Turning old into new
A before-and-after look at our new redesign approach
How does a redesign work?
Our hotels are regularly given a new design - because life naturally leaves its mark on a hotel. Doing so, we have always emphasised sustainability aspects:
When our hotels are redesigned, we continue to use pieces of furniture, depending on their condition, or refurbish them for further use.
For the redesign of the room areas in the Motel One Munich-Deutsches Museum, we have gone one step further and launched a pilot project for a sustainable room concept.
SUSTAINABILITY FACTS:
- Reuse or refurbishment of furniture: For example, our Artemide lights were reused and the bed frames were refurbished.
- Furnishings and furniture that are no longer used in the hotel find a new home at a flea market for employees.
- Recycling of used materials: Around 150 tonnes of recycled material was collected in containers.
- Cupboard panels and wooden fixtures were collected for processing by our partner Pfleiderer. This is where old becomes new: waste wood is recycled and processed into high-quality materials that can be used again.
- Closed loop recycling: panels made from recycled waste wood from our partner Pfleiderer are used in the new room.
- Use of natural, recycled materials and/or certified products wherever possible in the redesign.
Schritt für Schritt
The entire redesign takes around four to five months. Work is carried out floor by floor:
Only when one trade has completed its work on one floor does it move on to the next and the second trade takes over the floor.
1. Dismantling: smaller furniture, beds, carpets - everything has to be removed first and sent to storage or to the containers for processing
2. Cleaning out - and repairing the walls as well as the floors. Before the floor can be repainted or laid, it first has to be filled, primed and levelled.
3. Transformation: wallpapering and painting work follows
4. Flooring: 1.5 days to lay the carpets for an entire floor. We think that's pretty quick!
5. Final spurt: the new furniture and electrics are installed
6. At the very end, the corridors are also given a new coat of paint and floor covering to repair any damage caused during furniture transport or similar.
That's it! Why don't you drop by Motel One Munich-German Museum
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Sustainability in our rooms
Even before a redesign, we emphasise high-quality but also sustainable solutions in our interiors. And, of course, this also applies above all to "your" rooms.
After all, you should feel particularly at home and safe here - from the carpet to the headboards, from the bedding to the light bulbs.
