DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Leeds City Centre commissioned a full bedroom redecoration as part of a rolling refurbishment programme. The work was carried out over roughly 12 months, with two floors taken out of service at a time before furniture and fit-out teams moved in behind us.
This was not a brief built around specialist finishes or statement details. What mattered here was programme control, consistency and the ability to fit into a live hotel refurbishment without holding up the trades around it.
GME managed a year-long redecoration programme, with work phased carefully around the hotel's trading calendar to keep as many rooms as possible in revenue throughout.
Year-long phased decoration programme across a full-service city-centre hotel.
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Full-service city-centre hotels cannot close. The commercial logic of any decoration programme has to start from that fact. Work needs to progress steadily enough to complete within the agreed window, but in a pattern that allows the hotel to keep selling rooms and protecting revenue through the duration.
Each phase gave GME around three weeks to complete two floors before the next part of the cycle began.
Once decoration was finished, the hotel and follow-on trades reinstated those floors while another two were stripped out and made ready.
That created a stop-start programme that could easily lose momentum if labour, materials or sequencing slipped.
Hotel refurbishments like this reward discipline more than flair. The team had to hit repeated handover dates, come off site when the programme required it and return ready to pick the next phase up without losing pace or consistency.
GME treated the programme as a series of linked handovers rather than one long, uninterrupted job. Labour was adjusted to suit each phase, with extra resource added if a section needed catching up and reduced if decoration risked getting ahead of the furniture installers.
That mattered to the client because moving too far ahead would have been just as awkward as falling behind. The floors had to be ready at the right time, not simply as early as possible. GME’s control of that balance turned DoubleTree Leeds into a strong reference point for later hotel work.
The brief specified a consistent emulsion finish across all surfaces - walls, woodwork, ceilings and doors - delivered to the client's specification rather than a higher-end finish.
The project showed that GME could adeptly manage the reality of hotel refurbishment, not just the painting itself, but the timing, labour planning and handovers that keep everyone else moving. The finish was completed to the client’s specification and the programme stayed under control from phase to phase.
That track record had a direct commercial value, too. Performance on DoubleTree Leeds helped GME secure later hotel work, giving prospective clients a clear example of how the team handles live, multi-phase refurbishments in practice.
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