In the 2007 American drama Gossip Girl, which tells the story of American high life, one of the protagonists, Chuck Bass, has been living in a penthouse suite at his hotel.
Would you rather stay in a hotel all the time?
Like Venus, she said on the show that she has no real estate in China and rents a presidential suite on the top floor of the Jin Jiang Hotel in Shanghai for a long time.
At the price of the earlier years, the annual room rate is only 1 million.
This price sounds expensive, but it is much more cost-effective than buying a mansion in the same area, all the facilities of the hotel can be used, and there is a 24-hour dedicated service, the sweeping aunt does not have to invite herself, do not want to live on the move, but more convenient for them.
What's more, this suite was originally only for foreign guests, and it was not open to the public at all.
And the decoration of the hotel is really fine decoration, not real estate hardcover.
The hotel is beautifully renovated √
Real estate decoration ×
So for us ordinary people, is there anything to learn from the decoration of high-end hotels?
Today, I'm staying at the legendary Peninsula On the Bund.
Here, we will reveal to you how high-end hotels create the top living experience in terms of hardware.
This set is the river view room I stayed in this time, and the price is 3200 tax included in the price.
When the unit price of the hotel rises to 1500 to 2000 yuan per night, it is completely different from the experience of ordinary two or three hundred yuan hotels.
That is: Lao Tzu can't afford such a house!
Such a lot, such a river view, there is no house to sell.
Moreover, the design of luxury hotels is all handled by excellent design studios or offices, and ordinary people cannot ask such a level of designers to do design.
Many hotels themselves now have the positioning of "sojourn", the facilities are very complete, and it is not just a temporary place to stay for one or two nights.
When I stayed in Beijing Sanlitun CHAO, I was fortunate to be promoted to a suite, the restaurant, kitchen, cloakroom are all available, the space is several times larger than my own, and when I check out, I will be sad: if only I could live all the time.
Here we have "deciphered" the decoration language commonly used in high-end hotels, which can be borrowed and realized at home.
Of course, the decoration is more meaningful than practical, whether to copy home, or to see money.
After all, the good-looking effect is all made by throwing money.
Walls must never be empty
Unless it is a hotel with minimalism as the selling point, the walls of the guest rooms will never be empty, and the empty walls will show a sense of simplicity.
It doesn't matter if the walls of your home are empty, but the hotel can't stand this.
Wallpapers, wood panels, wooden grilles and hard bags are often used to decorate the walls.
The hotel is decorated on the walls
Large white walls in the form of rental houses
Hotels with earlier renovations and major business, such as the Peace Hotel in Shanghai renovated in 2010 and the Peninsula Shanghai Hotel in 2009, are made of peach-colored wallpaper to reflect a warm and relaxing atmosphere.
But the peninsula uses dark blue wallpaper in the corridor entrance location, which is a good division of the area.
Wood veneers are made by slicing wood into veneers and attaching them to the panels as decoration.
Featuring the magnificence of high-grade private residences, the hotel rooms in Beijing Guomao are decorated with dark wood veneers, creating a strong Chinese style old money atmosphere.
The wall and cabinet choose the same wooden finish, the whole room color is uniform, the cabinet seems to be integrated with the building, and the overall sense is very strong.
Only the kind of low to explosive custom cabinet will hollow out the sense of existence, and the interface with the building is particularly rough, just look at the drama.
Hard packs and soft packs are more able to play out flowers. The hard bag is wrapped in a layer of fabric on the wooden board, and the soft bag is filled with sponge inside, so that any fabric can be used as a decoration on the wall.
The soft bag that everyone has seen before may be the KTV box style, but its practicality is good and very amazing.
KTV box wind ×
Beijing Sanlitun CHAO, using gray cotton and linen, is low-key and young.
Beijing Bulgari, with yellow dark fabric for bedside decoration, and black wood grain cabinet with a pair, the 95 supreme imperial feeling is about to come out.
The designer of Beijing Waldorf directly killed the owner's beige choice and selected the jade green silk fabric on the wall, which was unforgettable.
And for hotels, only one material on the wall is monotonous, and most of them have to be matched with a variety of materials and colors.
So how do ordinary people learn from it at home? Wood finishes and hard bags are a bit too expensive, but latex paint brush a color, and what wallpaper wall cloth sea gibb, or you can consider it.
If you can use marble, use marble
Marble in interior design, like diamonds in jewelry, is absolutely unshakable.
And the marble is delicate and needs to be polished and maintained frequently, and the operation of a hotel can also be seen from the maintenance of marble.
Hotel bathrooms, such as the Bund Peninsula and Peace Hotel, have invariably chosen a similar layout.
In the ordinary standard room type of a luxury hotel, the size of the bathroom can even take up half of the entire room area.
Therefore, the material in this space naturally uses the marble at the top of the contempt chain.
Like the Bund Peninsula and the Peace Hotel in Shanghai, they are made of beige marble walls and black and white root marble floors, which is a more conservative color match.
Among them, the countertop of the Peace Hotel is specially selected with ancient wood grain marble, and the pattern is smooth and atmospheric, which is also a good tribute to the art deco style of the hotel's built age.
In recent years, hotels have played a lot of tricks.
For example, Beijing Mandarin Oriental and Beijing Intercontinental have chosen relatively young white marble.
Bulgari Shanghai uses black granite imported from Italy to pave the floor and surround the bathtub, which is consistent with the color scheme in the living room space.
In addition to the basic colors, some hotels also have to do another spelling at all costs.
Beijing Waldorf Astoria used light gray marble, decorated with golden faucets and hardware, and the walls were specially crossed with flowers, and the details were all luxurious.
Beijing Nuojin Hotel, in addition to the large floor-to-ceiling windows in the bathroom is unforgettable, but also madly cut the deep coffee ash marble into small pieces of long strips and then spelled out characters, so that people can't bear to spread the floor mat on the ground to block it.
Ordinary people's homes are more difficult to have the opportunity to serve marble, and the more beautiful the marble, the more expensive it is.
But fortunately, we have imitation marble texture tiles, which can be regarded as equal.
It is best to choose soft light or stone light, which looks closer to the texture of marble than the mirror highlight.
Curtains hung all over the wall
If there is one commonality that high-end hotels must have, it is large windows.
Ordinary residential building code requirements, to consider the insulation, consider the cost, consider the window cleaning and maintenance, the hotel as a commercial building can not be considered, floor-to-ceiling windows are a must for new hotels.
Except for the Shanghai Peace Hotel, which focuses on the design style of the 30s, I have never seen the curtains hanging half-cut, which is too small and childish.
The basic configuration is a layer of blackout curtain and a layer of yarn, at least 2 times pleats, that is, the width of the cloth is twice the width of the window.
As soon as you hang a whole wall, the momentum comes out at once.
The blackout curtain is two-tiered, facing the side of the house is a nice-looking fabric, and another layer of blackout curtain is sewn behind it.
Heartbroken like the Bund Peninsula in Shanghai, with an electric curtain on the outside.
Even designs such as Shanghai EDITION and Beijing Bulgari that place the table in front of the window will leave a curtain position in front of the table.
Inconvenient to pull curtains? It's all electric.
In addition to this, the top will be combined with the suspended ceiling to make a curtain box.
In addition to being able to hide the curtain slides, it is more important to avoid light leakage.
The lights are numerous and scattered
This I mentioned in the previous dafa on home lighting creation, no matter whether the light is bright or dark, the light dispersion is better than a lamp illuminating the whole house and is easy to use.
Good lighting design, really what I said in that video, you want to have light where you want to be bright, you don't need it to be bright where it is dark.
The lights are scattered, and there is no contradiction with the main lights.
Although there are many lights, the hotel's lighting system has been configured to be a switch, which is very convenient.
You don't have to open them one by one.
And the hotel especially loves to use spotlights. If nothing else, it's that the effect is advanced.
I have stayed in all the hotels, only the Peace Hotel in Shanghai used spotlights more carefully to highlight the retro feeling of the 30s.
There were no spotlights 80 years ago!
But if you look closely, you should use it in the bathroom.
Lighting is a thing that especially needs to be experienced, so I very much recommend that you have the opportunity to find a good hotel to stay and actually experience it.
All kinds of perverted details
Because the design team of the hotel is very professional, so the details to be in-depth, that is really perverted.
For example, the bathroom retaining stone on the Bund Peninsula in Shanghai has made a very gentle bulge, and the material is consistent with the bathroom floor, and it cannot be seen without careful inspection.
The same design, Peace Hotel also has, and the peace hotel between the wooden floor and marble buckle treatment is also very meticulous.
The marble in front of the windows of the Peninsula On the Bund is reserved for the height difference, and the carpet is just right and very flat.
The shower room does not make marble grooves according to the convention, but cuts the marble into small bricks with 10cm square, leaving wide seams, and the anti-slip effect is just as good, but the foot feeling is much more comfortable than the groove.
Hidden lamp strips, niches, spotlight head position specially avoid the shower top spray, as well as the uniform bathroom waterproof gypsum board ceiling, are very prominent sense of quality, ordinary people decoration can not pay attention to these details.
The Peace Hotel even has hidden light strips under the bathroom sink in order to serve as night lights at night.
This kind of detail, if there is no special designer, can only be seen more and thought about.
And the price of ordinary decoration may not be realized.
Finally, a brief summary of the hotel decoration to create a sense of luxury:
1. The wall cannot be empty
2. Essential Marble
3. Curtains are hung all over the wall
4. The lights should be dispersed
5. The details are the most terrible
There are also some cheaper ways you can implement these routines and move back into your own home:
For example, the wall can not be empty, then hang more paintings, or brush a darker color, it is OK.
Marble is not affordable, and marbled tiles are not expensive.
Curtains must be made at home, and I have shared how the lighting is arranged. (Poke→ here to view)
After learning this, your family can achieve the effect of the hotel with very little money.
In addition, there are many ingenuities in the design of high-end hotels, which are worth learning.
For example, even the most basic room types will definitely have a cloakroom, which can be used as a watershed between high-end hotels and ordinary hotels.
This is also consistent with what I said in the previous video about the design of small apartments, and the storage room is definitely a weapon to ensure the cleanliness of the room and improve the sense of quality.
The Bund Peninsula in Shanghai is worthy of being the flagship store of The Peninsula Hotel on the mainland, the best hotel in Shanghai, the decoration 12 years ago, and now it still looks full of details, not outdated at all, but it is particularly old money, throwing some Internet celebrities a few streets.
I also like the moving line of The Peace Hotel in Shanghai, both sides of the entrance hall are cloakrooms and bathrooms, and turning twice is the guest room, which is a very classic European residential design idea, especially with a sense of spatial ceremony, in fact, it also alludes to the thinking of moving scenery in traditional Chinese courtyards.
I've often heard this before:
The home is too much like a hotel, too much like a café, too much like this and too much like that.
I was particularly curious: so home can only be a mediocre, "living" place?
Doesn't it deserve to look good, doesn't it deserve to be advanced?
Is there a conflict between living a life and a sense of luxury?
Why do we like to punch in at an influencer shop and book a hotel on a special anniversary?
Is it because what they eat is really delicious and different?
Actually more, we are consuming them in the environment.
So instead of spending this money to go out, why not decorate your home more comfortably and more atmospherically?
Isn't it more pleasant to live in it every day?
Image source: Sequoia creative design
As I said in this video, since I decorated my dining area like a coffee shop, I rarely spent money to go out for coffee.
I can cut my feet at home without clothes!
The reason why we felt like the hotel was not like home was because the hotel did not have our personal imprint.
And the personal imprint of a home is naturally there after we have lived for a long time.
It reflects the souls of the people who live in this house.
Over the years, I have seen that Young people in China are becoming more and more unconventional in the form of their own homes.
Home can be a museum, an art gallery, a large warehouse, it can be dark, it can be empty, as long as you are happy, no one can define what your home must look like.
So, if you like the hotel's sense of sophistication and sophistication, budget permitting, then take the plunge and try it!
If someone forces Lai Lai with you, let him say go, anyway, it is himself who lives happily!