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Our interiors no longer feel current

Everything is well kept, nothing is broken. And still the guest says on entering: I have been here before — fifteen years ago, in a different hotel.

Typical for: family-run houses between two generations · properties that raised the rate but not the space · businesses with renovations from several decades side by side

Documented by Hospis

Updated: 9 September 2026

How you recognize it

  • Reviews praise location, team and kitchen — and mention rooms or lobby not at all or with reserve
  • The rate sits at the level of houses whose spaces are visibly younger
  • Lobby, restaurant and rooms date from different renovation phases and look like it
  • The last major intervention was more than ten years ago
  • There is no idea of where the house should go in terms of design
  • A complete renovation isn’t conceivable financially or operationally

Matching Hospis

MU

Much Untertrifaller

Architecture · Building in existing stock · Alpine building — Bregenz
AdviseImplement

Thinks of the house as a whole: one design line across all construction phases, implemented in stages while the business keeps running.

Mapped to root cause
Renovations without a common threadAll or nothingRate and space have drifted apart
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GS

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F&B concept · Bar & beverage concepts · Spatial aesthetics — Vienna
Works with Novatouch · protel · Mews POS
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Gives spaces a signature that comes from the house and the place — not from the catalogue.

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The space doesn’t tell what the house is
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Cause fields — how to tell them apart

“Not current” is rarely a question of age. Spaces age well when they have a stance. They age badly when they were a fashion — or when three fashions sit side by side.

These fields are complete, and many properties get there on their own — that is what this page is for. The cost simply does not appear on an invoice: internal hours, a few attempts, and a season that keeps running in the meantime.

01

Renovations without a common thread

How you spot it

The rooms in the 2012 extension, the lobby from 1998, the restaurant after the last trend. Each phase had its planner, its budget and its taste. Together they don’t form a house but a chronicle.

The way out

Before anything is done: set a design line for the whole house — materials, colours, light, stance. Every future intervention, even the smallest, follows it. That is how the house grows back together.

02

Rate and space have drifted apart

How you spot it

The rate follows the market and demand. The space follows the investment plan. When the rate rises faster, a gap opens that the guest experiences as disappointment — even without naming it.

The way out

Honestly compare which areas carry the rate and which don’t. Invest first where the guest experiences the price: room, bathroom, arrival. Not where it is easiest.

03

All or nothing

How you spot it

Because a complete renovation isn’t affordable, nothing happens. Every year it gets postponed, and every year the gap widens. The thought “then properly in five years” costs every single season in the meantime.

The way out

Think in stages: one line, a multi-year plan, construction phases that fit into off-seasons and don’t close the business. The house becomes a little more each year, instead of all at once and then nothing for twenty years.

04

The space doesn’t tell what the house is

How you spot it

The furniture comes from the hotel catalogue, the pictures off the rack, the materials are neutral. Nothing is wrong, nothing is distinctive. The guest could be anywhere — and therefore books anywhere next time.

The way out

Start from the place and the house: regional materials, the history of the business, the family’s signature. Not as decoration, but as the basis of every decision about space.

Frequently asked

Do we need an interior designer or an architect?
For individual rooms, interior design is enough. Once several construction phases are meant to grow together or the building fabric is affected, someone has to think of the house as a whole. The Diagnose clarifies where the line is.
Can we do this while operating?
Yes, if it is planned. Phases in off-seasons, floor by floor, with clear boundaries to guest areas. That is standard for properties that cannot close.
What does it do for the rate?
Spaces that match the price make the rate defensible. The increase doesn’t come from the renovation itself, but from the guest no longer questioning it.

Describe your situation

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Problem
Our interiors no longer feel current

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