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Interior decorating –Hotels and Restaurants
“order a steak and they send us a pie”
e.e.cummings
The dining place should be attractive, inviting and hence requires interior decorating. The present day competitive world has made merchandising
turn to interior decorating and visual presentations to promote their products. Hotels and restaurants have also fallen in line with the trend and have taken to interior decoration to promote their business.
A place where people expect comfort, rest and peace is a hotel. The preparation for work and rest thereafter is expected to be as comfortable as
possible. Many hotels and restaurants get feedback from customers to serve them better in future.
Interior decoration helps hoteliers create this pleasant and homely comfortable feeling in their customers. The elegant room and soft bed and
neat bath may be the basic requirements. But from the entrance to their rooms, at the lobby and at the dining hall, customers expect more. The welcoming environment among lawns and palms, tall trees at the lobby, the warm welcome at the reception, the proper lighting, the color, and added
to these the greenery make them feel at home. These should be so selective to make them blend with each other and create joy. The warm room with wall paintings and small silk plants and flower arrangements make his stay at the hotel a memorable incident. The satisfaction derived from these is unforgettable and create a lasting impression on the customers.
Restaurants choose themes or motifs to decorate their interiors and outdoors. The old world Europe, Persian, Chinese, and the like are selected
and some rotate these to suit the season and events. If not the above, the styles like antique, Ultra-modern, abstract, casual, and science are chosen for decoration. There are requirements for such
chosen interior and outdoor decoration as some are drive-ins and some boast roof-garden dining places up in cloud nine.
The restaurants select proper furniture to blend with the color of their walls. In selecting the furniture, they give special attention to the
dining comfort of the customers. They are made to feel at home and at many places their privacy is secured through distancing the tables or by creating cubicles. The dull candle light dinners in calm and
serene atmosphere with pervading melodious music may be the one which the connoisseur prefers. This pleasant atmosphere is enhanced by adding silk plants and flower arrangements. Present day restaurants prefer silk plants and flowers in lieu of natural ones to avoid insects and pests in dining places and also because of the low cost in maintenance. Restaurants change the arrangement of these decorative plants and articles to suit the event or theme. These fake or artificial silk plants make such rearrangements easy.
Proper interior decoration achieves the creation of a cozy feeling and the well prepared garnished tasty food is consumed with a good appetite.
The customers depart with an elated satisfaction not because of the tasty food alone, but because of the atmosphere that has acted as an appetizer. The gourmet lovers will certainly go contented dining
in such snug environments.
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