Peter’s escaped!
Peter, our winter painter, has finally finished his winter work. We have worked with Peter over the last four or five winters to get on top of our redecorating work and he has just put the last drop of wallpaper up on the stairs today. This means that we have done all the bedrooms and the hall, landings and stairs but as with all these old buildings it will be time to start again next November!
The look on around the hotel is getting much more contemporary without forgetting our classic roots, we are trying to make the hotel feel much lighter and fresher with much simpler designs and a cleaner look. The task for Peter next winter will be to work on the Met Lounge, some of the premier rooms that we did first and I’m sure some of the new rooms will benefit from a touch up too.
We will leave the restaurant, lounge and bar for the moment as we have bigger plans for this area and may well need a larger firm to do this job.
One last job that Peter did, which provoked a tongue in cheek complaint from one guest, was to paint the window frames in the restaurant. These have been crying out for some TLC for a while now and we decided we couldn’t wait until we do the big job next winter so we set Peter onto them and they now look great. The complaint was that these windows had become so much a part of the hotel’s features over the last 15 years!
