Village Hotel Leeds North and Village Hotel Wirral both required a full bedroom refresh as part of a wider refurbishment programme.
GME was appointed to redecorate 99 bedrooms in total, 51 in Leeds North and 48 in the Wirral, alongside corridors, staircases and selected back-of-house areas.
In an active hotel environment, the pressure isn’t just the painting. Rooms need to come back into use quickly, other trades need access at the right time and the site team cannot afford to have too many bedrooms out of service at once.
This programme needed careful phasing from the start. Ninety-nine bedrooms across two live hotels, completed in controlled phases that kept closures down and the wider programme moving.
Phased redecoration of 99 bedrooms and communal areas across two sites.
Every closed room is a room that cannot be sold, and for a property running at reasonable occupancy, taking out a whole floor at once is a revenue issue. The work has to progress quickly enough to keep the programme on track, but in a pattern that allows the hotel to keep trading through it.
The bedrooms were not closed all at once. Instead, each hotel released around 25 rooms at a time, usually in one corridor or section, so GME could complete the decoration, hand the rooms back and let the hotel turn them around before the next block was shut.
That kept pressure off room availability, but it also meant the programme had to be tightly managed.
The GME team moved between bedroom blocks, staircases, corridors and back-of-house areas as the hotels opened and closed spaces.
A three-man team worked North Leeds and a two-to-three-man team worked Wirral, each running to the same model.
On the occasions when things did not go to plan - for example a late delivery, or an area that needed clearing at short notice - the team stayed late to get the rooms handed back on schedule.
Working well into the evening to hit a handover is the kind of commitment that matters to a hotel maintenance manager, because it protects the room revenue they are accountable for.
Separate teams worked at Leeds North and the Wirral at the same time, keeping both sites moving to programme. Decoration was coordinated around carpet installation, furniture replacement and bathroom vanity unit upgrades, so GME’s work fitted into the wider refurbishment instead of slowing it down.
All decoration used Johnson's Durable Matt from PPG - a scrubbable, hard-wearing finish suited to the level of wear hotel bedrooms take across thousands of guest nights.
The programme gave Village a practical way to refresh a large number of bedrooms without taking too many rooms out of service at once. Each phase was planned around handover dates the hotels could work with, and the common areas were progressed in between room blocks so labour never stood still.
The phased model worked as intended. Revenue loss from closed rooms was kept to the minimum the programme allowed, and the hotels kept trading throughout.
For a maintenance manager, that’s what matters. The job kept moving, guest areas were handed back when expected and the decoration was carried out in a way that suited the day-to-day reality of a busy hotel.
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