Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Hotel Refurbishment - our vision
We closed for the winter on November 2nd and two days later, we had builders, plumbers and electricians crawling all over the building, starting phase 2 of the hotel refurbishment. Since arriving in North Devon, we have built up a great team of local tradesmen who are now working here for the second year running!
Our aim is for The Old Rectory Hotel to become recognised as the best Boutique Country House Hotel in Exmoor and, judging by customer feedback on Tripadvisor.com, we are well on the way to achieving this. Our vision for The Old Rectory Hotel is to provide the very best of a country house hotel with a modern and stylish twist. All our rooms will be refurbished for next season and all will have new bathrooms, and top end fabrics and wallpapers from designers such as Jane Churchill, Nina Campbell and Colefax & Fowler.
As always with refurbishing an historic building, we have uncovered a lot of problem areas we were not aware of and have spent a large part of our contingency budget! However, we have new plumbing and wiring in many areas of the hotel and we are laying down the foundations for the next few years in the life of this lovely old historic building.
