Information Your Hotel Interior Designer Will Need
Hospitality interior designers do much more than select pretty items that will go into a hotel. Among other things, they also act as consultants, project managers, and technical experts to capture a hotelier’s vision, help implement their design, and comply with the hotel brand’s design and documentation requirements.
Before a project can begin, you and your interior designer must align on the project’s goals, schedule, scope of work, responsibilities, and FF&E budget. You and your designer should then ensure that all other teams involved are in the loop and communicating.
So that your hotel project can run smoothly, without unnecessary starts and stops, below we share the questions your hospitality interior designer will ask to be able to deliver the best-completed project possible.
Information Your Hotel Interior Designer Needs to Know
Below is a partial list of questions your interior designer will need you to answer to provide the best service and outcome from start to finish:
- Who is the primary contact for this project? Will this person also make the decisions?
- Is this project a new construction, renovation, brand conversion, or otherwise?
- Do you have a current set of architectural drawings for the building (in digital format)?
- Do you have an architect, general contractor, and building engineer?
- If not a new build, is there a property improvement plan (PIP) or fixed renovation cycle management (FRCM) prompt from the brand stating the requirements to be completed?
- Will this project be a custom or brand standard scheme? Or is there a brand prototype you like, but want to modify?
- If standard, which scheme?
- If custom, what is the goal / vibe? Which elements or colors do you like / dislike?
- What is your budget for FF&E?
- What is your timeline, including phasing? When do you hope to finish (open the hotel), and when can the project start?
Here at Innvision, we recommend that you do your homework in advance to be ready to answer all of the questions above (and more). Gather the information your hospitality interior designer will need before the project begins. If there are several people on your team, pull together what is required and determine responsibilities for each person beforehand.
Although preparing to provide the above information may take some effort, your working ahead will allow you, your designer, and your project to move much more quickly and without interruption once you get started.
Successful Design Projects with Innvision
It is a misconception that interior designers exclusively work on the “design” of the project. Rather, a hospitality designer is a project manager with interior design skills and the heart to please both the hotel brand and the hotelier. Interior designers are professional listeners, interpreters, budgeters, organizers, and schedulers first.
Hospitality interior designers, such as those at ID Studio, have experience with many projects a year. This allows them to bring their knowledge, resources, and expertise to benefit each client.
To see how Innvision can make your next hotel project smooth and successful, reach out!
