These five hospitality projects share a common idea: the notion of an expanded home. More than decorating, the teams design rituals —arriving, unpacking, teleworking or disconnecting, sleeping better— with the help of a palette of light woods, serene colours, and solutions that coordinate finishes throughout, from the lobby to the suite, for luxury hotels, aparthotels, boutique hotels, or resorts.
Ibis Styles Madrid Airport Valdebebas | Dorotea Estudio (Madrid)
In Valdebebas, Dorotea Estudio transforms a large-scale hotel into a sequence of chromatic vignettes. The identity is based on optimistic colour blocking —greens and tiles—that organises wardrobes, mirrors, and television cabinets as if they were graphic pieces.
The key lies in how the colours are balanced; neutrals envelop and accents act as emotional signals for the guest. The study highlights three qualities of materiality, key to the development of the hotel: design versatility, durability, and ease of cleaning, which is crucial in high-traffic situations. “We had to fit 260 rooms into a tight budget without sacrificing character”, explains Alba Hernández González.
We like the application of… FimaPan® Decor Fire-Retardant Verde Arcilla Soft III on countertops, cabinets, and TV stands, solving high traffic with colour and cleanliness.
Hotel Capitolo Riviera | Parisotto + Formenton Architetti (Genoa)
Here, the story is a dialogue with the original seventies’ brutalism. The intervention rests on the concrete structure with a tactile warmth that humanises the scale, especially in the terraces and solar control slats.
The urban planning gesture is subtle but powerful: treating the perimeter park as a true outdoor lobby, preserving trees and connecting wooden platforms with stairs and walkways.
“A park with a hotel”, the authors define it, and this reversal of priorities is felt in the way each room looks outward, taking advantage of the temperate climate of the Riviera.
We like the application of… Thermopine Savia on exterior decking and the Gradpanel Thermopine system on façade slats for warm and effective solar control.
Staybridge Suites by IHG | Morph (Malaga)
The suites—designed for long stays— flesh out the generic residential look and embrace a Mediterranean quiet luxury achieved with a universe of light woods, woven-weave fronts, and a palette of mineral blues that cools the Malaga light.
The hinge piece is the partition furniture that integrates TV, storage, and passageways, resolving the tension between the domestic and the hotel. The atmosphere is rounded off with sober textiles and linear suspended lights that free up bedside tables and emphasise the horizontality of the bed: serenity with a vocation for use. The fixed furniture and kitchens are designed with easy-to-maintain surfaces —a constant in the project— without sacrificing tactility.
We like the use of… Decorative Duo Hickory Frida Boreal on panelling, headboards, the TV and storage unit, giving the suite coherence.
Gran Hotel Taoro | Dishot (Tenerife)
Reopening a heritage icon requires sobriety and skill. Dishot offers a quiet contemporaneity: warm panelling, headboards that integrate lighting, and high-performance flooring that completes the economic equation of the life cycle.
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The studio explains that the baseboard chosen for the furniture allows for optimised manufacturing and transportation —critical in an island project— while the selected flooring provides durability and an ideal format for the hotel room. Their greatest pride, they say, was “being able to rise to the occasion of a building of enormous value and solving complex technical challenges with local industry”.
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We love the use of… Finfloor Durable Evolve (Arles design) in bedrooms and hallways, combined with SuperPan ® with Studio on the fronts and headboards for a timeless and durable aesthetic.
Calaserena Resort | Sneaky (Sardinia)
Furtivo approaches the renovation of a resort with multiple typologies as if it were a system: a family of modular pieces -headboards, consoles, wardrobes- that travel through the rooms generating narrative unity.
The toasted tone of the oak acts as a common thread, and each typology adapts its volumes and supports to it. The studio champions technical wood for its stability, low maintenance, and performance (from resistance to dimensional mismatch) without losing authenticity. The difficult part here wasn’t the formal gesture, but rather scaling the solution to many variants, while maintaining deadlines and costs.
We like the use of… Duo Atlas Roble Tostado in headboards, consoles, and wardrobes, unifying multiple room types with a single language.
Three keys to design in hospitality
What three interior design elements do these five hospitality projects share? Those you can achieve with an ecosystem of solutions and services like Habitat 360.
- CMF with purpose. The palette is not cosmetic: it orders uses, rhythms and flows (Ibis as a colour manual; Capitolo as a gradation between concrete and wood; Staybridge as a blue calm for the long stay).
- Life-cycle cost strategies. Durable, easy-to-clean surfaces are chosen to balance aesthetics and maintenance, which is key to hotel operations.
Holistic design and short chains. When materials, industry and logistics talk from the beginning, the project’s intention reaches the construction site intact.
