When considering hotel furnishings, the UK hotel owner, whether a large hotel chain or a sole proprietorship, must think about striking a balance between choosing hotel chairs and tables that are of a quality that will appeal to customers and encourage them to come back and recommend the hotel to their clients. friends and be affordable enough that the cost of them does not eliminate any benefit that replacing old hotel furniture can bring. In these tougher economic times, when banks are more cautious with new loans, this consideration is especially important and many private homeowners may consider holding off on renovations until the economy improves.
Many may not be able to (if your hotel furniture is so worn that the owner has little leeway), waiting could spell disaster because they will lose their clientele and therefore their revenue stream. Of course, another consideration is that the disastrous UK economy has led to a rapid and extreme drop in the value of the British pound again in all the major world currencies, especially the US dollar and the Euro.
While this has had a really negative effect in terms of the cost of US hotel furniture, a holiday in any European country will cost you and you must have heard horror stories from your friends about how much more a pint or meal costs now, and much more the accommodation if they are organizing it themselves. So there will be many potential tourists to the UK planning a British holiday this year rather than an American or European one. So for the coastal trade and established tourism areas this should be good news this year with increasing demand giving the hotel owner the opportunity to enjoy high occupancy and even, God forbid, increase a bit. room rates.
There is a bewildering variety of hotel furniture available right now. A simple internet search for hotel furniture will allow you to find many companies offering from the most modern to the most traditional ranges of hotel chairs and tables in wood or steel, fully upholstered or with solid seats. When choosing a suitable style for their hotel, the owner can consider the type of client that they are already attracting and whether they need to keep the style the same or make changes to reinforce the style they have created or make changes to attract a different type of client. . Of course, the interior of the rooms should influence your choice as well, as a hotel with oak wood rooms is likely to look more than a little strange with modern chrome stacking chairs and steel frame tables.
A traditional hotel looks very attractive with wooden chairs for the bar area, with wooden frame bar chairs and at least some upholstery, with traditional designs such as ‘Mates’ or ‘Captains’ chairs being preferred. With these, tables with a wooden frame and turned wooden legs can be purchased in a variety of sizes, round, rectangular or square. Because they are made of natural wood, they can be finished in any color from the natural tone of the wood used to an attractive deep brown walnut, deep red mahogany, or dark Jacobean oak. So whatever interior style the dining room has, hotel tables and chairs can be made to complement it.
For breakfast and dining areas, steel frame chairs and tables are often chosen because they offer good strength at a low price and the chairs can be purchased as stackable chairs to give the added benefit of being stackable to save space when setting up the room. is required for another. function. Right now there is fierce competition between companies that sell these types of chairs, so prices are at their lowest point in many years. The frames are available in steel or aluminum, which is lighter but comes at a premium in terms of price. These chairs are available in a wide variety of colors, with the most popular being gold, silver, or black. Recently, special printed coatings are also available, whereby a wood effect can be achieved. With these chairs it is important to remember that when stacked they are heavy, so it is necessary to purchase a transport cart so that staff can move them without risk of injury. These are inexpensive and are often given free with a large order of chairs if requested by the customer.
When choosing hotel furniture for rooms, the coziest look is created with real wood frame beds and chests of drawers. Again, since the recession hit, many businesses are competing hard to retain sales, so the hotel owner should look for good discounts.
The cheapest woods for hotel bedroom furniture are rubberwood, from Malaysia and China, and Sheesham or Thakat wood from India. These are acceptable woods for furniture use and again can be stained in colors ranging from light natural to dark Jacobean oak. Good mid-priced hardwoods available are ash hardwood, oak hardwood, and birch hardwood, all of which can be purchased from mills that use organically sourced hardwood farms.
For the more exotic woods such as mahogany, king, rosewood and cedar, offers are available, but the buyer should consider the effect of purchasing new furniture of this type on the remaining rainforests, as these Slow-growing woods are rarely available from organic sources and any claims to that effect should be treated with the utmost suspicion.