Drapehaus
Drapehaus
Preparing the room
Drapehaus
Preparing the room
For homestays, guesthouses, villas and small resorts with lettable rooms
Guest rooms are an operations problem more than a decorating one. The room has to photograph well, be genuinely dark at six in the morning, survive two hundred guest-nights a year, and be repairable in twenty minutes rather than three weeks.
Mock-up in two to three weeks, then roughly a week per four to six rooms. Best scheduled for the monsoon or October, before bookings start.
The single biggest cost saving available in this category is standardisation, and almost nobody does it — rooms get done one at a time as budget allows, so every room is different and nothing is interchangeable.
This package specifies one solution and repeats it. One spare set then covers the whole property, and a damaged curtain becomes a swap rather than a closure.
How it runs
What’s included
Not every project uses all of these. We scope against what the property actually needs.
Typically these homes
FAQ
Because it turns a three-week bespoke remake into a twenty-minute swap. One spare set covers the whole property, so a torn curtain in February does not take a room out of service during peak season. It is the largest single cost saving in guest-room work.
By testing at sunrise rather than at midday, and by treating blackout as geometry rather than fabric. Light gets in around the curtain, not through it. We usually specify a blackout roller with side channels inside the reveal behind a decorative curtain.
The monsoon or early October. Occupancy is low so rooms can come out of service without losing income, and anything not finished before bookings start has to wait until the following March.
It is the cheapest insurance available. Committing forty rooms to a specification that turns out to leak light at sunrise is an expensive discovery, and one room tells you everything before the rest is ordered.
