--- title: "Hotel room refurbishment · Elite Smart Build" description: "Elite Smart Build renews hotel rooms by resurfacing the furniture, doors and walls already in place instead of throwing them out. That is how it refurbished, for example, the 752 rooms of Barceló Lanzarote Active Resort between 2021 and 2022." url: https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/en/hotel-room-refurbishment lang: en alternate: https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/reforma-de-habitaciones-de-hotel updated: 2026-10-15 --- Room refurbishment # Elite refurbishes hotel rooms by making the most of what is there Elite Smart Build renews hotel rooms by resurfacing the furniture, doors and walls already in place instead of throwing them out. That is how it refurbished, for example, the 752 rooms of Barceló Lanzarote Active Resort between 2021 and 2022. [Request a visit](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/en/request-a-visit) ![Suite at Barceló Lanzarote Active Resort with bed, seating area and picture window](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/img/obras/barcelo-lanzarote-active-resort-02.w1200.webp) [Barceló Lanzarote Active Resort & Royal Level](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/en/projects/barcelo-lanzarote-active-resort): Costa Teguise, Spain - **[rooms at Barceló Lanzarote Active Resort](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/en/projects/barcelo-lanzarote-active-resort):** 752 - **[rooms at Park Inn by Radisson Heathrow](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/en/projects/park-inn-by-radisson-heathrow):** 519 - **[rooms by the Arctic Circle, in Tromsø](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/en/projects/radisson-blu-tromso):** 269 ## What changes In a room Elite usually works on the wardrobes, doors, headboards, walls and bathroom. Depending on the hotel, it adds new furnishings or lighting. Elite puts it down to its expertise in resurfacing, which makes contract refurbishments more efficient and lets the hotel keep its existing furniture. ![A Barceló Lanzarote room before the refurbishment](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/img/obras/barcelo-lanzarote-active-resort-06.w1200.webp) ![A Barceló Lanzarote room after Elite's refurbishment](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/img/obras/barcelo-lanzarote-active-resort-07.w1200.webp) Barceló Lanzarote Active Resort & Royal Level, Costa Teguise, Spain. [See the project](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/en/projects/barcelo-lanzarote-active-resort) ## Projects in figures Hotels where Elite refurbished the rooms, and what it did in each one. - [Barceló Lanzarote Active Resort & Royal Level](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/en/projects/barcelo-lanzarote-active-resort): Costa Teguise, Spain · 2021-2022 · 752 rooms · Turnkey. All 752 rooms, Royal Level included, plus the spiral staircases and the lift clad in iNfeel. - [NH Madrid Barajas](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/en/projects/nh-barajas): Madrid, Spain · 2017 · 172 rooms. Doors, wardrobes and desks resurfaced, and the washbasin units too, because the film is water resistant. - [Radisson Blu Tromsø](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/en/projects/radisson-blu-tromso): Tromsø, Norway · 2018 · 269 rooms. Wardrobes, doors, headboards, walls and bathrooms, by the Arctic Circle. - [Occidental Alicante](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/en/projects/occidental-alicante): Alicante, Spain · 2020 · 80 rooms. Designed by Elite, with a new colour palette, new lighting and custom murals in the showers. - [Hesperia A Coruña](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/en/projects/hesperia-a-coruna): A Coruña, Spain · 2018 · 123 rooms. iNfeel on walls, headboards and doors, with the Tower of Hercules as a motif. - [Hotel Indigo Brussels](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/en/projects/hotel-indigo-brussels): Brussels, Belgium · 2019 · 285 rooms. iNfeel on headboards and bathrooms, a short walk from the Grand Place. - [Park Inn by Radisson Hotel Heathrow](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/en/projects/park-inn-by-radisson-heathrow): London (Heathrow), United Kingdom · 2020 · 519 rooms. Paint and iNfeel surfaces. ## The pilot room Before refurbishing the whole hotel, Elite fits out a pilot room with the final finishes. The hotel reviews it and signs it off, and the fixed budget and schedule are set from it. ## Questions [All questions](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/en/faq) **Can hotel rooms be refurbished while keeping the existing furniture?** Yes. Elite resurfaces the furniture the hotel already has, reusing the existing furniture (FF&E) instead of replacing it. At NH Madrid Barajas it resurfaced the doors, wardrobes, desks and even the washbasin units of 172 rooms. [See NH Barajas](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/en/projects/nh-barajas) **What is a pilot room?** It is one room finished to the final specification before the rest of the work starts. The hotel reviews it and signs it off, and the fixed budget and schedule are set from it. It is the second phase of Elite's method. [How Elite works](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/en/refurbishing-a-hotel-without-closing) **How is the refurbishment schedule agreed?** Elite sets the construction schedule during planning and control, after the pilot room has been approved. Room types and the fixed budget are also agreed at this stage. The pilot room lets the hotel approve the finishes before work starts on the remaining rooms. [How Elite works](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/en/refurbishing-a-hotel-without-closing) **Who installs iNfeel in hotels?** Elite Smart Build installs it with its own team of installers, set up in 2016. It has used it at NH Madrid Chamberí, Park Inn by Radisson Heathrow and on the staircases of Barceló Lanzarote, among others. [See iNfeel](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/en/infeel) ## Other services - [Common area refurbishment](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/en/hotel-common-area-refurbishment): Lobbies, restaurants, spas and corridors, as at Santo Domingo Bay. - [Refurbishing without closing](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/en/refurbishing-a-hotel-without-closing): Resurfacing instead of demolishing, so the building keeps running. Request a visit ## How many rooms does your hotel have? We'll come and see it, then tell you what we would do. [Request a visit](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/en/request-a-visit) [Other ways to get in touch](https://www.elitesmartbuild.com/en/contact)