Hotel Interiors
Idea 2: Bathroom in the Garden Idea 1:a low partition between the bathroom and the bedroom, combined with the bathroom, is an effective but impractical solution. It is more reasonable to separate them with a partition that does not reach the ceiling, as in the Austrian Mavida Balance Hotel & Spa. Unfortunately, this option is only suitable for country houses: in apartment buildings, combining living space with a bathroom is, alas, illegal. Idea 2: Bathroom in the garden Taking a bath, enjoying the sun, greenery and fresh air is a legal privilege of owners of country houses. And for this it is not necessary to wash on the lawn, in front of the amazed neighbors! You can learn from the experience of Antonio Citterio - when designing the Bvlgari hotel in Bali, he achieved a good compromise between openness and privacy. The glazed bathroom doors open onto a garden enclosed by a wild stone wall. In fine weather, you can open the doors and let the summer breeze into the room.
Idea 3: a flaming fireplace on the TV screen
Idea 4: Do Not Disturb
Idea 5: bed, combined with a writing deskThird 3: a burning fireplace on the TV screen. The fireplace is a recognized symbol of home comfort. And even if you can not afford such a luxury, there is a way out. The owners of the German hotel chain Motel One clearly demonstrated that relaxation is facilitated not only by real fire, but also by the flame captured on video. Insert the disc into the DVD player, and the TV in the lounge or living room turns into a virtual hearth! Of course, in a classic interior such a deception does not work, but in modern it looks quite organic. A large selection of disks with shooting fire - in the online store amazon.com (search for them by the keywords "ambient fire"). Idea 4: "Do Not Disturb" signboard This simple hotel thing is useful at home: it can prevent a lot of family quarrels. From time to time everyone wants to be alone - and this is not a reason for resentment. You can think of other signals: for example, "do not enter without a gift", "went to himself, will not come back soon" - and hang them on the front door before the guests arrive. Idea 5: a bed combined with a desk The furniture items that combine several functions, - an ideal choice for a small room. Follow the example of the designer Masa from Venezuela, who issued this hotel room Fox. The bed is combined with a desk, which can be used as a coffee and coffee table. Such hybrids can be purchased at IKEA or ordered in a sketch by AM Design.
Idea 6: a glass wall between the bedroom and the bathroom
Idea 7: wall paintings on the ceilingIndia 6: a glass wall between the bedroom and the bathroomTo provide the bathroom with natural light, replace the wall with a glass partition. And to be able to retire during water procedures, duplicate the glass with curtains or blinds, as in Faena Hotel & Universe. Another option: install a partition from the so-called Smart-glass - with a variable level of transparency. Idea 7: wall-to-ceiling murals. This is one of the most effective decorating techniques. If you have low ceilings - use it! Decorate the room with giant drawings that do not seem to fit on the wall and "splash out" on the ceiling, as in this issue of the Copenhagen Hotel Fox.
Idea 8: Twisting TV in the foot of the bed
Idea 9: Cinema on the ceiling
Idea 10: a bed suspended from the ceiling Idea 8: spinning TV in the foot of the bed? Watch TV while lying in bed or sitting in a chair? The choice is yours. For a studio apartment or a large bedroom, the solution used in this "suite" of the Moscow hotel Pokrovka Suite is perfect. The TV, built into the partition of frosted glass, rotates around its axis. It is equally convenient to look at it from the bed, and from the living area. Idea 9: a movie on the ceiling It is desirable every morning on waking to see something pleasant? How about a shot from your favorite movie on the ceiling? Take an example from Jean Nouvel who decorated the rooms of the Swiss hotel The Hotel with frames from the cultic tapes of Fellini, Buñuel, Wenders, etc. High resolution image can be ordered at the Eastnews photo bank, large-format printing - maximuc.ru. To make the ceiling look good in the evening, you will have to abandon the chandelier and install spotlights aimed upwards. Idea 10: a bed suspended from the ceiling. If your bedroom is not large, the illusion of space can be created by replacing an ordinary bed with a bed suspended from the ceiling without legs. So, as it is done in the Singapore hotel New Majestic, - here the "floating in the air" bed is also highlighted from the bottom. It's a great way to visually "unload" a tight room. 
Idea 11: children's rooms decorated by children
Idea 12: facing the upper part of the walls with mirrorsIndia 11: children's rooms decorated by childrenEnergy in adolescents beats the key, but how to direct it to a peaceful channel? Assign them to decorate their own bedrooms. Take an example from the hoteliers who entrusted finishing the rooms to the child prodigy, not burdened with knowledge in the decorative arts. Hotel Fox in Copenhagen is given to the beginning designers: the result is obvious! Idea 12: facing the upper part of the walls with mirrors. That the mirrors visually expand the space, no one needs to explain. However, most people are uncomfortable all the time to be face to face with their own reflection. (Citizens suffering from a severe form of narcissism do not count!) Moreover, the mirror ruthlessly doubles not only the area of the room, but also the amount of things in the artistic disorder over it scattered. Take over the experience of the designer David Collins, the author of the New York Hotel London: he only mirrors the upper part of the walls, so that they do not reflect either the mess in the room or its inhabitants. The illusion of space is preserved. For some, the hotel is a native home, for others - a foreign territory. We gave the floor to both parties! Julia Vysotskaya, actress
Once my husband and I were at the hotel completelyaccidentally and did not regret it. It was in London. We moved from one apartment to another. In the middle of a narrow street there was a truck full of our things. And then it turned out that the owner of the apartment, which we must enter, simply disappeared. His phone did not answer, and the bewildered agent from the real estate office said he did not even know what to help us. I stood next to the furious truck driver who did not understand where to go, and could not cry from despair. But my husband, without losing his composure, ordered a room at the hotel The Dorchester and said: "It's a big deal! We'll spend the night in a hotel, we'll drink champagne! "And, really, everything was settled, the next day we found a wonderful apartment in which we lived for a year and a half. But unexpectedly for ourselves we had an amazing romantic evening in one of the best hotels in the world! Alexander Malenkov, editor-in-chief of MAXIM magazine
The first time I got to Italy in 1994. We came with friends to Rimini, threw things in the hotel and went to the city for exploration. In order not to get lost, I specially remembered the name of the hotel. The name on the plate was Albergo ***. "Well," I thought, "it's clear, Albergo hotel." Looked at the street name - Traffico a senso unico - and went for a walk. Of course, we got lost. Somehow with the help of a phrase book they began to ask local residents: "Where is the Albergo hotel?" We were shown the nearest building. We look - exactly, Albergo! And our street is Traffico a senso unico. But the hotel is definitely not ours. And most importantly, wherever you turn, on each street there hangs a sign Traffico a senso unico, and at each hotel - Albergo. We decided that we were going crazy ... As a result, it turned out that Traffico a senso unico means one-way traffic, and Albergo is a hotel. The entire resort of Rimini was strewn with hotels with the inscription Albergo. In general, we spent a week wandering around the resort, sleeping on the beach ... I'm kidding. To be honest, it's just that at some point we accidentally, without understanding how, found ourselves near the doors of our Albergo. Elena Sotnikova, vice president and editorial director of the publishing house of the AFS
Once I was very frightened by the hotel design. Thank God that in this famous Dubai hotel my husband and I were accidentally in the format of the excursion. The abundance of white "Mercedes" at the entrance and the sheikh-like personalities did not bother us at all: on the contrary, we were happy to meet the promised "Arab luxury". I always thought that this concept includes antique carpets, carved panels, dusty cement handmade tile - and all that in mosaic-bright colors. However, already at the entrance, we were waiting for funeral compositions from real flowers, modern Chinese carpeting, painted with flaming abstractions, leaving at the end of an altitude of an atrium with inflated celluloid balconies covered with gold leaf. "We could have a statue of Liberty here," boasted a local PR man. "Well, already, and the statue of Liberty to try on," - we thought glumly. On a high-speed elevator, we were flogged to the 50th floor, where, holding on to the walls, to not have the slightest chance to look deep into the "well" (at that time we were about at the head of the Statue of Liberty, if they put it there), we went to the royal apartments. Tinted glass rooms of almost 800 square meters created a gloomy atmosphere in kitsch marble-silk space. While the sun was shining on the street and warm green waves were beating against the beach, central air conditioning and semi-darkness, sweetened with halogen, reigned in the apartment. My husband felt sick. He practically sat down on the carpet in the middle of one of the bedrooms and held his hands, trying to convince himself that he had under his feet some kind of soil. The PR man pressed the secret button, and the disney-bed bed standing among the gilded columns began to rotate slowly around its axis. Downstairs it was suggested to go down on the panoramic elevator, and we were already so bad and it did not matter that we agreed. At the speed of light, a glass box fell into the ocean with indifferent Indian people who still managed to point a finger at something. We did not leave there - we fled from there. And in the evening from stress they got drunk. Aurora, actress and TV presenter
In autumn we are the whole family - me, my husband Alexei anda small daughter of Aurora - rested in the Maldives. Specifically, they took the time to mark Alexey's birthday there. To be honest, I did not plan anything special - I thought, we'll go to an exotic restaurant in the evening, maybe we'll get a bottle of champagne and a fruit basket as a gift ... But the day before the manager approached me and said in a conspiratorial tone: "Nothing for tomorrow appoint ". I decided that it was a celebration of Halloween, which is celebrated on October 31st. But the next day a nurse knocked at our door (which we did not order) and firmly said that she was ordered to sit with a small Aurora. Alex and I were put in a boat and taken to a secluded island, where a chic table was already laid. We drank champagne, ate something very tasty and exotic ... And when it got dark, a terrific show started with lit torches. And only for the two of us! My husband and I ourselves work in show business, but the spectacle was appreciated - so much it was spectacular. Alexey later said that it was one of the best birthdays in his life. "Did you come up with all this yourself?" - the girlfriends asked after our return to Moscow. They simply could not believe that it really was a gift from the hotel. Tina Kandelaki, TV presenter
I once stopped in Switzerland in a luxuriousthe hotel. Believe me, it was the highest class - in my opinion, not even five, but six stars. I was escorted to a posh room, along the way telling that the history of the hotel is more than one hundred and fifty years old. And all these years the staff day and night only and thinks about how to satisfy any whims of their sophisticated customers. I listened with all due respect. Unpacked things and took out a laptop. But what was my surprise when I found out that in my exclusive room with antique furniture there is no Wi-Fi. I had to call the reception. "Do not worry, madam! The administrator answered cheerfully. "Please go down to the first floor and use our excellent computers." Of course, I was outraged that in order to go online and send the letter home, I still have to go somewhere else. But when I entered the room, I almost fainted: there were units that could be safely given to the museum of computer technology. Of course, the "old men" grunted, but somehow worked ... "That's interesting," I then reflected. - Really the owners of hotels do not understand that the golden mixers - this, maybe, is important for some of the guests. But technology must be at the present level. " And here's another question that plagues me: why in some hotels the Niagara Falls flow from the shower, which literally knocks down, while in others it is necessary to catch every drop to wash. And such stories occur in hotels that position themselves as luxury. Andrei Malakhov, TV presenter and editor-in-chief of StarHit magazine
I decided to mark my 30th anniversary in Cuba. My university friend Andrei Brener vowed that this is the only place on earth where I will not be attacked by crowds of Russian viewers, and we are waiting for complete relaxation. And here we together with our friend Sveta on January 2, 2002 were on the Island of Freedom in one of the best hotels of the coast of Melia Varadero. Quickly took a seat and ran to the beach. When there were only a few meters to the water, three corps ladies blocked my way. "Trofi pochekati, Andri, we're from Poltava," - said that she was older, and fished a huge camera from the camera Sony. First, she, as the manager of the photo studio, built her friends, then she got into the frame herself, then the tourists from Voronezh came to us, then ... In general, the rest began. Two days later, yawning desperately (the drunk tourists departing from Khabarovsk wished to say good-bye to me personally and rattled the door for half an hour), we decided to spit on the hotel "paradise" and go to the beach of the town of Varadero. Crossing the bronze bodies of the Aborigines, we almost found a coveted patch of free sand, when suddenly we heard a loud "Wow!". With the words "Andryukha! And you're here! "Arthur Gasparyan, journalist of the" MK ", rushed to me. Next was a fan from St. Petersburg with her dad, then a bartender from Saratov, who revealed to me the secrets of preparing a cocktail "Mojito" (he flew to a seminar to exchange experiences). Further it turned out that today Bloody Sunday and not to celebrate it with the people, I have no right ... On the tenth day of this "complete relaxation" I fell asleep in a lounger at the farthest swimming pool of our hotel. My friend was also dozing. We were awakened by Svetka's enthusiastic whisper: "Lord! Just look at who this lady smears cream! "Substituting a wide trained back for the beautiful beauty of an elegant age, the best James Bond of the world - actor Sean Connery looked at us! Frankly, we did not get the camera out of the bag. Judging by the color of the skin, at Connery it was the first day of rest.
