Most hotel renovations keep the building and replace what guests touch. Turkish partner factories make the casegoods, headboards, wardrobes, vanities and upholstery that a renovation swaps out. Rovers surveys the rooms, prices every line, and plans production around the floors the hotel can close at one time.
Soft goods or casegoods
The scope decides how long a room is out of order and how much the factory has to make.
| Scope | What is replaced | What stays | Room out of order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soft goods | Carpet, curtains, bedspreads, upholstery covers, lamps, art | Casegoods, joinery, bathroom | Short: covers and fabrics swap in place |
| Casegoods | Beds and headboards, desks, nightstands, TV units, wardrobes, minibar cabinets, seating | Bathroom, walls, ceilings | Longer: old pieces out, new pieces in, fixings made good |
| Casegoods and joinery | All of the above, plus wall panelling, built-in wardrobes and vanities | Structure and services | Longest: joinery is fitted and finished in the room |
HVS groups soft goods with furniture in the FF&E budget line: carpeting, drapes and room accessories sit next to guestroom furniture. On a Turkish order, soft goods and upholstery ship with the casegoods so a room is finished in one visit.
The site survey
Old drawings rarely match the room. Walls move in earlier works, outlets get added, and floors settle. The ISHC names accurate as-built documentation as a first step in planning a renovation. Before pricing is final, Rovers surveys a sample of each room type:
- Wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling sizes at the furniture positions, plus door and window openings.
- Socket, switch, data and light positions on the walls where headboards, desks and TV units go.
- Skirting height, wall build-up and what the wall can hold for wall-hung pieces.
- Lift car size and door clear width, corridor turns and stair access: these set the largest piece that reaches the room.
- Room-type variations: rooms that look the same on plan but differ by a column or a riser.
The survey goes into the shop drawings, so the new headboard covers the old fixings and the cut-outs land on the sockets that are already there.
Working while the hotel stays open
The ISHC notes that the usual decision is to keep the hotel open and earning during the works, so the order is made and shipped in blocks.
| Step | How it runs |
|---|---|
| Room blocks | The hotel releases a block (often a floor, or half a floor) at a time. The production plan matches the blocks. |
| Mock-up first | One room of each type is fitted and signed before the run starts. |
| Packing | Crates and cartons are packed per block and labelled by room number, so a block arrives complete. |
| Delivery windows | Deliveries come at agreed hours through the service entrance and goods lift, away from guest routes. |
| Install | Outside the US, Rovers installs one block, hands it back with the snag list closed, and moves to the next. |
| Storage | Where the hotel has no storage, blocks ship close to their install date. |
In the US, Rovers manufactures and delivers per block, and the hotel’s installer fits each room.
The old furniture
Removing the old furniture, carrying it out and disposing of it is by others unless it is agreed in the scope. It is usually the hotel’s call: some resell, some donate, some send it to the contractor’s skip. When removal is in scope, it is priced as its own line, with the same block dates as the install.
Solid-wood crates for the new furniture must meet ISPM 15. Crates made only from plywood, OSB or fibreboard are outside the standard. Empty crates and cartons leave site with the install team or go to the hotel’s waste route, as agreed in the scope.
What to send us
Send the room-type list with counts, the scope per room (soft goods, casegoods or joinery), any existing drawings, photos of each room type, and the dates the hotel can release each block. The final price follows a site survey of each room type.
- HVS: U.S. Hotel Development Cost Survey 2024, Exhibit 5 cost categories (FF&E includes softgoods: carpeting, drapes, room accessories) · accessed 2026-10-04
- ISHC: Jill Cole, Hotel Renovations 101, an interior designer's perspective (10 Sep 2025) · accessed 2026-10-04
- IPPC: Explanatory document for ISPM 15 (regulation of wood packaging material) · accessed 2026-10-04