Why Doesn't DVC Design Rooms Like These?

[com_op_2000]

Interior designers have imagined the homes of princesses.
Checkout this article:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment...terior-design-experts-imagined-000549830.html

 

[ScubaCat]

Interior designers have imagined the homes of princesses.
Checkout this article:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment...terior-design-experts-imagined-000549830.html

Costs more, and for nothing because it will all sell anyway. And dues would be higher.

 

[MouseOfCards]

Would have been nice to see more than just one room. Thanks for sharing!

 

[miTnosnhoJ]

Now, THAT would be theming!

 

[DenLo]

Most of the photos were too formal for my taste and looking at the small wooden legs of the chairs just made me shutter as they would be all beaten up within 6 months. Cinderella's room was very dark, members would be complaining about the poor lighting. And speaking of lighting, no lighting on each side of the bed. Some of the items in the rooms were not made for families.

 

[Wakey]

They do look good.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

haha - yes, that would be a bit more theming.

 

[Deb & Bill]

They would need a lot of glue to glue all the décor items down to the furniture. Otherwise, they would be missing for the next guest to enjoy. I remember when OKW started gluing stuff down to the shelves by the dining room table.

 

[drusba]

That is clever. The room designs are very well done fits for each princess. Thanks for the link. Of course, none of those could ever be a DVC room. I would be scared to death of the resulting destruction if my young grandkids stayed in one with me.

 

[Chuck S]

They look a bit cluttered by today's standards. And given that DVC uses sleeper sofas and chairs, those living rooms would, with the furniture shown, definitely cut down on sleeping space, since they aren't sleeper sofas

That said, they could certainly do better with their theming for a reasonable price just using color. OKW interiors used to be themed to look like it it was inspired by the real Key West. Now, while nice, it is pretty generic. I like some of the new touches, but they could have done more with some color.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

They look a bit cluttered by today's standards. And given that DVC uses sleeper sofas and chairs, those living rooms would with the furniture shown, would definitely cut down on sleeping space, since the aren't sleeper sofas

That said, they could certainly do better with their theming for a reasonable price just using color. OKW interiors used to be themed to look like it it was inspired by the real Key West. Now, while nice, it is pretty generic. I like some of the new touches, but they could have done more with some color.

They do seem to have fallen in love with "contractor white" type concept. Color seems to scare whomever they have designing now.

 

[Magical_Suitcase]

A return to themed resort rooms would be awesome. I am ok with DVC gluing down the decorative items or installing a screaming sensor that sets off a very loud alarm when someone ties to take a stolen item out the door.

I like the princesses rooms but would be happy to just return to the old resort theming of rooms. AKL is about the only one now that is still themed. And maybe the treehouses ...

 

[Mikamarii]

They would need a lot of glue to glue all the décor items down to the furniture. Otherwise, they would be missing for the next guest to enjoy. I remember when OKW started gluing stuff down to the shelves by the dining room table.

While doing some internet research for the contemporary for another thread I came across this! I know people love the Disney theming (and I do too) but from a realistic standpoint, with the amount of wear and tear that goes on and the vast number of rooms, from a cost perspective it makes sense to use generic colors that can be used throughout different resorts as this keeps ours dues lower as its all paid for by us. In Canada we have two seasons, winter and construction. The DVC world seems to have two seasons complain about what we don't get and complete about cost of dues

When the park opened, people flocked to the resort and clamored to stay at one of the only two hotels right at the Magic Kingdom. The 1000+ rooms were full all the time and since the average stay was 2 – 2.5 days, the room turnover was tremendous. Not only was turnover tremendous, but the wear-and-tear on the rooms was magnified. As such, room refurbishment began almost immediately. In the fall of 1972, Disney started a continuous rehab of eight rooms at a time and by 1975, every room at the Contemporary Resort Hotel had been completely overhauled from top to bottom…only to start again. New carpeting, drapes and color schemes were done to each room, large maps of the Magic Kingdom hung in each room, and the wallpaper was replaced with vinyl wallpaper to make for easier cleaning. To reduce “souvenir seekers” from acquiring items not sold at the resort… that is everything that originally had the Walt Disney World logo – a globe-like circle with Mickey ears in the middle of a large capital D – from dishes to towels to trash cans and virtually anything that wasn’t nailed down – was removed from those items and replaced with more generic ones.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

While doing some internet research for the contemporary for another thread I came across this! I know people love the Disney theming (and I do too) but from a realistic standpoint, with the amount of wear and tear that goes on and the vast number of rooms, from a cost perspective it makes sense to use generic colors that can be used throughout different resorts as this keeps ours dues lower as its all paid for by us. In Canada we have two seasons, winter and construction. The DVC world seems to have two seasons complain about what we don't get and complete about cost of dues

Does paint with color cost more in Canada?

Each resort has their own maintenance staff and supplies. None of the new schemes are actually identical even though they seem to be. It's still different supplies even if it's very generic.

 

[Chuck S]

Does paint with color cost more in Canada?

Each resort has their own maintenance staff and supplies. None of the new schemes are actually identical even though they seem to be. It's still different supplies even if it's very generic.

And it can't be more expensive than using the several shades of gray that they currently use. There is at least 3, maybe 4, very bland shades of gray-ish paint in the refurbished OKW rooms.

 

[Matty B13]

I would think that each resort is big enough that they would be able to get a good discount on the supplies to refurbish. No need to have each resort look the same.