Pieces of Advice to Pick the Right Furniture for a Hotel Lobby Design

There are tips to pick the right interior design furniture to fill a space.

For hotel owners, regardless if it’s a small boutique hotel or a large chain franchise, the lobby area is perhaps one of its most important spots when it comes to experience for guests. This is the place where lounging while waiting, brief socialization among guest, and other social situations that can benefit the business happen. Besides, aside from the reception section itself, is the first part of a guest’s perception with the service.

Considering this, how do hotel owners and interior designers work to pick the right furniture for these spaces? Here are some handy guides they use when it comes to selecting the right pieces of furniture for hotel lobby design.

Hotel lobby designs: a guide to the functionality

Interior design is often the combination of social sciences and aesthetic criteria. And lobby’s are the places where this comes to a halt: this is the place where socialization, business, and ambiance need to guide the guest and create a placid experience that creates an everlasting impression. Part of that experience, aside from social benefits that come as “free” in a lobby, there’s the social and comfort aspect of being in those lounging areas.

As they’re the first impression, and often pose as waiting areas for guests, these areas offer a unique take on how the spaces are used. They tend to be open and clear, with high visibility levels and ample walking spaces. These enable the guest to select whether they want to socialize or keep to themselves, as well as allowing them to rest and leave their suitcases, for example, without interrupting traffic in these areas.

The functionality is a guide for the kind of furniture that will be used too. Consider this: as a lobby works as a base for other activities, furnishing needs to represent that transitioning nature, generating comfort at the same time.

How do these two functions come to work together? Here are some guides that interior designers use to create perfect furniture for hotel lobby design.

Mind the gap: selecting furniture for hotel lobby design has more to do with open spaces than with the furniture itself. Combining it and distributing it, so it doesn’t crash with one another, whether visually or in mobile nature, it’s the key element for each design. For example, L-shaped furniture as a centerpiece, with a narrow table and ample space between tea table and the couches to create an inviting gap to lounge with a central focus, such as a modern ornate lamp or an accent wall.

Stick to a complementary texture: the textures, while allowing visual interest, can be incredibly limiting in design. Consider a central texture for the accents in your furniture and interior design, and stick to it through it as a theme throughout the selection. For example, if you want a clean design, then combining polished wooden furniture with sleek metal will give a polished and elegant aspect, maintaining the same basic texture in different materials.

Add colors in highly illuminated spaces: colors work better with sunlight and where it has a background for it to stand out. Consider selecting brighter colored furniture for open spaces with large windows and considerable amounts of sunlight coming in. If the contrast is too stark within your decor, use accessories in muted colors whether warm or cold, such as rugs and decorative statues to add visual balance, while leaving the furniture to stand out in their brightness.

Consider seating arrangements: if you’re a hotel, how many guests can come in a day to your business, in a good season? Consider the traffic of guests when offering sitting areas, the more prone your location is to tourism, the more you’ll want to offer. However, keep in mind that this must not create crowded spaces. Instead, you can create more laid back lounge areas within the same space of the lobby, not as big but in complementary colors that offer additional seating arrangements in case it’s needed.

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These are some tips of interior design for you to pick the right kind of furniture for a hotel lobby.

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