboo mats or displaying a focal point created by a local artist.

Elements as simple as low-energy light bulbs are now commonplace, and luxury hotels across New Zealand and the world are reducing, reusing, recycling and rethinking their practices to demonstrate that green really is beautiful.

Bringing the outside in
When travellers make a hotel room booking, they expect to be wowed by a feeling of almost instant holiday calm upon entering their suite. For this reason, bringing nature back into the rooms of guests is also becoming more popular in New Zealand, even among luxury hotels located in urban landscapes.

While adding a nod to nature may be as simple as displaying potted plants or nature-themed artwork on the walls, hotels that have the opportunity to make the most of a plentiful view are taking full advantage.

Even those hotels located in the urban jungle are making more of a feature of the metropolitan landscape, inviting guests to enjoy the excitement and atmosphere of the cityscape from the quiet and privacy of their rooms.

Though expansive views had formerly been restricted to bedrooms and entertaining areas, bathrooms are becoming almost as important as a place for guests to escape and relax, and are therefore becoming more indulgent, extravagant and luxurious.

Architects and interior designers working in the market of luxury accommodation are now placing bathrooms along exterior walls, with large windows allowing natural light in, and views out. Where exterior windows are not available, glass walls or sliding doors between bedrooms, bathrooms, and other living spaces remove spatial barriers and aid light flow.

Enhancing this sense of natural spaciousness, designers avoid overloading guests with fussy or overly complicated detail, keeping designs clean and simple throughout.

With spaciousness and natural light being the biggest drivers in the design of modern hotel interiors, this ideal is carried throughout entire suites, with naturally lit luxurious escapes becoming the ideal in impressing guests.

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