A tiled bathroom floor, a glass shower wall, and a round lit niche set the tone before the eye moves on to the rest of the room. FINCH uses those details to frame a modern hotel room style inside a building with a long past. The result is not about nostalgia alone, but about how new surfaces sit against original openings and older structural traces. Light lands on the white ceramics, slips across the tiles, and gives the room a sharp, measured rhythm.

From former hotel to present-day guest rooms

The building began life as a hotel in 1871, later changed hands, and spent decades as office space before returning to hospitality. That sequence still shapes the way the interior reads today. You move through a space that does not hide its previous lives. Large windows and original beams remain visible, so the rooms carry their history in plain sight rather than as decoration. This is a historic hotel interior that makes the past part of the daily view.

Inside, the atmosphere stays restrained and direct. The rooms have a fresh modern style, but the shell of the building keeps its irregularities. That contrast gives the project its character: smooth painted surfaces meet timber edges, and generous window openings pull daylight deeper into the plan. It is the kind of setting where a hotel interior project depends on proportion and light more than on ornament. The building does the heavy lifting, while the new fit-out keeps the focus clear.

Twenty-four rooms, each with a clear role

There are 24 rooms, varied in type and size, but all drawn into the same visual language. Rather than creating a generic guest-room formula, the project uses a calm palette and simple surfaces that leave room for the structure to speak. Frames, panes, and exposed timber are not dressed up. They are left legible. In a modern hotel room, that restraint matters, because it lets the historic envelope stay visible even when the room itself feels current.

What stands out is the balance between softness and precision. Bedding, built-ins, and wall finishes stay visually quiet so the older elements keep their place in the composition. A broad window opening becomes more than a source of light; it acts as a marker of the building’s age. The same goes for the beams, which break up the ceiling line and remind you that this is not a new shell pretending otherwise. The room feels edited, not emptied.

Historic building details that remain readable

Large windows pull daylight across the floor and make the walls feel lighter than they are. Original beams cross the ceiling and add a measured irregularity to the room outline. Those historic building details are important because they stop the interior from becoming anonymous. They give each room a frame, even where the furnishings stay minimal. The project does not overstate its heritage; it lets the old fabric stay visible at the edges of the newer layout.

That approach also affects how the rooms are experienced from one zone to the next. A shift in ceiling height, a change in light, or a timber line overhead is enough to mark a transition. The hotel avoids hard gestures. Instead, it relies on small visual changes that make the plan easy to read. In a hospitality setting, that kind of clarity helps the spaces feel considered without becoming formal. The historic structure remains the reference point throughout.

A bathroom built around glass and light

The bathroom is where the project becomes especially legible. A walk-in shower sits behind a glass wall, so the room keeps its open sightlines. Light-coloured tiles cover the surfaces and reflect the warm indirect lighting built into the room. A round illuminated niche breaks the otherwise straight geometry and gives the wall a distinct focal point. As a piece of hotel bathroom design, it relies on shape, reflection, and spacing rather than on decoration.

The basin zone follows the same logic. White ceramic sits on a dark base, creating a sharp visual contrast against the pale surroundings. The basin’s thin edge gives it a lighter profile, which keeps the vanity from feeling heavy in a small room. Nearby, the wall-hung toilet stays visually compact and leaves the floor plane clearer. Together, these elements make the bathroom easy to read at a glance. The materials are simple, but the arrangement gives them strong presence.

How the bathroom supports the room experience

Because the shower is visible through glass, the bathroom does not close itself off completely from the rest of the room. That transparency suits the hotel’s broader interior approach. The floor continues without fuss, the tile joints stay calm, and the indirect lighting softens the hard edges of the ceramics. Even the round niche feels purposeful rather than decorative. It introduces a curved line into an otherwise rectilinear setting, which is enough to make the room memorable without overloading it.

This is where the project’s material palette is most effective. Glass, tile, and timber each play a separate role. The glass keeps the space open, the tiles reflect light, and the timber floor visible in the broader room context adds a warmer note beneath the cooler bathroom surfaces. The effect is not theatrical. It is controlled, and that control allows the bathroom to support the overall modern hotel room style rather than compete with it.

Seen as a whole, the project reads as a careful reuse of a building with a long and visible history. The historic shell still sets the tone, while the new rooms and bathrooms bring the interior into the present through light, proportion, and a limited set of materials. Large windows, original beams, glass partitions, and clean ceramics give the hotel its visual order. The result is a guest environment that keeps the past close, but never lets it slow the room down.